Re: Class change
- From: Urbin <urbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Mar 2011 15:25:27 GMT
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:14:21 -0600, Shiflet wrote:
"Catriona R" <catrionarNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8t73mcFfu8U2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
True, but at least they'll have a vague clue of what their spells
actually do ;-) Or most of them, the talent-specific ones will need
learned, yeah,
Not just the talent specific ones though. An enhancement or elemental shaman
who leveled solo will (most likely) never once have used Chain Heal or
Earthliving Weapon(despite having them), and really won't know much about
them beyond "it's not for my spec" until they roll a spec they are used for.
Exaclty. I have levelled a shadow priest to 80 and I suspect the only spell
I regularly use that healing priests also use is PW:Shield. I don't smite, I
don't heal (very rarely myself when soloing) etc.
Same with my resto shaman. Even levelling him as a healer in instances it
took me two levels or so to realise that after getting Earth Shield and
Riptide my healing style needed to be fundamentally changed from what it had
been up till then.
but at least the shaman healer ought to *know* that Hex and various useful
totems exist,
"Ought to". I might mention the one I had in HoO, who when asked to Hex a
mob, said in chat "let me see if I have that"...
That occasionally happens to my shaman when people request a specific totem.
They often just say "can you put down the rogue-totem". I'd then have to go
through my totems to see if one matches rogue statistics (I'd look for
+agi/+str/+ap, I know there is one like it but can't recall it's name right
now - is it Earth totem or something?). Even if they know its name, me
playing an english client on a german realm, I'd often not immediately
recognise a lesser used totem by its name :-)
(Yes, I realise "bad" players won't do these things anyway, but the
more competent ones will understand the class far better if they've
actually played it and experienced using a few of the skills before
entering an instance!)
I'd say that the better players will be able to pick up a totally new class
at level 80 based on the experience they had on previous characters *plus*
some research on the web. Whether that experience comes from playing the
same class in a different spec or from playing a different character is
probably secondary.
Of course having levelled your class from the bottom up (or to stay with the
topic of the thread) at least for some levels will never hurt, but it is not
a guarantee for grasping the intricacies of the new spec.
Decent players will pick up a spec quickly, bad ones will be bad,
regardless.
Agreed. Of course Catriona is right in so far as that bad players who don't
have a clue about their class will be even worse than bad players who at
least have a general idea what their class is played like :-)
Cheers
Urbin
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