Mr. Robot is overrated.Follow

A few weeks ago I discovered Mr. Robot. For those of you who don't know, it's a site that claims to help you optimize your gear and provides a list of BiS gear that's dynamic, changing as your other gear changes. While this is great, I don't think is accurately does this.

I also use WrathCalcs, and I think it's a lot more accurate. Now granted this is mostly my experience as a boomkin, but some of the values that Mr. Robot uses just don't make sense. It tells me that the Vibrant Alchemist Stone is significantly better than Theralion's Mirror, which is goofy. The stone gives a static 341 int (with gemming) and 194 haste bonus, where as TM gives 321 Int and 1926 mastery for 20 seconds every minute or so. If anything they just about break even. That's only one example. It also claims that the stone and the Witching Hourglass are significantly better than the Stump of Time, which is also ridiculous given my gear. I plug in the different trinkets to Wrathcalcs, and alter reforging so I stay hit capped, and it's a significant dps loss to equip either of those trinkets over the stump.

So basically what I'm saying is that you shouldn't rely on Mr. Robot for gear choices. It's difficult to tell what sort of formula they're using. With Wrathcalcs at least, they show you estimated dps based on your gear and stats, and talents. So you can see the numbers and understand them, instead of having just random numbers which have no significant meaning.

I used Mr. Robot a couple of times. It took some tweaking of stat values to yield something reasonable for my resto druid initially, but it didn't seem so bad in the end. Of course healing =/= DPS, so whatever that's worth. I did like how it helped me optimize my reforging though.

Personally I'll stick with Treecalcs (the resto version of Wrathcalcs for those unfamiliar). However I like spreadsheets and usually treat black boxes like Mr. Robot with a grain of salt.

Edited, Apr 25th 2011 4:10pm by someproteinguy

But, Pigtails, Rawr is shiny...

Why all the hate for female dwarves? Plus size women can be cute too damn it!

I have nothing against plus size women. I do, however, have everything against faces like this.

This is Hunters looking down upon your flawed and inferior spreadsheets.

I mostly use Mr. Robot as an offline version of "Pawn". There have been a couple of times that it has recommended gear that I hadn't realized existed.

Its main function just isn't that useful to me. My healadin has a very clear stat priority, but the balance of spirit vs. haste isn't static for healing like it is for DPS. My hunter has femaledwarf.com, and I have to run Mr. Robot's reforging recommendations through there before I'll start to trust them, which is a pain. And my druid is still in lolferal spec, so Mr. Robot thinks she's a tank, and there's no way to tell it she isn't...

Fixed.
Also, I made that button (and their banner)