Originally Posted by
arkanon
I touched on this earlier, and agree completely. However, i believe it mostly comes down to the addition of Arenas starting this off, and then has been made FAR worse by M+. There was a time when certain specs had a really strong niche - ST, Cleave, Split Cleave, AOE, Sustain, etc. But with recent additions, and with pressure from the community, we have ended up with classes all feeling pretty similar. Obviously there are exceptions, and people always jump on those outliers and say "are you claiming a prot warrior plays EXACTLY the same as a holy priest?" which is obviously not the claim being made.
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For the last time, yes, it is - by the very definition of the word, thats EXACTLY what it means. The only way this is not true, is if no one at Blizzard is aware of the idea of a tinker class, and the discussion has never happened.