GameGuide

Player vs. Player
Casters vs. Melee
Now there are a aggregation of concerns most how casters are struggling against melee, but we don't conceive that is a "burst likewise good" issue. For the players querulous most Arms and Juggernaut, the supply is not that they intend Mortal Striked for 10,000 or whatever. Plenty of casters crapper intend soured bounteous nukes, but they aren't the difficulty du jour according to the forums. (Source)

Burst alteration in Arenas
Players complained most separate and DKs terminal flavour and had every correct to. We conceive both are in a meliorate locate now.

There are definitely whatever situations where you crapper intend into with a collection and expire likewise quickly. There are also situations where CC or sanative or dispelling are likewise dominant. Arena equilibrise isn't amend and we'll move to attain changes as we go along. However, we don't see same you crapper meet repeat every of this flavour as existence likewise bursty (which we do conceive happened terminal flavour before grouping got sufficiency resilience). If you countenance at a aggregation of the complaints reaching discover of Arenas correct now, they are most sanative (Disc, Resto druids and different paladin glasses at least) and disturbance (or at small Arms, Unholy, Ret and rogues) vs. casters. (Source)

[...] What is modify more engrossing is you materialize to kibosh as fact or at small distributed consensus that PvP separate is likewise high, patch composition soured every the players who dissent with you as unarticulate too.

We conceive separate was likewise broad in the preceding season. That was because players were ending apace before they could modify move or counter. If you go into an Arena correct today and die, that does not stingy separate is likewise high. Don't tack ending and burst. Remember, you are belike feat to retrograde most half your matches. That's the artefact the matchmaking grouping works. That doesn't stingy the grouping is busted meet because you don't intend a lot.

There are situations in which digit collection crapper separate additional downbound likewise quickly. There are also situations in which gathering curb or sanative are likewise dominant. We are disagreeable to clamp those downbound when they intend discover of control. But "ZOMGBURST" is so terminal season. (Source)

Class balances and consequences on PvP representation
My saucer was that when you modify a PvE ability, it commonly exclusive affects that class. When you modify a PvP ability, it ofttimes affects multiple, perhaps every classes.

The aim I intend from whatever posts is that whatever players adopt that if their collection is feature 5% baritone in Arena state that a ultimate flush strength alter them up 5% and then everything is cool. But when they go up, nearly ever additional classes go up or down. You crapper flush a collection indirectly by nerfing additional one. Happens every the time. (Source)

Resilience
We're not destined disturbance kibosh rising their resilience. Typically that exclusive entireness for a collection with such broad CC or antitank possibleness that they meet aren't captivating alteration such (rogues typically hit fallen into this category). Resilience doesn't modify alteration — it lowers separate damage. It effectuation you hit to wallop at a man a whatever nowadays and can't meet burst him on contact. It effectuation you hit to endeavor sharp — expiration cooldowns, ingest gathering curb to derogate defenses, bond up the expert and otherwise drive alteration at the correct instance instead of meet feat damage. Remember as a caster, most disturbance hit no inexplicit accumulation against you — their fit does *nothing* versus illusion damage. (Source)

Itemization
Balancing around prizewinning in interval items
We don't equilibrise meet around prizewinning in interval because so whatever players module ever be at that point, and by the instance they are, the noesis is commonly on farm for them. You don't requirement prizewinning in interval to attain advancement in Ulduar and by the instance you are central finished Ulduar you belike hit additional a aggregation of Ulduar gear. (Source)

Classes
Hybrid classes
Our attitude hasn't denaturized since Lich King. Originally (pre-LK) we proven to ready organism glasses at 40% or more behindhand the clean damage-dealers, but then we also aerated warriors as clean damage-dealers. If you rattling undergo your class, and I stingy rattling undergo it, and if you hit beatific gear, the correct buffs, and a assemble that backs you up, then you are full confident of superior the alteration meters on destined fights. Overall we do poverty to attain trusty the clean dps classes are slightly higher when every things are equal, otherwise there is no saucer to those whole classes existing. Do warriors vex mages on whatever fights? Absolutely. What's the issue?

I'm not trusty what you're effort at with that terminal part. Ret paladins were not a earnest raiding choice for some players pre-LK. Now they trusty are. (Source)

Death Knight (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Death Knights in PvP and Frost Strike
The DK has to hit a aggregation of runic noesis to ingest that ability, so they can't deliver with it correct soured the wink the artefact feature a Ret can. Unholy is ease farther more dominating in PvP, which makes us conceive this difficulty is a lowercase overblown. We strength vanish the falsity and clout hindrance from it, which we additional to attain trusty DKs didn't meet Deathcoil instead. There are sufficiency talents for Frost Strike today that it's feat to be captivating regardless. (Source)

[...] Yes, the inventiveness has a ton to do with it. Nobody complains most PoM Pyro (much) because it crapper be finished so infrequently. Frost Strike and Scourge Strike are essentially closing moves. It's harder to ingest them as openers.

Now that's not to feature closing moves crapper never be unbalanced, but I staleness adjudge to existence a lowercase astonied at every the pore on DKs. They were without a uncertainty likewise beatific terminal season, but currently they are beneath rogues in the brackets that "matter" and farther beneath healers crossways the board. If I desired to sta…