One Shotting Is Here!

[Drasca]

I don't think folks playing WoW wish to replicate the kind of realism that some of the FPS (Halo anyone?) games bring in re "I see it I can kill it. 

Or do they?

For my money, Mongo Jerry is taking the right tack in suggesting a re look at diminishing returns curves.
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I see no solutions, partly with the 'competency' blizzard has for class balance, mostly because this core game design is item based. The nature of wow and most hack games before this is grow in power through various means, then face enemies that always diminish relative to your growing power. The world of competive games attempt to arrange enemies of equivalent power. Guess which side Blizzard gets their money from? It isn't the balanced bits. If Blizzard is any good at making money, and it is, they'll dangle just enough 'balance' to keep new money coming.

Any diminishing returns, if implemented, will be negated through the process of future itemization. Your old characters will be obsolete, and the gap between man with stick, man with sword, and man with rifle at 100 yards away will only be widened. What good's being a knight in armor while being shot down by machine gun fire? Bullets out of a gun is still superior to throwing rocks.

Occhi, to tailor your "If I can see it, I can kill it" for WoW, there's a large gap in the lines of: If I'm the one with the missles, I can see it then kill it. If I'm the unwashed villager shaking my sticks, I'm target practice.