It seems like melee is garbage and range is king again in PVE and PVP. Is it just my imagination?
melees are more than fine in pvp. in pve yes it seems to be more skewed towards ranged thus far.
Whenever ranged are good people cry about it.
Whenever melee are good people just go “oh but uhhhh BM hunter was good last patch so yeah”.
DK’s are amazing.
Rogues are 1 shotting.
WW is god like in M+ and PVP as usual.
Arms is pretty solid.
This is right after BFA which was instant cast casters (which was thanks to stupid corruption stats) or BM which may as well be a melee spec, DH, Monk, and Rogue.
Night Fae Balance Druid and MM hunter are the only real “problem children” right now honestly.
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Speak for yourself, DH is not even viable, unless you enjoy losing.
Yep, that is correct. I would only take warriors for their AP buff for hunters or DH for that magic debuff. Thats it. I avoid melee also in raids as they are main reasons for certain boss wipes if they have bad positionning.
Don’t worry, MDI will show up eventually with their mandotary rogue in there, and whatever else they need… And suddenly, those classes will be accepted instead of others… Everyone knows MDI is a good representation of the game so it’s not a problem xD
If you play boomkin, fire mage or spriest you’re a viable caster in pvp, if not then reroll melee and make sure to chose the broken specs and not meme specs like fury.
Except DH and shaman
You think this is bad? It’s not. This will hopefully increase the number of ranged players and balance things a bit more after several expansions of meleecraft.
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Blizz makes a range affix. Side step, you’re fine.
Blizz makes a melee affix. It spins around you 50 times, there’s 10 of them simultaneously, they toss you around and deal damage.
The second melee affix, an add spawns and follows you around till it dies. Range is fine. Melee gets 3 shotted on lower keys and 2 shotted on higher.
Thanks blizzard. Really enjoying the super annoying affixes you made us.
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He’ll it’s about time.
Tbh problem isn’t so much a ranged bias, the problem is every time they make the game mechanically harder it increases the difficulty of melee.
Ranged is simply a easier role to play, therefore players are more likely to trust a ranged class to perform decent.
We are talking about a pug community where everyone thinks everyone’s bad at the game 🤷 you invite what yelds the highest success rate.
So you will pick players playing easier classes because it’s far more likely someone’s gonna be able to play a hunter or something to a decent level then there is them being mechanically skilled enough to play a enhancement shaman in a +10.
In no mmorpg do you find the difficulty equal between ranged and melee classes.
Unholy DKs and rogues are very strong, I’ve seen some Rets and arms warriors doing really well in m+ and my brother does great damage with enhancement shaman.
Community perception is built off of others opinions what they read and MDI results.
So yes make a 1000 threads saying your class is bad and the community will start believing it regardless to its actual potiental.
It’s like in 8.3 BM hunter became OP and we all walked in thinking it was gonna be the worse performing specc. Alex preachgamings raid leader was gonna bench himself over it.
Yet look at 8.3, once world firsts and everything changed players views everyone was rerolling BM hunter…
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There will be no balance between melee and range in pve unless they design encounter around “equal uptime” for both classes.
Yes. 
I guess mr Ion didn’t took it to well when every called it world of melee craft .
So many silly comments from people in this post… There is more variety of viable classes than ever and I am seeing every class at 2.1/2.2 MMR in PVP. Are some better than others? Yes sure, but they are all viable
And as for casters being better than melee, WW, arms and Ret are pretty busted so it really goes both ways
way to cherry pick. ret, windwalker, rogue, arms warrior, feral druid, survival hunter, enhance are all good specs, therefore melees are FINE.
or would you also like me to cherry pick and say ah ranged sucks because specs like demo lock, bm hunter, non fire mage specs are ****?
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I enjoy every single word in this sentence. My heart beats faster because of happiness, when I see the tears of DHs. Reckoning is at hand, my friend. You had 2 xpacs to steamroll all other classes with 2 buttons, now it is time for your kind to eat dirt. Suffer well!
Warlock has aleays had a top of the pack spec and you’re typing out this sort of trash? What a sad creature.
I really don’t know how relevant this comment will be considered, but I will say it anyway: DH is suffering from problems that do not really regard to being a melee specialization.
Sometimes blizzard can appease its playerbase
Nerfing DHs sure did appease alot of players 
although I don’t get why not revamping DH to not be a 2 button smashed wasn’t a valid option during the designing.
DH could be a cool class . If they’d do something with it.