Originally Posted by
Hoofey
Seriously, its people saying stuff like this that messed up survival in the first place.
Claims that many people wanted survival to be melee, based off a few comments on the forums, led Blizzard to believe that there was a demand for a melee specc, even though the majority chose hunter to play a ranged+pet class.
All they did by changing survival to melee was to replace a widely played specc that a whole lot of people enjoyed, with a niche specc that you barely even see people playing.
Its just stupid, I've seen more legendaries drop in my groups than I've seen survival hunters in my class hall/groups.