The World of Warcraft has ushered in a ton of new players to the MMO world and many of them it seems have way too much time on their hands. The introduction of wide scale "Theorycrafting" or in laymans terms "The neverending slicing of the gnats ass into the thinnest layer possible" has shed new light on gameplay mechanics and the numbers behind the pretty spell graphics. Does this level of obsessive disection of the game leave you scratching your head? Join Medawky this week as he lays out a plan to make sense of all the making sense. This is the first of a multi-part series that will distill the essense of the debates, theories and number crunching once and for all (or at least until the next patch).

At their base element all video games are purely numbers, and nowhere is it more evident than in MMO games. World of Warcraft by nature of its broad appeal coupled with its fast paced combat system has spawned a whole subset of gamers, the theorycrafters.

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