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Off-meta picks and “weird” specs were something frequently experimented with during the early days of WoW when talent trees were long and class scaling was less tied down.
Today im covering 1 of these unusual specs for the majority of the classes in the game.
This is when When Weird Specs WORKED In WoW | World of Warcraft
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a little known fact in real vanilla and when classic launched as vanilla (although I think not any more since patches fixed it), the shaman enhancement talent to increase flametongue weapon damage (cos reasons) also increased the hidden spell co-efficiency of all (?) spells – in vanilla wow I did more damage as ele taking this talent, it was a strange time (if you have access to a true vanilla client, you can test this with lightning shield for example, since it's a fixed amount of damage) – I learned about this back in the OG vanilla days from some class guide somewhere
I remember monk and fistweaving in WoD and maybe even legion
Gladiator is something I never played, such a great class fantasy, and as for dps, it was just a tunning (numbers) problem, like most simple specs nowdays.
God, I miss Gladiator stance.
I tried out Enhancement shaman tank in tbc at around lvl 45-55 (in Uldaman and Maraudon).
It was very doable even with dual wielding and windfury. Fire Nova Totem, Earthbind and Taunt Totem for aoe pulls and high dps and Frost Shock for 1-3 enemy groups.
My talents weren't even built around tanking, so it could have worked even better with them. (l often had infinite mana because of shamanistic rage and shock cost reductions)
I even had the Spirit weapons talent, which reduced the threat generation of my melee attacks by 30%.
And aug evoker
Don't know if it is/was weird spec, when i played WoW the Soul Link / Siphon Life warlock was used in PvP. I think it was in TBC.
Fistweaving was good for like one patch in legion bcuz of how the artifact skill worked, but it got nerfed into the ground after a month, and in 5.4 holy pallys could be a ranged dps with denonunce and the world of glory glyph that let you cast it for dmg, you could wings and hammer had a 30yd range as well, holy shock could crit for almost a million if you stacked mastery too
I liked Frostfire mage in Early WotLK
I rememeber my vanilla wow rogue build, used points in all 3 trees and stunlocked people to hell
Taking on a group of 3+ was too fun
No shaman tank? bro dropped the ball big time.
Never forget the warlock tank. Beautiful times. Right there with shockadin dps
Shiv rogue until it was nerfed.
I (and many others) ran as a healer paladin in OG WOTLK for arenas but as deep protection. There was a talent that would give you spell power relative to your stamina. You would gem and enchant solely stamina. Additionally, you would get avenger's shield and use the increase damage glyph. Blizz added a silencing effect to this spell too which made it useful in this build. I think it was nerfed come the following season but it was super tanky, offered more utility with the silence rather than just having HOJ, and uber strong heals. The only con of this spec was no instant casts from holy shock or beacon so you had to juke interrupts and LOS ccs better than the average joe.
cloth holy shock paladin wasnt included, interesting
There's a spec I never see anyone talking about for DK in early Wrath that was a combo of Frost and Unholy, using dual weilding, did a ton of damage with low end gear, like I was topping the charts in raids with basic blue items, relied a lot on procs of Rime for Howling Blast and disease damage
Where's the shockadin mention? I think it's in MoP where Holy shock scaled so hard that you one shot other players in BG's while levelign untill it was fixed. God it was a blast. The only other class you feared was other other holy paladins.
Sword & Board for any plate user would be a brilliant DPS option. Really would love to see Gladiator back!
I actually created a special hybrid semi-ranged paladin spec in MoP, before it was nerfed one month into that expansion. I was so pissed, I quit wow until LEGION! They also forced you to rep grind to spend badges of justice from heroics and I didn't want to raid, so that literally stopped me from having any fun in the content I wanted to play.
It was INCREDIDBLY powerful! Hence the quick nerf to completely remove harsh words from ret! It made use of 40 yd judgment that gave 1 holy power, holy prism on 45s cd that could be used to heal and damage at the same time, harsh words to spend your holy power and hit from range and a talent that would proc free holy power spenders whenever you used one. I dominated all the classes that tried to kite me like they had been doing for every expansion up to that point. It was so cathartic. Fun was detected and quickly removed.
