GearScore and the GearScore Add-on: My Final Thoughts
Over and over again the rants for and against GearScore are tossed about.
Let me be clear: I think it’s fucking stupid.
The GS Add-on studies the iLevel of the equipment a potential raider is wearing. It does not inspect their stat weights, their talents or play style. It can tell you that their gear is alright for the content, but so can a quick glance of the toon’s character sheet. So can calling them up on wow-heroes or a similar site.
If you are a raid leader that absolutely needs GS to figure out whether his or her raiders are capable of hitting a certain level of content, you fail.
If the very idea of GS being abolished makes you shit yourself, you suck. It is completely unnecessary. A single number cannot possibly replace actual brain power.
That’s it, game over. Go home.
June 25, 2010 4:29 pm 2 Comments
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By Nas, June 25, 2010 @ 8:10 pm
Different people have cracked open the addon’s (horribly written) code and looked at it. While I don’t have the specific numbers on hand, GS is coded to give (significantly) more weight to items with more stamina.
Food for thought.
By Kap, June 30, 2010 @ 2:15 pm
The GS addon does more than just give one a simple number. With it you can easily inspect a player’s gear comparing it’s value against his or her current spec, and easily check out their achievements.
The tool provides more, it’s the bad player misusing it who gives GS a bad name.
A raid leader OF A STATIC RAID GROUP OR GUILD who solely relies on GS is a fool. A PUG raid leader who solely relies on GS is also a fool, but less so. The pug leader should use GS as a base, then dig a little deeper from there. Point of example, my RL for The Boda Bag Tribe, Taikoubou. When we need to fill people for our ICC group, he will check their GS to see that they meet the minimum to perform well in the instance. Then he will ask about the players experience, and look at their talent spec and their gear. We have taken players with a ~4700 GS into ICC and done well, because they were able to perform.
The people railing against GS tend to not fully understand it. It’s an ease-of-use addon that provides readily available information into a simplfied, complete in-game window.
:p