06-05-2008, 08:18 PM
Quote:I like the idea of loot streamlining, but I wonder about the removal of +heal. In order to keep people from hoarding TBC gear with copious amounts of +heal on it, Blizzard will have to go back through and remove it from all pre-WotLK gear (not unprecedented), thus forcing them to balance all pre-WotLK encounters for less +heal (fairly unprecedented). Or they will have to bump up the amount of healing pre-WotLK spells do. I suppose they could get away with bumping up just the lvl 60-70 TBC ranks of spells. Datamined info for lvl 70-80 spells shows a HUGE jump in the amount healed, so it looks like they have already taken into account the lack of dedicated +heal on gear.
Looking forward to seeing how it all works out.:)
The easy way to stop the hoarding of the +heal gear is to drop the code that looks at that parameter and then only look at the +spell damage parameter of the gear.