SoD's Best, Worst and Most Surprising Specs | World of Warcraft Classic Season of Discovery

[Music] Legend of total Warcraft here and today we got another saving or disaster spe how are you all doing tonight mining is Big bombed boy and welcome The Sod hype continues it's been out a few weeks now we've got our time in we've leveled we've done BFD we've made a bunch of mistakes and died embarrassingly on stream multiple times we can safely say s so is certified dope I've gotten four classes to 25 maybe five by the time this video goes out Hunter Shaman Rogue and Druid I'm having a hell of a time I'm feeling good hope you're feeling good let me know I'm worried about you I've gotten at least every class to level five and I'm still trying to get them all of 25 before the next phase so with all this experience I want to talk about three things what I think ended up being the best specs the worst specs and the most surprising specs two of each you probably not going to agree with all of them and that's cool because everything is viable I think I've done Dungeons and BFD with every spec at this point and honestly it's been fine and I've had fun on every class that I have played so the best specs Star Trek Fleet command man this is a cool looking game Star Trek Fleet command is a 4X MMO set in the Star Trek universe that we all know and love this game has over 50 years worth of iconic Star Trek lore to pull from bringing ships and characters from across the universe what can you do with these ships and characters you can explore a vast open world take on PVP battles with other players the world over collect iconic ships like the USS Enterprise or even beloved characters like Captain Kirk oh yes Shatner is in the game and it is just as glorious as I had always dreamed and even experience a new Star Trek storyline unique to Fleet command this month brings in a bunch of new content focused around TNG that's Star Trek the Next Generation New Missions a new Mode called wave defense and my favorite three new officers Luther Sloan rker and my absolute favorite Deon she is just as cool in the game as she was on screen in the original Star Trek Fleek command is completely playable on PC and mobile and once you download the game with my link in the description or QR code go to your player profile settings General and create your scopely account then you can go to Star Trek fle command.com log in and use the promo code warp speed to unlock new player content pack for free which includes 10 that's right 10 epic shards of Kirk wow be sure to check it out healing priest holy priest is amazing giving priests Penance as their first Rune was a stroke of Genius and it's an amazing version of penance huge heals huge damage and extremely Mana efficient remember this slide from Bisson priest exemplifies this more than any other class toy priest feels op priest feels fun Puli is another early Rune and it's hilarious they pull mobs and it's super annoying yes but they also get cool nicknames like monks hunks or monkeys even hunk monkeys if you like just don't use them when you have the gnome Christmas buff up cuz that is nightmar they look like some evil Santa Garden no monstrosity I'm sure there's a horror movie about that somewhere prom is amazing I swear it feels different in sod before it would almost never bounce where I wanted it to and it doesn't really seem to do that anymore generally bounces to a good Target now void plague is also fantastic at low levels mine was ticking for 20 and My Shadow word pain was ticking for five and VP costs less Mana yeah Penance void plague and hunk monkeys is an amazing starter K of runes and you have Penance and prom by the time you were healing any dungeons pre looked fun pre-release but getting penance so early it being so strong and prom being so strong I really think it's one of the best PCS right now it's one of the best levelers arguably the best PVP healer and same for PVE and the other best spec Shaman tank yes that's right Shaman tank I didn't really anticipate that I would love Shaman tank I mainly rolled Shaman to go Elemental but it became clear very quickly how good tank Shaman is Shield Mastery way of Earth and molten blast are all super early runes so you have your full tank kit before even RFC your threat is absolutely massive with rock biter and way of Earth you can basically Auto attack and hold single Target threat molten blast sticks Ms to you hard on AOE as long as you don't miss the cone is a little bit not cone like sometimes and it can be easy to miss Mobs with it especially if they're moving around tank Shaman is also fantastic for leveling it was pretty easy to pull three or four mod at a time and just mol and blast them down with Shield Mastery restoring mana on blocks while also buffing your armor wasn't that hard to keep Mana up or health up in dungeons I would say tank Shaman is probably the best tank very little to no down dime massive threat and good survivability that's exactly what you want for a dungeon tank and even if you can't hold AOE threat or you're just getting smashed by a million mobs Bro you've got earthbind AOE slow on a tank is severely underrated Shaman has also been doing extremely well for tanking BFD speedruns Shaman tank does have a few downsides but honestly they are pretty minor I have a 20% block chance on my Shaman and sometimes it feels like a 2% block chance obviously it's just numbers you can get unlucky but since your Mana is restored on block it can be very inconsistent I can be fighting one mob and block nonstop getting back all my Mana or just not block at all if I'm