Druid Cat form changes in 1.7

[Watto44]

Yes you're right of course, Druids are far from the only ones to feel the effects from this. Of course, all MMORPGs seem to do this, but somehow I was expecting more from Blizzard. They did a such a good job of making skills % based in D2, it really kept the life of that game going so far beyond it's shelf date.
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Hmm, perhaps Bliz changed some things in D2, but I remember the best gear for my sorcie was all low level. But that's beside the point...

The problem seems to be that this issue wasn't addressed before release, when major design changes could still be made. +spell damage items are as much of a bandaid as the changes that druids will be getting. Without a mechanic that allows spell damage to scale the same way that a new weapon scales a warrior or rogue's damage there is always going to be a - whether real of perceived - disparity between the two. A new weapon for a warrior/rogue/hunter/shaman repressents a noticable increase in DPS compaired to say, new shoulders. For the casters, a new weapon is comparable in terms of damage increase to new shoulders, unless the weapon has a +spell damage stat on it.

This has, IMO, left Bliz in something of a bind. They either, a) change game mechanics so spell damage scales with new weapons, or B) plonk +spell damage on every caster weapon out there. The first option is essentially out of the question, and the second seems to be a little clunky for my tastes.

Incidently, has anyone done any testing to compair the DPS increase between a melee class and a spell class at level 60? I'd be intersted to see some stats on this.