Class balance is the worst its been in a long time. The new dispel & CC affix being hard/impossible to deal with for some classes is terrible.
The biggest problem about Mythic+ affixes is that there are classes that cannot interact with a large portion of it. For example Warrior or DK during Incorporal, Afflicted or Raging or even just bursting/grievious, you have no offheal, and in Warrior's case you can't prevent bursting stack applications on you like a DK could. DK at least brings a combat revive. You just pray that the rest of the group handles them.
I am 3.3k on my main and can not get into a key currently. Tried to play my hunter alt which is fully geared and can't get into a 17 key. This is not enjoyable for anyone. The utility for new affixes, broken classes and overall lack of fun in dungeon mechanics combined with healers feeling like #$%^ has not been great.
The new upgrade system is trash, the affixes are trash.It is all reflected in the group finder.Used to be ALL KINDS of groups to apply to, now you are hard pressed to find any keys to apply.Over the years, people have said, "WOW is DYING!" and it was just hyperbole... Now though, it appears it may be true. Sad, but may be.
Neither of the ghost affixes are any fun. Why can't we have any fun affixes, why do they all have to be "jump this hoop or suffer"? I want some where playing well gives me some kind of small benefit. Not even a DPS buff because I understand that's just going to be cancelled out in tuning. But give me like a free spore cloak proc, or cooldown reduction on some ability. Just so I feel like I'm actually getting something instead of just avoiding suffering.
The joy and enjoyment of the game are gone and this season was the nail in the coffin for me. They've made several great general changes (e.g. removing daily / weekly 'chores', making it alt friendly) but also made mythic+ incredibly unfun as a healer. I used to try to get a couple pug runs in throughout the week because there wasn't a lot of overlap with my friends' schedules, but I refuse to PUG anymore.I'm taking a break and hoping that 10.2 makes up for the fumble. Looking forward to tomorrow's announcement.
This season has shown how poorly designed the dungeon mechanics are, to have such value for MD. It shows how poorly implemented something like afflicted is, not to integrate with vuhdo, grid2 etc and forcing mouseovers. It shows how amatuer an outfit Blizz are. Ion, time to step aside. We need a new, better direction.