Quark,May 16 2006, 10:23 PM Wrote:I don't want an item that goes over its value limit, that's just unfair to any item that doesn't. I want an item that stays within the value limit but uses it smartly. How many items have you seen with both +agility and +AP on it?
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To be fair, I don't think there any items out there that are optimized for the itemization formula for any class. I am not sure as to the exact stats, but if we take for example warrior items, lots of DPS items have a large amount of strength on them (Onslaught Girdle, http://www.thottbot.com/?i=40573), and if instead of that strength they split it and used certain amount of +AP and certain amount of +STR, the item could be much better then it is now (to the tone of 14 additional AP for that particular belt).
Someone mentioned, and the more I look at it, the more I share that feeling, is that if the items were indeed optimized for the formula, the players would be even more overpowered in relation to the new lvl 60s (and in part to the PvPers). The stats that could be achieved with perfectly optimized gear would be absolutely brutal. So Blizzard is basically "keeping the man down" artificially through exploitation of the itemization formulas, and lowering the speed of the weapons (e.g. the nerf of Death Sting, Dark Edge of Insanity).
Do not worry though, in the expansion we will be able to abuse the system as we wish, thanks to sockets!