New details on cataclysm stat changes

[Taelas]

So, getting all possible weapons on all 10 80s to 400 was worthless?! I object!! :angry:

:lol:
Actually, though, this feels like further dumbing down the game. It may just be a shift in how we understand the game, but I'll have to see it to believe it. It does make sense for Blizz to dumb it down from a business stand, I guess. There are a lot of people that want to just kill stuff and get phat lewtz, but I have always preferred to have to gain knowledge along with skill. I think that the easier they make it, the faster people lose interest. It is quite a way off yet, so I have no doubt there will be huge changes in what we actually see.

While in general I agree (they are dumbing down the game -- they practically say so when they speak of the stat changes), I do not agree on this specific point. Weapon skills does nothing for the game except say you've hit something a lot. It ends up being frustrating when you've only encountered one weapon type for a prolonged period during your levelling and then you only encounter another, forcing you endure a period where you cannot hit anything. Yes, you could keep low-level weapons of the other types to skill up along with your main weapon, but why should you be forced to? It's just tedious.

I'm happy they are removing them. They could have done something else with them, I suppose, but this works for me.