Easy Raiding, Insane Damage, and BAW UNDERPOWERD WARRIORS....Is all this really bad?

So it has been a loooong time since I made an entry and lots of things have been going on since.

First on the off topic side, CCity tanked.  I don't mind so much given that the store manager at my place was a complete tool.  I do feel a bit bummed out at not being able to work with everyone there anymore because I really enjoyed the people i worked with.  Finding another job at this point is an uphill battle, but still doable and Ill be pushing on that pretty hard.

Anywho onto the main subject.

I hit 80 on my warrior.  Lets first say I was somewhat worried as I put in my last talent (woot prot leveling).  The forums were in an uproar over how terrible our class is and how were the bottom rung on the latter.  No one would want us as tanks because DKs and Paladins could do it better.  No one would want us to DPS because everyone could do it better.  Why pvp when every class including level 1 critters could 1 shot us?

Well I was raid defense soft capped within 10 minutes and tanking my first heroics without any issue.  PVP wise as prot I still crushed DPS DKs, rogues and other warriors.  Hell even casters aren't too tough if I played smart.  I was quickly getting into raids as an offtank as well. 

The point is, I think a vast majority of the Warrior community was simply too used to face smashing their way to the top in pvp because of how OP mace stun and druids were in BC.  Today's warrior requires a bit more thought because if you **** up, that arcane mage is going to light your ass up.  Classes are actually scary now, and I don't think this is a bad thing.  All the bad warriors run to the forums and BAWWWWW about how bliz hates the class and no one plays it (what happened to all the Kalgan hate?).  Good warriors have continued to do well in arena (albeit now with more effort than before) and pve. 

I hear no end of complaints about warrior AoE tanking.  From my experience I don't see it.  I can hold AoE threat damn well as long as I'm not lazy.  Warrior group tanking just takes more effort than most players are comfortable with.  This is unfortunate because then they run and complain which can possibly cause blizzard to change things up.  In my opinion Prot is perfect.  I would not want it any other way.  It takes effort without being tedious and its actually fun.  My only complaint is positioning, but Bliz is fixing that bug tonight.

All in all despite having limited personal experience with arenas in s5, Im pretty optimistic about the class.  I don't agree with a lot of the complaints people have with warriors. 

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Moving on, I mentioned raiding.  This is a subject that I'm sure sparks vastly differing opinions from those you ask.  To state it blatantly, raiding is too easy.  But is this a bad thing?  This is the debate.  On one hand I'm incredibly happy with how quickly I was able to gear up through the AH and waltz right into nax.  This was a huge step forward from the days of Karazhan where you were forced to run terrible instances with terribly irrelevant gear in order to raid a poorly tuned and awfully designed 10 man with laughable loot tables. 

On the other hand lowering the requirements or skill cap in initial raiding has had some annoying side effects.  Most notably at least for me, are bads with elitist attitudes because they have lol t7.  For whatever reason all the sippy cup retards who could never get past Magtheridon in BC (or MC in vanilla) are now waltzing around Dalaran with their shiny 25 man nax t7 shoulders thinking they are the next Nihilum member or something.  Ive ran into at least 7 different t7 healers in heroics who have yet to grasp effective healing / mana conservation techniques.  In one case I had a healer go oom on me in heroic Old Kingdom on the very first pull.  I had 23k HP at the time and easily passable stats, and never once got hit harder than 4k (and that on rare occasions.)  This is a terrible side effect I've noticed with the ease of raiding these days.

Whats worse are the elitists.  I was in a guild titled Renegades of Funk who have become somewhat known for their terrible raid ability.  Most outstanding of their problems, the inability to approach raiding in a flexible and dynamic fashion.  The raids were mostly ran by a t7.5 mage who insisted things be done a certain way because "he had done them like that before so it was possible."  This attitude lead to constant wiping on patchwerk and hours of wasted time on Sapphiron.  I quit the guild because when proposing an easier strat for Saph I was told I should keep my opinions quiet and not talk over officers.  The strat they ran was a 2 healer setup.  They couldn't keep people alive or cleansed quickly enough.  Melee was required (though never told to...) back out when blizzard hit.  Wipe after wipe we did this.  I suggested with pick up a third healer to trivialize the fight.  They refused promptly. 

The best part?  They questioned my experience with the fight.  This is what I find irksome about this easy raiding.  Its ENTRY. LEVEL. CONTENT. THATS. TWO. YEARS. OLD!  Even if I had never done original nax this **** is NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!  Having raided successfully in a Vanilla nax guild and BC Sunwell guild, I'm pretty knowledgeable in what makes a good raid.  You cant just smash your face against the wall and hope it falls over.  This will get you nowhere.  Unfortunately Current raiding is a wall made of paper, so all the ****ty bads that could never kill Vashj, or survive Archimonde are now seeing more success than they ever thought possible.  As such the egos flare and the ePeens grow to epically depressing proportions.

My suggestion?  Well its really too late for it...but it would be as follows.  Keep all the entry level fights at their same level in regards to gear requirement, damage, HP etc.  But up the skill cap required to beat them.  Lets have more fights like Loken (wanna know if you have a good raider?  see if they survive Loken.)  More Haigan the Unclean fights.  More Archimonde (STAY OUT OF THE ******* FIRE) fights.  None of these are "hard".  None of them are gear intensive.  But each of them requires at least some 'skill'.  Enough to filter out the sippy cup retards.

Yes I agree its great for casuals to see content.  But I do not think idiots who ninja AFK, refuse to research a fight, or fail to follow simple directions (RUN DOWN THE STAIRS ON LOKEN...THEN RUN DOWN AGAIN...****!) deserve any such content.

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Finally touching briefly on pvp here.  Damage.   We all see it, we all feel it.  And every one of us has heard the complaints (maybe some of us issue them) about it being too high.  Personally I do not agree with this.  The higher damage first off has done one amazing thing.  It has upped the skill cap on pvp dramatically in my eyes.  There is FAAAAR less room for error now than at any point in BC.  Sure there is less time to do cool **** and do setups and such.  But now if you time something poorly you are pretty much dead. Perfect play (or well as close as one can get given latency / skill) is rewarded with a swift kill right now and this is something I approve of.  It feels a lot like vanilla wow but with a more equal ground (now its not just rogues and locks killing everyone). 

Personally I hope Blizzard does not nerf damage scaling in Wrath.  I find it amazingly refreshing and rewarding to see my toon hit a player for a larger number than what I saw at 60.  I was seeing 2k crits on my nightelf warrior with a Spinal Reaper at lvl 60.  It was depressing seeing that same warrior still mostly seeing 2k crits at 70 with an s3 sword and 1700 unbuffed AP.

I'm still patiently waiting to see what Blizzard intends to do with damage in pvp.  I certainly hope resilience doesn't float too far one way and we have a repeat of season 1 all over again (burst specs become non existent and Super Mario Turtle Adventure becomes the name of the game...)

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Soloing 60 content is fun.

So far I've killed Tiger, Panther and Jindo (lol mind control).  I'm hoping Ill be able to solo Blood Lord soon, that way Ill have all the lvl 60 mount bosses on farm (on run 20ish in Strat for the baron mount.)