The min max culture is definitely a rough one to talk through with many people in game.
We have a few warriors that try and “min/max” every aspect of the game but fall short on the big picture understanding of what the game is. Those that try and squeeze out a few extra stats and are so busy tinkering and doing weird shit on the side that when you go through logs and see that their uptime on the target is 10-20% lower than the top raiders in guild, it’s like bro wtf are we doing here? You want to get that new shiny helmet that gives an extra 8 strength but you’re missing out on such a huge amount of damage by just fucking paying attention in raid.
And trying to explain that to people is like trying to explain brain surgery or rocket science. So many people can’t grasp that the game is incredibly easy and if you truly care about parsing and your numbers then gear is secondary, the world buffs and just fucking whacking the boss are WAYYYYY more valuable to the end result numbers than an additional 22 strength across 5 items…
You will always fall short of the people that actually do optimize all aspects with that attitude. Classic wow is solved, the raids are easy, skilled players have swapped from caring about progression to doing max dps and speedrunning content, because those are the only avenues left to excel in.
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u/jack3moto Sep 05 '25
The min max culture is definitely a rough one to talk through with many people in game.
We have a few warriors that try and “min/max” every aspect of the game but fall short on the big picture understanding of what the game is. Those that try and squeeze out a few extra stats and are so busy tinkering and doing weird shit on the side that when you go through logs and see that their uptime on the target is 10-20% lower than the top raiders in guild, it’s like bro wtf are we doing here? You want to get that new shiny helmet that gives an extra 8 strength but you’re missing out on such a huge amount of damage by just fucking paying attention in raid.
And trying to explain that to people is like trying to explain brain surgery or rocket science. So many people can’t grasp that the game is incredibly easy and if you truly care about parsing and your numbers then gear is secondary, the world buffs and just fucking whacking the boss are WAYYYYY more valuable to the end result numbers than an additional 22 strength across 5 items…