Quote Originally Posted by Lavieh View Post
You should balance to the top-end players, AKA the min/maxers because balance doesn't mean anything in the lower levels of play.
Well, you could unbalance a class at lower levels of play. I mean, some of the suggestions are to up the DPS of a SMN so that it can use ED without dropping too low, but in any situation where you don't really need to worry about MP, would this not give a rather large boost to it's standard DPS numbers, since they'd have the boosted numbers AND three Festers.

Of course there is a bit more wiggle room at lower levels, and Balance comes most into play when everyone is playing at their best, presumably in more difficult content, but there should be some semblance of balance at both levels of play. ((If for no other reason than to avoid giving players a false understanding of their classes power.))