Top 10 Abilities Removed For Being Too Good in World of Warcraft 

"We need to rebalance pets!" "Why?" "Every arena is full of abandoned monkeys!"

basically Mists of Pandaria had the best Abilities in wow

You should really do a video about the most unique Glyphs over the years.

Honorable mention: Demonology warlock's metamorphosis. The only time a cloth wearer could be a real tank

I COULDN’T AGREE WITH BURST OF SPEED MORE! It was so nice to run old dungeons and raids!

I remember when wotlk hit and everyone was playing Deathknights and we ran Hellfire Ramparts with 5 deathknights trying to heal each other with death coil that was fun.

It wasn't a baseline ability, but in at the start of MoP shamans had either a glyph or a talent that let the cast lightning bolt while moving. It was amazing to be a mobile caster for once, and then it got removed.

I miss symbiosis. I miss getting “wrath” as a Ret paladin. It would usually crit and do a ton of damage

I'm still salty about them removing insect swarm. Besides it's unique debuff, it was also flavorful for druids.

symbiosis was a super fun ability on my druid main back in mop, but the ability I miss now even more is Displacer Beast, having a blink as a druid was amazing being able to skip some mechanics in raid, or remove cc's or avoid fall damage (like off the LM cliff in AB) in pvp. You will be missed by many druids.

I miss Symbiosis. It was such a cool hybridisation idea. Imagine if Symbiosis came back and could be used together with X Affinity talents, even if either or both got reworked or nerfed. Imagine Symbiosis giving the target the passive benefits of the Druid’s Affinity talent. I’m not sure what the Druid would get per class/spec in return.

Mages alter time ability was probably my favorite removed ability that wasn't on the list, hope one day it will return.

"cass-cayd" not "causs-cayd" As in a cascading waterfall.

Remember when Cascade was the worst option for both healing and damage in most fights? MoP-priests remember.

Anyone else losing they're mind over how he says "Cascade"

I miss being able to cast lightning bolt when moving.

9:43 "eventually blizzard learned that passive cleanses were kind of broken" Yeah until legion when paladins got "pure of heart" literally cutting assassination rogues damage in half if a paladin was in the group. It was even worse since it dispelled every global and was an aura, and not a killable totem.

My first thought was Aspect of the Fox. I was surprised you didnt mention it.

good old burst of speed. i still remember going on a massive dungeon binge when they announced that it was going to be cut. will always love that spell

Burst of speed really made me love playing my rogue, that was still with old combat spec before they changed it to outlaw. It was so nice because as you already pointed out it made running old dungeons extremely OP. I remember using it in LBRS pickpocket runs to farm Ravenholdt rep. Good times .. :)

5. As a DK main, having a Druid cast Symbiosis on me and getting Wild Mushroom: Plague was so much fun. Being able to set a mushroom down that applied _both_ diseases to _all_ enemies within range of the mushroom every couple seconds was so good, since back then there was only Plague Strike and Icy Touch - two single-target abilities - to apply your two diseases, and diseases back then had a _much_ shorter duration. 4. Also, for Mana Burning abilities, you forgot the original Blood Elf racials - Mana Tap and the original Arcane Torrent. Back in BC, Arcane Torrent restored resources based on how many stacks of Empowerment you had, and you got a stack every time you used Mana Tap (which had a 30 sec cd, but the buff had a decent duration of like 3 min), and Mana Tap sapped a % of the enemy's max man. Then you could use Arcane Torrent (only if you had at least 1 stack of Empowerment) to restore a % of your resource (mana for every class other than rogue, energy for rogue; BElves couldn't be Warriors back then) based on the number of stacks consumed. 2. I wish they'd kept the very first version of this ability. That was the most fun version of that really fun talent IMO. MoP Lock was just real fun in many ways. (*cough* Blizz should totally bring back Dark Apotheosis and/or give Locks a Tank spec *cough*)

I was just binge watching your videos, and went to the channel and saw this - Pleasant surprise!

Keep up the good work man. I’ve always enjoyed your level of detail and knowledge. Very professional.

I just want Cascade back 😭

I miss shaman's gust of wind so much.

Dark intent for warlocks was another great ability

Cascade was the most visually stunning spell I had ever seen. I was sad to see it go.

Cascade could also Multistrike creating new chains continuing on from that chain point.

I remember the hunter ability in MoP that allowed you to clear all your cd's every once in a while

"and now it's much harder for casters to do anything on the move" *laughs in Mage*

The Shaman ability to cast all 4 totems at once.

In cata I mained arms warrior and we would shattering throw on the spawning adds on madness to increase the hunters/ rogue/ warrior burst. Or used on lust with longer fights on burn phases. I always wondered if the armor pen helped caster classes or our ret pally!! Love the videos!

Symbiosis was a lot of fun imo, but sadly "fun" spells die to the argument of "too hard to balance"...

Oh wow...I haven't played priest since mid-WoD, had no idea they got rid of Cascade. That's a real shame. If nothing else, it was a gorgeous spell; like a little fireworks show.

