Fair enough, it’s true that balance inevitably affects the difficulty to get results when playing one class/composition compared to another one, I agree.
My angle was that I think the class balance starts to matter (in the sense where some things stop being possible to consider playing at all) only in the context of the top players.
All in this game depends on enjoy you this or not. Achievements means nothing - u can take VISA and buy everything - every season take glad/R1 and HOTH with 0 efforts. Skill or not skill nobody cares. Just play on that level where u feel themself comfortable.
It’s insane they don’t have dev and tester for every spec. They have mobile marketing people who think about timegates 24/7 and zero people who actually plays game or Classes.
This mismanagement knows no bounds. Same thing happened with Cyberpunk. They hired clueless mobileclowns, who had never played the tabletop game or any other RPG and they don’t even know that it is.
WoW has a very steep learning curve, with a lot of information, game mechanics, etc you have to take in all at once. It gets a lot better once you hit end of that curve though.
it is true, but doesn’t need to be true if you balance around it.
Rock paper scissor was always a bad excuse for not wanting to balance anything properly. You can clearly see that they just use phrases like “we want the meta to develop organically” as excuse for
a) having no clue how to balance
b) having no staff to balance
c) don’t give a crap and just want to collect $$$ with minimal effort
I would assume it comes from looking at LFG.
You barely can find anyone looking for mates for their 3s team in lfg, while you see tons of listings for 2s
At least on the lfg scene it might be true that 2s is more popular.
Also don’t discount the amount of games that the super nerds are playing on the crazy high ratings in 3s because it is their job / stream / life or whatever.
On the other hand of course also need to watch how many games in 2s or 3s are from boosting (probably not all that much to be counted I guess?)