Originally Posted by
DisposableHero
This is the Covid only kills 1% of the infected and who cares about the scale of WoW. If a world 500 player can finish world 300 by using the meta class, that is just as valid a balance concern as the comp stacking in world first kills. If an AOTC player can play farther into mythic with the meta spec over their normal one, that is a perfectly valid concern for class balance. Anyone who could personally do better by swapping off their preferred class and into the one that is OP for whatever content they want to finish, and go father, or have an easier time, or get there faster, that is a balance concern. Anyone putting together a raid, or an M+ team, or a pug, who'll have a faster, easier, more successful time choosing the meta spec over the similarly skilled/geared player in the off meta spec, has a valid reason to do so. When a spec performs better, the content is easier, and players of any skill level can progress farther, and just because it can be done, doesn't mean everyone can do it, and if they can do it easier with a meta spec, that is a balance concern. Nobody likes to perform poorly, and even scrubs progress father on the OP meta specs. Dismissing the concerns as being only valid among the very best players in the world is dismissing huge swaths of the problem as not existing when in fact they do.
Balance affects everyone who is trying to do better than they've done before, and I promise you that is not just the world first crowd.