Originally Posted by
Drithien
What is out of control? Are your axe swings causing rifts in the space-time continuum or something? That is a quote almost straight out of a developer's mouth; one that makes no sense whatsoever. In the same way that a tank with a million health points will perform the same after the squish, a non-squished tank will perform the same without it.
There was no need for the squish. It's just part of a witch-hunt from Blizzard to find things that make the game "hard to get into." The same hunt that has resulted, throughout all these recent years in the game turning into a battle-arena one and losing its role-playing feel. Dumbing down elements all across the board because they are "too much intellectually to handle for that elusive new player." As if people in the past that had little problem understanding the mechanics of the game, just more patience, are a now-extinct breed.
The squish was in no way necessary; "out of control" is a non-excuse; it's done for aesthetic and client-chasing purposes, while treating the players already paying like they don't exist, their opposition being "dully noted and discarded;" almost nobody even thought about this as a problem until Ghostcrawler mentioned it, the most relevant thing that was heard was how awesome it was for feral druids slowly reaching 1 million health points in bear form; such an immense problem our tank couldn't sleep at night at times...