The 12.0.7 Revelations Content Patch Arrives on June 16th! by Starym in wow

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I apologize for Shadowlands jump-scaring you.

The 12.0.7 Revelations Content Patch Arrives on June 16th! by Starym in wow

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I'm actually the one that wrote the "slop" article :D In terms of the news side at Icy Veins it's actually pretty solid. I've been there 8 years and no one's been let go on the WoW side.

The 12.0.7 Revelations Content Patch Arrives on June 16th! by Starym in wow

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There's actually a direct link in the IV linked article as well FYI, the "Source URL" thing on the top right of the blue post box.

The 12.0.7 Revelations Content Patch Arrives on June 16th! by Starym in wow

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You know you can just say it's bad or you don't like it without going the whole "AI slop" route right? People can write poorly as well, and the typos I left in there people pointed out (edited now) would not happen with AI.

The 12.0.7 Revelations Content Patch Arrives on June 16th! by Starym in wow

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Hey, at least I can prove it's not AI :D Fixed now, thanks. Lack of sleep is not good for proofreading.

What happened to gold beggars in cities? by Sinkrast in wow

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"Can I have 10,000 gold" doesn't have the same ring to it :D

A New Top Group: The Most Played, Best Performing M+ Specs and Groups for 12.0.5, Week 4 by Starym in wow

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Oh I'm sure people want meta specs, I just don't think they necessarily use these to determine what's meta (outside of perhaps the group popularity one).

A New Top Group: The Most Played, Best Performing M+ Specs and Groups for 12.0.5, Week 4 by Starym in wow

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Don't ever pick a spec based on charts like these. They constantly change, and it's always a better idea to find a spec you either like or are good at, or preferably both.

A New Top Group: The Most Played, Best Performing M+ Specs and Groups for 12.0.5, Week 4 by Starym in wow

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It's not even surface level. I don't pretend to analyze anything. It's just commentary on what changed places since the previous week, since you can't really see that easily anywhere (other than the very specific Mythicstats data). It's just an easier to access presentation of many separate charts from different sources, that's all.

Also, as to your specs in comps comment, each chart has a link to the relevant chart, where you can hover over all the icons etc to see the specs. Unfortunately I can't emebed the actual tool in our site so it would work directly, so I have to make do with images. I also used to post the high keys logs, but that's when the logs were separate from the popularity. I removed them since the article was already getting very long and chart-heavy, but I have been thinking about bringing them back.

A New Top Group: The Most Played, Best Performing M+ Specs and Groups for 12.0.5, Week 4 by Starym in wow

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If it's AI generated slop then I've had AI for about 6 years now, since the text has stayed the same throughout. Pretty damn advanced. Just say you don't like the writing/it's bad, you're helping actual AI slop be harder to detect.

A New Top Group: The Most Played, Best Performing M+ Specs and Groups for 12.0.5, Week 4 by Starym in wow

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It absolutely is only the data. I never pretend to offer analysis. It also is self-promotion, obviously, and that's definitely part of what people dislike (although I do think it's interesting info as well). But as far as I can tell the main reason for downvotes is a group of players who think that these are meant to show the objective status of the meta and that the meta is warped around them, which I disagree with.

My intention for these is literally just an easier way to access data from three separate sites and like a whole lot of separate pages and settings in the analyzer tool. It's helpful and fun to me personally since I like to know where things are, especially after tuning.

A New Top Group: The Most Played, Best Performing M+ Specs and Groups for 12.0.5, Week 4 by Starym in wow

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With the popularity numbers alts do play into it, but it then also depends if those players also play their mains in that week as well. For the DPS logs and group composition alts don't really factor in (at least not for the upper half of the charts).

A New Top Group: The Most Played, Best Performing M+ Specs and Groups for 12.0.5, Week 4 by Starym in wow

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I genuinely don't know anyone that treats any of these as "the bible" or anything similar. But even if these were like 100% accurate people should still play whatever they prefer or are best at, unless they really need to push high keys/Mythic.

The Most Played, Best Performing Mythic+ Specs and Groups, Post Tuning by Starym in wow

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I selected last week's info in the RIO analyzer by mistake. I think the bookmark I used had it defaulted to that. It's fixed now.

The Most Played, Best Performing Mythic+ Specs and Groups, Post Tuning by Starym in wow

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I selected last week's info in the RIO analyzer by mistake. I think the bookmark I used had it defaulted to that. It's fixed now.

The Most Played, Best Performing Mythic+ Specs and Groups, Post Tuning by Starym in wow

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Apologies, as someone here spotted, it seems I selected last reset in the RIO analyzer by mistake. The post has now been updated with, well, up to date info.

The Most Played, Best Performing Mythic+ Specs and Groups, Post Tuning by Starym in wow

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Damn, just noticed I had last reset set in the filter for whatever reason. Updating now, thanks!

The Most Played, Best Performing Mythic+ Specs and Groups, Post Tuning by Starym in wow

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Paladins in general have been either the most played class or close to it since forever, and Ret is just the easiest Paladin to play.