Originally Posted by
Orwell7
What? No. This narrative is here for a long time but it is proven by freakin MATH that is false.
Their own internal numbers are a JOKE, why is this even an argument? I can see that their "standard" builds are more-or-less the same, but the problem are god-tier specs, like fire mage, balance druid and unholy dk. They could easily tune week-by-week with small 2-3% nerfs to them, to make them in line, while buffing bottom feeders 2-3%. Per week, not per month, or per .x.5 patches.
Yes, good players gravitate towards better specs - that's true, why wouldn't they? But at the rare times there WERE balance, there were a lot more variety in play even in WF raids, not to mention arena and M+.
The real problem is that Blizzard has a strict "no meta change" policy nowadays. God-tier specs will be god-tier through all the expansion, and maybe some specs will catch up later with hotfixes.