Top 10 Overpowered Passive Abilities and Skills in World of Warcraft's History

[@Odynh]

bro chill, you don't have to bombard us with good content that often

[@quantumcat6622]

Lol

[@Ar1AnX1x]

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[@ujustgotpwnd3454]

Yes he does

[@Runescapevidproducer]

Lol

[@kikson7773]

Lol

[@BurakkuHishou]

I would like to contribute Protection Warriors during the first patch of Legion. It all came down to a single talent called "Vengeance." Vengeance caused a bouncing effect for protection warriors where using Ignore Pain would reduce the rage cost of Heroic Strike, and if you used Heroic Strike it would reduce the rage cost of Ignore Pain. The thing was this bouncing effect in it's initial stage, dropped both abilities basically to only costing 5 rage, alongside with the warrior having a permanent bubble, not even mentioning ANY of their other defensive cooldowns. Combine this with the other talent that replaces Victory Rush with one that's on a 35 second cooldown. The warrior could pull an entire zone and not fear dying.

[@guyfox9627]

Back when the pally taunt did damage, me and a friend could keep a mob walking back and forth between us, never hitting us until death. I don'T see it as over powered but was a lot of fun.

[@pandosham]

It would trivialize bosses

[@deployed246]

@@pandosham Bosses have (almost) always had diminishing returns in order to prevent this. Believe taunt DR was even nerfed in WotLK. I don't know when taunt DR was actually added though, just remember it being a thing during Wrath and our tanks talking about how they could taunt switch more frequently in ICC.

[@NevanSlone]

I had an Exorcism/pally taunt macro for pulling mobs lol they get to me at like 50% hp

[@arforafro5523]

It was really good for PvP, most tank classes knew taunt would put a target in combat but pally taunt could actually deal damage and break spells or effects on a 40 yd range, It wasn't exactly amazing but a 40yd range, short CD, instant damage spell isnt something melee classes have widely available.

[@aaabccc]

You could kill shaman totems in PVP with the paladin taunt too. It was SO useful.

[@Rpground]

Ok, the Reck bomb thing I knew for years and it one of my favorite "broken" things. But I didn't know that the dude's weapon broke instantly and he had to equip a new one just to finish the rest of the attacks. That's hilarious!

[@Storyfrombolvar]

You know that you gave it all in when your weapon BREAKES during battle. Man, I've never seen any of my weapon breaking...

[@galenkehler]

​@@Storyfrombolvardurability used to (maybe still does) have a chance to have a point tick off every spell or ability that hits with it. So back in BC if you were doing a long raid like Kara, when I was off tanking and using a ton of cleave attacks so the durability went down pretty fast. We made it once to illhoof, and my weapon broke midfight (even tho it wasn't even showing yellow before the fight started, cause I was just constantly doing cleave attacks on the imps. I started to lose aggro until I hunted though my bags and equipped my skinning knife, that allowed me at least to use my abilities even though my damage was reduced. One of my prouder "think on my feet" moments that prevented a wipe, although I never went raiding without a spare mainhand weapon after that.

[@danielcanty5727]

​@@galenkehlerin BWL on Nefarion, His class call for hunters broke our ranged weapon. So we either had to pre pop a repair bot or bring a 2nd ranged weapon.

[@kopilatis05]

About the TBC mace stuns, let's not forget that Windfury totem was a thing back then and it was a stunfest. :D

[@BigestJB]

i was expecting to see mop second wind from warrior

[@Pushoffacl1ff]

Was looking for this comment immediately. Warriors were so stupid broken with second wind. All they had to do was stack stamina and they couldn't die.

[@Alex-nr4xb]

Vanilla Enrage (40%) and MoP Second Wind yeah.

[@DsiakMondala]

Bruh I was Prot warrior backthem, it was right around the time they removed that PvP defense status so I could resist player damage with my raid gear. Absolute wall, most classes couldn't down me if I did nothing. Also did dungeons with 4 DPS.

[@125conman]

I'm guessing it was only in PVP.

