in patch 5.2 which class will be favored? I had a warrior, but it seems that will bring big nerf .. and I think there are many meles ... wanted to make a paladin
This is question with two sides, first side if you just want to know favored class, and second side is if you want to know best class-routine combo.
You can find current and most detailed patch notes for every class on PTR
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Heres what i dug up from few theorycrafting sites, official blizzards patch notes and a bit of thinking:
OP DKs are getting buffed, mainly healing, they even now die extremely hard, with this buff they will be fortress.
Monk, currently best melee DPS is getting huge re-wrap and buff across all specs. Mistweavers will finally favor "Fistweaver" style of healing over classic iddle one.
Rogues..fine tuned and a bit buffed and reworked, i have seen numbers of "ranged rogue", on "Shuriken Toss" which can pull similar DPS as they were in melee (~10-15% DPS loss). Taking this into concern, and that were talking about rogues, this looks interesting.
Blade Flurry is reworked (nerfed/buffed?) but that Tempest AoE attack will be insane, base DPS increase to Combat and Sub, which should bring them close to Assassination numbers now.
Mages nerf across Fire and Arcane spec, frost got buffed.
Priests, nerf of Discipline, Holy buffed a bit.
Warriors.. besides DK's and Monk's another class for "Faceroll" (if you know how to play them correctly). Everybody sees nerf of "Second Wind" and removal of "Deadly Calm" as huge nerfs, noone noticed that benefit from haste went up by 100%, with Haste as main secondary stat (instead of current Crit) warriors will hit fast and hard, no matter what i play, i dont want to get close to them when they pop Reck+Avatar+sBanner combo, specially not close to Fury warrior.
So.. my thoughts are as following.. we will see increased number of Monks above all, followed by DKs and Rogues/Warriors, but we will see increased number of monks for sure, not even they are even now top melee DPS spec, they are getting re-worked and completely buffed across all specs, making them not even top DPSers but also fun to play.