fighting multiple mobs it's a minor problem but your Mana being tied to block that can be annoying shaman really really surprised me I knew it would be a strong tank but I did not expect it to be this strong nor this fun I definitely recommend checking it out are all Shaman specs this good uh no no they sure as ain't that was some really fun stuff two amazing specs let's move on to the more depressing matters the worst specs first is elemental shaman elemental shaman what it can't be Chris what do you think no it couldn't be it's got to be a mixer elemental shaman can't be bad you have lava burst and overload yeah this stings it stings hard I was super pumped for Elemental and now I'm just sad sad like when you go to take a drink of your coffee but realize it's been sitting too long and it's not like ice cold you know but it's too cold to be enjoyable and you're just disgusted not only with the taste of the coffee but with yourself for letting that happen again again wasting another cup of coffee that's basically how I feel about Elemental I knew going into it there was a few problems mainly stuff like no lightning Mastery at all so your lightning bolt cast time sucks it's really slow and just feels awful but there's also a few problems I didn't think about that make things even worse your rank of lightning bolt so not only is lightning bolt slow as balls on a Thursday you get a new rank at level 26 so it just doesn't hit that hard when you have no spell power spell ranks are especially important just missing out on them by one level really really hurts the power of lb and the other big thing is flame shock's duration flame shock only lasts 12 seconds the cool down on lava burst is 8 seconds so you get one per that sucks that means you can't use other shocks much be it for damage or interrupts because you got to use them for lava burst that is especially bad in PvP needs to extend the duration of flame shog or something this is just not a fun time and your last Rune is going to be shamanistic rage and this honestly I do like it this version of Sr you just click and get Mana it also restores some party Mana you don't have to attack to get the Mana return so you can basically just pop this on cool down to be getting tons of Mana return is very nice and the party Mana thing was also buffed so that is nice as well although there is another super frustrating thing here that I got to mention and it's that these runes come in way too to late and that's kind of the thing for a lot of the shaman runes you still have to do BFD to get her Shield wait didn't they say they wanted everyone to be able to get their runes without doing raid content yeah they did this was in regards to warlocks metarun overall we didn't intend for runes to require the raid and the rest don't last I checked BFD was the raid all right then but the elemental runes specifically it just makes no sense how you acquire them overload is your first Rune lava burst probably your last Rune you got to kill level 27 is moms to get it shamanistic rage requires a mom in a Char Veil and I think he was level 25 the were they thinking here unless you get higher levels to help out you're not even going to get to level as Elemental so why do they make our first Rune overload I could go on here uh I'm super annoyed with elemental so you know what let's just move right on along o this hurts too Frost Mage man I love Frost Mage what happened seriously what happened I knew Frost Mage wouldn't be topping The Meters you only get one point in shatter 25 you don't have ice block you don't have Winter Chill I know this and I knew that going in but still you get five in ice shards you get cold snap and you have a full kit of very strong frosts ice Lance fingers of frost and Icy Veins but I was not expecting this damn literally the the bottom wow there is no place lower doesn't get any worse than this you could double literally double Ross Mage DPS and it wouldn't even be at the top that is unacceptable it's okay to not be the top DPS it's not okay the top DPS is more than twice as much to be honest I really don't know how they let this go through and still they haven't said anything about it frost is just not supposed to be able to do PVE DPS I guess also is icelands the worst first Rune of any class I think it might be let me know on the plus side fire AOE damage is Bonkers and healing Mage is also pretty cool I'm definitely really enjoying Mage but I'm not going to be doing much Frost outside of PVP okay that was actually physically painful and I'm going to need a drink to calm down okay a few drinks honorable mentions for the most disappointing specs Pro Paladin yeah protection Paladin is not bad it's not in the worst specs category it's not bad it's just disa pointing kind of like my children I was really hoping for propound to be one of the best Becks because it was already almost there in vanilla it just needed a few things to really be a proper tank and it's kind of there now but it's not that great it's just it's fine Avengers shield is kind of cool and I like that you can Divine storm as a tank but it seems like powen tank has a lot of downtime too way more than any other tank I've seen in dungeons I I am going to play this some more soon Palin probably going to be my next 25 but for right now I am a little disappointed and balance Druid why are they do me like this I was so ped for balance Druid once I saw the Buffs to Star surge I immediately prioritized Druid and started leveling it hard I think when I got star surge like level eight I died a lot and you know what star surge is good I like it but