Itemsquish reminder

[Aquamonkey]

This. THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS. Frigging stop it with the stupid item squish garbage already, dammit. Stop trying to make it difficult to solo old content.

Don't focus on soloing old stuff. We'd rather get feedback on the squish itself, not other ramifications that we can solve. (Source)

Will an item level squish affect our ability to solo older content? If it doesn't, I have no problem with it.
The goal is it will not affect your ability to solo older content. (Source)

[huth]

That must be why people who deal with large numbers as their profession use scientific notation and limit the significant figures... (even when not having to manually write the numbers).

Which, conveniently, proves that we can deal with them just fine.

You can complain about it all you want, but in the end, all this math is never done while actively playing, anyway. It only comes up in theorycrafting, where you have plenty of time.

[Aquamonkey]

Which, conveniently, proves that we can deal with them just fine.

You can complain about it all you want, but in the end, all this math is never done while actively playing, anyway. It only comes up in theorycrafting, where you have plenty of time.

Yes, changing the notation to make the numbers easier to understand is how people deal with large numbers. Did you forget that this has already being done in the game? K's and M's have already been implemented. Blizzard doesn't see that as a final solution.

[Kryos]

So it will come with the next Expansion:

Tencent: How will you deal with bigger and bigger numbers in the next expansion？ I think it is time to do something with it.
Ghostcrawler: We have considered this problem and we will reduce players' stats in the next expansion.