04-25-2006, 08:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-25-2006, 08:16 AM by MongoJerry.)
Warlock,Apr 24 2006, 04:07 PM Wrote:Comparing the Mace to the equivalent Priest reward, the Gavel swaps 40 +damage for 90 +healing and adds 4 mana/5sec. Looks like the Strength and Agility is taking up space in the item budget to me.
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No one ever said they didn't. Focus, please. I used the Mace of Unending Life as a way to point out that an item already has powers specifically designed to benefit the druids in different forms. In caster form, the druid gets +40 damage/healing while in feral form, the druid gets +140 to attack power. This is the kind of thing that a legendary druid weapon should do. I don't understand your obsession with discussing the item budget of the MoUL, since the discussion is about what we would like a hypothetical legenedary druid weapon to be like. Why wouldn't you want the weapon to do this? Do you like the idea of clicking on your weapon every time you change form?
Skandranon Wrote:Well, at least one thing can be worked around. +X Attack Power in feral forms costs, wait for it, zero itemization points. Like DPS, it's free and scales with ilvl. In theory, every weapon in the game could have a +X AP in feral mod added to it and not change its value at all. Any druid weapon could have this modifier tossed on it in all forms it might take.
It's not exactly that it would cost 0 itemization points. It's just that the feral form costs would be tabulated in a seperate column from the caster stats. That is, the item gets a certain number of general stats like stamina, int, etc. Then, pure caster stats are added like +damage/healing and +spell crit%. Add up the item budget costs of those caster stats then you add on effects for feral forms like attack power, armor, and defense that add up to the same item cost as the caster stats.