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This is why the game is gettin out of hand

Ichewankles 2010-02-08 17:42:00 [original thread]

Tier = ilevel

Vanilla:
T0 = 57-63
ZG = 65
T0.5 = 66
T1 = 66
T2 = 76
AQ = 78-88
T3 = 86-92

BC:
T4 = 120
T5 = 133
T6 = 146-154

WotLK:
T7 = 200-213
T8 = 219-226
T9 = 232-258
T10 = 251-277

As you can see, between T6 and T7 we made a ~2-4tier jump from BCto WotLK based on item level, as opposed to the ~1-2 tier jump fromVanilla to BC.. As an above post stated.

Look at the massive jump in WotLK. I hope in cata this gets toneddown a little
























Ghostcrawler 2010-02-09 00:34:00 [original thread]

Q u o t e:
He also said that they are just numbers. They aren't at a pointwhere comprehension becomes difficult or mathematically taxing.10,000 Spell Power would still just be 10,000 Spell Power.

The rapid inflation was a result of hard mode loot, which wasn'tinitially intended or planned for.

To tone it down, they aren't decreasing values.They are increasinghealth pools. You're still probably going to see raw numbers getlarger and larger.


Yeah, exponential power growth is just part of the design. Itdoesn't really bother us that the delta between character level anditem level keeps growing. It might be a problem someday if it takesscientific notation to express how much Agility there is on yourbreastplate.

The problem folks are referring to for this expansion is that webased combat ratings, especially things like crit and hit, off ofone assumption for what gear would look like in 4.3, but adding thehard modes meant that the gear ended up having more stats than wethought. If we ended up squeezing in additional tiers intoCataclysm the same thing would happen, though we also have someideas to make the scaling work better in general.