History GameBreaker / WorldOfWarcraft

* The infamous "Reckoning Bomb." Reckoning was an ability which gave an extra attack on the next swing after getting hit with a critical attack. Like most sane and reasonable people: Blizzard assumed that players were not going to stand in one spot getting crit for hours just to go one-hit a raid boss. So, they didn't put any cap on the number of stacks the ability could have, and thus the number of extra attacks the player could get. But, the class which had this ability-the paladin-was also the most annoying to level. So anyone who leveled it to 60 (which took months) was exactly the sort of person who ''would'' intentionally get crit thousands of times just to one-hit a raid boss. All the thousands of Reckoning charges would be emptied out instantly in one hit, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xhgvouRprw killing the boss on the spot.]] This was patched within hours of being used.

* Out of all the tier sets introduced in Season 3 of SL, which carried over into season 4, the [[https://www.wowhead.com/item-set=1500/the-first-eidolons-soulsteel Death Knight tank one]] is possible the single most overpowered in the game's history. By using Heart Strike during Dancing Rune Weapon in combination with [[https://www.wowhead.com/spell=334525/crimson-rune-weapon Crimson Rune Weapon]] legendary , you can potentially keep a '''70%-100% uptime''' of DRW, especially if you are tanking the entire pull. You read that right, a DK tank can easly keep 75% parry during most, if not the entire pull[[labelnote: explanation]]For those who don't know how tanking works: generally speaking, most tank damage will be melee hits, which can be parried, and with 75% parry it makes the dk tank almost untouchable, especially since DK blood can easly self-heal back to full health before the next melee connects[[/labelnote]]. In raids, Dk Tanks can have the most survival out of any tanks as well as damage and self-heal. In M+, Blood Dk is [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome the only tank used]] in challenging keys due to its unrivaled tank survival and tank damage. It goes to the point most raid or M+ groups will use at least 1 DK as their main tank, and every other tank looks like a joke by virtue of being unable to match the survival and dps of a DK tank.

* Out of all the tier sets introduced in Season 3 of SL, which carried over into season 4, the [[https://www.wowhead.com/item-set=1500/the-first-eidolons-soulsteel Death Knight tank one]] is possible the single most overpowered in the game's history. By using Heart Strike during Dancing Rune Weapon in combination with [[https://www.wowhead.com/spell=334525/crimson-rune-weapon Crimson Rune Weapon]] legendary , you can potentially keep a '''70%-100% uptime''' of DRW, especially if you are tanking the entire pull. You read that right, a DK tank can easly keep 75% parry during most, if not the entire pull[[labelnote: explanation]]For those who don't know how tanking works: generally speaking, most tank damage will be melee hits, which can be parried, and with 75% parry it makes the dk tank almost untouchable, especially since DK blood can easly self-heal back to full health before the next melee connects[[/labelnote]]. In raids, it means Dk Tanks can have the most survival out of any tanks as well as damage and self-heal. In M+, it means Blood Dk is [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome the only tank used]] in challenging keys due to its unrivaled tank survival and tank damage. It goes to the point most raid or M+ groups will use at least 1 DK as their main tank, and every other tank looks like a joke by virtue of being unable to match the survival and dps of a DK tank.

* Out of all the tier sets introduced in Season 3 of SL, which carried over into season 4, the [[https://www.wowhead.com/item-set=1500/the-first-eidolons-soulsteel Death Knight tank one]] is possible the single most overpowered in the game's history. By using Heart Strike during Dancing Rune Weapon in combination with [[https://www.wowhead.com/spell=334525/crimson-rune-weapon Crimson Rune Weapon]] legendary , you can potentially keep a '''70%-100% uptime''' of DRW, especially if you are tanking the entire pull. You read that right, a DK tank can easly keep 75% parry during most, if not the entire pull[[labelnote: explanation]]For those who don't know how tanking works: generally speaking, most tank damage will be melee hits, which can be parried, and with 75% parry it makes the dk tank almost untouchable, especially since DK blood can easly self-heal back to full before the next melee connects[[/labelnote]]. In raids, it means Dk Tanks can have the most survival out of any tanks as well as damage and self-heal. In M+, it means Blood Dk is [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome the only tank used]] in challenging keys due to its unrivaled tank survival and tank damage. It goes to the point most raid or M+ groups will use at least 1 DK as their main tank, and every other tank looks like a joke by virtue of being unable to match the survival and dps of a DK tank.