[@SquareGrills]

Reckoning bomb is possibly my favourite thing in wow's history, a testament to the nature of wow players to break anything given to us

[@nineonine9082]

Only reason I went paladin in Classic, One shotting people was amazing

[@pegaferno4429]

It’s always a good day when Hiru releases a new video, I just hope he’s staying safe both mentally and physically

[@xalian17]

So glad he finally addressed AR/Prep or HARP rogues from tbc. The mace stun rogues where possibly the strongest spec I’ve seen in the history of wow

[@shadowviruz]

I remember when Ghostcrawler buffed destro locks damage by applying Fire and Brimstone to Conflag, Chaosbolt, and Immolate. The spells ended up double dipping the talent because Conflag and Chaosbolt did more damage based off of Immolate. For a couple of weeks during the start of Ulduar destro locks were killing everybody in a GCD.

[@frightranker]

Also assassination rogues at the very start of TOC (it lasted maybe a day). The spec had been rebalanced, and something was...off. I probably shouldn't have been doing about 23% of a 25 man raid's total dps on Onyxia...

[@ekscalybur]

Sword Specialization was broken in Vanilla. Because it's proc rate was just like mace specialization, the slower the weapon, the higher the proc chance. What made it broken was that it proc'd off everything, even itself. So a warrior with all their instant attacks isn't really swinging just once every 3.6 seconds, but the proc calculator was working as if they did. So there were instances that weren't all that rare where the warrior would Mortal Strike crit you, and 2 or 3 Sword Spec procs happened, that also crit, that were immediately followed by an auto-attack that also sword spec proc'd. You're just about dead, he has a full rage bar from all that damage, and Execute is glowing bright on his action bar. Way back in the day, I kept a screenshot of the combat log that showed me effectively 2 shotting a fully geared rogue because an auto-attack and Mortal Strike combined for 7 sword spec procs. 9 attacks in the span of one GCD from a 'slow' weapon. I think I said wtf as much as he did.

[@PREPFORIT]

A passively energetic review. Thanks for doing that research.

[@BrandonWestfall]

I’m a bit surprised the WOTLK version of Incanters Absorption didn’t make it into the list. (Mage solo Naxx)

[@joshuadonnelly1978]

Bro, Twilight Devastation was sooo much fun if you weren't on the receiving end of it. :D My ret pally got Devastation's Hour, rolled on down to Nazmir during the warfront and picked up that orb thing on the peninsula... you know, that thing that gives the player carrying it a massive boost to HP and damage. A monk stepped up to me and I killed him instantly. Just fucking GONE, man, account deleted, soul perished from the earth. I snapped my fingers and he was dust. Godamnit, I'm gonna miss Twilight Devastation!

[@Antervis]

back in the day, fan of knives had 55 energy cost and damage-wise was just a waste for interrupting for 3 seconds, since it basically wasted so much energy, it stopped rogues dps for even longer. The only thing imbalanced about FoC was it's PvE synergy with focused attacks, which basically attributed for infinite FoC. Interrupt on deadly throw was also a pvp gauntlet perk in TBC, but then again, it was barely useful because of extremely rare opportunities to utilize it.

[@Antervis]

TBC rogues barely ever used mace spec for three reasons. First, the talent was in combat tree, and vast majority played subtlety, with most remaining speccing into assasination. Secondly, it shared DR with KS or CS (don't quite remember), which accounted for basically same stun duration. Except randomly, not when needed. On top of that, sword spec was just better since it attributed fair amount of damage (due to pairing fast offhand with slow main hand weapon)

[@philbuttler3427]

The idea asking people to change their habits made an ability broken in pvp is so funny. Like the fact Blizz did nerf it over telling people to figure it out is really telling on why expectations in the community are the way they are

[@daburgerbandit1598]

Damn I miss Twilight Dev Rank 3... I was a 478 Vengeance DH, meaning that if I had all the right buffs at just the right time, I could have 1.5 million HP. Since I had a lot of AoE, if I pulled a large pack of mobs/trash, and had the right things at the right time... Gosh dang, watching my name skyrocket to the top of the Details! meter while tanking was satisfying. :)

[@PaoloDanielAngeloni]

That warlock backpeddaling on the Kil'Jaedens cunning part is tilting me

[@hirumaredx]

That was actually the best way to do the fight. You wanted to always be moving, but not fast. So backpedaling was slow enough

[@PaoloDanielAngeloni]

Oh good to know, haven't played past WotLK so your videos are the one thing keeping me updated

[@Corri888]

Yea you heard on the internet that backpeddaling is the mark of bad players, and thought you're gonna be smart and edgy by noting it. Jokes on you, that fight in the Brawler's guild requies to do that exactly. Only a good player can overcome stereotypes and not looking down on others while doing the exact same thing. "Havn't played lost WotLK" instantly tells me that you are a private server noob who thinks vanilla naxx was hard. It's 2020 my dude, stop farming LK 25 HC XDDDDDDD

[@aimilios439]

@@Corri888 I suspect you have the "Salty" title.

