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Without any insult meant, I know that's what people like you like to think. By that I mean people who frequent Elitist Jerks in general, or hold it in such high regard. True skill in something is achieved through passion, not through mathematical knowledge. That only goes up to a certain point (in fact, mathematical knowledge is attained through passion). The people who 'stuck to their one sacred tree above all else' at the people who have actually *learned*, and know first hand how what works - and more importantly in the case of a 'revolution' (expansion, in WoW's case), how what will work. These people become the 'fanatics who try out everything'. Not to mention that these people have a clear edge in talents over the huge majority of people these days that just "grab a cookie cutter, get to the hit cap and go".

Obviously, this isn't true if you just always stick to your own tree, and that's it. But that's exactly my point - people like these are extremely extremely rare, and the only reason they don't either swap or experiment at some point is because they leave before they actually do so. Or because they have a completely different vision of the game (read: kids).

Your post was on-topic, made logical claims, remained constant in its opinion, didn't reek of fear and used words based on their actual definitions.

Don't feel like gbaji.

For the record, I hate EJ because they're a collection of over zealous ***** who try their hardest to keep anything even slightly entertaining out of their forum and because of that it's a dead, soulless forum.
But they have the info, they find out what works best.
And trust me, look at a pure dps class part of EJ during the beta(/when the new talent builds are released) and you'll see that there is where the new cookie cutter is made.
There will be people spreadsheeting everything, testing everything twice and a few select nutters who run an 8+ hour test to verify if the hitcap is really 8% (Yes, some feral did that for WotLK)

So yes, it's the cold mathematics that decide what the new cookie cutter spec will be because for dps doing as much damage as possible is all that matters.
There's still people passionate about their class behind it, but these are the people with a passion for maximizing dps and not the people with a passion for big balls of fire or big red cats. (They're of course not mutually exclusive, but min maxing is the reason people do this)
As far as learning and knowing first hand, I can play all 3 specs pretty damn well and I have done so in various phases of WotLK and tBC.
Pretty much every dedicated raider has done the same over the past few years so you can argue that just about anyone knows all these specs first hand.

It's not a battle, at least not to me. A discussion, yes but not a battle, battles on the internet include swearing, capslock and flaming.

I'm trying to understand why someone would stick to BM (or any other sub optimal spec for any other class) and lose all that dps because for me that's almost unimaginable.
And as MM my pet is equally important to me, I need it for dps but beyond that I love my little wolf and I feel guilty if it dies.

Edited, Jun 10th 2010 10:04am by Aethien

Yes, people that read Howlle as Howlie will burn in the fires of hell for all eternity.

An arts degree is fantastic to help you sort the products in the supermarket you'll be working at in an artistic manner.

I don't know what you guys are on about. I have a degree in English and I'm fabulously wealthy.

Accounting Degree here!

And still currently unemployed. That should tell you something. The better you are at selling yourself, the more money you'll make.

...Why does that sound so very dirty and so very accurate?

P.S.-I only go to EJ when I want people who treat WoW like their jobs to post their findings. Those people are scary.