I'm not interested in "picking a side" in the debate shown in this thread, and I do think that the two sides seem to be unable to find a way to be speaking about the exact same thing..

My opinion(s) is(are) fluid and definitely get coloured by commentary such as that contained herein, and there are valid points raised by most here. Whatever the base numbers and calculations are or add up to, what I'm seeing on my previously capped 'toons (all classes except guard, who's still lagging at 58) amounts to a balance issue while solo questing (some classes are so much fun due to borderline OP it ain't funny, while others that used to be easy-peazy are struggling to survive long enough to not miss enough to stay even with an opponent's morale pool for long enough to win a fight). I am OK (well, with reservations) with the idea I need to TOTALLY trash my current virtue selection in favour of newly revised virtues full of mitigations & resistances (it upsets me a bit I now must go back and grind formerly uninteresting virtues just to maintain my previous soloability), I recognize that this is now necessary. That said, without doing it (realigning virtues), whether or not my net DPS remains consistent with pre-RoI levels, the misses present now and the enemy resistances are such that I,esp on hunter & warden, have a REAL problem surviving long enough to even dent opponents (esp the hunter & lm. who cannot kite, on the sigs w/ adds in Upper Barnavon, for instance, and with the warden who has no CC in the village of Abominations in Dunbog). My CCs (on those classes that have them) are virtually useless on many of these mobs, making it impossible to actually get off any skills with inductions, and with the warden, my self-heals & B/P/E buffs seem too little ~ too late. If these issues can be cleared up simply with correcting virtue arrangements, then that's what I will do, but it just seems a bit extreme to push capped players to completely re-learn all that schtuff.. (caveat: I am not a hardcore player or raider and the 2 years I've been here are my first in an MMO at all, so if this is to be expected as normal, just ignore my ramblings..)

Cheers,