[@JamJestKesh]

there was this PROT paladin talent in early wotlk, that gave you spellpower based on stamina, allowing this prot-holy hybrid to be really tanky and heal a lot. not sure, how op it really was, since paladin didnt have instant heals other, than LoH and Holy Shock, but talent was quickly changed, to be based on str instead, so it had to be doing something.

[@krakaneti]

The talent was called Touched by the Light, I think. It was like that from 3.0.8 at the earliest, if not the WotLK prepatch and they changed it in 3.2. You gave up all the healing conveniences and talents you had gotten in WotLK like a short cooldown Holy Shock and instant Flashes of Light through Infusion of Light, plus Beacon and a few other abilities for insane tankiness, a ranged interrupt and silence via Avenger's Shield, 1 minute down on the Divine Shield cooldown, even more stamina for spell power and infinite mana when fighting melee so long as you had Blessing of Sanctuary and Holy Shield up(which you easily did). If I recall correctly, a decently geared holy paladin with arena gear actually gained slightly more spell power with the protection talents(30% of stamina converted to spell power) than they had otherwise or it broke even. I think it really started popping up in the 3.1 arena season, at least that's when I remember it. It was stupidly strong against melee, but weak against spellcasters, especially priests and warlocks due to mana drains.

[@zeffmalchazeen3429]

the bgm of this vid sounds like those mystery stories that were never solved

[@vaxen805]

I miss Heroic throw with silence so much. It made caster pulls so useful when tanking.

[@demoniclily1892]

Auto bubble from rets in legion could be an honorable mention.

[@giacomorosina7804]

impruved counterspell was avable in Wrath too; and btw the interrupt on fan of knives shuld be on first place, that shit is insane

[@benshalev878]

U forgot to mention how tanks soloed HC raids with twilight devastation

[@rbsk225]

Hi what about the passive ability from the pally trinket from hell fire peninsula that gives crusade 3 charges in the end of wod so the pally could cast crusade at the beginning of a boss fight then pop it during hero/ blood then at the end of the of the boss fight perfect for when boss fights that you had phases that you had to burn the boss down

[@KolbeinnVorms]

Really need to know the battle text addon at around 11:40, not talking about miks

[@auriaska99]

I'm pretty sure Fan of Knives didn't generate combo points in Wrath of the lich king.

[@generalgrievuuz]

Didn't include the Astral Shift talent from wotlk smh. That talent was so broken because it compounded with resilience and armor.

[@mucxlx]

The most overpowered was in wotlk at the start Naxx2 time. Rogues had a skill that you gain a CP everytime someone in the raid crits. So basicly you had always 5 CP and could use 5CP Eviscerate as your basic attack. No need for Sinister Strike. Got patched about 2 weeks later so you could only get 1 per sec or so. You did like 2x-3x more damage than the next class in the dps meter.

[@OhioGolfAddict]

Warrior second wind in MoP. So hard to kill in arena.

[@ffarkasm]

How about Hardiness? 25% stun resistance.

[@nickthompson2023]

FoK plus throwing spec plus BE racial was so effing broken

[@draxonstraza1569]

Aren't you the same guy from the channel TheDuelLogs? Or am i'm missleading your voice?

[@Frightnoodle]

Good ol' Skillherald on a Mace spec Warrior, oof

[@Gloom_Shroom_Gaming]

For the quality of your videos, you crank them out FAST!

[@dinobirdboy]

are those chickens during the reck bomb a pet in game

[@Drishby]

I love you Hiru.

[@mortammer]

Your information on counterspell is off, you were able to get improved counter spell in vanilla all the way up to wod, it wasn't introduced in cata, had been in the game from the start.

