Good post, however, some of the things you said were a bit hyperbolic:
Caster damage in PVP, Druids got nerfed to the ground so they don’t have a 2k damage nuke from ranged. But your point still stands the event was a terrible idea a free for all where you have to get the killing blow to get any reward from it is out of touch with how it should work.
If you Blizzard wanted a super sweaty competition where people are expected to reroll to the meta class, the STV event is it.
Ashenvale was better, now Ashenvale is terrible for rep since layering is broken and I’m getting put on layers with less than 20 and sometimes less than 5 players on it. Ashenvale was good because if you had a PVE spec you could still compete, but in the STV event you need to have a PVP spec. If you raid and doing the STV events you have to spend gold to respec every time as a healer or tank.
Not doing any sims or testing to determining burst damage and then nerfing specs into the ground to balance PVP is ruining PVE and PVP. Low tank damage sucks for tanks, too, Blizzard learned this a long time ago, but have since forgotten it.
Your guild screwed you by going to a PVP server just like mine did. No one gets into a fight they don’t think they will lose. It’s very much like real life if there weren’t any laws or runes or morals. Since there aren’t transfers, players whose guild stopped playing are either rerolling to a PVE server, which I did and it sucks to start over well behind everyone else when everything is so much harder because there are less people, or quitting.
I wanted to say this is just one of the phases of many and we should calm down about it, but it’s the current and only playable phase. It should be about having fun and not worrying your spec will be nerfed soon making PVE and PVP less fun. Or just having a spec and class that underperforms by a large margin that might not getting changes. PVP and raid damage shouldn’t be connected unless you plan on making mobs take more damage while keeping damage to players normalized.
If a rune invalidates Improved Slam, use those 5 points for something else.