STAT SQUISH, LOW HP, DPS...for me...SUCKS!!

[Eraden]

I really disliked the way WoW implemented stat squishes. Honestly I dislike stat squishes in general because they are a sign of a game that has difficulty with power creep and being open ended. I think Guild Wars 2 managed to strike a fair balance in that you were given a limited number of slots to slot in your skills. That never changed as you levelled but what DID change was the number and variety of skills you could slot in. In essence, an endgame character was not so much stronger than one that had just reached max level but perhaps was a lot more versatile. Not sure if such a system could be implemented here. On the other hand, this was about as mild a stat squish as I have ever experienced. A light touch, so to speak. I have no serious complaints.

[OtakuSempai]

Even though I know Yoshi said they had to do the stat squish, all I can say its sucks. I remember coming into EW & seeing my HP go from 120K to 29k, it was like a punch in the stomach. Seeing my RDM, which is main, at 90 doing DPS as it did in SB is kind of disheartening.

I'm like could our HP be at least be 75 - 80k at level 90.

IMO, sometimes I do feel my RDM is weaker. Level 80 dungeons when playing ShB seem like a breeze & can get through 15 mins. Now, it seems to take longer. Seeing some of these bosses especially in Pandemonium hit you with 24k damage & u hitting back with 8-12k damage...just SUCKS...lol. Again this is just my opinion & how I feel.

Jesus. They can literally spell things out in the live letter repeatedly for what felt like an hour long segment and people can still be like "why my nums lower!?". Literally only the numbers changed, everything else should be right proportional.

It's called integer overflow, a major problem that could occur on the backend if numbers got too large. They had to do it.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Stat squish is a good thing. Number bloat causes a whole different degree of scaling problems with games when they get too big. If you want a good example of one such issue look at Borderlands 2 and the amount of the game's item drops and character skills that became essentially useless long before reaching endgame because they basically stopped being effective when the numbers the game used got too big.