{"id":52,"date":"2011-06-12T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T03:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=52"},"modified":"2011-06-12T21:41:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T03:41:06","slug":"torscore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"TORScore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gearscore was already taken ;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A thread cropped up over on the official forums concerned that BW was adding gear score into TOR (for those who don&#8217;t know, Gearscore is a WoW addon that assigned a point value to all your gear, with the erroneous assumption that higher = better).\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of folks feel that Gearscore is one of the &#8217;causes&#8217; of WoW&#8217;s bad community.\u00c2\u00a0 In truth, Gearscore is a tool, that just ended up getting really, really, misused (no one needs a 5k gear score to run a 5 man in Wrath!).<\/p>\n<p>Georg addressed this tonight over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/community\/showthread.php?p=6754199#edit6754199\" target=\"_blank\">forums<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since all weapons and armor in SWTOR have  modification slots, this rating is not reflective of the overall quality  of the item, since that&#8217;s up to what the user slots into the item.<\/p>\n<p>Damion may elaborate more, but I think you guys are overreacting a bit <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smile\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-www.swtor.com\/community\/images\/swtor\/smilies\/smile.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, while gear has rating associated with it, it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s Gearscorish to me since the gear can be &#8216;modified&#8217; via upgrade slots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gearscore was already taken ;) &nbsp; A thread cropped up over on the official forums concerned that BW was adding gear score into TOR (for those who don&#8217;t know, Gearscore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=52\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BPLE-torscore","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}