It was also around that time that i think the Blizzard's internal policy changed. Before to that they were creating a game, and balancing it in vacuum. Afterwa

It was also around that time that i think the Blizzard's internal policy changed. Before to that they were creating a game, and balancing it in vacuum. Afterwards they went for designing metagame - picking how player should play. It was more egregious in their newer games though - especially in diablo3(where Blizzard literally makes builds in form of armor sets) and overwatch.