Introduction:

I often find it fun and useful to mathematically analyze various parts of WoW. Whenever I find something interesting, I generally wind up posting it on some forum, but this blog feature on EJ might a convenient place to put things that don't fit into any particular topic, or are slightly too esoteric to just drop into a substantive thread about WoW. The goal is both to entertain people who know enough math to follow the discussion, as well as provide an interesting...

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Restoration:

First, the topics I've seen get a lot of attention in the main preview thread.

1) Removal (essentially) of Tree form. This was a foregone conclusion, and is a good decision. The form currently serves no purpose whatsoever. There's not even anything more to say, actually. From a mechanics perspective, Tree form was irrelevant--even GC's claimed reason that it represented a large tradeoff was a bit of a stretch, since healers rarely DPS in any serious...

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