Unfortunately WoW has been on the path towards homogenizing and “hyper balancing” the classes since WOTLK, and it’s a huge reason why I eventually quit the game and haven’t been back in years. I will always love WoW as one of the best MMO experiences of my life, but they’ve been continually making the classes broadly abled demi gods that can do anything and everything themselves, thus removing differentiation and unique abilities (probably because they prefer hyper balance to accepting that some things will be very powerful while others won’t, as long as each class has stuff like this it will work out).

MMO’s will never be 100% balanced and striving to be as close as possible will result in this level of homogeneity, which is frankly boring. The best example is going back to EQ and how the classes were so individually compelling, each with their own “OP” niche that made you want to play many alts.

I’m not surprised by the things I’ve been hearing lately around here, Blizz has been on the wrong (IMHO) path for the general gameplay direction of WoW for quite some time. It’s a shame, because I’m always open minded about returning.