The Addon Junkie

Never one to let a fun holiday pass, Blizzard’s entry for April Fools Day is impressively funny and poignant. In response to a certain type of addon used by a certain type of person, Blizz has (not) implemented a new feature called the Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number. Hey do those capital letters make an acronym or something?

According to the fake writeup, the system would show a “bar-like” object over your character indicating the quality of your gear and eventually drop you into “tiers” where you’d only have to see other people in the same tier. Those people shouting “5K+ GS or you don’t exist to me” would love this system. Oh, and you could supposedly get a noncombat pet too. A pet rooster. Yeah, a rooster.

The page is hilarious and I highly recommend you check it out. While it’s completely fake it’s also pretty awesome and it’s nice to see Blizz actually address the complaints about GearScore – especially in such a funny way.