Item squish numbers. Opinions?

[IChangedMyUsername]

http://gyazo.com/e2f35f6dcf17292b799e029247343a28

Personally i hate this with all my heart. Going from 1,000,000 hp down to lower than WotLk hp. I was so excited, expecting gigantic numbers and the health of WotLk raid bosses! Not Post BC hp and dmg . Are we going to go back to cata health and damage at lvl 100? Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

[Fisher]

It's one of the good moves you will rarely see from Blizzard.. Big numbers are confusing, small are okay

[BlueAura]

It's one of the good moves you will rarely see from Blizzard.. Big numbers are confusing, small are okay

100% Agree with this

[Unscrupulous]

You know that within a day of release, there will be an addon that will bump the numbers up for people who like big numbers :P

[Bmtppk]

while I know your hp will go down from like 500k to 30k

some outside buffs which (are useless except for lvl 19 and 20-24 twinks) might be relevant

for example the 790hp buff Prayer of Fortitude - Spell - World of Warcraft, the Power Word: Fortitude - Spell - World of Warcraft 1040 hp buff or 200 intellect Runic Intellect - Spell - World of Warcraft could be a HUGE increase in dps or survivability due to the buffs (ex in the OP's s/s he has 1100 intellect and 200 intellect would be close to 1/5th increase).

Unless they tweak the mobs and reduce the numbers(which knowning blizzard it could take years or could be patched in days)

Those wotlk Mighty Protection Potions(absorb 5100 fire/shadow/frost/etc dmg in 2 minutes) could be extra op since if that was a 30k healthpool- 5.1k is suddenly a huge number.

its all speculations now so no idea what is going to happen...

[quandtrtle]

It's one of the good moves you will rarely see from Blizzard.

[IChangedMyUsername]

Quandtrtle copypasta? Wat?

[ImogenOC]

While I originally opposed the idea (being a PvPer and thorough BoA lover), it's grown on me. Each expansion makes dps and HP skyrocket. People are walking around stormwind with over a million hp. It's retarded.

Good move blizzy.

[Elaidith]

Personally i hate this with all my heart. Going from 1,000,000 hp down to lower than WotLk hp. I was so excited, expecting gigantic numbers and the health of WotLk raid bosses! Not Post BC hp and dmg . Are we going to go back to cata health and damage at lvl 100? Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

The health pool itself isn't going to be lower than in WotLk since that picture shows ilvl from 530 being item squished and having 30k hp( which was ok in wotlk ) at lvl 90, there will be 10more lvls and higher ilvl gear which will probably provide around +50k more hp so I think we'll be sitting on around 70-150k hp (unless there are some tanks and zones like Timeless isle currently where people tend to have around 1.3mil hp).

Item squish is actually good since bigger numbers theoritically doesn't provide more dps it just shows that you'll do more dps. I think quite majority of us would hate the idea that everyone would have 1mil base hp and hitting around 5-10mil crits, the game itself would become confusing. They're not just tweaking our stats, but also the stats of the mobs etc.

They're simplifying the game so it won't become cluster****ed with numbers and I will assure you, it will not change your dps to worse or your hps, the game itself stays the same even if the numbers are smaller and more understandable =).

[IChangedMyUsername]

?So (theoretically) i can one shot illidian, will his health be lowered so, that i still can?

[Elaidith]

?So (theoretically) i can one shot illidian, will his health be lowered so, that i still can?

No, raid bosses health doesn't drop significantly, it still takes few hits to kill them, like atm you can't 1shot him

[lordnaomasax]

I wish they would drop the HP even more 30k still too much should be Vanilla numbers

[sucresas]

One change that I really like. I was hoping for BC numbers but even wrath-ish are ok. I guess it's close to impossible to make them like vanilla or at least quite awkward.