Balance. Why do we need it?

[Vyanie]

As people have stated above balance is not about everyone doing the same exact thing the same way. Balance is about everyone being able to contribute meaningfully to a group. To put this into perspective I play a 3.5 game that both the DM and other players suffer from BNS (big numbers syndrome) and believe OMG 7th lvl rogue SOOO OPZZZZZ... because every once in a blue moon, I as the caster, take pity on him and let him do something.

For 7 levels I have literally dominated every single fight, every single social encounter and... well basically the entire game, but since i didn't put out a fist full of dice only one other player has really noticed. I wasn't initially doing this on purpose until 6th level when the dm kept saying "see look at all the damage the martials put out casters suck and martials are way to op." Now I am making it fully known that the party is not a group of martials with some lame caster following them around going pew pew, it is a GOD with some flunkies walking around to carry his stuff. Now some of the other players have looked back and are going... ohh, that was basically all you the entire time huh?

Without trying I had literally done everyone else job just by being a T1 caster. I had to show that in effect i was playing as a blind deaf mute to be on the same power level as them.... This was not fun for me and when I finally cut loose and said screw it the game was not fun for anyone else. THAT is what is wrong with the balance of the game.

The game at the moment is only semi balanced for those that suffer from BNS (and trust me way to many people including some of the people that write for 3.5 and pathfinder), once you get to be both a better DM and a better player you will see just how horribly broken the game is. This is compounded by the fact that.... everyone say it with me..... martials cant have nice things. If for some stupid reason a martial gets something that would be fun it is nerfed into oblivion or they have to spend 5 feats just to wipe their butt leaving them with not enough because of retarded feat taxes. A great example of this if you look at pathfinder the feat two weapon grace.