Basic resources

For this xpack they blues had the consideration of creating, supporting and giving plenty of feedback about theorycrafting matters; it's very worth to check out:

• http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/227466-beta-class-balance-analysis/ (mmo-c blue tracker)

Prior to that, we had the coffe with the devs (dev watercooler) and Greg GC shared this post in which he detailed the way some stats (like hit/exp mechanics) will work in MoP:

• http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3780044/Coffee_With_the_Devs_%E2%80%94_Mists_of_Pandaria_Stat_Changes_-02_03_2012

There's a couple threads devoted to rogue blue feedback; these arethe most beefy ones.

• http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/217608-shiv-changes/
• http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/226861-rogue/
• http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/222421-rogue-feedback-explanation/

Most raw numbers (scaling factors, base stats, etc) can be found by datamining the game client. Some other developers have parsed them for their tools, most notably the SimulationCraft crew:

• http://code.google.com/p/simulationcraft/source/browse/#svn%2Fbranches%2Fmop%2Fengine%2Fdbc
• http://elitistjerks.com/f79/t40904-elemental_esse_stat_spreadsheet_updated_4_0_1_a/p4/#post1774938

Other sites devoted to datamining with huge databases:

• http://mop.wowhead.com
• http://www.wowdb.com/

The guys over at maintankadin (particularly Theck) provide a wide array of methods to derive some formulas. It's mostly about tanks, but they cover plenty of stuff that relates to any class:

• http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=6