[@TheExsniperxe]

fan of knives never interrupted spells

[@qwertyios]

second wind/conversion was busted too

[@stevemin8896]

My rogue-copter goes fok fok fok fok

[@brainlagxd]

not only did you miss ardent defender (paladin - wotlk) and second wind (warrior - mop), but theyre both probably top 3.. oof.

[@madefake6239]

Are you duel log?

[@severren1095]

Arms warrior with second wind. They don't need to eat food

[@Hijackerrr]

improved counterspell was already in wotlk

[@Innacton]

Haven’t watch this yet but if second wind isn’t first I’m gonna be confused

[@1un4cy]

Improved counterspell was also a vanilla arcane talent.

[@MrJamedawg]

@@marcialhd He has a lot of facts wrong a lot of the time

[@Effigyy]

also not overpowered at all

[@Fresco272]

And I'm quite sure that in TBC it replaced original counterspell (6 or 8 seconds long, not sure) with only 4 seconds silence. It was complete raplecement not added bonus on top of base CS.

[@Cristian69-96]

Its hard not to goof up the facts when you started in MoP

[@akiimo389]

@@marcialhd how did he have the facts wrong?

[@chaoslance4959]

Damn, it feels so nice to hear about BfA in past sentece.

[@TonyNumber9]

It was fun expansion

[@Necrodoge]

@@TonyNumber9 be careful dont let the hivemind find out you disagree with them

[@LULULULUCAWCAWCAWCAW]

I enjoyed it during the last 2 patches. First 2 were a pretty serious dumpster fire though, in terms of mechanics/power. Raids were great.

[@TonyNumber9]

@@Necrodoge agree, saw this guy on forum just saying he doesn't like min maxing and doesn't mind other people doing it, the hivemind attack him cause reasons

[@TonyNumber9]

@@LULULULUCAWCAWCAWCAW I feel that only things I don't like, but doesn't hinder my experience is N'zoth ending and removal of titanforging with experimental corruption gear, overall other stuff are fun and enjoyable while it was current content

[@YellowFraggle]

I'm so confused. I came from my yugioh content and was like "I recognise this voice!?"

[@seankrkovich2869]

Yeah.

[@heinrichklassen5988]

Mage counterspell was in since a vanilla patch, fan of knives didn't give combo point in wotlk

[@Tuskor130]

I never knew the original Reckbomb guy's weapon broke mid-fight, that's as hilarious of a mental image as it is fascinating to think about how gear duravility works.

[@RoninCaged]

"One of the first time a player was able to one shot a current tier boss in game" ... make a video of othe cases where this has happened before ... if ever. It would be interesting.

[@blueskadoo1402]

There was a mage in Wotlk that would spell steal a buff from a mob in naxx that would allow her to solo the death wing(at least). She got in trouble for it tho, and all the loot taken away. Only other instance I can think of at the top of my head.

[@hassanzaidi5843]

Rextroy.

[@teimursobczak9557]

Martin fury

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

imp counterspell was already in vanilla, not sure why he said it was added in cata.

[@unholyallen9572]

ppl forget

[@ImDissonance]

The effect probably changed and become OP in cataysm

[@darylsdog9521]

@@ImDissonance it was the same from vanilla to cata

[@lief3414]

Was looking for this comment. Glad someone noticed.

[@MrJamedawg]

@@darylsdog9521 because he gets facts wrong literally all the time... Don't know why ppl don't see this

[@DevastatorIIC]

I'm shocked WotLK's Ardent Defender didn't show up here. "Damage that takes you below 35% health is reduced by 20%. In addition, attacks which would otherwise kill you cause you to be healed by up to 30% of your maximum health (amount healed based on defense). This healing effect cannot occur more often than once every 2 min." It was Warrior's Last Stand, but passive. I was a pally tank and even I thought it was OP. Didn't stop me from talenting into it.

