Originally Posted by
kendro1200
Part of his job as a CM though is to relay information from the community to the developers. BECAUSE of his past is part of the reasons why it's disgusting to see what he posted. They could have had ANY other CM post it, but instead he did. You can argue it's his job, but he isn't the only one that does that job, and I know that isn't his opinion on the matter, it's an official response from the dev team on the matter. I hate the response because they had him give the dev team's response, a response which is so off from the truth of the matter that it feels like I'm watching elections all over again.
This, I suspect is really the problem, and why the concept of all casters having to be little squishy turrets is being forced back onto the warlock class. I really hate the double standards that are constantly being pushed out, because melee specs are supposed to have problems on fights where the boss does aoe damage, but instead melee are given tools to circumvent those problems or everyone is forced to deal with the issues. I really just hate double standards no matter where I see them. The real question though, are melee players actually getting benched? There were some Sunwell mages that got benched (Not nearly as many as were actually claimed on the forums, but somewhere around 10-15% of serious raiding mages that should have been raiding Sunwell were benched near the middle to the end of the progression for that tier (3.0 patch time doesn't count)) As we witnessed between TBC and WotLK, creating such drastic responses to a small number of players getting benched can cause class issues that span a number of expansions. Why must KJC and MF get gutted so severely, to a point in which they barely resemble anything of their past iterations, because a handful (at worst) of melee players were benched because "warlocks are better". Are there even enough good warlocks to even bench melee players? Are there even enough warlocks in the game's population to actually cause people to get benched? If such is the case, is it really that warlocks can cast while moving that is causing these people to get benched, or is it the utility the class brings? Are KJC and MF getting nerfed because they actually are overpowered, or are they getting nerfed because it may cause enough players to leave the class and re-open slots for the "benched" players?
I mean when you look and think about this rationally, just like the lunar shower nerf, what they're doing doesn't actually make sense if it's to "fix a balance problem". Considering how strongly they're sticking to the change, and how much the warlock community likes these talents in general, I'm somewhat inclined to believe that this is some odd attempt to get people to drop the class for some reason. Which is odd, because that's more likely to cause people to quit the game rather than move to another class.