Originally Posted by
Niwes
they will not.
the past shows they push things forward a much, combined with big marketing offensive, before live. but afterwards letting things alone. Warlords was the absurd top of that. But also in other xpacs they showed that after launch things are less important than before.
they have literally factor 10 or more to balance with following new facts:
- more complex and rotation-wise talents
- more differed specs
- artifacts
- relics
- many more sources of power
- gear diversity
- ppl can not easily switch specs to the same maxed-out state
or in short: they create themselfes a balance hell. when i combine this and what i said in the first words, i am very feared of Legion. i am sure there will be ppl having a hard time and are heavily disapointed, while sitting on a broken or low spec and have to deal with it.
i see no future were blizz constantly balance things out. this never happened in the past. they always had problems with that (and their blizzard nature, to jump between balancing extremes). in combination with what Legion is, i belive this will become a horrible nightmare, after the first 2-3 months.
i imagine myself a vanilla-style experience, from big patch to big patch (around 6 months), where some specs are totally useless (like rets in vanilla, or druids "heal only", and so on). i expect a nightmare.