Originally Posted by
Pandalishus
No, I'd argue that Top 100 is NOT the best place to look for balance, because at that point, "min-maxing" has reached a point that if a 20-DK team gives a 0.5% advantage, that's going to be the logical choice. Balance at that level is impossible because it thoroughly wrecks balance at all lower levels. Is Ele balanced for the Top 1% of players? No. But if Elemental's fine for basically 99% of the playerbase, then we must not make balance at Top 100 during progression the focus. If you're Top 100, you don't bring Ele. That's it. That has nothing to do with balance and everything to do with what happens when you play at the very tippy top (gear imbalances, player skill, better hardware, countless hours spent playing, etc). it's like saying it's unbalanced that Invincible didn't drop on my ICC25H kill last night because it did for 0.5% of the player base. This is what I don't understand about this forum/discussion. (Almost?) No one here raids at that level, so why are people losing their shit over it? Because it ruins that fantasy that they might one day git gud enough to be sponsored to play WoW, but their Elemental shaman is holding them back from world glory? It's ridiculous. If your signature doesn't link to your Top 100 World main, then calm your tits. Blizzard's not balancing for Mythic World Firsts, nor should (or can) they.
It's VERY unlikely they're Top 10 shamans, unless he meant "in their respective guilds."