Twinfinite Interview

[Brannigan]

I am in a lot of raid discord channels and the overwhelming consensus tends to favor BiS.

They favor BiS over what, exactly? The bad pieces? Well, no shit. There's only two choices in the game right now. If they were asked the question "would you prefer if gear had more variety and interesting stuff on it," I think you'd get some different results.

Also thanks for providing an exact situation where a random high vit low mnd piece would be good. Does only being good during progression (which is usually performed close to minimum ilvl) somehow invalidate its existence? What about a situation in which your healer is just a fucking baddie who gets hit by more AOEs than usual? He might opt to wear higher VIT pieces.

This is why the "everyone will just use the cookie cutter build" meme is so retarded. These games have so many different situations and types of people playing them that one build can't possibly always be the best for every individual. If it is, that's called being overpowered. Even in like WoTLK-era WoW you'd have a lot of little tweaks to the cookie cutter talent and gear builds to accommodate the little quirks of individuals and their party setups.

Yeah, there'll always be a configuration that is mathematically superior when played by a robot, but that doesn't mean devs should boil everything down to this simple garbage we have now. How is that any fun?