This game is a math problem with pretty graphics. Look at Warcraft Logs, everyone that parses well is doing the same thing because its what lands the highest numbers.
If you’re trying to be special you’ll be parsing in the 50s and not get very far unless you get carried.
So in other words you can’t and have to math everything out and take the best option since otherwise you will be hindering the progression of your friends and they will do the same.
So by your logic, I should be happy to pick a covenant and be special and parse 50s on certain fights because daddy Blizzard and you say so?
If they really screw the balancing you’d have a point but so far if every covenant ability really shine in different situations then yeah one fight you might parse lower then the other you might get to pull a trick and pull ahead. The same way people do by playing one class or the other on a smaller scale.
Yes. Otherwise WoW magically turns into Overwatch because not being able to swap talents (which we can do today) is the only thing separating the two games.
But on that fight where I parse lower I’m forcing my friends to carry me, and that’s not fair to them. I don’t get what you’re trying to get at.
That it will balance out on another fight?
Oh cool, so I can take the extra healing I do on the next fight and apply it to the previous fight where I underperformed?
Then you always do maximum healing and any kind of choice you made is just an illusion because there isn’t any if you have any cognitive capacity at all as everything is laid out for you.
Even setting aside the furry thing, he’s not right in the head. I always knew something was off about him even compared to some of the other regular trolls here.
Yep, Ralph is 100% touched in the head a tad.
Nah, what I usually do is read Icyveins and read the talents and figure out what each talent excels at. I then do the raids, and figure out how each fight works, and then I apply my knowledge of talents and how they work, and change talents based on the fights. Not cognitive? What is, then?
Selecting one ability and not thinking about it because you can’t change it. That is the height of cognition.
Thinking about how to use a suboptimal tool effectively is usually a lot harder than using the best tool possible, as on one side you might have to think outside of the box a bit while the other scenario is just common sense.
I’m going to use vesper totem as an example here, that’s my disclaimer. Vesper totem is an incredibly strong AoE healing talent, but it only has a range of 8 yards. So, on a fight where people clump up for a boss, this is insanely potent. On a fight where people spread out, you can’t do mental math to make it hit the cap level of targets, you just hit less targets. This isn’t figuring out how to use a suboptimal tool well, it’s just…using a suboptimal tool. It’s dumb.
Drop Vesper Totem on the melees? Like that’s exactly what i mean, sure it might not feel great to have in one scenario but if they tune it to actually be very powerful in the situation where you can hit target cap on it, its going to feel great.
I forgot that everyone spread out so the chain lightning doesn’t nuke the raid actually means everyone spread out except melee, you’re invincible.
And the greater point I’m trying to make out of this scenario, is that shaman are already incredibly strong when the group is clumped. Healing rain and chain heal are real strong tools, and already a bit weaker as far as AoE healing goes when everyone is spread out, so why are we making it worse?
Thats nonsense. You just assume that the suboptimal tool is a lot harder to use, which is not given. Might as well be just as straight up to use like the best tool, but it just gives you a sh*t result for the same effort. Its not a fun design.
Really depends on the scenarios. In that one if you really need to push DPS you’d just Darkness+Link on top of them anyway and Vesper actually synergies with that super well lol.
If you don’t then use something else? Like not every ability in your kit is going to be optimal 100% of the time. Can’t chain heal when people are spread either last i looked. Why should covenants be?
I play a bit of Rsham too 
(in expansions that don’t fricking suck for alts anyway).
I really dont understand this babble about overwatch. Blizz is currently threatening to implement a system which has never existed in this form. Now, if we do not put this in, the game suddenly becomes like Overwatch? So, it currently already is exactly like Overwatch in this logic? Please be reasonable, folks…