Its two-for-one day.

Well sorta. You get two rants today instead of just one. I just read one of Ghostcrawler’s most recent retarded statements and had to comment. Maybe someone with some sense can smack this one in his ear for me. Pretty please?

GC says, regarding the horrible upcoming hunter nerfs: “Our job is to make the game fun, and part of that includes trying to keep it balanced. Sometimes balance requires buffs and sometimes it requires nerfs. Sometimes we need to overhaul mechanics. Rarely if ever will the entire community agree on those changes, and really that’s not the goal.”

Seriously? I mean really, SERIOUSLY? How, then, do you explain the lack of balance as far as druids are concerned? Disregarding all of their other OP abilities, lets just discuss shapeshifting.  How is it that they continue to be allowed to instant cast shapeshift forms, while it takes us a  seconds to mount up? The community-at-large, which consists of everyone but druids in this case, have been bitching about how unfair this is for ages. The ONE time we temporarily can compete, during All Hallow’s Eve when our brooms were instant casts, what happened? Brooms got nerfed. The beloved druids bitched about how we were now able to be rude and do the things they have always had the exclusive right to do, like instant cast forms to flit from one mining node (or herb or whatever) to another, making farming a joy instead of a chore. So during the event, brooms were hit with the nerf stick and got slapped with the 3 second mount cast. WTF?

So mounting isn’t such a big deal you might say, right? Well it is because it gives druids a HUGE advantage when it comes to farming mats. Not only can they instant cast into their travel forms, but they can also mine nodes, pick flowers, and do just about anything else while still in flight form. So as you are running to a node, working your way through mobs, INCOMING! They swoop out of the sky, mine the node WHILE STILL IN FLIGHT FORM, and fly off to the next one before you even get your pick out of your pocket.

Game balance? Right. Don’t insult my intelligence by saying all of this is about game balance.  It has nothing to do with game balance. If it did, dps warriors would be getting nerfed hard, too, considering they do huge amounts of damage above and beyond anything hunters can do on single-target attacks.  I’m the first to admit that Volley was doing a considerable amount of damage and probably should be brought down a bit. Then again, so do other classes that have AOE attacks. Are they going to get nerfed as well? Doubtful. On single target attacks, hunters weren’t over and above everyone else on the meters. Mages, dps warriors, rogues, they are all up there. But because of our one Volley attack, our single dps attack, Steady Shot, is getting hit badly, along with our beloved pets.

Yeah. Its all about game balance.