As you might be able to tell this will be a post, regarding the problems melee dps has compared to ranged.
So let me start of by say that this is not a thread with the intentions to "qq" about being melee, but a real concern as to the usefulness of a Melee DPS.
If any of you ever tried to raid as melee, you might notice some complications in that scenario, not that you are unable to compete with the ranged dps, but rather that you are being treated as a second class citizens. Now, what do I mean by that. In the current state of the game (MOP) and moving forward your typical raid consists of 90% ranged dps and 1 or possibly 2 melee (in before OMG WE HAVE 7 melee dps and we raid!!!!) now as you can see this does posse certain concerns when you are trying to apply for a possible pug raid or a guild.
My problem is - and the purpose of this thread, is to understand why the game is balanced around ranged dps being better in every way?
There are 7 melee specs in the game and only 6 ranged. So why are we only bringing one melee?
I have played the game since the end of vanilla and along the way mostly preferred melee. Now that said I did play my fair bit of ranged in those years to better understand the reasoning behind the balancing around 1-2 melee (in a 10 man grp). In the past melee did provide a clear benefits to the raid (such as interrupts soaking and on stand still fights better dps) but as we move forward and balancing dps and skills becomes better I wonder why this issue was not been addressed. Some fights are currently impossible to do if you have too many melee (sigecrafter hc) but no fights are impossible if you only have ranged. So currently, range dps provides the same utility, the range dps, without the drawback of being melee.
Therefore, my question is, why that is. Why is this not being addressed and why is there no clear benefits/drawback to being melee (i know that in wod they are "trying" to make the ranged suffer on fights where you have to move, but the same fights are even worse for melee because unless you are a rogue you cant dps at all)
So please keep the discussion formal and civilized so we might get some answers.