So looking around at the different sites to see what the damage /survivability etc. are looking like for the 9.1 release. I find rankings for the different classes and I keep seeing similar wording " This doesn’t take away form how fun this class is to play …" it will then go on to say how its just not worth it for raid, and that you will be hindering rather than helping your raid.
I would think that seeing a few of these types of articles would start a conversation in the development teams that should be asking where they screwed up and why they are failing to meet player needs. instead I consistently see them just leave the failed classes till the next expansion then bring them up marginally or to overpower them only to crush them into oblivion on the first patch after the release. This has always made me think that their development team is somewhat incompetent. That or they need a better development leader. I’m not sure if there is a solution to this as Blizzard has been at this long enough that they should have an idea how to fix it but with all the people bailing out on them I wonder if they have the talent left to figure it out.
Blizzard has stopped reading any criticism of their development long ago. At some point they deemed the feedback (read: nonsense) detrimental to the success of the game.
To be honest, they had no choice. They would have gone crazy trying to please everyone…so they decided to just please themselves.
They now live in a bubble (read: prison) of their own making.
Ion and the devs are working tirelessly and hard to improve the gameplay experience for all. Offering constructive feedback is the best way to help keep the game on an amazing path towards greatness!
LOL OK
OP, the team has decided to live in a bubble where they only pay attention to their white knights.
Well crap, they might be incompetent then- it looks like they are sabotaging themselves, Ill have to see SOME kind of GoodIdea come from them before I believe they think they are trying to help their game
Seriously, what changed? You were shilling FF last week, trashing the game before that.
Why the change in heart?
I think that was sarcasm.
My sarcasm meter has been busted for awhile, but I’m like 99.99% certain that was sarcasm.
Not sure who you are talking to there alakhai Im not sure who you are talking to.
You sure? They seem to be towing this line in every thread they appear in today.
Reminds me of a not so hot new player little fox that used to come around these parts…
I replied to Humanbeak.
It screamed sarcasm to me.
I usually only see a lot of negative articles… posts and articles are two separate things. The last article that got populated on my feed was a headline about Nathanos being a garbage man. Somewhere in the article it mentioned doggy heaven…
All I thought to myself… is I knew men didn’t like Nathanos but I didn’t think it was to that extreme. 
Yes I usually just see negative publicity for this game. I think they must listen somewhat… as Nathanos was brutally decapitated in a cinematic.
Im convinced whoever is designing balance, loot, and the reward and pacing sytems in this game has no clue what makes a mmo fun, or what they are even doing. They probably do read the articles, but its irrelevant when your in charge of something meant to be fun, and you dont know what fun is.
Blink twice if you’re being held hostage.
For 99% of the content in this game with rewards you can play any spec you want and be able to clear it.
But, people like rankings and others like to make rankings, so it keeps going like this.
You think that since all the original people left and were replaced with monsters like Ion… that ANY of them can actually read? They can dictate… but can they read? And if they COULD read, can they take feedback?
Our Elitist Jerk leader goes out of his way to prove how little he cares about feedback.
Can I some of whatever this guy is smoking?
You aren’t fooling anyone, just so you know.
OP: What is the actual complaint here, that every single spec doesn’t perform exactly the same?
Argorwal I agree with you as far as for solo play you can do 99% just fine and for world group stuff (not including mythic + or Heroic or greater raids) where the group puts you on their back like a back pack and kills stuff. However I think the big problem is that rather than being close in damage to each other the specs are VASTLY different in overall output be that damage /heal /mitigation. There will always be and should always be fights that favor a type of damage however ovverall they should be close in output. The big issue is they aren’t.