That's not the reason at all why private servers (especially insant lvl cap ones) sticked to wrath, it had more to do with stability, bugs etc. + for each wow client above 3.3.5a you have to make a crack.
On topic:
Wotlk was kinda ok, you still had many speccs which were simply unplayable. When 3.3 came out it gor really unbalanced with Shadowmourne.
IMHO MoP was the most balanced one (in comparison with any other xpac)
Ah yes, Wrath, when Resto druids could jump around as a tree with three people hacking and slashing and they hardly broke a sweat.
When Rogues and Mages were kings and queens of PvP (oh wait, they always are).
When you were cc'd for days because CC lasted longer and they didn't share across the way they do now.
When you could burst down people in seconds.
Wrath had some good sides to it, but it wasn't all good.
Wotlk was never even close to "balanced", you just have forgotten how bad it was. There has never been a class as op as 3.0 DKs.
I have fond memories of my 5v5 team from that era. It was a collaboration from all the top PVPers in the top guilds in my server at the time.
DK, Ret Pally, Arms warrior, resto shaman, and rotated druid/priest/pally healers.
All 3 melee had a Shadowmourne and all the healers also had the ulduar legendary mace.
It was pretty retarded, pop bloodlust, people just died in seconds most of the time. I do think WOTLK PVP felt pretty good overall but it definitely wasn't perfectly balanced.
WoTLK was not perfect but if you are saying that it was the best WoW balancing we had in an expansion.. I would say yes. (I missed most of Cata and MoP though, so if those could be better for all I know)
I pwned my arena-geared pvp-experienced rogue friend in WOTLK with my frost mage in blues (without much experience on my part, aside from leveling it).
So yeah, at least that wasn't balanced
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Let me guess, you played an OP spec and enjoyed 2 shotting people easily?
Wotlk was the most imbalanced era of PvP even when you exclude DKs from the list, Mages could literally kill anyone without casting a single Frostbolt (Ice Lance spam + insane mobility + every PvP tool put in Frost spec), rogues were countering 90% of casters, paladins dealing insane damage while having insane survival cds and warriors stacking ARP over str to cleave through your armor like nothing.
And lets not forget Chimera Shot insanity that lasted for months before getting nerfed but then Explosive Shot got buffed in same patch and everyone switched to Survival to enjoy the FOTM.
Season 8, by far the longest season and probably what everyone thinks about when you refer to wotlk, was not melee dominant at all. It was wizards everywhere. Ele/Destro was dumb. Aff/Spriest was dumb. MLD was dumb. Other than a few TSG with stupid amounts of pve gear, the only melee I really ever saw was warriors playing ele/warrior and WLD.
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I didn't play Mage. I hate mages. But this is simply nonsense. Maybe you're thinking of cataclysm.
Wotlk has been absolutely fun pvp-wise but it has never been balanced.
on 2s:
RDruid-DK
RDruid-Anything
HPal-DK (or Anything-DK )
on 3s:
RMPs everywhere
WLD(or Rogue-Lock-Druid)
I didnt make this up, the guys who were making World of Roguecraft videos from way back since vanilla did new vids on most OP classes back then in Wotlk and they showed an average geared mage killing 90% of people without casting a single Frostbolt only instants, not sure if its still on youtube but its defo saved on warcraftmovies.
Basicly Kalgan or whoever the hell was in charge of class balance back then put way too much mobility, damage and other things into Frost spec and people even counted on buffs/debuffs/roots/snares etc Frost spec had and the conclusion was Frost spec had too much features while other specs didnt had 2 or 3 (Frost at one point even had healing debuff from Chilled)
Shadowmurne +DBW full pvp gear with pve offparts??? Was it balanced?????? I dont think so.
I dont even mention ARMOR PENETRATION rating on warriors. Pvp was more bursty than today.
God double shadowmourne comps............... dont wanna say more. Casters were getting nice rape in Wotlk too.
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if eveyone is op, and everyone can kill anyone seems balanced to me Kappa
AH, good old 100% ARP days, so much fun 1 shot cloth class in BG with my MM hunter
Coz blizz ruins hunters and remove disc.
Thats why its balance atm
I wanna say you are a troll, but wrath fans are also just really stupid...
Resto druids, ret palladins, DK's... blatently OP