The irony wasn't lost on Kaelen. As they stood before Lord Marrowgar, he realized that the addon had turned his friends into spreadsheets. Yet, when the boss fell and a high-level piece of plate armor dropped, Kaelen didn't just see a breastplate with better stats. He saw a ticket to a 5.5k GS group.
Determined, Kaelen spent his afternoon in a frantic hunt for "bloated" stats. He replaced a perfectly optimized Blue trinket—one that gave him much-needed Hit Rating—with a high-level Epic that had stats he didn't even use. His DPS would actually drop, but the number in the little box climbed. Gearscore Addon 3.3 5
“LF3M DPS ICC 10 – Link achievement and GearScore. 5.2k+ GS required.” The irony wasn't lost on Kaelen
Inside the spire, the tension was high. The addon was everywhere. If a player died, the first thing people checked wasn't the combat log, but their Gearscore. "How did he die? He’s 5.5k!" He saw a ticket to a 5