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World of Warcraft: Is class balancing an impossible dream?

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Gamer Limit writes "The state of balance between classes in World of Warcraft is something I have always pondered on. Finding constructive and concise arguments, with suggestions on improving its state, are an extreme rarity."
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GrahameG - 27 days ago
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there will always be that one class with that can be abused. With so much content it's extremely difficult to balance without constant tweaking and nerfing (which can be good AND bad).

Just lucky I don't play any MMOs.
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presto717 - 26 days 23 hours ago
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1.1 - The classes can NEVER be perfectly balanced.
Look at starcraft. Blizzard makes so much noise on how balanced the races are, but those freaking terrans are overpowered as hell. Nuke, scan, buildings can fly, workers can repair stuff back to 100% HP, emp to kill protoss, irradiate to kill zerg.

I just had to get that out there. I play protoss so it hurts...
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Fullish - 26 days 23 hours ago
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True, Terran is the most played race by Koreans.
But at a non-professional level they are pretty damn balanced.
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evrfighter - 26 days 23 hours ago
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classes will never be perfectly balanced. Mobs on the other hand. If a certain mob is weak to physical damage and drops phat loot. Mages get left out in the cold and vice-versa. They have more of a chance of balancing out classes in the mobs that get created.
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StartWars - 27 days ago
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I think the reason WoW is going so well is because it isn't balanced, if it was balanced it would be boring.
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Panthers - 26 days 22 hours ago
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Blizzard is know for having a lot of diversity and still being very balanced. WoW may be too big to balance, but its pretty close I think. But I still say pallys are OP.
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DangerCurtis - 27 days ago
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If it's tailored to a rock, paper, scissor idea, it makes it much more interesting.
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BRG9000 - 26 days 23 hours ago
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Well, balancing the classes in combat against each other is only half of it. They are also constantly struggling to balance them in how they perform against bosses and other PVE content. The "rock, paper, scissors" system can't really be applied there at all.
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thedoctor - 27 days ago
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Don't know anything about WoW, and don't really care to find out.
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BRG9000 - 26 days 23 hours ago
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Then why did you post? In fact, why did you even click on this story?
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totallysane - 26 days 18 hours ago
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really lol
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Ziriux - 27 days ago
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Like Kevin Garnett has said "Anything is possible".
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syvergy - 26 days 23 hours ago
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It will never be balanced.
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BlackTar187 - 26 days 23 hours ago
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6.1 - I agree
Way to much content to get your hopes up for it : )
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Panthers - 26 days 22 hours ago
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Even if it were, we would never know because people will always cry when they die. Its always going to be unbalanced to someone.
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Dead_Cell - 26 days 23 hours ago
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7 - Shadowbane had it best.
Such a HUGE variety of classes/races/build combinations and any was viable in certain moments. They took Group vs Group and refined it perfectly which scaled down pretty well with solo/smallscale PvP. Obviously the solo wasn't PERFECTLY balanced but that was the beauty of it,certain builds coped better in certain situations, having to rely on your guild/group mates to cover your weaknesses and to beat somebody who may have had an advantage was seen as a sign of skill and competence with the creation you made.

Anyone who is interested in an open world deep PvP game should check out the Shadowbane Emulator, hopefully launching some time in January.
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Tony P - 26 days 22 hours ago
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There is no perfect balance. Imperfection keeps an MMO in business.
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LeGenDx - 26 days 19 hours ago
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9 - pallys are op
same with druids
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SilverDragon1979 - 26 days 18 hours ago
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I think they've done a very good job balancing the game to the best of their abilities.
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350ZRunner - 26 days 14 hours ago
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11 - Perfectly balanced? No.
You will never get perfect balance between a multitude of classes, but even if you never got 'perfect' balance, you can do far better than WoW does. The way things stand right now there's simply a massively unbalanced hierarchy of classes in which one to three classes dominate everything else.

Unless they've been adjusted significantly since I left back just after 3.2 dropped then there is NO excuse AT ALL that justifies Paladins or Death Knights.
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Austin_SJ - 25 days 6 hours ago
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I agree
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