Arctor wrote:cokebottle wrote:Let's not bring WoW's min-maxing madness to this game please!
To be fair, min/maxing predates WOW by decades. It emerged on the table top. To dismiss it as something that's bad is to miss the point of it entirely. I hope to participate in the WIKI...

I dismiss it as something that is bad and I have been dealing with it for almost 20 years. Here is how it works for me.... Ye olde table top! Min Maxer: My god we barely won we need to adjust our damage and work about a better plan, I mean really I only have 5 hp left! If you had gone into this talent and used that spell instead we would be way better off!" Me: "Did we win? Yes. When we lose a fight over the crap you are talking about then I will care."
Funny thing, I don't recall many lost fights at the table top that we weren't supposed to lose and I can count the number of raid wipes I have had in WoW because someone did 5% less dps than they should have on one hand. Meanwhile I have lost count of how many raid bosses I have killed. A veritable crap ton of them at the least since I have been raiding mostly successfully since molten core was new.