12-13-2006, 03:02 PM
Quote:MC level gear does not compare favorably to anything, anymore. Even then, 7 DPS is a lot. A weapon cannot be considered "equal" by losing any more than 2 DPS.
Meanwhile, the PvP weapons are only slightly less powerful than my weapons now -> Late AQ / Early Naxx. Advantage over the late AQ because of the extra slow speed.
It's true, but 2.0.1 brought a lot of TBC changes. Honor points change is one. Another one that people kind of overlooked is Reputation - the amount you get for turn-ins and kills at least doubled, so it is much easier to get Epic rewards through that avenue.
It's a general trend in Beta: everything is much easier to get, even at level 70. There are crafted weapons that rival those from raid dungeons, and probably take around week to get the mats you need. All reputation gains were doubled, and there are plenty of epic rewards available at exalted level (one rep in particular took me about 5 hours to go from friendly to exalted with some friendly help, but I don't know if that will stay that way in live TBC). And even raids - in Karazhan, for example, you now split the same amount of epic loot between 10 people instead of 40, essentially increasing the amount of loot per person.
So if at level 70, a person is able to get a comparable epic in a week of hard grinding, it's pretty inline with the rest of ways of getting epics. And it's kind of what we are seeing now.