03-01-2010, 11:28 PM
Quote:It sounds like they will be moving to having only one type of caster gear for mail & leather, with the caster DPS talents for Shaman and Druid including a way to convert the "heal" stats into DPS stats. This sounds like a good plan to me, but it also means that when you swap specs from DPS to heal, you can still use the same gearset. This still sounds fine to me, except that it means you can do multiple jobs with one set of gear (or at least with lots of crossover), and other classes can't. Do tanks still need different gear for tanking and DPS? Priests will need different sets of gear for DPS/heal.
I like compressing the loot tables a bit, but if this is how it's going to work, it feels a bit unfair. Of course, taken to extreme, there would only be one flavor for each armor class, with talents to convert those stats to what you need. This would be no fun, either, as "what dropped?" would boil down to "plate, mail, leather or cloth?". :P
And of course, they still seem to be intent on keeping healing plate, which I was hoping they would find some way to eliminate.
Looks like they get to do what feral druids do, your leather/mail-slot items can be used for both easily while your misc-slot items may be a bit more focused. But then your enchants and gems are different anyway... I wonder if they'll fold set bonuses together like they do for ferals in Cata. This would reduce druids and shaman down to 2 sets instead of 3...
Paladin healers should be forced to wear mail. Especially in PvP. :P
Oh and hooray for not having to order up any more knuckle sandwiches.
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