Wands Uber on Test Server

[KiloVictor]

Ahem. Entirely reliant on ever increasing dps epic weapons from MC, et al which surpass caster equipment for reliable added damage.

Ya, what he said! :)

Or to put it slightly differently, the rankings of rock, paper, and scissors have changed at 60 as people get geared up. Gear-dependent classes are waaay outstripping us squishies in the endgame; I've resorted to a stack of +spell/healing damage gear to try and keep up, but I'm losing too many stats to stay competitive if I do that. So the warriors, hunters, rogues, and shammies (and oh ya, pallies too) are slowly pulling away on the mages, priests, and warlocks. It seems that there's not much we can do to compete, and I don't think a wand fix is going to change that.

There isn't exactly pvp balance here. There isn't even rock paper scissors in WoW. Some classes and builds are simply easy-mode, and counter-able only if you're both good and ready.
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I've always thought that having balance discusssions based on 1-on-1 PvP situations is a lot like trying to define federal fiscal policy based on my personal chequebook - it's just too small a sample to justify any substantial changes to the big picture. It might be great for me, but it'll be craptastic for everybody else.

I think balance has to be looked at with a much more holistic eye. For instance, I hear a lot of folks talking now about how earthbind totems are overpowered and unfair for the Horde in Warsong Gulch, since the Alliance has no similar ability or any available tactics to counter it. I haven't played there, so I don't know how valid the complaint is, but those to me are the types of more significant balance issues that need to be sorted out first.

It's entirely possible that the playerbase (and I mean more the WoW forum crowd than this one) is yet again worked up over a change that won't be that big a deal in practice. I mean, we're talking here theoretically about a 1:1 pally/priest matchup with no adds, no remarkable crits, no mobs or other players wandering by, fighting down to oom, and whether or not the priest now has an advantage over the pally. That's perhaps a bit too singular and hypothetical of a situation to really have much of a balance discussion. :unsure:

Kv