12-02-2007, 12:25 AM
Quote:EDIT: Why did they make the weapons require 1850 and the shoulders require 2000? It's not like you need the shoulders to achieve the four-piece bonus, and weapons are much more visible than shoulder pieces.
Blizzard has had a love affair with their shoulder art for a long time. They outright refused to allow players to be able to turn off shoulder art when they did the same for helms and cloaks.
I think it's because shoulderpads use custom art and models, whereas other armor pieces like chestplates just use new art on oen of the base chestplate models which are built in to the character model.
I believe the reason for the higher req for shoulders is that they want one distinctive piece to have a personal requirement, but they didn't want to limit most people from getting weapons (which are very important to many classes), or from getting their set bonuses.