Coming Soon: Changes for mages

[LochnarITB]

All this crap makes me sad. I get so sick of all the changes to classes - all classes always, not just the current mage change squabble. They should have been set in stone long ago. Learned skills should have been those that didn't rely on specialized knowledge and trees should have each stuck to their themed knowledge instead of blurring the trees where a talent in one tree affects another tree. Encounters and arenas and instances and whatever should then have been designed with those classes in mind. Each class would have their strong points and weak but everyone would have learned what they were and could have planned strategies as such. Instead, we get bickering over how Johnny can do this so I should be able to do that and then, if my class whines enough, we finally get that. Now xyz encounter is borked because that makes it trivial so it gets changed. A battleground gets added and some aspect makes it difficult for a certain build so the class gets adjusted instead of the battleground being adjusted to level the playing field. Etc. etc. The whole thing reminds me of the cliche cartoon where you see the character running across an endless brick bridge with the bricks falling out behind them. The classes should be the solid stone base that the rest of the WoW bridge is built out from.