Real PVP happens on the forums

Real PVP happens on the forums "Rock is fine, nerf Paper and buff Scissors." -Rock, on a level 6 alt claiming to be a Gladiator and wearing full Tier 6.

"Do you want some vaseline? A crowbar, perhaps? Your head appears to be so far up your ass, I don't know whether you're vomiting or crapping this trash. " -Taraea, pwning a druid on the priest forum • "Blizzard gave us seal form so we can swim through your tears" (druid)

Because changes made to classes is primarily based on PvP (mainly Arena) gameplay. While a change helps balance classes in PvP, it hurts those who do not PvP. For example, the Lifebloom changes. People hate Lifebloom because a Druid can spam that and Rejuv to keep themselves alive for a long time in PvP. However, it being nerfed hurts all other Druids who are Resto and only do PvE. One area is balanced while the other just suffers.

Balance • http://youtube.com/watch?v=YJWeWMKfa3g&feature=related

Awesome, so a lifebloom nerf, a water nerf, a speed bonus nerf, AND a cyclone nerf? wtf blizzard? Restoration is for the most part the only viable spec right now as it is, and now it's going to be worthless. That's going to make the entire class undesirable for pvp. • Time for you to........................................L2P And yes chicken little the sky is FALLING

Probably not. Cyclone is still exceptionally useful. But this is the WOW forums. You can't expect anything less then a full-blown overreaction. • Blizzard is balancing the Arena by turning chess into checkers

This cyclone "nerf" really will not affect anything. All it means is druids will have to readjust how they play. So now we are in intercept range? Big deal, warriors generally get an intercept off anyways. Just go bear form, wait for the intercept, then cyclone. Mana burn? If you know anything about LoS this shouldn't affect you at all. If you are really this upset about this nerf you probably suck at playing a druid anyways and will just keep QQing about every small thing.

“The implications of cyclone nerf. Gamebreaking” (druid) • “Gamebreaking? In case you haven't caught on, druids are already gamebreaking in 2v2 and 3v3.” (paladin) • “And the paladins opinions in this thread are not biased at all…” (druid)

“I played druid pre-BC... before we had mangle, before tree and moonkin forms, no 5% crit to the party, no cyclone, hurricane was a 41-point talent, there were no lifebloom and swiftmend spells, you had to spec resto for innervate, and all leather items were healing gear. We were the worst class in the beginning, now we are a lot better, and people are STILL complaining.” (druid)

Gambling • Since everyone plays WoW a different way (Some play for pvp, some for pve, some for tradeskills and gold, others for adventure…etc) any change that affects one aspect will have repercussions in another. In this case, it is always best to appease the majority in order to keep the largest fan base happy. However, sometimes changes are made that appease pieces of the minority and go against the wishes of the majority. Thus most of the game is played by the minority in the hopes that sometime soon they will get buffs thrown their way. With the change to PVE from the lifebloomnerf, PVE druids will now play hoping that Blizzard will throw them a bone in the future to balance it out.

Real PVP happens on the forums