Why do certain specs just get dumpstered on and others are the darling of the patch. I get laughed at for playing the spec I like and I seldom get taken seriously when signing up for keys.
Meanwhile, you have a few OP specs that will ride in glory the whole patch and get preferential treatment. Do you not have people who work at keeping a modicum of balance? Or is this deliberate to profiteer off of the rerolling of the masses?
It’s a bit embarrassing that a company as large as Blizzard can’t do a biweekly tuning pass to tweak classes to have a resemblance of parity.
I mean, you have interns no doubt, teach them to tweak the numbers. For a game that we pay a full expansion price and a monthly subscription, we are given an awfully small amount of post patch support.
I don’t expect perfection. Nobody can. However, the difference between the haves and the have nots are imposing on those who wish to play the non meta specs.
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Am def worried for feral AGAIN and balance…they don’t look good…
The irony of the spec being called balance yet is either OP or total crap isn’t lost on me
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I think for some classes it’s not a balance problem it’s a damage profile problem
Blizzard could minimise the problem with better balancing but some classes just have better damage profiles than others and it’s abit harder to fix that
Also it’s a 1 min CD game out here, often (not always) the best specs have 1-1.5 min CDs or means to lower their CDs where the have nots of mythic plus are stuck with the longer CDs
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Spec balance is extremely poor, I believe this is intentional. A strong meta means more people rerolling which means more level boosts/carries sold as you gear those characters up!
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Blizzard has pretty much always been rather bad and class balance. Now with all the different and varied builds a class can have, they really have no chance of getting it right.
it will never be as good as you want it to be. therefore its best to just not think about it.
every spec has had their moment. EVEN survival.
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It’s a never ending cycle… A tiresome one at that.
The last nerf they made to SV and Destro happened they couldn’t even be bothered to buff specs doing terrible in M+. Balance Druid with a 3 Min CD competing with other classes that have a much shorter CD and accessible AE is a terrible joke.
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The squeaky wheel eventually gets the grease. This is a glaring issue with patches that must be focused on.
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Well it doesn’t help that due to how Blizzard is pushing endgame content with timers and affixes or whatever the community is just getting flooded with gatekeeping and toxicity it’s also a big part of the healer and tank problem
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“LFM UBRS, AH Bridge for inspect!”.
Yeah, it’s the timers and affixes that are gatekeeping you out of content.
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Then it’s time for a complete spec overhaul for those who can’t keep up. Nobody should feel unimportant for content.
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I have no idea what these mean 
Welcome to 2004. Same thing as 2022.
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There was an article a while back about how DF will be less about parse players.
Press X to doubt lol.
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Sounds like copium from an angry person.
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Always doubt. There will always be a meta.
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You’ll never have an equal playing field. A lot of it also is just pug mentality and the chase after meta comps. Great players have spoken on this subject matter iirc, unless it is super high content, most specs if there are competent players, can do the job just fine.
I know Blizz drops the ball on some stuff but the community really reaches far and beyond with unreal expectations and speaking on stuff they know little about at times.
Not justifying or saying things are great, but when you pug keys especially, you are always going to be playing in the pug rules.
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if this were the case, why wouldn’t they shake the meta up more frequently? survival dominated last season and it’s still very strong. they could absolutely have gutted it for s4 if they wanted to.
Honestly at this point yeah it’s really needed like most classes except like Demon Hunter and probably soon Evoker aren’t designed with stuff like mythic plus and having to move around a lot for mechanics in mind
Also recommend adding like a training dungeon que which people could opt into which is more lenient then normal dungeons and designed to help new tanks and healers learn how to do what they do in an actual pve environment
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It’s what it really seems like. To heck with balance, let’s have FOTM and milk them dry.
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