Boy I'd love it if melee got disarmed for 5 seconds every 40 seconds and just considered it a 'minor inconvenience'Burning pitch is an almost neutral mechanic since you need everyone to be soaking - the melee soak closer to the boss because outside of pitches they HAVE to be at the boss to be relevant. The ranged can be 40 and in some cases 50 yards back from the boss with the same effect. Even with this certain melee specs if you raid has a clue will soak mid-back (warriors / Dh's can travel the entire bridge & back after pitch easily)
Face it, what you said is wrong - majority of mechanics in nighthold are neutral, but there are KEY mechanics that are ranged only. You seem to ignore that there have always been mechanics that affected melee more than ranged historically and these are largely muted in NH.
Also the only time fel beam should have any real impact on a ranged dps over melee is during double beams, or last platform (which hey is mostly double beams anyway)
Lastly, orb of destruction targets 1 ranged every... 20-40 seconds? It's such a minor fucking inconvenience it's laughable everytime someone brings it up.
Actually OT: I expect that the trend for the expansion will remain more melee friendly. Legion has been all about non-hardcore audiences and blizzard doesnt give a shit about the ranged superiority status quo. Melee are more popular and that may unfortunately be a factor into why they have such an easy time in NH.