To assist with class balance and numbers. Because right now it sure doesn’t seem like it
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Nah they just wing it 
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Would they balance around Normal raid? Heroic raid? Mythic raid? In M+, pulls of 1 mob? Three? Five? Twenty? What about power in pvp? And should specs that are easier, have more cc, or great off-healing do lower DPS? Should MDPS do more damage than RDPS for the increased damage they take?
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Odds are Blizz has simulations running 24/7.
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They use an abacus 
to do their maths
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how about if your class does 30percent less dmg than top dps its broken and need buffs
nothing reall hard about it
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30% less damage where? In raid? M+? Pvp? And what % parses are you talking about?
Why should BM do as much damage as Affliction? One has dots to keep track of, an unforgiving rotation, and lots of casts. One has 5 buttons, instant casts, strong CC, lust, and great mobility.
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Fairness :]
I want all specs to all do the same amount of damage in any possible scenario and that’s final.
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No, the numbers guy is running the show and uses numbers to try and calculate fun.
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Also interesting:
“Statista suggests that World of Warcraft 's player count is around 4.88 million as of 2020. They also suggest that it is going down at a rate of roughly 140,000 players per year”
I think the 50th percentile dps should be similar, but specs that are more unforgiving should have higher 75% parses and lower 25% parses. I say let people choose if they want to have consistent damage or if they want to be rewarded for good play at the expense of being punished for bad play.
Another issue I see is the damage profiles in pvp. Classes that have periods of burst as well as filler periods (like Arcane, MM, etc) are going to blow people up when the damage is high compared to our health pools like it is now.
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I’ll give you 3:5 they dont
That was 4 years ago with no source, the quarterly report say s something very different.
By my fuzzy math, WoW can still see 35 more expansions. We gots 70 more years of WoW…and level squishes, and pet battles, and Sylvanas preening, and trees burning, AP grinding, and forum tears.
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My bads
Interview with runescape devs from asmongolds stream:
So they drop whatever the top performance thing is by like 1% every couple months and buff whatever the lowest performance thing is by like 3% every couple months. Over time it balances it all out.
Look how easy it is?
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They probably use to, but then they fired a whole bunch of people so those people were also probably let go.
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DOES BLIZZ EMPLOY STATISTICIANS?
Its hard enough for me to buy that a college educated person(s) came up with this RNG joke in the first place.
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1% nerfs and 3% buffs isn’t nearly enough for what the logs are showing now thoigh.
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