Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Yes. Have you?

Two things happened in Legion:
  1. Consolidation of non-integral flavor skills, often into more integral combat-useful skills (instead of reapplying Flametongue Weapon per hour, it became an additional effect on a rotational attack) and of cumbersome means of reaching a given capacity that taxed class utility for their maximal use despite their high opportunity costs (GCD-based stance-shifting on Death Knight in place of just a stronger mobility, defensive, and haste CDs).
  2. To reduce "one-shot macro" play in PvP and animation-cancelling convulsions in general, many former oGCD CDs were given direct damage, too, but put on the GCD. That did not remove the number of CDs, nor the game's complexity for most specs (with just as many ending up notably more complex).


Rogue has about twice the oGCD apm that it had pre-Legion, requires far more attention to combo point timing and usage in most competitive builds, and a majority of competitive builds tends towards more criteria affecting its APL than in MoP or WoD (i.e., greater complexity in decision-making) and stricter burst windows once a given string is fully setup (no more decisions to be made at that point, just execution).


7+ for any competitive build, and that's leaving out damaging mobility skills.


11-12 for the meta build.

By all means, it could be boring to you even when having higher apms and many specs requiring a whole lot more considerations than just adjusting string lengths (pretty much BLM only) and/or overclocking/underclocking a static rotation (mostly just SAM)... but your estimations are grossly out of touch.

A geared SAM could likewise consolidate its combos and play in single-target with 4 buttons and do better than terribly, but you wouldn't exactly call that the button count for the job, would you? So why the false or at least massively skewed narrative for your point of comparison? Beast Mastery is the only spec that's anywhere near to your estimations and it has always been that way, intended as a purposely easy/forgiving spec -- not just since Legion.
Ret paladin is literally just spamming crusader strike and blade of justice (and they nerfed art of war) with wake of ashes and templars verdict mixed in....its the most basic of basic and the class has been boring since legion. There's no real nuance to any of the classes in WoW. They are all the spam 1 or 2 skills over and over with some other stuff mixed in. Its one of the reasons I play classic over retail. Legion outright ruined WoW for me and if FFXIV ever pulls that BS and does a massive ability purge I will never play this game again.