[@gorkskoal9315]

You people don't know what OP means. I'm reminded of a wow animation or possibly comic where someone is have a meltdown because a different class can do things it can't. In TBC pali was fucked from: Slows, manaburn, silence, spell lock, spell school lock, **counter spell**, and sometimes even resistance or spell reflect. But then you go: oh right when (not if!) they get to 40% health from TBC because remember back then they were fucked if they couldn't do or take enough damage since...uh I don't know why blizzard was on crack is why. The spec was mid, at best, as a maintank. The only reason it shined was from flashy lights, and as assist tank. because, a healer would be so heavily focused on keep a bear or warrior alive, Pali self healy was huge. ergo: oh shit I'm at low health!!...ALOT why do you think they had to stack the shit out of mana regen and haste? (well that and expertise, parry, and hit hard caps but that goes without saying)

[@amethonys2798]

"The Rogue had a near-infinite amount of interrupts" Oh, so like BFA Outlaw in M+ with BtE having a stun on it for some reason?

[@AsprosOfAzeroth]

Let's face it, we all know what n°1 is going to be... Can't stop the Holy Light!

[@UstraMage]

I remember Mace Rogues in Arenas were just crazy, as a mage they could crush me in seconds and I had no way to fight back

[@Vidar93]

The thing you forgot to mention with the rouge mace thing was that hemo was also the only generator aside from sinister strike that didn't require a dagger. At the time hemos damage was scaled with dagger weapon danage in mins so mace hemos were hitting super hard as well as having the stun chance I still remember how busted rogue mage was for 2's and PMR was in 3's back then.

[@meropemessias]

I am really happy with this amount of videos, since I love your channel but... Please don’t overwork yourself! (Awesome vídeo as usual, btw)

[@Serelor]

For Shadow of Death, one little unknown quirk with the talent was that if you were in an instance and you came back as a ghoul and ran through the instance portal, you'd no longer be a ghoul once you zoned out. This meant instead of taking a corpse run, depending on the instance and how far in you were it was more useful to run out and back in.

[@Fliigh7z]

Small error. When gag order was in the game, melee interrupts were a 15 sec cd like it is now, not 10. Cata was 10 seconds, changed in MoP which just happened to be the Gag Order expansion. MoP was truly an insane expansion.

[@Geronimoe1000]

Windfury. I remember in classic i did hit raid bosses and players for over 10k dmg in one swing(3xwindfury proc)

[@blairdurward4324]

No mention of the vengeance passive in cata? I remember tanks in cata doing almost twice the damage of dps classes with this ability,

[@vic.olofrost]

What about Windfury proccing endlessly?

[@r.a.fgattaiguy845]

> Kil´Jaeden´s cunning I read that wrong for a second there

[@josedavidmunozmartinez4722]

Maybe this one couldn't make it to the list, but it is still OP as hell... Druid Shape shifting frees the caster from any root... And yeah, that's still in the game nowadays lol

[@Kona_AJ]

No mention of early WOTLK Honor Among Thieves? For shame. Time to remake the vid mate.

[@guifdcanalli]

playing at a pirate mop server and taking killjaedens cunning is so refreshing, being a caster unable to move is just annoying

[@EdinMike]

Shadow of Death was broken AF ! I hated pvping against DKs during that patch...

[@Tygram17]

I’m surprised no mention of second wind in MoP. Shit was op

[@maxw5750]

U mean bc

[@Lololelechoa]

I remember Dematerialize would proc on warrior's charge, so warriors would charge me, stun me for like 0,75s and I would get a 2s invulnerability buff, since it was close to charge's cooldown also, warriors would straight up not charge me if they knew what they were doing since it would proc every in charge Fun times

[@7xXSE7ENXx7]

hey man. can you do like a top 5 most op classes of all time. I know every class has it's time in the sun. but maybe the top 5 most op like really op at a moment in time. if that makes sense.

[@Hojkica12]

I remember shamans in general being way too strong in TBC and demo locks in TBC were quite powerful. If they were top 5, I'd argue shamans were, simply for the buffs they brought. I'd love to see if I'm right here and the list expanded though! :)

[@EquanoxDragon]

So fun little tidbit about the Twilight devastation ability.... in our raid, we had a warrior and druid tank, our druid tank had some of the best gear she could have for our progression as well as max twilight devastation on all her gear.... and having so much HP as a bear, she was often sitting at 3rd or 4th sometimes first place for damage, and a lot of the times when a tank swap had to happen, she would not be allowed to even attack the boss because just normal attacking did so much damage and generated so much threat that she would pull aggro off the warrior with the warrior having no way to hold up against how stupidly strong her threat generation was.... It was kinda funny hearing him say to her "no get away from the boss, stop hitting it! Go help with adds!" Because he couldn't keep threat off her. Also the druid was the mother of the warrior tank so that was even more funny.

