While I’ll agree that MM has a sufficient spec fantasy, why would you quote a statistic that clearly shows that, despite having less than 5% the representation of BM, MM does more damage than BM (halfway nearer the top performer) to try to claim that MM’s low representation is due only to tuning (said tuning there being significantly better than BM’s)?
One can have liked one of the better things 2010 had to offer and still prefer any of several hundred options added since.
And the white-knighting clearly isn’t limited to just extant specs/builds/playstyles. The class forums have shown time and time again that players are willing to break and remove their own arm to shank people with it in defense of their sites of nostalgia, whether it be…
- “Vanilla melee hunter” (which has to rapidly shift goalposts to its ‘potential’),
- the joys of RSV (which typically has to do the same if making any points beyond its ease of play or lucking out from RNG, for each instance of which there’s another of getting only one LnL proc within a BA’s CD),
- Sudden Death Daggers / Arms tank,
- DW Blood / Frost tanks,
- ‘Hybrid’ / all-elements Mage,
- or whatever else.