Remember when we got a stat squish at the beginning of each xpac? I feel like we may have needed that, a few days in and dps is at a million, tank health in the millions. Will be interesting to see how high the numbers go by the end of the xpac.
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Its funny for a healer to try and heal my hunter being at 80 and them being 70ish with how much HP we jump to with this expac.
It only started happening recently after mists had such high numbers.
They’ve already said in interviews they’ll do another, but not this xpac.
We get one every other xpac, usually. The only exception was two in a row with BFA and Shadowlands since BFA numbers got ridiculously inflated by the end of Ny’alotha compared to the first tier courtesy of the expansion having like 17 layers of power creep.
We’re confirmed getting a squish in Midnight, although in general I think squishes have only been bad for the game since they consistently break old content.
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That stat leaps are ridiculous. I don’t like how they keep exponentially increasing.
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There have been 3 stat squishes and 10 expansions.
Your math ain’t mathin.
Soon, otherwise our damage scroll is going to need to get a “wrap” option.
It’s the unfortunate result of trying to cater the game to everyone.
They need 5 different tiers of gear every season…
World quest, lfr, normal, heroic, and mythic.
Everything in this game is linear.
If they simply knocked out lfr and mythic, they could vastly extend stats for multiple expansions instead of the 2 they are currently at.
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But don’t worry, in answering one my Q&A questions in this very regard… They’ve gotten better at it, and during testing we should thoroughly test that they didn’t break old content and report any problems so they can “fix them”. rolls eyes harder
Maybe they’ll do it right this time and make all old content level the same instead of this common core math crap we have now.
This thing of making EK and Kalimdor max at 30 and another expansion at 60 cant be helping the overall balance of the game as a whole when they do this squish crap.
What happens next squish? Will Classic combat deal in single digit damage? lol
Did they ever do two squishes in a row besides BfA/SL? I think that was an exception because it was two different types of squishes (item squish followed by character level squish).
In any case, I expect an item squish in the next expansion. We’ll have Legion level health and damage by the end of TWW.
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This could have been controlled very easily for a lot longer than it was.
50 ilvls per expansion. MAX.
Ending 10.0 would have only been ilvl 500 at the cap…just starting to hit a problem area for the first time in the entire game history.
I really cant see any hate for it if they had been doing this from the beginning.
Theyve inflated ilvl way too much each expansion, causing the problems…like they inflate gold being dumped into the economy every expansion.
I mean ONE world quest paying out 600+ gold that takes like 3 minutes to finish?
both problems are 100% a blizzard thing.
They should have never set precedent with these huge numbers in the first place
I think the exponential power gains on gear each patch are designed to motivate players to keep playing. It’s more enticing to stay subbed when your DPS doubles every patch.
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if big numbers scare you stay away from math
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I found a potion that healed for 2.5 million. I did a double take when I saw that and had to check my health to make sure.
Why do big numbers frighten you?
I thought it was awesome the first health potions I made heal for 3.5M
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It’s not the numbers that are scary in math. It’s not even the letters that are scary. It’s the stuff that isn’t either of those things.
Don’t worry you’ll get the “feels bad” next xpac.
So much is coming into focus with this one…
Likely what this generation needs to be excited about a game, lol.
I just think had they set a standard per expansion way back when, then we’d know exactly how it works and the first squish likely wouldnt have been done until end of 10.0
likely they figured WoW would have run its course 10 years ago and didnt even think to plan ahead very far.
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