Totem Talk: Elemental, my dear Watson

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10-31-2008 @ 4:46PM

akw said...

'As blizzard has stated multiple times since the release of beta. All DPS specs in WotLK are supposed to be dead even. Meaning with even gear and even skill a elemental shammy should be within 1% of a hunter or mage. There is no more of this "Wah Wah Wah You're a hybrid I should out DPS you because I'm not a hybrid" crap. That boat has sailed buddy, so just stop.'

You might want to tell that to Ghostcrawler:

'Pure classes should be able to out dps hybrid classes by a small margin. However, hybrid classes should be able to be a lot closer than they were in BC, and depending on the skill, gear and encounter involved, will sometimes beat the pure dps classes.

For purposes of this discussion, pure = mage, warlock, hunter, rogue. These are the classes that cannot spec into healing or tanking roles.

I don't want to get too far down into what that margin should be, because then players return with a WWS parse saying "See, the mage beat me. You said we would be competitive."'

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12065190196&pageNo=1&sid=1#1

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