08-27-2007, 07:04 AM
Quote:The rumors are that +heal gear itemization will be changed to include some +dmg. This throws a bone to healers such that the raid gear they win can actually have some use outside of raiding.
Well this would be stupid, really stupid. They're going to gimp my raid healing gear so I can get a little +dmg on it? For soloing or DPSing I'd still be better off wearing real +dmg gear that I can get (blues or raid castoffs) than this.
Quote:I could see this working in both directions for healers/off-spec healers. Make gear that would normally have 100% itemization points spent towards +healing instead split it like a 60%/40% or 65%/35% +healing and +damage/healing thus getting not quite as much +healing as if 100% of the points were spent in just +healing, but still giving healers some +damage in their healing gear.
Normally (this is for simplicity sake) you see that you get about 1.75 Healing to each point of damage/healing. So say an item would normally have had +87 Healing. Now if you use something like the above split, you might see +53 Healing and +20 damage/healing (thus +73 Healing and +20 damage).
Dumb, dumb, dumb. All this does is ruin the healing gear. This is the worst idea I've heard yet. I really hope this isn't what they have in mind.