Balance, Homogenisation and Encounter Design: The Problem.

[Shurrikhan]

Nothing is ever balanced decently when it comes to raiding. There will always be one move, one skill, one setup, that will be greater than the others. Weaken it, and another will suddenly become better. It's a neverending cycle, you cannot stop the playerbase from creating its own meta, you'll only be playing Whack-A-Mole. Or you do what SE is doing, and homogenize them to begin with, and get things just balanced enough to where people don't care if you bring X or Y class (like how it is currently with tanks).

A rotation between 4 choices according to some prioritized capacity by which one ends up faintly superior for a given fight >>>> only ever having 1 choice, period.

Otherwise, what's your complaint? Even in incredible imbalance you have as many choices as you have under complete homogeneity.

Your "solution" to the worst thing that could happen (one choice) is to enforce... the worst that could happen (one choice).

They didn't need to homogenize to reach balance. All but the tanks were MORE balanced previously, despite LESS homogenization.