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I'm still lurking around... but I stopped playing WoW quite a few months ago due to a variety of reasons so find it a bit difficult to contribute too much in the realm of useful information anymore....

Of course it matters. If the reason you gave invalidated something being of significance to players, it would invalidate the whole idea of content in the game. Everything becomes outdated eventually,...

I would think that Bastion of Defense generally provides a rather consistent Enrage effect on most Warriors with raid-buffed levels of avoidance?

It's worth converting those differences into reduction pecentages as well, especially with the increasing returns of raw percentages at high levels of reduction.

41.9% vs. 41.42% means you will...

Hmm, even if that's the case it will still probably be quite superior. The loss to the base block values wouldn't impact the meta at all, since it's a flat add--perhaps a slight compensation, but...

"The shield block value bonus from Eternal Earthsiege Diamond has been increased to 3%, up from 1%."

Hmm... not sure why this was needed given the numbers we have discussed in this thread. Seems...

Really depends on how they project the time taken to actually be. I mean, in theory what you're saying is correct but if there's only enough time to get 1 legendary on average before it's...

Having got a Sulfuras through much effort in classic, in addition to helping with a few Thunderfuries, had a guildmate with many Atiesh shards (sadly not finished), Warglaives, and a Shadowmourne...

You make some perfectly fair points, indeed. I'd say the fact that WoW's subscription base hasn't really changed since a few months before Wrath launched (which is, what, a good 3 years now?) despite...

I've looked through them a few times and I'm pretty sure they are statistically accurate in a broad sense. The display pages don't display all the data they harvest and they seem to have a high...

Or it could be the quoted post above where Blizzard admits they've probably shed upwards of a million subs in the last 4 months is not really subjective?

Honestly, the people who blaim this on...

Indeed. For me, it would go on my non-essential click bar--but, even then, it is true that I've got a lot more icons on my Warrior's bars (and more bars, for that matter) than any of my other...

Isn't your A) a manifestation of the removal of barriers that you mention, though? Wouldn't B) be as well, when raiding becomes the main remaining content? (Economics don't really matter because of...

As a follow-up to the numbers--and with somewhat fortuitous timing--browsing Kotaku a moment ago had this very topic as their lead story.



So, I guess it's fair to say the WoWCensus figures...

Pre-Cataclysm wasn't really a baseline, though, as Wrath was in doldrums and pre-xpac lull was set it pretty strongly. Returning back to a lower baseline is quite normal, but I don't think people...

Blocking for NPCs has always been a bit different than players--since they've historically had kinda strange block mechanics. (Although I guess they are somewhat similar now--at least closer than...

Yeah, certainly macroing it won't work in all situations. If you're really good at microing your rage, doing it manually will probably be better--but in general situations you may be letting it drop...

Pretty sure the huge dip in the chart is people unwrapping gifts from Santa. :D

I believe various WoWCensus reports have shown a distinct drop in active players online at any given time. Remember running across some stuff a while back on that.
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Nothing wrong with pacing the game to be slower if it is too fast, though. Faster isn't always equal to better.

There seems to be a push to make everything in the game faster, as it if it will...

Remember them giving armor as an example as well, and stating that it was to prevent decreases in rage gain with better gear. Kinda took them at face value, considering I would presume rage gain...

I haven't tested it recently, but I was under the impression based on blue posts that Rage was based on base incoming damage with mitigated damage not having any effect on the rage gained. Therefore,...

Depends on a few factors, I guess. I keep meaning to model Rage to factor this stuff out but every time I start on it I usually find that, mathematically, we have pretty close to infinite Rage....

Yeah, honestly I'm a bit surprised they didn't slow the old world leveling back down a bit so people could enjoy all the new stuff. I felt like the pacing was a bit off and I ended up having to skip...

This is the thrust of it really. There are a lot of other related points, but this is the core of the issue.

Cataclysm spent a lot of its effort on a cool, but ultimately short-lived revamp of...