Quote:Actually, though, this feels like further dumbing down the game. It may just be a shift in how we understand the game, but I'll have to see it to believe it. It does make sense for Blizz to dumb it down from a business stand, I guess. There are a lot of people that want to just kill stuff and get phat lewtz, but I have always preferred to have to gain knowledge along with skill. I think that the easier they make it, the faster people lose interest. It is quite a way off yet, so I have no doubt there will be huge changes in what we actually see.I'm not sure I understand the motivation here. Spreadsheeting was what kept you in the game? Why not just solve really difficult math problems if that's how you get your kicks?
The stats, as they currently exist, are just frustrating head-scratchers that don't require tactical or strategic skill to figure out - they require a visit to Elitist Jerks, and little else. When they change it with some new patch tweak, the values all change. This isn't knowledge, in any helpful sense. I don't feel I've learned anything except trivia.
And in answer Pete's comment: WoW with original code would be terrible relative to what we're playing today.
-Jester
Afterthought: Not even really difficult math problems. Those might be interesting. Try really boring math problems. Ones that just involve basic operations and a whole crapton of brackets.