I know the game is and never has been balanced. The most I can hope for is for it to be not so horribly imbalanced that there is basically no point to trying, and when it comes to Shamans, it feels just straight up stupid, and has for a long while now, amazingly unfixed despite so many complaints.
There is a strong bias on WoW forums that I have detected ever since I first started playing, which is simple. People who play a certain class don’t tend to call it OP, and if they are on the same faction as the OP class, there is much less chance of criticizing it, but anyone who is not so tribal and looks objectively is going to say Shamans are broken beyond measure.
Regarding Battlegrounds, they made it so losers still get good marks and honor, which is nice and all, but virtually everyone you fight is a Rank 13-14 now, and it has destroyed much of the incentive for players to try to win. Instead they just camp 2 bases and semi-AFK, especially when Alliance win like 10% of games due to the class imbalance.
In AV, I grinded over 1 million honor, and counted 8 victories, because everyone is so powerful that it is all about killing the final boss, and Horde have the advantage on reaching the boss first. Not a big deal in terms of honor because, again, losers get rewarded almost as much as winners, but it has taken away from the game … the “sport” of trying to beat your opponent. Everything is all about just trying to maximize honor gain.
In terms of population, SoD would appear to be lowering substantially, PvE’ers do not seem happy at all, and it feels like a cheap PTR test server run by someone who has lost the enthusiasm they had in the beginning.
I also don’t think people should need an addon to detect how much honor they need to rank up, and it is confusing for a lot of players. There is nothing substantial about seeing a Warlord now like in Classic. I think they should change this up so that no addon is required and it is more straightforward…
