Originally Posted by
Deaged
I was curious, so I went and played optimally on the target dummy for 2 minutes. Got 17.0K dps, then I played pretty awfully (used things off CD) and got 13.7K dps. I'll take your point that BM is not punishing, but playing optimally is not rewarding and that is also a problem. You can play this spec perfectly and some person can play a few other unnamed specs like a braindead mongoloid and still match you, and you can see this by lining up the numbers at various percentiles. I've played plenty of specs in this game as well, the point is the issue goes both ways.
Quick example, champions of the light mythic, BM hunter is at 21.41K dps at the 95th percentile, a 75th percentile assassination rogue has the same DPS, slightly higher even at 21.78K dps. This same example applies to nearly every fight because the spec is simply bad.
It is not "easy" to play optimally, and it's neither punishing nor rewarding, but as others have pointed out, playing this spec optimally is no harder or easier than most specs.