I miss the version of KJs Cunning for passive filler movement and Shadow of Death a lot. One that i guess isn’t technically removed but got fully overhauled for being too good was the MoP Hunter’s Stampede, the ability i miss most of all.

I knew the duel logs had a wow channel but i couldn't remember the name. This was recommended to me probably because i started wow again, so glad i found you :D

I stopped playing in Cataclysm. I hated how my PvE abilities got nerfed and messed with all the time, just because there was some balance issue in PvP. They should have balanced PvP and PvE separately.

Probably can make a whole video of top 10 abilities removed for being Too Good, based on just hunter and hunter pet abilities alone... One for example was the aspect of the fox ability during MoP.. which allowed you to cast while moving, so items like Hardened Shell (equivalent to Net-O-Matic today), you could use on any flying target, no matter how high, by just dismounting (glider optional), pop aspect of the fox, and cast the dismount ability which normally requires you to stand still to cast. Also during MoP, is that hunters were able to self-rez themselves for a while before it got patched and later removed entirely.. with new pets like the Quilen/Crane with an instant battle-rez ability, you'd have a macro for the pet to target you and cast their rez spell.. and when you're about to die, spam it like crazy and if timed right, your pet would rez you the instant you died. Also can't forget Hunter's frozen ammo added during WoD, made hunter's virtually untouchable by any melee class as it would slow a target by 50% for 3 seconds however would reapply with every autoshot which shot every 2 sec with no DR. So in otherwords, you were slowed by 50% 100% of the time. It especially crippled classes such as DKs, as at the time they had nothing to break or immune slows, and hunter's would just disengage their death grips: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-usOfPPp6NVI.html Lastly just OP pets in general back pre-WoD.. How hunters were able to virtually solo any content, how their tank spec pets were able to hold aggro and were virtually immune to most boss/mob abilities which allowed hunters to solo even current tier dungeons and even some raid bosses (if no excessive raid wide damage or group mechanics). Anyone remember those times when a wipe occurred but a MVP hunter deterrenced and lived through a raid wipe and they finish off the last few % of the boss while their pet held complete aggro?

Advanced Drain Life was exceptional for Warlocks, probably the best AoE grind ability in the game at the time that it came out. I remember using it in the starting zone of whichever expansion it was introduced and AoE pulling literally 20 fast respawning mobs, and being unkillable. That got nerfed pretty quickly as I recall

Prismatic Crystal for mages. Hands down the most OP thing I've used in 15 years of WoW.

Quit WoW but still loving your content man

Four words "Have group, Will travel"

shadow of death + Darkmoon Card: twisting nether were pretty hilarious in WOTLK, the darkmoon card got no cd so if you're lucky enough with that 10% chance to be able to resurrect you could ress -> die and become a ghoul for a 2nd, 3rd etc time until you run out of luck.

One thing worth noting about Shadow of Death is that the ghoul's suicide explosion ability did a flat amount of damage balanced around the assumption that the player was level 80. This damage did not scale down at low levels. So if you were level 61 in Hellfire Peninsula and managed to kill a level 61 Unholy DK, he could come back as a ghoul and explode on your face for 300% of your maximum HP.

I miss cascade. There was something magical about seeing multiple priests casting it and you'd have a mini meteor shower lol

Nobody: Hirumadex: “The Priest talent, Sasuke”

I remember symbiosis. If I got it as a mage, I would get healing touch, so I could be a mage healer lol.

God Cascade was such a staple of Mists. I miss the way priests healed from that timeframe.

"Cahscase" Wouldn't be a hiru video without odd pronunciations XD

Burst of speed, cascade, mark of the wild, I miss those

I miss the old druid fairie fire that prevented targets from stealthing.

Cascade wasn't just good, it was fun to use. Sure, you'd just press a button and do a ton of healing for no effort whatsoever, but watching those streams of light bounce around while massively healing your team just felt so good. It really was too easy to use compared to the other two though, not surprised it got purged.

"Abilities that remove immunities are too strong" Oh yeah but being literally un-killable while being able to heal is not????

Eyes of the Beast was the best ability that got removed. It let you roleplay as your hunter pet

18:40 I LOVED the legendary cloth boots in Legion. They were so fun to use on my Spriest.

Haven’t watched yet but guessing have group will travel is number 1

"COS-cade" where are you from, dude? "Cas" as in "cast"-cade.

I always enjoy these videos. Never have I said wow I wish I did something else.

Alter time was what made mage special for me in MoP. It was extremely good (especially with snapshotting) but very hard to use properly, so it got heavily modified in WoD. Finally, it was removed in legion. I honestly haven't enjoyed fire mage since :(

God I miss Burst of Speed so much. I remember there was a combination of spec and talents that let you infinitely run as fast as a 100% ground mount AND be in stealth as well.

Ah mist of pandaria frost mage: poly-they trinket-deep freeze-death to your enemy.

Warlock Metamorphosis where we could become a massive ball of demonic death basically. Was so powerful and fun to use. Too bad it was removed when they decided to give it to the new op class Demon Hunter.

