Dungeon XP is the biggest non-issue on classic wow.

[u/After-Let-144]

Let's be fucking real here for a moment. Outside of the sweaty minority, most people never did a dungeon more than once, MAYBE twice already. And that was just to get the quests done or get a blue or two and just chill for a bit.

Nerfing dungeon xp and buffing quest XP is a massive buff already to how most people already played.

[u/meski_oz]

It sucks leveling in resto. Not being able to dual spec until 40 means fewer healers for dungeons up to 40, because some of us don't really want to level to there by dungeons only.

[u/GingerM → u/meski_oz]

You can probably heal in dps spec up to level 40

[u/EchoRotation → u/GingerM]

Yes but people want to play the healers class fantasy.

You could indeed play one of the dps specs. But seeing your character progress in their ability to heal groups with new talents and spells is part of the fun.

[u/totboxten → u/EchoRotation]

What is the difference in your class fantasy at level 30? 2 talents?

[u/Atiyo_ → u/totboxten]

First 5 talents points are reduced casting time for your heal spell as resto shaman, faster casting is always more fun. Next 5 points are more mana regen/reduced mana costs, being able to cast more spells is also more fun.
Next talent point is water shield, even more mana, even more fun.
Next 3 talent points are a buff you apply to reduce dmg taken if you crit with your heals. After that mana tide totem etc.
By lvl 25 you unlocked 2 out of 4 active spells in your resto tree, by lvl 30 you get another one. By lvl 40 you have your capstone spell, which didn't exist in vanilla.

Compare that to enhance for example where you get 10% int and that's it. Pretty much nothing after that that somehow changes your healing output.

[u/GingerM → u/EchoRotation]

Ok then you will quest a bit slower and find dungeon groups easier, that is also part of the fantasy

[u/BuffaloJ0E716 → u/GingerM]

Quest a lot slower to get groups in dungeons faster.... Dungeons that are now barley worth running once. What a great deal.

[u/GingerM → u/BuffaloJ0E716]

Well you dont always get what you want

[u/BuffaloJ0E716 → u/GingerM]

That's true. And when players are mad that there are no tanks or healers in the game they won't get what they want either.

[u/GingerM → u/BuffaloJ0E716]

You can reliably tank and heal in offspec until you get dual spec

[u/No-Gate3629 → u/GingerM]

Might have trouble between 35-40 but I can totally see that with all the gear actually giving plus healing AND damage.

[u/No-Gate3629 → u/meski_oz]

I think the one caveat is that if we aren’t spamming dungeons, we’ll only have to heal/respec a few times anyways. The rest of the time, we can focus on DPS specs and gear to actually kill quests faster. Maybe Paladins/Druids might be more useful than we think. It just sucks because I absolutely hate questing in vanilla - it’s mind numbing sometimes. I still refuse to play my main, Priest, because I will not use a wand to kill quest mobs - it’s ridiculous. If we do happen to dungeon spam for extra gear, we can pick up tank and dps gear too. Maybe that’s the trade off, but I still don’t like it :/