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{| style="width: 100%;" Thanks once more for doing this. :)

How about you get on the job then? Edit: Oh I saw you kind of did it in the now locked thread. Carry on. -_-

Edited August 26, 2014 by Tenner


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Well, a few things. Right now, crafted gear is more powerful-ish than dungeon gear because, at the moment, you can prioritize attack power to the end of the earth and back and you're lucky to get all the stats you want on a piece of dropped gear. Fixing the dropped gear so that it's always optimized to the class and spec is good for everyone, so that we all start running adventures and dungeons again. If it's all tiered, it makes the gear progression a lot smoother. You get more upgrades, you're constantly taking steps up. But yeah, it's the itemization guy. More than that, he only answers the questions asked. A lot of raid questions came up because a lot of raid questions got asked. There weren't as many questions about other stuff. There were a few (50 leveling zone gear, adventures, dying weapons, etc.) but he got a lot of raiding questions because most of the people asking were raiders, I'd assume.


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{| style="width: 100%;" Thanks for the summary. Can't watch video at work (youtube, twitch, etc.) and my computer time at home is spent playing.

IIRC, J-Tal said they'd be addressing the AP/Mainstat vs. everything else for DPS imbalance. At that point 125/3/3 probably won't be BiS anymore.

Crafted gear is top-dog for DPS in many cases because they screwed up the stat balance and many drops have terrible even non-sensical itemization. If the stat rebalance and/or reitemization passes fail again then crafted will remain the "go-to" gearing solution. I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll get it right. IIRC J-Tal mentioned that crafted gear should be "good enough" as starter gear for raids. Dungeon gear will be comparable stat-wise and have a rune slot count advantage over crafted. I don't see crafted gear becoming irrelevant, just not required. Yes the market will deflate a bit but there will always be somebody who has more plat than patience.


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