Gear and class scaling
Our general philosophy is that we don’t want relationships to be too predictable. Much of the fun of improving your character is seeing the effects that different kinds of gear have on different rotations. To use an extreme case, if every piece of armor just said “improves stats by 1%” getting loot would be a lot less fun.
Similarly, we don’t want classes to be too similar. It’s interesting and fun when you switch classes from say a warrior to a rogue and see how different stats affect you differently.
Scaling is very important to us in the sense that we don’t want certain classes or specs to completely fall down at certain gear levels. This has happened in the past. But what those levels are is very important. If mages dramatically overtake warlocks when everyone has 20,000 spellpower, then I just couldn’t care less except possibly as an item of trivia. If and when WoW ever reaches numbers of that level, the class mechanics will have changed so much in those years that its just not worth worrying about at this time. (src)
Class utility
On the issue of utility, yes our design is that nobody has an ability so awesome or critical that they are gauranteed a raid spot. In truth you can get all of the important buff and debuffs with a relatively small number of players (especially in a 25 raid) so you should be able to bring who you want after that. If some classes bring versions of a buff that are obviously and significantly superior to another’s then that is the sort of thing we’ll get fixed. (src)
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