* Out of all the tier sets introduced in Season 3 of SL, which carried over into season 4, the [[https://www.wowhead.com/item-set=1500/the-first-eidolons-soulsteel Death Knight tank one]] is possible the single most overpowered in the game's history. By using Heart Strike during Dancing Rune Weapon in combination with [[https://www.wowhead.com/spell=334525/crimson-rune-weapon Crimson Rune Weapon]] legendary , you can potentially keep a '''70%-100% uptime''' of DRW, especially if you are tanking the entire pull. You read that right, a DK tank can easly keep 75% parry during most, if not the entire pull. In raids, it means Dk Tanks can have the most survival out of any tanks as well as damage and self-heal. In M+, it means Blood Dk is [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome the only tank used]] in challenging keys due to its unrivaled tank survival and tank damage. It goes to the point most raid or M+ groups will use at least 1 DK as their main tank, and every other tank looks like a joke by virtue of being unable to match the survival and dps of a DK tank.

* Out of all the tier sets introduced in Season 3 of SL, which carried over into season 4, the [[https://www.wowhead.com/item-set=1500/the-first-eidolons-soulsteel Death Knight tank one]] is possible the single most overpowered in the game's history. By using Heart Strike during Dancing Rune Weapon in combination with [[https://www.wowhead.com/spell=334525/crimson-rune-weapon Crimson Rune Weapon]] legendary , you can potentially keep a '''70%-100% uptime''' of DRW, especially if you are tanking the entire pull. You read that right, a DK tank can easly keep 75% parry potentially the full pull. In raids, it means Dk Tanks can have the most survival out of any tanks as well as damage and self-heal. In M+, it means Blood Dk is [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome the only tank used]] in challenging keys due to its unrivaled tank survival and tank damage. It goes to the point most raid or M+ groups will use at least 1 DK as their main tank, and every other tank looks like a joke by virtue of being unable to match the survival and dps of a DK tank.

** Another unassumingly powerful Anima Power for a specific Mage spec is Highly-Polished Handmirror. This makes Mirror Images stop staying in place and cast only Frostbolt and instead move around and use a set of abilities that depend on your active specialization. Arcane and Frost Mages can find some utility in this Power, but the fact Mirror Images no longer draw aggro from you makes you lose significant defensive utility from what is often used as a defensive spell. Fire Mages, on the other hand, will quickly realize that the Mirror Images gain the ability to cast '''Greater Pyroblast''' of all things, turning Mirror Image from a defensive to your main attacking spell; it also helps that the Mirror Images might cast Dragon's Breath which works as another Interrupt effect. Even if Mirror Image is in cooldown, Highly-Polished Handmirror also affects the Mirror Images generated when you Blink or Shimmer when you have the Clouded Diamond Anima Power.

* Druids who pick the Night Fae Covenant get the Class Ability Convoke the Spirits, which makes them cast 16 random spells in 4 seconds of channeling. While the spell is, in itself, very reliant on RNG and can be easily interrupted, when neither thing is a problem, it becomes ridiculously powerful. Balance Druids in particular were incredibly difficult to deal with without a timely interrupt, as a series of Starsurges or Full Moons could easily kill a full-health player before they could react; this is without mentioning the chance of casting Renewal or Restoration for a heavy heal-over-time effect. Blizzard eventually prevented Convoke the Spirits from casting Full Moon when fighting against enemy players... but only for the Balance specialization, which caused two problems: first, that it doesn't fix the problem of getting hit by multiple Starsurges in a row, and second, that other specializations can still get Full Moons if they have the Balance Affinity Talent.