Comments on: Is there a BEST setup/strategy in WoW?

By: Walter Sullivan

Walter Sullivan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:07:43 +0000

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By: khassad

khassad — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:08:01 +0000

In my opinion the analogy should be the following:
- Trying to heal with a prot spec is like cutting using a spoon
- Using a sub-optimal spec/gem/enchant is like cutting using the wrong knife (too big, too small, wrong shape, …) so that it is harder to achieve the same result
- If you use the knife by cutting towards yourself, it is like raiding without bigwigs (or db or whatever), it could be dangerous, but performance is not gimped

By: Tilman

Tilman — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:00:01 +0000

Well if you use the knife by cutting towards yourself, there is a chance it will slide and you will hurt yourself.
That’s why professional chefs don’t do it.
It’s possible that Balanced’s wife will never cut herself (and I certainly hope so) because she is not operating under the stressful conditions of a chef.

If you gem spirit instead of int, there is a chance your raid will wipe because you run oom.
That’s why people in “serious” raiding guilds don’t do it.
It’s possible that a holy pally who gems spirit never runs oom because he’s not under the stressful conditions of a “serious raider” in progression fights.

There is a - theoretically prooven - best direction to cut.
There is a - theoretically prooven - best way to gem, spec and enchant.

This does not mean everybody has to do everything the same way. Many “best” specs allow for variation (e.g. ret) without hampering your performance. It also depends a lot if you want to express your uniqueness by doing something stupid (like tanking with a two-hander) or deviate from the “best way” slightly (like taking aura mastery for pve).
We have a ret pally with great gear in our guild who gimps himself by using only SoC. As long as he still does enough dps nobody cares. That’s fine for me. But it’s also perfectly fine for a more hardcore guild to tell this guy to use the right dps seal.
I don’t see anything bad with this.