Gosh, i had tons of fun as a gladiator stance warrior in Ashran. Such a blast
I absolutely loved prot pally in season 3 of wrath , I believe I was one of the first people to play it stacking shield block rating and it was definetly overpowered. You could run double healer prot on 3s till 2500 ish rating
But Gladiator warrior wasn't a player made weird spec… You should have added Fury tanks from vanilla instead. Also Shockadin -> ProtRet pally. And wasn't meleweaving a playstyle for hunters and not a spec in itself? Lastly Smite priest was legit the best priest leveling spec up until Cata.
Hey @WillE, I have a very very niche rogue spec I tried out in og wrath with decent results. Hard cap hit chance mutilation rogue. The idea is damage came from poison applications and only white hits apply poison so then I would make sure all my white hits would guaranteed as well as find fast daggers. The 1.3 daggers from HoS was best use in my case. And I also tried heartstriker. The payoff in essence increased my damage. It work extremely well as I was able to do about 70-80 % dps of our best guild rogue in 5-man content and he would always be wondering how the fuck I was pulling it off.
Another very niche spec dying the same time was the relentless assault tank warrior and this was by far the highest tps/dps spec available to the warrior by a good margin. At the time the talent in revenge would stun targets and because you’re constantly casting revenge (back then you revenge was available for a 5 second window following a dodge, block or parry) your targets are almost always stun. I actually had a white/gray gear set that I would immediately put on in the dungeon finder just to mess with the group. In more than one occasion I would get kicked out just to come back to the same group because tanks were in short supply. Had a macro to go along with that attitude. “Leave if you want {insert a myriad of insults here} dps are a dime a dozen, kick me if you’d like I don’t give {insert another myriad of mother insults here} I have instant queues either way. INSTANT. In all honesty that was the best time I had playing WoW and was only topped by surrender to madness legion shadow priest. In classic wrath I hoped they would bring it back but blizzard left the integration of revenge a 1:1 deal. Now I’m just waiting for classic legion and maybe I can relive some nostalgia. Anyhow this comment is long enough although it helped me remember some truly fun times of my past.
Thank you for your hard work.
Wrath Unholy tanking was pure joy.
Surprised I didn't see the vanilla priest trispec from pvp. That sh*t was bonkers back in the day
Back in Wrath, I switched my main from Priest to Druid. I ended up bear tanking, so all my gear was for that. Since cat and bear forms were the same tree, I developed a hybrid tank/DPS spec that did good DPS in cat form, yet still had good survivability in bear form. (Good enough to off tank in raids.) That was a phenomenal spec for PvP, and I had a blast in Wintergrasp.
Gladiator Stance during the beginning was actually damn good, it was one of the top specs people went. Most people stuck to what the knew best and didn’t even know that spec was in the Tank Tree because hardly anyone goes tank. The devs dropped it cause trying to tune a spec within a spec without destroying it completely on top of taking too much time away from other pressing issues the expansion had is the biggest reason why it wasn’t too dps throughout the expansion after the nerf and completely removed afterwards.
Blood DK was the best dps spec to go in OG Wrath. Lol these classic numbers hold no candle to the amount of people who played blood back then. What made the DK a hero class was that you could technically DPS or Tank depending on which tree you took for all three specs interchangeably. Most people went Frost for tank cause of its mitigation in the tree, most went Blood instead of Unholy cause of the dmg burst and output it gave compared to dot control.
At various times, a Holy Nova Spirit Tap hybrid build worked for dungeons. At least for dungeons with a lot of small adds. If the priest could reliably get kills, spirit tap would double their spirit and allow full spirit mana recovery. It worked because holy nova was a zero threat spell, so the priest could start dpsing the instant the tank had body odor aggro on the mobs. It was one of the many specs that really only takes off when you outgear the content, but it was good for speed levelling. Unfortunately, holy nova stopped scaling well at TBC content.