#33 - April 16, 2009, 1 a.m.
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You don't have real number from the pre-conflag hot fix so that just give you an out to say the simcrafts were wrong. (BTW Simcraft has a history of being pretty spot on...but hey you stick to those internal numbers of yours)
Q u o t e:
In my experience, ingame numbers usually express the same relative rankings that simcraft does, but with considerably more space between the specs. In other words, I think deep destro is even worse off in a real single-target bossfight scenario than simcraft represents, and FG/ember is even more powerful than it appears.
I've commented on Simcraft (and any similar tool before) but I'll repeat myself.
1) It's awesome to see players dedicating that much effort to WoW. It really is. They show a passion for the game and dedication to improving both the player's effectiveness and the game in general. It is humbling in a way.
2) Those tools are very difficult to make. I'll give a shout out to Toskk's Feral spreadsheet, which represents an enormous effort and is still being refined constantly. Getting that kind of accuracy and precision for every spec in the game is going to be challenging.
3) As the community continues to offer feedback, refine and grow to accept Simcraft (or any tool), so will we. We aren't going to spend a great deal of our effort to troubleshoot or verify their assumptions. They are third party tools.
4) At the end of the day, the Blizzard designers are going to balance the game. Not the community. Not Simcraft. Not any external tool. If you want to use those numbers as part of your argument, that's awesome. But just posting those numbers and saying "Fix it," isn't going to work. I've said this a lot lately, but you should stop approaching every potential change as "What do we have to do to get you to make this change?" The answer is there is nothing you can do. You can give us information and we will use that information to make informed decisions. But we, not the community and not external tools, are going to make those decisions.
5) Do remember that statements such as "warlocks do 6800 dps" are virtually meaningless. The actual damage you can do on a raid boss varies enormously depending on your skill, gear, lag, luck, the boss encounter and the buffs you have. Estimating a maximum theoretical dps is a very useful piece of data and nothing to be scared of. But that does not mean you will ever see those numbers with any consistency. Do not take them as gospel. Ever.