Originally Posted by
HonneurVilified
Do you think you're saying something enlightening here? Obviously if other specs were nerfed down to BM's level, people would say BM is fine. The whole point is that, relative to most specs, BM does significantly less damage in most situations. People don't compare their DPS to what's necessary to kill the boss, they compare their DPS to other players. Just a fact of life.
Having said that, BM isn't useless. If you somehow have an absolutely terrible MM setup (e.g. no UV traits, shit weapon) and you're going to be on bitch duty for M Jaina (doing ballista, carrying bombs your priests didn't MC fast enough, escorting your tank with Avalanche), BM brings some value. It theoretically loses less DPS than MM would doing all those jobs, and it has Spirit Mend to help keep you alive if you know you're going to be out of the raid stack for a bit (e.g. when escorting the tank with Avalanche). Something people love to ignore is that Gingi has explicitly stated that he did not have a good setup for MM, and that was the main reason he played BM.
If you have good MM azerite and you're playing BM on any boss besides M Jaina (and you probably only want 1 BM at most for Jaina), and you're not just completely incompetent at MM, you're probably not doing the most damage you could be doing, and if you're competitive, you should feel bad about that.
If you're not competitive, who cares what you play? Have fun. :-)