I find vanilla to still require a good amount of skill, it's just more decisive and quick. Does SL/SL or resto druid TBC really take that much more skill? I think you just have to know the main playstyle of your class. Seems like all classes have a chance to win a 1v1, except against SL warlock though...
Also, rogues in TBC were no skill ezpz lemon squeezy, stupid cloak of shadows just makes it so no matter how bad you play you can win.
Resto druid you just spam ur instant heals and win, like legit thats what u do you can win any matchup.
SL/SL you put dots and AFK, maybe make a sandwich and come back to victory screen (Soul link not purgable, but Bloodlust is? wtf blizz)
Mages did become more skill capped, but they were already pretty high skillcap anyway.
Enhance shamans did definetly get some good stuff, but ele remained the same, still takes lots of skill and knowledge.
Pally's got more stuff too, but really same playstyle, knowing when to heal or when to dps. Still a supporty class
Warrior is the class that really needs TBC. How anyone can play vanilla warrior is beyond me theres like two buttons.
Hunter, same playstyle, like the same spells too. Nothing more skillfull here, they still were pretty hard to be good with since this isnt MoP hunter, you gotta learn to kite.
Then how can you say vanilla takes less skill when everything is pretty much the same. The only thing I don't like is that no lifer/chinese farmers get epix and I, who only likes to git gud and duel doesn't
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