Originally Posted by
Tyrean
But prot paladins are not the norm and everyone knows this which is why they are getting reigned in a little bit. I do think that right now people are relying on some very faulty information to make the general conclusions that the community has made. Most people are quoting sim numbers that are all over the place from one sim to another because talent choices, gear setup, fight style, ability usage, etc are all things that the sim producers are not drilling into on a micro scale. It is almost impossible for them to be DK experts, and warlock experts, and tank experts, etc. They are creating the tools and making sure they work correctly and it is up to the community to make sure the rotations are right, the gear, the talent choices, etc. Right now no one is really doing that. I mean I just loaded my character into AskMrRobot for example and it pulled 164k dps. Currently I am doing about 200k over 5 minutes on target dummies manually, so where is the %20 difference coming from? I quickly glanced at the rotation it has and there are some issues, like putting sudden doom procs above ghoul transform in the priority queue. I would need to also look at all of their implementations of the strikes to make sure their coefficients are correct, etc. It would take a ton of work and honestly I am playing the game right now.
Essentially, there are people for which this does matter and they are doing the work (because it is their job). These people are in the extreme minority and they are holding all their information from the public because they have things at stake. (world first races and funding being tied to that). Then there are the people who think they are world first competitive but just have no real clue how far they are from that. I am talking about those guys who clear mythic but don't do things like have 6 day raid schedules, have three of their class leveled and played to the fullest to see which one gets the right legendary drop, etc. Then there are the casual people and the LFR people. To none of these does it matter that your only DK you have in your raid is doing 200k dps instead of 220k right now. All of those guilds are not going to be losing fights because of DPS numbers but rather because you stand in fire or don't do mechanics.