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hi all guys! i want to ask a quick question to the pr0s:
is there a class that has really few counters/cons(maybe important cons!but very few) and for the rest is nearly flawless? i mean a thing like the heavy of team fortress whose really counters are spy and snipers and if u put him in close range he has no rivals... or the siege engines from warcraft 3: they can't touch ground units but they do their specific job superwell(destroy buildings) and are very tough. hope the question isn't too strange

Game balance? What's that?

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I think I get it. It seems like a legit question to me. You want something that is really specialized, right? You'll want to look at the "pure" classes, as it seems you're looking for dps. The pure classes are Mage, Hunter, Rogue, and Warlock.

I think you would like Rogue or Mage. Both are kind of "glass cannons" and have a ton of DPS potential. Rogues are melee DPS, so they do their damage up close and can stun-lock (keep the opponent from doing anything) in PvP. Mages do very high ranged damage, wanting to kill the opponent before it gets to him.



Now you talk about counters, but Blizz is really moving away from the rock/paper/scissors style of PvP, so you don't run into that as much.

Overall I'd suggest you try a rogue and/or a mage and see what you like!

A lot of classes have Frost Mages as serious counters. I don't know what it's like nowadays, but when Cataclysm launched and up to a few months ago, it was hilariously stupid how good Frost Mages were. Pretty much every patch saw some anti-root effect removed from another class and more damage added to Frost Mages.

Even Druids, the hard counter class to Frost Mages since I don't know, was bumped down in the food chain in one single patch with one single change: shapeshifting no longer breaks roots.

Sure, I can pop a trinket, Dash and Stampeding Roar to break three roots. Just a shame that Frost Mages have eight roots available.

Frost Nova
Freeze
Cone of Cold (talented)
Ice Barrier (talented)

That's four and Cold Snap makes it eight. Plus two stuns in Deep Freeze.

PvP is haaard.

i found i was searching for a "tank-mage"class... Like class-based systems, classless games have their own set of criticisms. One major problem is the tank mage syndrome. Even though a classless system typically restricts somehow the number or level of skills a player can have at any one time, the player can usually choose at least two, and some choose a defensive melee skill and an offensive spell skill. This takes advantage of the best defense and offense in the game, in effect turning a wizard from a powerful squishy into a nearly indestructible offensive cannon, and breaking the offense-defense inverse relationship considered central to balancing a game.

Edited, Jan 6th 2012 5:04pm by madjc

Death Knights can tank and cast more spells than the rest of the tanks, so arguably they're the Battlemages of WoW and the closest thing you come to a spell-casting tank.

Yeah, Shockadins are a lot of fun. It's too bad it's not a viable spec at max level.