I think very few people have a “you must conform” mentality. Like if you went against every guide and video with your build, came in to my raid, and topped dps, nobody would tell you to change. However, this game doesn’t really work like that now, we have sims, and the playerbase has gotten much better at playing and theorycrafting to where surprises rarely happen.
So it’s not really a “you’re making the wrong choice” mentality, it’s more that you’re making a choice that we know is 5% less effective than this other choice, and 10 other people are in LFG, or have applied to the guild who have made the more effective choice.
Minmaxing isn’t bad, If that’s how you want to play the game that’s perfectly reasonable.
Who I disagree with is those who demand covenants to be changed to suit them at the expense of those who prefer how it is. Those who look at your achievement page and deem that you’re not allowed to have an opinion because you don’t meet their arbitrary standards and those claim that those who are against them are “Just being selfish/Malicious” and their reasons they have for liking covenants how they are don’t really matter.
It is a huge exaggeration to say “everyone” loves to get BiS pieces. Most players are casual, and casuals are pretty much satisfied not having to make the sacrifices necessary to get that gear and settling for adequate gear to do their content.
No, you’re just attacking me instead of my arguments. Try again when you can respond to the things I’ve actually said instead of whatever strawman nonsense you’ve built up.
Everyone’s favorite buzzword on the forums when they can’t account for their general argument in a debate: strawman.
Again Rankin, your posts throughout this forum have a pattern that says to the reader “I know what’s going to happen with Covenants” and you really don’t.
If you really did, you would know what Covenants married with content would look like in 9.3 - again, you have no clue.
And I’m the one holding a mirror to your philosophy on this - cry strawman all you want, it’s your philosophy.
A strawman argument is when you make up a weak argument and claim your opponent believes that argument, and then deflate that weak argument you made up and claimed your opponent believes. Which is literally what you’re doing by saying Rankin claims he can see into the future.
His philosophy is Covenants are bad now. That’s all he can go off of. He’s saying because they are bad now, they will always be bad. That’s not strawman, that’s me parroting what he just said, framed in another way.
In the event my name changes, this is the Plebeian formerly known as Nards - WyrmrestAccord.
Also if you’re referring to the guy talking about covenants being bad, I dont think covenants are bad. I’m going necro on my alt for the bone wings and no amount of bashing for forums wars can stop me.