In defense of gear simulations

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2-04-2011 @ 7:49PM

Henry said...

I like to think of "sim it" at being short for "I don't know off the top of my head, and there's no way for me to tell you how much of a DPS increase something is unless I knew your current gear was. The act of me finding all of your gear, putting it into the simulator and running it is quite a significant amount of work for you to ask me to do. So I recommend that you get the sim, learn how to use it, and empower yourself with the ability to make these decisions for yourself."

Ok, that became kinda dickish towards the end, but my point still rests.

And yes, sims tend to work under the assumption that the battle is 'Patchwerk style' but there is a completely valid assumption that the DPS increase your gain on any fight is a strictly increasing function of the DPS increase you'd gain on a 'Patchwerk style' fight.

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