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[Damage Dealing]
Locks and what happened?
Go look at the numbers for a fight like Northrend Beasts. Jaraxxus is off because of Spellsteal. Faction champs are faction champs. Twins has a lot of buffs. Anub'arak rewards characters who can AE well.
But if you look at Northrend Beasts, you'll typically see a lot of mages, rogues, locks and hunters all at the top of charts, with the occasional Feral druid or DK. Your mileage will almost certainly vary. Gear, raid synergy, latency and player skill play into those numbers a great deal. Unless you are one of those players routinely putting out 8000 dps on 25 heroic Northrend Beasts, you'll probably see a bigger increase just by improving your own performance than you would see if we just buffed you across the board.
Now make no mistake: the specifics of the encounter matter a lot. It's hard to look at almost any boss and call that a "normal fight" given the diversity and mechanics of the encounters. If you dismiss most of the bosses as I just did above, then you're culling through your data set quite a bit. The more you eliminate data points the more skewed your results could potentially become. I'm just trying to caveat anyone looking at a list of numbers and concluding based on that alone that your class is too high or too low. Doing dps is a lot more complicated then some players give it credit for. If it was not, you wouldn't see nearly the volume of theorycrafting debate that you do.
But if you look at Northrend Beasts, you'll typically see a lot of mages, rogues, locks and hunters all at the top of charts, with the occasional Feral druid or DK. Your mileage will almost certainly vary. Gear, raid synergy, latency and player skill play into those numbers a great deal. Unless you are one of those players routinely putting out 8000 dps on 25 heroic Northrend Beasts, you'll probably see a bigger increase just by improving your own performance than you would see if we just buffed you across the board.
Now make no mistake: the specifics of the encounter matter a lot. It's hard to look at almost any boss and call that a "normal fight" given the diversity and mechanics of the encounters. If you dismiss most of the bosses as I just did above, then you're culling through your data set quite a bit. The more you eliminate data points the more skewed your results could potentially become. I'm just trying to caveat anyone looking at a list of numbers and concluding based on that alone that your class is too high or too low. Doing dps is a lot more complicated then some players give it credit for. If it was not, you wouldn't see nearly the volume of theorycrafting debate that you do.
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[Damage Dealing]
Set bonus more trouble than they are worth
I think gear might get really boring if you didn't have set bonuses (and perhaps trinkets) to look forward to.
Somewhat boring gear is okay... to a point... in PvP, where you need to strike a balance between skill and gear. Players want to enter PvP thinking they have a relatively level playing field, but we still use the gear reward as an incentive to participate.
PvE gear is already relatively inflexible on primary stats. If anything I wish there was more variability from tier to tier. Players have become pretty intolerant though of gear that doesn't feel like an unambiguous upgrade. That's not intended as an insult to anyone. It's just the state of a five year old game. :)
Somewhat boring gear is okay... to a point... in PvP, where you need to strike a balance between skill and gear. Players want to enter PvP thinking they have a relatively level playing field, but we still use the gear reward as an incentive to participate.
PvE gear is already relatively inflexible on primary stats. If anything I wish there was more variability from tier to tier. Players have become pretty intolerant though of gear that doesn't feel like an unambiguous upgrade. That's not intended as an insult to anyone. It's just the state of a five year old game. :)
[General Discussion]
@ Nethaera what do you think about...
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So Zarhym = Neth
It all makes sense now
We're not supposed to respond to the threads directed to us, so I decided to cheat and respond to one directed at her. :p
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[General Discussion]
Could you play WoW without addons?
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Could you play WoW without addons?
Yes. My current setup allows me to jump between modded (live realms) and unmodded (PTR) pretty easily so yes this is definitely possible. But I will add that I do love the mods that I use and generally make sure I have them whenever I am playing.
[Damage Dealing]
GC& Soul shard resource system implementation
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I don't see there being much choice during a boss fight when a warlock uses the abilities that are enhanced by shard usage.
It'll be just like glyphs and talent trees. There will be required spells to use alongside required shard usage.
I don't see how someone can "mess up" when you only have a few shards.
The fight starts. You use your 3 shards. Then adds come. Or characters start to die and the fight lasts longer than you thought. And you're sitting there with no shards.
It's a little bit like asking "Why would a mage need Evocation? They should have enough mana for the fight."
[General Discussion]
What Do You Do When Your Server Pop. Sucks?
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The GF and I have two lowbie toons we started leveling a while back - mid 40s, mages, horde.
The problem is that the horde side of the server is mostly....dead. There just aren't as many people, less groups for anything....
It's not 'bad', I'm sure some people would prefer it - but we don't like it much.
Is there anyway for us to play on a server with more people (after all, this is a MMORPG) without paying some completely made up fee? I'm sorry but $30 dollars to change a 1 to a 0 in a database somewhere seems awfully silly to me.
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Both items have 179 stam and 76 defense.
Generally, I might suggest "Is this a bug?" and not "Obvious bias!"
Generally, I might suggest "Is this a bug?" and not "Obvious bias!"
[General Discussion]
3.3 tuesday?
[General Discussion]
Can tanks (non-druid) at least get a T-shirt?
But they already have a T-shirt: http://w
Flames inc?
Flames inc?