[@jotarokujo8236]

> Also the druid was the mother of the warrior tank so that was even more funny. Goals

[@frightranker]

I'd love to know what it was, but right after the Onyxia fight was re-released in Wrath, Assassination Rogues got a rebalance and something went badly wrong (or right, if you played one!). I was doing about 25-35% more than the next highest dps, depending on the fight. If I remember, it was rebalanced again the next day.

[@felixs2605]

Woltk explosive Shot Stun New Talent - [T.N.T.] (Survival): Your Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Explosive Shot have a 5/10/15% to stun targets for 2 sec when they deal damage, and increases the critical strike chance of your Explosive Shot and Explosive Trap by 5/10/15%.

[@SuperZekethefreak]

I always felt that the CC's in MoP were awesome and instead of eliminating them, Blizz should have given diminishing returns if you use them too often (resets after x amount of time) and given everyone else a limited immunity if they get chained (resets after x amount of time). Does that make any sense? Blizz could have taken this approach for a lot of OP things and left the fun in the game.

[@KankiMasa]

Second Wind talent for warriors was pretty broken aswell back in MoP

[@DK-TOPNEP]

OMG i hated warriors in MoP due to that

[@Bonolovesme]

You missed a good one: Touched by the Light talent for prot pal in WotLK. For a while, it gave SP per Stamina points (it was later changed to give SP per Strenght). A lot of people specced Prot (and the rest in Holy) with plate healing gear and became absolute wall while healing very decently. Was meta in PvP while it lasted.

[@krakaneti]

21/50/0 was pretty common before 3.2, it was insane. You got so much passive mitigation, 1 min off Divine Shield cooldown, 30 seconds off the Hammer of Justice cooldown, a 30 second cooldown silence and daze in Avenger's Shield, a bunch of stamina(which only meant more spell power), cheat death every 2 minutes through Ardent Defender and tons of free mana against melee with Holy Shield and Redoubt combined with Blessing of Sanctuary. And I think there was also a talent, which increased critical healing by a lot while you had Sacred Shield on. All of that on top of Hand of Sacrifice and Divine Guardian and the usual high paladin armour, utility and survivability. It was too good a trade off not to take and of course, had to be nerfed. But it was fun while it lasted.

[@vael167]

Thats not the right version of Fan of Knives, it didnt give combo point.

[@eli-boy7473]

Dude, you bored? What is this upload scedule^^

[@eyevou]

probably the increased ad rates for the holidays.

[@Cheddarjrr]

FYI: Improved CS has been in the game since classic. And you could skill it with Deep Frost since TBC.

[@Taco_swagg]

I’m surprised second wind wasn’t a honorable mention, the warrior talent in wod where they basically got auto healed 3% of their health every second

[@runyanpiano]

I remember that. Second wind was way OP

[@agarion101]

Surprised that second wind isn’t on here (warriors gaining 3% health every second when below 35% health) Literally made warriors 1v2ing a huge thing in MOP Hell reckful 1v2ed a warrior and healer just because of this

[@sforero305]

The Hemo TBC build was know as a "H.A.R.P rogue"

[@michixlol]

bah even the fan of knives presentation from retail upsets me. It is a rogue throwing knives. Nothing more. WHY THE HELL is there a red clowd every throw?!? This is so .. baaah, I mean, can't they show what would really be there? Knives? Like it was before? Those garbage effects alone make retail unplayable to me. This alone takes so much RPG off this MMO. It destroys the world, the immersion.. for damn effects.

[@ohnoesgoes]

How do you pronounce your channel name hirumaredx? I can't say it lol

[@Aj9Livess]

"Hih-roo-muh" then just red-ex

[@gorkskoal9315]

Why does this person post shit about people having a temper tantrum about shit in PVP?

[@sepnova2691]

Everytime I get back into my 3.3.5a single player project server, I always find myself watching your videos.

