As someone who hasn't played WoW since WotLK and decided to come back and give it a try, I honestly can't take anyone seriously that has an elitist attitude about this game anymore. My previous class hunter is like a husk of what I use to like about it, so I decided to reroll. To do this I browsed through the current rotation meta to see what struck my fancy, in doing so I realized that basically all the classes have gone from a small handful of buttons to press to like two buttons to press, so I ended up going with rogue as sub seemed to be the one remaining dps class/spec with a pulse.
I'll admit I had fun leveling, seeing the new story, zones, garrison, etc, but when I hit 100 and started doing heroics this is when I facepalmed. While I picked one of the only remaining somewhat complicated dps specs, the fact is that dps is balanced so that each class is the same when played optimally, so by picking a more complex spec (not that their are really any other examples) you are just going to be putting out more effort to match everyone else who is playing an idiot proof class. Basically every heroic I've run everyone is like within 5% of each other on damage including the tank. And even with a rogue I feel that mastering my class doesn't even really amount to much with how close all the abilities are to each other in damage, whether I was slacking off or going full tryhard I was still right there with everyone else in the group. The talent choices have next to no impact on my dps, gearing is a joke, its more a focus on item level that stat priority.
Like are you serious? There is no theorycrafting, no reward for effort, completely homogenized, the only remaining aspect that resembles a video game is the boss strats, which makes this game more a platformer than an MMO, and even that aspect is easy. Every group I'm in has someone who thinks he is amazing at this game and wants everyone to know, while somehow finding a way to talk down to someone else in the group. My last group had a tank who was going into great detail about his method of determing how much he pulls at once to aoe, and calling out healer for saying that he was going to fast.
I mean I love this forum, but even in this thread there are people talking about the "minority" of the player base thats as good as them, and how the average player sucks, it's like watching my coworker brag about how "powerful" his Clash of Clans army is.
