(04-18-2016, 08:29 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Slightly off-topic commentary alert.
I've mentioned it repeatedly to anyone that asks, but the point that broke the skinner box of WoW for me was right after Pandaria released. With the expansion live and everyone quadruple checking their math and numbers, the prot paladins were mentioning that their threat felt lower than expected compared to other tanks, and that Consecration in specific felt really awful to use after the role-specific changes made to it. Blues would post that internally, prot met all of their internal metrics and that the doing-it-for-free users, primarily their raiders and the theorycrafters, were wrong: Prot was fine, and Consecration was fine. Blizzard continued to parrot this until the patch notes for (either a hotfix or the first LFR patch, it was a couple of years ago now) came in for everyone to see:
Consecration: Damage and Threat increased by 800%.
Yeah, fuck right off with that. It's okay to say "hey, we'll look into this for you" instead of pointing out that everyone was wrong to think that maybe something wasn't tuned correctly. Even SE admitted they overdid it with the fucking moogles.
Disclaimer: I might be misremembering this story, but the 800% increase and the "nope, our numbers are good" stand out in my brain.
Oh, they've done that before. Multiple times. See Resto Shaman and the start of Cata.
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