Quote:Yay, nerf those pesky hunters right out of the other two Arena pvp games!
(No, I don't pvp, yes, this is tongue in cheek)
Well, this is less about PvP 'balance' than more about 'fun' for people playing. As Legedi said, CC-->death is no fun at all, and turns many off of PvP completely. And that's exactly what happens to the inexperienced now. You start a match or a fight, and lose complete control of your character till dead. What's the fun in that? Blizzard would like to see more people PvP, so they're going to remove more of the 'unfun' parts so that more use the content.
I'm not saying this change or others are 'right' or 'balanced', but I think the above has more to do with it than other factors. I don't PvP myself, as I've never put in the time to become good at it. The only 'PvP' I was good at pre-BC was tanking the NPCs in AV so the good PvPers could kill those players who got in the way, and I could get some honor. This is just how I see this change from the outside looking in.
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WoW is still a core PvE game, and if you start rewriting classes for PvP, then you start to lose the PvE balance, which is, of course, always a work in progress, as we've seen in the last few months. Some classes have been buffed a bunch, and Blizzard said 'whoops', and nerfed them back, then boosted them a little till they had them where they wanted (for now). Other classes have seen smaller nerfs and stayed that way, other classes have gotten small buffs. As I said, it's always a work in progress. Also, different people have different opinions on what 'balance' means. YMMV.
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--Mav