I watched an argument on off-topic chat last night in game. A guy was defending a DPS Warrior Priest and like 6 people were ganging up on the guy (or girl, i dunno), insulting them, cussing them, and just being general jerks over their opinion. I didn't want to get involved so I didn't defend them, but I should have.
His stance was that a DPS WP brings more to the table than just their DPS (Avatar buff, healing with damage done, AE rez, knockbacks, pulling DPS off of healers while healing them at the same time), but no matter what point he/she brought up, the 5-6 people were utterly convinced that DPS WP's were just stupid/"retarded"/useless and nothing can and should be done to remedy that or change their mind. They actually made the statement: "DPS WP are sitting ducks and will go down easily without a pocket heal" Well, so does
any DPS if they get focused and don't have a pocket heal. Was a ridiculous statement to even make.
I have to say that that is where WoW shines. It made (for example Druids) a hybrid class compete quite well and offer unique mechanics to make them valuable in a party. A game fails when it refuses to let options be options.....and that's also partly why Live died. Why even give a class a DPS tree if they don't get to use it. I remember on the Live forums ages ago that a Dev even said they planned to work towards making each spec valuable and viable for each class, some situations where they shine and some where they don't, but should be able to hold their own.
This absolutely needs to happen here and it can and should be done. A DPS Warrior Priest, Rune Priest, Disciple of Khaine, Shaman and Archmage should ALL be a valid possibility, especially in a low population game where people need all the numbers they can get. Hell, DPS spec'd tanks should be possible, too. Is it really that difficult to tweak a few numbers and make them competitive? If a 2-hand DPS Black Orc can just faceroll someone, so ought any class spec'd to DPS.
It's unbelievably elitist and shortsighted, in my opinion, for those trolls to behave like they do when there are so few people available to even do Sieges and well established teams. They were so crappy to that guy, I wouldn't be surprised if they quit, when voicing an opinion about a class design becomes virtual gang violence 6 vs 1
. When you need 1 more mDPS and there is a DPS WP available who's good at his/her class, are you really going to turn them down when you don't have anybody else who wants to come with you? (perhaps because of your garbage way of treating someone on off-topic).
