What I love is rng still can completely separate players in terms of damage. Right now a good example is mm hunters. I can open close to 400k sometimes because of crit and talent procs going in my favor. Other times it can completely fuck me and I don't even break 150k or 200k on opener because I got little to no crits and no thrill of the hunt procs so I was focused starved.
It does tend to suck for the good players when groups have gotten a series of shit Monk tanks and then simply stop inviting them to anything. Before the massive Monk Guard/stagger buff way back in Highmaul it was pretty common to see pugs post "LF1M tank NO MONKS"
I don't think this works because of the changes they made to combat res in WoD (limited to like 1 per ~9 minutes in a small raid). According to wowhead comments it's possible to duo with a shaman though (I guess their reincarnation gets around the combat res restrictions?):
Probably somebody like me. Nearly entirely skipped pandaria I came back about 3 months before WOD.
Yes I remember this. In fact I started to lead my own PUG groups as a BM tank with a buddy who had a Warrior Tank. Our Pug Groups finished High Maul about 2 weeks after the our main guild did on heroic and we were like 3rd on server...
I liked MOP almost as much as Wrath. WOD wasn't bad, and neither was cata (though the complete upheaval of the old world was pretty awesome).
As a lock it was a fucking nightmare trying to get guildies to help with flagging and rep groups for keys and all that shit. When I got to KZ and saw the ring quests were yet another rep grind it took all the fun out of the game for me. I did farm the hell out of all that later, though. Got all the T4-T6 stuff on my hunter and lock.
Yup I am the same there were a lot of neat toys and the zones seemed really well made for what I did. But given how fast you level out of it just really impossible to really get the feel of doing it any more so kinda kicking myself I did not jump back in for pandaria. The gap between cata and pandaria killed my mmo desires for a while.
The absolute funniest thing about that book is that it retcons TBC from "Heroes boldly venture forth to save Azeroth from the Burning Legion" into "Burning Legion plays crazed murderhobos for patsies, gets them to eliminate a major threat to the Legion who only ever meant well".
Was out from Wrath till towards the end of MoP (5.2 I believe?). Originally thought Land of Panda's looked wack, but I actually enjoyed what I played enough to throw together a 10 man mythic group and clear SoO. After a month or so of WoD I was missing Pandaria pretty badly. Really was a decent expansion.