[@Kenji-117]

I remember doing a World rank 4 Log on the 2nd boss in Ny'alotha in a 30-man-Tank-only raid with full Twilight devastation and stamina gear in BFA. All the tanks ran that azerite trait that granted more stamina for every member in the party/raid with the same essence. so every tank received a buff for all the other 29 Tanks and the HP pools and total damage of everyone was insane and fun as hell!

[@Valkaneer]

What was the TBC UD SPriest DoT skill? If that thing was up it was certain death. Also TBC Affliction locks, and the 2.0 Druid (possibly the most OP build ever in the game).

#1 reminds me of a short video i saw: there's an ability, i think it's called "vengeance", which charges up when the character takes damage, then is activated for a powerful counter-attack. BUT...the original version had NO LIMIT ON IT'S CHARGE! so, a smart-alec player spent several hours making small enemies attack him, wearing out several daggers by poking them to keep aggro, then activated it to take down a raid boss in ONE HIT! needless to say, it was nerfed VERY quickly after the player posted a video of his stunt!

[@ffarkasm]

You get it wrong. Most of these are not passive abilities. Those are modified active abilities. If an acitve ability has an effect in addition to it's normal effect, it is still an active ability, not passive. For instance Dematerialize, Shadow of Death, Mace Stun, Reckoning are actual passive abilities, but Imp. Counterspell and glyph of DnD/Gag Order are not.

[@1un4cy]

I hated mace spec arms warrior so much in TBC/wrath because they would always proc it back to back and kill me before I could fight back

[@NorthWay_no]

There was a moment at the end of 6.x (or was it 5.x?) when multistrike was somehow Reckoning size broken for rogues. And my favourite all time nerf is ofc: Dig rat. It was possible to pick up, drop, and shadowstep. The day after a rogue spent 4 hours soloing Patchwerk with the help of it they immediately nerfed it so you couldn't shadowstep it any longer (coz rogues can't have nice things when they get creative).

[@bryanjess4552]

Good lord, MoP Locks were terrifying... Chilling on Timeless and then a Lock with 2x hp of tanks just starts killing everyone on the Isle. xD Oh and Guardian Druids with TD was insane.

[@anttihakkarainen1520]

Wasn't gag order also prot warrior talent atleast in wrath? Heroic Throw + usual interrupt both had baked in silence on em, which meant you could charge stun, silence, concussive blow, silence, Shockwave and Spell Reflect 😎

[@Yuki2204]

So there's a passive ability back in the mists days from the 5.2 patch I think it was that introduced those sort of PVP campaign story area's, Well if you were a horde mage you could spell steal multiple 'seal of vengeance' wich would do additional damage (each treated seperately) as holy damage based on the damage you did, So an Arcane mage could 1 shot people and bosses if they had 3-4 stacks of this as they'd do 1 arcane blast and then hit someone for 3-4 copies of seal of vengeance, Or Arcane Missiles where each damage event was also proccing it.

[@doodoobuttah]

Kinda funny to see how warlocks were super mobile with that passive ability. I stopped playing in wotlk and I mostly remember warlocks from TBC who used the talents soul link and improved siphon life... Probably the least mobile class cuz all they had to do was stack resilience gear, stand still and siphon life someone to death lol. Also speaking of OP passives, I don't think it was that OP but I remember it getting patched out quickly... very early in wotlk, maybe prepatch even there was a glyph that gave hunters like a 4 second speed boost if they dodged. It might've been like an aspect of the dragonhawk glyph or something but I remember it being really useful for getting away from melee classes. Or it might've been tied to another ability I can't remember exactly it's been like 12 years lol

[@Shaderox]

I didn't play much during MoP, only dropping in a bit on the end but i really remember the Kil'jaedens Cunning as pretty, as unlike Cataclysm where (my way) of playing destor had been to use pretty much the entire spellbooks as well as item interactions for a total of like 25 buttons to press constantly.... returning to MoP was pretty much only "cast Immolate & chaos bolt then spam Incinerate until either the key or your finger gives up", so being able to move while casting the 1 spell you were almost constancy casting seemed like a very nice talent, and it was. really missed it when it got removed and i had to stand still like all the other casters... except the shamans, i would curse them! but i'm not sure if we still got any curses.

[@killjoy295]

I remember Disc's bubble reflection that reflected like half the damage absorbed before that got changed. And also MoP warlocks burning ember heals.