Originally Posted by
Anbokr
Ion is the PvE dev. He's long been a designer on raid bosses, and now just a lead designer on all things I assume but still mainly classes (hehe class fantasy) and pve/story. Holinka handles all the pvp tinkering through the stat template, so of course Ion isn't going to talk specifically about PvP balance. I'm sure he mispoke and simply meant that as far as PvE balance goes, nobody cares about world questing and regular dungeons, anyone can do those currently.
The real benchmarks are raids/mythic+ which is what they will balance raw numbers around. PvP balance is a separate issue handled directly through the stat template, not core ability tuning.