No. Really. Knowledge is power, but a little bit of knowledge in the wrong hands? Is fucking devastating. Before a game release there're always a ton of rumors flying around, founded or unfounded, based on media kits, alpha/beta leaks, and stuff people came up with while simultaneously drunk and tripping balls on shrooms. It always seems like those last ones are what stick with people and run rampant too- probably because gamers always assume that whatever makes them rage out the most is true.
Seriously. As a community, it's like we're just out looking for things we can bitch about on forums and in our blogs/podcasts, and an excuse to go all Red Lantern Corps on people.
Today's Roxilicious Rant comes to you courtesy of Things I'm Tired of Hearing About In Voice, which is more or less the same list as Things I'm Tired of Reading In Trade Chat (twice, while the chat bug was still active earlier this week). Everyone seems to think that their class is going to break when MoP releases, they're going to lose their raid viability, and the only thing people are going to want will be Boomkins. For everything. Healing, tanking, dps... For some reason, Trade Chat on Thrall is obsessed with balance druids. Personally, I think it's all part of a giant conspiracy to keep me from getting the Boomie we need for our progression comp, but... Whatever.
Nobody knows how things are going to shift around once the expansion launches. I don't care if someone's been in beta since before public invites went out, Blizz is still going to change a lot between Panda launch and the first raid zones opening up. Even after that, there will be tuning and retuning to make sure people aren't progressing too fast, and classes aren't completely non-viable. (BTW: it's been a while since Blizz let a class be completely and utterly nonviable. It's more often a case of Not As Good As That Other Guy, which is to be expected, and does not mean you need to mainchange or reroll and make us call an emergency officer meeting to COMPLETELY recalibrate the roster. Again.) So just chill out and stop thinking your world (of Warcraft! that never gets old. ^.^) is ending.
On a good day, like 75% of what you read on the forums is total bullshit that's either outdated or just plain wrong. Because things keep changing in beta, and will continue to change after MoP goes live, that number's going to shoot up to like... 90%. (Statistics courtesy of my ass.) If you're looking for beta information, look at the date on the original post, and then look at the date of the most recent PTS update. If OP comes before the update, your information is out of date and while it's not completely useless, you should consider finding fresher infos. Do that before you start ranting about how the damage modifier on Revenge is way too high, or fury warriors are rage starved, or resto shammy aoe heals are overpowered. Please. <3 Even if you know it's not going to be that bad after the expansion, some windowlicker is going to come behind you and take up the cry, the rage will spread ingame, and the next thing you know those guys that don't touch the forums are going to be ragequitting, rerolling, telling people they're garbage for playing whatever spec you've been ranting about and making THOSE people go to the forums and QQ...
Ripples in the stream of bullshit are bad. I like that stuff channeled from point A to point B without getting any splashed on me, thanks. Just...think before you rage. And for the love of god, stop jumping to conclusions before you've actually seen what the devs are releasing. This doesn't just go for WoW. Console shooter, single player RPG, MMORTS... Whatever you're playing, or stalking the development for... If there aren't enough facts to back up whatever you're asserting, qualify it as speculation, and keep it to a minimum.
Okay. That's off my chest now. ^.^ I feel better.
More meat on the plate tomorrow, hopefully, since I shouldn't be so rushed for an update: Roxi's got sandbox in places she never knew existed, and it's starting to chafe.
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