10-01-2006, 04:02 AM
Quote:On a pure feral item like the staff shown it wouldn't be fair to other melee characters - adding a bunch of physical stats to the staff would make it simply better than the axe for melee DPS.
Not really... if they bumped the staff up to 80 DPS, would it really hurt anybody? Moonkin will still be doing all of about 130 melee DPS.
You might misunderstand the "free" part of it - the staff has 20 less DPS then the axe to "pay" for the feral AP, whereas current items (EOD, endless) get it for free. If the feral AP was free I guess they could have used the points on more melee stats... but at 20 less DPS probably the item would be worse for melee.