This is a hard thing to tackle but the best way to look at Classic WoW is from the perspective of a table top game. Classes in those games are NOT balanced around certain aspects for a reason. Druids, Paladins, and other hybrid-type classes cannot do the same amount of damage as fighters, rogues, wizards and such due to how the classes are built. Clerics are the best healers because.. well, they are Clerics. WoW Classic is the same way. If you balance classes, you kill the RPG elements of the game. One of the issues with current WoW is that classes are too balanced, aside from the myriad other issues. Perfection is relative @Grimseethe. To me, the game is perfect because classes fit into their respective niches well. Druids are not supposed to tank as good as warriors, they are the jack of all trades. Elemental Shaman shouldn't do more damage than mages, they are a support class. I think there are two different mentalities or axes of creation, if you will: utility and class identity. They are more mutually exclusive than you think. In fact, I think they are inversely correlated. When you increase utility, you diminish class identity and vice-versa. For this reason, Classic WoW never balanced well - because the devs tried their best to maximize along both axes. However, It really isn't possible in my eyes. The Burning Crusade made improvements and perhaps found a really good middle ground where both values were pretty high. We will get there. Classic/Vanilla WoW is part of that evolution. And to not experience it is, in my eyes, a shame. Just my opinion.
