12-12-2006, 04:16 PM
Quote:I would point out that you're also approaching this with a lot more tier 3 and naxx-dps-items than most guilds. While undoubtedly the changes in this patch helped, I think it's hard for a guild that's killed KT a few times (and thus farmed the other bosses a lot more) to say exactly how much easier the rest of the instance has become; it's presumably intended to be balanced for a mix of tier 2, 2.5 and (for the later bosses) 3 gear.
You'd have a point if I was completely ignorant of gear upgrades, but I'm not. I'm not rating the bosses according to when they were first learned - I'm rating them compared between this week and last week, in which our DPS had the same upgrades and our tanks had the same Dreadnaught. They didn't gain any Dreadnaught between the last week of 1.12 and the first week of 2.0.1, and reported a Hateful Strike damage decrease in that time period. I think reduced HS damage on the same gear is a pretty objective measure of nerfage.
If I wasn't clear before, everything I listed in my most recent post is an observation I've made comparing this week just passed with the week just before it, making gear disparities a minimal concern.