Burst of Speed in Ashran was one of my favourite moments in WoW. Zipping around the battlefield while stealthed and pickpocketing people for their fragments was amazing.

Interesting as always! thx

I winced every time you mispronounced ‘cascade’.

Ah yes, I remember the days of Deep Freeze and then 6 consecutive Ice Lances. Basically if your pvp trinket is on cooldown, you're dead and there's nothing you can do about it.

About Burst of Speed. There was also rogue talent that increased your movement speed in stealth by 20% so you can perma run almost like a mount in stealth

8:29 what is the combat text UI above the mobs head?

This calls for "Divine intervention"

Man pronounces cascade like he's never heard anyone say it before lmao

GOD I MISS DEEP FREEZE!!!!!, THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING IT

I am really surprised I haven't seen you mention the old rune strike in wrath. It was part of the package of the first dk iteration and it literally proced when someone dodged. It did massive damage. I remember one shotting several rogues early in the season. I just looked it up and it seems now they turned it into a leveling ability for dks that changes into festering strike, heart strike or howling blast.

I remember at the Blizzcon for Legion Frost DKs were told an ability to self res similar to reincarnation. When I played Legion for myself and didnt see this ability I was dissapointed. I am not forgiving you for this Blizzard.

What about Legion Emerald Nightmare Surrender to Madness? Not really removed, but might aswell be removed, since nobody plays it anyway since 2+ years.

Where get your music for you videos?

What's the background music at #4 mana burn abilities? Roughly at 12:40. Anybody?

ah man the ghoul rez was a kick. screw balancing

I remember Aspect of the Fox in WoD. Everyone gets to cast while moving with enough hunters in the raid.

I miss the ability to put down war banners as my warrior. Just the aesthetic of it was so cool! Sorry I know I’m years late but I just found your channel…

Awesome video - I really need to make more content like this! 💚

Death Knights blood plague used to remove HoTs. Removed in 3.1

Oh man i remember getting so frustrated with early DKs in PVP. They were already way to strong but even if you managed to kill one they came back and you had to kill them again! Good times...

What is the addon he is using to have floating damage show up as different types?

The Mage talent "Prismatic Crystal" added in WoD and removed in Legion was seriously fucking broken. Mages could kill 2 or 3 enemies almost instantly when it was used... I loved it.

That's one of the reasons why I prefer Affliction for warlocks there's a lot of their spells that are instant cast keeps you quite mobile

What about Denounce for holy palas? I was regularly the the player with the most kills in BGs as a healer

There was this time in WoD when rogues could use most of their opening abilities on a 40 yrd range - so it basically added the shadowstep effect to abilities like ambush. I don't remember playing many BGs back then, but i imagine it must have been quite the fun ;:)

You forgot to mention the most important feature of Shadow of Death, which was that if you had it, and then used the corpse explosion ability of the ghoul to kill yourself, you didn't lose any durability for dying.

Nobody: Like literally not a single person ever: Hirumaredx: "Cahscade"

Kil'jaeden's cunning? Oh please, Blizz has removed Demonology Metamorphosis because if they shiped DH in Legion with MoP/WoD Demonology around, DH would looked like a cheap-half beaked copy of a great spec.

Shamans were very good at interrupts in WotLK if I remember correctly. In Vanilla and BC, they could only interrupt with Earth shock. Had the advantage of being ranged, doing nature damage and slowing enemy attacks by 10%. Disadvantage being shared cooldown with other shocks and being in global cooldown. In WotLK, the interrupt function was removed from Earth shock, and instead given to a new ability Wind shear. And that was extremely powerful, cause it negated both of the cooldown disadvantages while retaining the advantage of being ranged and only having 6 second cooldown. For all 3 specs. You almost couldn't cast a spell when facing a Shaman. They didn't remove the ability, only increased the cooldown to 15 seconds. But that changed how extremely useful it was to the point it doesn't really feel like the same spell anymore. Interrupting every 6 seconds was fun :D

Early Legion Fire Mage Ice Floes + Shimmer Combination gave them incredible Movespeed especially in synergy with the Hardcast Pyro Bracers

Dude. You missed off the DK's original _Corpse Explosion_ which made a corpse explode for shadow damage to all enemies within 20 yards. It wasn't mentioned, but this also worked on your pet ghoul, which caused even more damage. As an added bonus, mob corpses became bitting meat-sacs, or bone fragments. It took a number of nerfs, until finally being removed in Cata. It was later re-added as a flavor glyph, but only for the effect

I loved Cascade);

The original Lightsworn 2 set bonus (T10, ICC ret paladin). Set: Your melee attacks have a 40% chance to reset the cooldown on your Divine Storm ability. Basically endless divine storms, it also healed back then too so it was insanely strong.

Would be fun to do a video of spells that were hot fixed because of being too OP. Prayer of mending comes to mind when it didn't have a cooldown at beginning of bc. Basically priests were unkillable until oom

oh i miss the mop discipline priest

They also need to remove Sylvanas' Mary Sue ability asap

What is the song being played in the background at 3:15?

What is the song being played in the background at 5:09?