(sorry I put this here, but I wanted to discuss something with syllabic rather then a bunch of random doofs i guess)
Syllabyic, I finally got around to reading most of your post (6 pages) and I had some comments.
First off i'd like to say that I think your post is well constructed and makes some very awesome points about the imbalance of the our factions in PvP, but I wanted to try to come to a better understanding of a few of them.
In a lot of your responses you focused on Kings being the largest imbalance in the game but I feel that kings in relationship to
Tanks is only hugely imbalanced in fights where the mob has the ability to 1shot or 2 shot your tank (broodlord after the patch maybe). On most mobs we have encountered thus far in WoW, the key to keeping the tank alive is hp/s rather then oodles of hp. Once the tank reaches a certain threshold of hp there is really no need for them to have more unless, as I presume will happen in future dungeons, the mobs start hitting harder. So I feel your arguments towards tank hp should have in fact been targetting salvation, seeing as the amount of hp/s that can be dished out is in relation to keeping your healers off the top of the aggro list. However, I would have been happier to see you arguing that the +spi and +mana buffs from kings are unbalanced, since as far as I know, horde dont have a way to counteract that. It just seems that kings and salvation are disproportianate in the fact that salvation allows you do kill faster therefore needing less hp/mana, and kings allows you to last longer therefore needing less aggro control... anyways, I have a short attention span and a massively confusing train of thought, so yah... stuff
Otherwise, the other 2 things I wanted to touch on were razergore and playskill of alliance vs horde.
first just a quick question regarding razergore... is it really really easy with earthbind totems? oh how I envy you guys for that, hehe. Our raids go something like this "south side priests dead.... EVERYBODY START KITING!!!..." chaos ensues.
Lastly, I think the reason a lot of people are up in arms about your post is that you implied that alliance have less playskill then horde. And every person that mentioned something to the effect of "since I only know 3 people who know how to play a paladin right" etc. makes you wonder how it is that 90% of shamans are "great" players, and 95% of paladins "suck"... maybe paladins are the harder class to play =0... anyways, I have a ton of respect for you guys and your guild, you bring out the carebear side of me whenever I see a <Ropetown> tag. I respect that you guys have made it so far in BWL without salvation, and would even enjoy trying a night of no-salv for Ænigma, only if you guys tried razer without totems =P...
so, much <3 and other stuffs, any responses would be appreciated, but plz im trying to be peaceful about the subject and discuss it rahter then start some fun flame war... and once again sorry I put this here in your forums, if your mods dont want it here they can take it out
-manx
P.S. forgot something about kings, I rarely ask for it, and im guessing a lot of alliance are the same way about it. Its too much of a hassle to beg paladins for it every 5min (beg I say, since our paladins are friggin rude). It's pretty funny when halfway through a major boss fight snovv or pie mention on vent that they forgot to get kings... it happens a lot
*edit* link to the post
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 177574&P=1