Blizzard: balancing classes is hard and we basically move the needle around until we stumble upon a solution.
Also blizzard: therefore let’s add a multiple layered system of player power that all have interactions (legendaries, conduits, soulbinds, and covenant abilities) on top of what we already couldn’t balance.
Players: do what?
Listen here guy.
Blizzard is nothing but interns these days. They don’t know what they are doing. And their pride is too sensitive to listen to feedback from players.
So don’t get mad at the interns.
Edit: and the lawyer
I’m just wondering why they make the job that was already giving them a hard time much, much harder.
I think they’re trying to make everything as confusing as possible to distract us from balancing issues.
Not like there are sims or anything!
I’m just a big fan of how there are 12 different pure dps specs and we still manage to have balance Druid’s out performing most pure ranged and feral out performing melee spec pures
I’m not mad that feral is finally good in PVE especially since resto sucks so hard in PVP. Seems like a fair trade to me.
Edit:
I bet the percentage of the playerbase that uses sims is less than 10%
This is probably true, but there are lots of players who will look at one or two sims done by someone else for a very specific scenario and generalize spec values for every scenario!
this is sadly quite true.
Maybe they think if they throw enough systems into the mix at once, the Matrix will balance itself.
Sad thing is ,I believe you are right .
Players : Blizz we hate the borrowed power system
Blizz: What you like the systems ok we will double down and give more
Players: No we hate them
Blizz : What double is not enough? Ok then we will pull out our special D20 die and make the number of systems based on what comes up .
Players : 
please roll a 1
I truly don’t understand it b/c, unlike many forum posters, i believe the devs are passionate and intelligent about this game. so what gives?
Blizzard : give us feedback on when you feel your class / spec is having issues.
Players : Look at these SIMs and other randomly made up numbers like from random logs !!!
Blizzard : …
Players : look at these innacurate numbers that says my spec is bad.
Blizzard : …
Players : why is blizzard not doing better based on my nonsense feedback ???
To be honest I think impressing investors with numbers trumps passion .
Why shouldn’t balance outperform pure dps specs?
We can do more things than most other classes, but we can’t do them all at once. i.e. I have to stop dps to cast Regrowth or Frenzied Regeneration to self heal, you as rogue press one instant 1s gcd for the same purpose.
please explain how sims and logs are random…especially logs which are a numerical representation of a real person’s performance in a real game situation.
if not logs and sim, which OBJECTIVE standard is there to class performance?
more like: blizz: give us feedback
players: vomit feedback
blizz: seemingly listening very, very infrequently
Yes but a warrior for example can’t do any of that so it is unbalanced.
There are things a warrior can do that druids cannot, is that unbalanced?
Such as?
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Mortal Strike, Battle Shout, Rallying Cry.
Feral has mortal wounds, feral has leader of the pack, guardian has Den Mother.