You need to STOP BALANCING AROUND THE PEOPLE THAT PLAY THE GAME 24/7.
That is how you destroy your game and incase you have not noticed, the PVP scene has been absolute garbage for the last ~10 years and declining through the ten years.
You. Need. To. Stop. Balancing. Around. AWC.
If you think high end game play is too strong, make changes ON THE TOURNAMENT SERVER.
You’re punishing all players for the min/maxing of high end players. Historically, a very poor decision.
Personally, I have taken 1-2 year breaks specifically because of this. I am tired of be penalized for being a moderate mage when the ceiling is insane and you punish the whole class because there are people that do nothing but practice to achieve the min/max.
Keep your dumb changes to the tournament realm. Leave the rest of the game alone.
Side note:
Disc priest has been doubling representation in solo shuffle (legitimately 50% rep of healers in 2100+) all season and you actually BUFF THEIR DAMAGE.
While mages have been 3rd-6th representation in ranged DPS and you come at us.
If it is, why is it not 40%+ of ranged DPS in 2100+? It’s below MM hunter and S priest.
I didn’t say I was taking a break, I have just been focusing PVE because Blizzard is a dumpster fire of expired dairy and used diapers at balancing PVP.
I feel like too many specs are now too far off from their intended designs because of crit damage and thus have to have insane PvP mods. Some of them might feel better if they started from scratch on PvP mods on base abilities vs nerfs on talents. Melee other than feral and rogue have a chance at balance against feral and rogue with their regular stun durations back.
Mage wasn’t only a problem in the top .1 percent. Just because most people crutch of easier to play DPS doesn’t mean something can’t still be over preforming.
Why do people find it so difficult to understand that they have to balance PVP around the top 0.1%? Do these people really think we should balance PVP around the lack lustre performance of crayon-eating window-lickers (like myself)?
You have to balance around both. Just because Saul can smash Fury when it’s overtuned (for example) doesn’t mean it’s good to let literally anyone roll one and mow everyone down from 1800-2200.
Someone like Jimmybutler could have won against me while playing Hpal 4 weeks ago, I was still a handful for technically better players than me by virtue of the spec strength prior to nerfs.
