I should have specified PVE. They're good in PVP where their tiny mana pools don't matter as much for 1-2 kills. But on a 3-5 minute boss, when they're oom after 1 minute? Worthless.You say shadowpriests are garbage in vanilla
I say I'm still triggered at the shadowpriest in bgs that got rank 14 on horde 3 weeks in a row
Good thing almost no Classic bosses will last 5 minutes then. They're still not great for raids though.
Plenty of fights will last that long. Not everybody in 99% of the raids will be full best in slot at every stage of the game. Your average guild will be having lengthy fights. With parry being 14 or 15%, tank threat will be comically lower than bullshit private servers. Your dual wield furry tanks will be parry hasting themselves into the fucking ground.
As an example, Golemagg has 400k health and typical raids will have ~27 DPS for him. For the fight to last 5 minutes, you would need to average 50 dps. Competent guilds will kill him in 60-90 seconds the first couple weeks and faster after that. Bad guilds with meme specs and no consumes will still kill him in under 3 minutes unless half the raid is dead when they pull the boss or something (this is certainly a thing that is possible, I'll admit). A few fights in MC will take a bit longer than Golemagg but most will not.