the spec has just not come together it is a fantastic leveler possibly the best you use almost no Mana to kill mobs because star surge is so efficient it's like three or four Mana at 25 wrath costs no Mana with your chest Rune and it procs the instant healing touches and you'll have the Mana that you can use those so there's literally zero downtime going through mobs and Sunfire is it's fine it's it's just fine so why is mounts disappointing them well the PVE DPS is not that high it's definitely improved and it's not Frost Mage level but it's not super high so that's a little lame but really it's because wrath does no damage you would probably do more damage throwing pool noodles you do get a new rank at level 22 so it's not like lb where it's a rank issue you get the cast time reduction Talent really early so it's not that either it's just not a damaging spell and that leads into a not so fun rotation Sunfire is fine Moonfire Is Not Great your rotation is basically star Surge and then you're waiting to Star surge again there is filler you can use but star surge is the only fun button to press and you literally never Starfire I mean never I checked some logs to make sure I wasn't crazy or just that up somehow but no I was right there is no point to use Starfire I like Star surge but everything else here just doesn't feel that fun or even like balance Druid but that kind of leads into the most surprising specs feral Druid I never really liked feral it was always okay to me but not something I ever looked forward to playing I love healing on a druid but having the level of feral was always kind of an annoyance that is not the case now FAL is awesome in sod we knew pre-release that it was looking good having the only win Fury buff was going to be huge and make farell really really sought after but I did not anticipate it would be this fun this has heavily changed my mind on Ferell but also it damage is really good if we look at wow log statistics for BFD it's fifth overall although the way wild logs records melee Hunter it doesn't really count to me so I'd say FAL his fourth damage over all that's pretty good when you're already bringing the best buff in the level bracket and the Rune acquisition is pretty logical here you can get mangle wild strikes and Savage War pretty early around level 13 level 14 unfortunately you don't learn cat form until Level 20 that's the only real downside here I mainly play heels on Druid but Ferell has been such a pleasant surprise that I'm actually playing it quite often now and the last surprising spec all right it's not a spec it's a class Hunter It could only be you if you know me at all you know I was obviously going to play Hunter and I was going to enjoy Hunter I love classic Hunter it's probably my third favorite iteration of Hunter a lot of classes have received better changes in sod than Hunter but I still find it the most enjoyable what's surprising about Hunter is just how absolutely lost blizzard seems to be when it comes to Hunter and there's lots of things you can point to to prove that like the explosive shot change if it was somehow doing way too much damage and you needed to rain that in fine no one cares but why change my single Target damage Rune that's fantastic for leveling into an AOE Rune and why does it still put Arcane shot on cool down why do they want us to play BM exactly the same as classic it's literally the same as classic except now my pet does a lot of damage to an absolutely shocking degree it is the same like I'm not exaggerating it's the same as before we're even stuck using the same pets as before no one cares if they wanted to Nerf scorpid no one wanted to use a scorpid in in the first place but after all these Nerfs to pets and kill command we are right back where we started with 99% of people using cats for DPS at least give Raptors Dash so we can use them next bracket that's an easy fix just do it and that's only a small part of the weird they've done with Hunters there's the Kera shot NERF there's whatever the they're trying to do with melee Hunters there's runes like sniper training just being completely broken and wordless and what makes this actually frustrating is a lot of this was identified before release especially kiland which is a leg run as soon as I saw what they were doing with kill command I said don't do that give us the TBC version of kill command but they didn't listen Hunter is equal parts awesome disappointing surprising and frustrating hey at least we got good DPS right that was a video that went some places some weird some cool some erotic but hopefully some fun I had done a lot of Hunter specific content lately so it was nice to Ranch out again a little bit I do have another Hunter guide coming up next but after that I might work on updating the PVP tier list I've been doing a lot of PVP let me know what you'd like to see and hit that subscribe button like button I'm not Australian button all that other I appreciate each and every one I get and we even have a membership option click that join button and check it out you want to support the channel YouTube has recently changed the way memberships work and now all my members get to watch videos early yeah every single video it's pretty nice but that is going to be all for this one I really appreciate you all watching and I will see you all for the next one and I'll see you next time a prayer whispered a prayer answered ah Hunter Jesus you were by my side all along

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Length: 17min 54sec (1074 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 22 2023