I’m curious because I keep hearing that phrase when watching videos about wow.
I don’t think half the people that say it know. They just hear others.
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Basically experience/skill > meta.
Think that was quoted from a dev back in MoP?
Has not held up well.
lmao.
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What do you think it means?
I’m thinking it means a player who knows their spec, even if they choose to play a more difficult or underperforming one, is always more valuable than someone who plays the meta spec but just randomly hits buttons.
I will say when the boost was introduced, it was a bit of a spooky time. Someone skips right to max and now has 20-30 new buttons to hit, and no idea what any of them do.
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It’s two fold.
One is really a non issue outside the cutting edge content. That is compile good players instead of the meta comp. But most groups do that anyway.
Two is your focus should be on your skills instead of trying to compensate with the best class/build rankings. You’re not going to be a more effective group member by picking a class that theoretically does 0.1% more damage. You’ll never see that improvement being a bad player.
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Yea, now those players just roll the meta class and go with it.
It means people should not simp over a meta because that actually detracts from having fun in the game. Imagine this:
Five guildies want to run a moderate mythic key. Let’s go with a +7. One of the guildies is playing “x class”, and class “x” is displayed low DPS metrics across multiple sources. WoWhead, RaiderIO, IcyVeins, the usual.
The guildies do not care whatsoever and bring along “x” class anyway.
Assuming a victory, the group pogs.
Assuming a defeat, the group giggles a little and attempts a different mythic dungeon, or they lower the key.
At the end of the day, the guildies had fun. And that’s what should matter in the end.
Pugs hardly do this. But if they do, huge W.
This is why making friends in WoW is a huge advantage.
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Now they’ve made leveling so fast and easy that this happens whether you boost or not.
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lol u can only do so much if a class itself is underperfoming
If you are being serious, this was a campaign started by Blizz to suggest “Play what you love and stop playing whatever the Min-Max Flavor of the Month is”. When you play what you love, you tend to play more. Once Gnomes can be Druids and Paladins, I will be playing 16 hours a day 
it cant be true as long as classes have different utility-kits.
bring the player not the class goes out of the window real quick if you dont have brez or lust lol
For the competitive folks, sure. But someone like me, IDC who is top what. I log in, play my game my way, enjoy myself, and log out. If my class/spec just happens to be FotM that week, yay me. If not, oh well. If I liked healing, I would play a Disc Priest regardless of how well Restos are doing. If BDK is the tank to beat, and mine is undergeared… oh well. Just a game. No one is impressed with my playstyle or abilities except me.
JFC this is why I have such a hard time taking you seriously.
Give it a rest.
How about no? Feel free to add me to ignore. Most of your posts are spam or trash and you don’t see me responding to it. The only HELPFUL post you have made in days was some human asking about their missing Heart of Azeroth.
You share the same boat, just letting you know.
Really? Cause anyone who looks at my post history will see a collage of helpful tips, congratulations, some mild humor with other posters, and some well thought out responses to hot topics. If it bothers you that much, there is an ignore function you are welcome to exercise. I have no problem staying out of your way, but you seem offended by my presence. So this would be a you issue.
It doesn’t mean anything anymore.
That mantra went the way of the dodo.
Arcane Torrent says hi!
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john plays survival hunter.
not great class or spec this season.
john is smart and does his job.
we want john. - bring the player not the class
Yeah, that phrase is used today to mean all those things above now, but I think it originally referred to a homogenization of skills across classes. So in order to complete that one dungeon you don’t have to bring a certain class that has the only skill that does whatever to a boss. Instead you’ll probably have a few classes to choose from.