Originally Posted by
erifwodahs
You can still bring every class and spec. into m+ and clear 15 for the best reward. There is absolutely no reason for not being able to do that. Complexity increased with mobs doing more and there being affixes. But not by much I would say - not for current player base where which is familiar with bosses have 10-15 mechanics. A mob pack with 5 mechanics to be aware of, 1-2 being critical and rest is only critical on high keys forty affix. There is nothing - high level play about it.
Also, it should be kept in mind, that 14 keys provide 465 gear while HC raid provides 460, so clearing a dungeon on 14 should be more skill intense than a raid. If you cant clear HC, I would say it's pretty ok for better gear to be locked behind higher keys (higher playing level at that) as you are rewarded for your skill. Same as back in a day, you could not get gear if you could not raid, which required, at that time, higher skill level than a average player, at that time.
On the topic of classes being balanced around high level of play - blizz seems to be stepping back a bit and introducing a AoE cap. I would say OP classes suffer, rather then weak ones getting a fix and that is unfortunate. Also another topic on how humans work - most people look at what they could be rather at what they are. If there is balance but they perform shit, they will blame stupid dungeon system or pugs or their mother for being crap. But when there is disbalance,they just scream "nerf x. boost y" all the time. They are looking at the class as if they were performing at the peak, so that's why they want "justice" for their class. It does not matter that the class X is completely capable of clearing a +15, they will look at MDI and then yell that they can't get it done because "they don't have shroud, AoE burst or combat ress on their class". Homogenization is the doing of the players and Blizzard working together. I can say I was the same, I love shadow priests, I love them, but being a mana regen bitch in raids does not sound appealing for me when TBC comes out :/