Short Sweet Rant #5

Just Try It is NOT at Strategy!

First off, apologies for posting so quickly after my last one .. this is simply a very current issue that has been in my guild, and ranting is something I like to do.

My guild is currently working on Heroic Beasts of Northrend at the moment. We have been doing some Theorycrafting, (by that I mean, made a thread on our forum and asked for discussion, facts, numbers, etc), and the result of it has been the above.

I have done many calculations based on our group, our group's DPS, likely composition and also factored in what I know about the encounter from both videos/strategy guides and personal experience.

I have provided numbers to support my various inferences, while not actually saying 'we're using this strategy, deal', as I wanted to spur discussion and have actual data / facts to support theories.

The responses that some have given were "Yeah, you've given numbers and all, but why don't we just try it?" (It being the very thing my numbers, and cited actual experience, prove to be a bad idea, or potentially very detrimental).

I'd just like to say once more ... "Just Try It" does not magically negate fact, change situations, fix realism or ignore mechanics of a fight. More times than not, it is a 100% waste of time, and unlike your first time in a brand new encounter, it usually can be predicted!

Note: This 'Just Try It' method was used on Anub'arak, regular, when we decided to 'Just Try' having one tank for all 4 adds, and not kill any in Phase 1 .. though the numbers said our tank would die, pretty much with 100% certainty. Yeah. That worked realllly well.

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