Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
Cheating has become really widespread so people are probably fixating a lot on combat meters.
That has always been the case. It was even like that in Heavensward and Stormblood. That is definitely not new in the raiding community.

I think this community underestimates how many WoW players came over when blizzard got bad rep and how many of them brought over their addon based mindset.
Alright, so, there has always been a massive crossover in the playerbase where people who play this game also play, or used to play, WoW. This was the case before Shadowbringers, because it felt like a high percentage of people had at least played WoW in the past or still raidlogged it based on discussions.

Around the time of its BFA expansion, it seemed a lot of the lesser-committed players left WoW (such as 6-year vets). It wasn't until the scandal that the super-committed players (15-year vets) left who were stuck there due to the sunk cost fallacy.

I think the super-committed 15-year vets would also be the ones most likely of all to have got into using them in WoW and therefore more likely to bring this mindset over.

I agree that it is those people who are far more open to and interested in them, but what we are talking about are things that don't necessarily affect just raiding.

Where raiding is concerned, calculating damage has always been extremely common.