With every new WoW expansion, players are given new classes andSpecs to play with, and occasionally some of these can become dramatically overpowered compared to others, shaping the meta of the game for better or worse.
This article looks at the strongest and most broken classes and specs in World of Warcraft’s history, from Vanilla to the current Shadowlands expansion.
The Paladin’s Reckoning Bomb ability was an infamous game-breaker that allowed Paladins to delete bosses and players with a single swing, while WoW’s first expansion.
In the subsequent Burning Crusade expansion, Rogues’ burst damage and teleportation abilities made them nearly unbeatable in PvP engagements.
In Wrath of the Lich King, Death Knights were overtuned in their initial release, having access to self-healing, AoE damage, crowd control, and mobility.
In Cataclysm, Destruction Warlocks could fire armor-piercing Chaos Bolts that ignored all resistances and mitigation, while stacking PvP trinket procs and crowd control made them formidable opponents in battlegrounds and arenas.