With Legion Remix wrapping up soon, my brain has very firmly shifted into prepatch mode. Midnight is getting closer, and that familiar WoW cycle feeling is starting to creep back in. You know the one, patch notes open on a second monitor, talents being reset, action bars in absolute shambles.
I have spent a decent chunk of time poking around on beta, enough to get a feel for things, but not enough that it feels settled. Beta is always a bit weird like that, everything works on paper, rotations make sense, numbers exist, but it never fully clicks. Live is where things actually matter.
Warlock is, unsurprisingly, right at the top of my list. Demonology in particular is looking spicy. There is something very comforting about filling the screen with demons again, managing cooldown windows, and feeling like you are orchestrating controlled chaos. On beta it has felt solid, maybe even great, but it is hard to judge without real encounters, real pulls, and real mistakes.
Live play always exposes the truth. How it feels in longer fights. How punishing small misplays actually are. Whether the fun survives outside of target dummies and scripted testing. That is what I am most excited to find out.
Hunter is the other big contender. Beast Mastery feels like it is in a good place thematically and mechanically. Smooth, mobile, pets actually doing pet things, especially now in aoe scenarios. Marksman on the other hand is still that high risk, high reward itch. When it works, it really works. When it does not, you feel it instantly. On beta I bounced between the two constantly, never actually fully committing to one over the other.
And honestly, that is kind of the point of the prepatch for me. This is the time to mess around. To swap specs daily. To change your mind ten times. To swear you have picked a main and then immediately betray that decision the next evening haha.
I am really looking forward to testing all of this in a live environment. Real dungeons, real raids, real people pulling before you are ready. That is where classes either click or quietly fall apart for me.
By the time Midnight actually lands, I want that decision to feel natural. Not forced. Not spreadsheet driven. Just the class that I keep logging back into without thinking about it.
For now though, I am embracing the chaos. Prepatch is almost here, talents are about to explode, and my main choice is absolutely not locked in yet.
And that is exactly how it should be.
- Sloth