116803-should-support-focused-gear-be-more-obvious-to-players

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I agree with this, though I do like the color coded idea

No we don't? Explain


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While i actually agree the system they designed is kind of goofy, It actually does make gear different for each class Basically they made it so every piece of gear outside of some accessories is class restricted which is a bit silly imo. It also leads to some strangeness like having the same stat multiple times on one piece of gear; like for an esper healer it is pretty common to get finesse, brutality, and crit severity all on the same item and they are all crit severity. But just like making an addon that detects your class and color codes based on spec you could probably make one that just converts your visual of an item to raw stats if it was more visually pleasing to you


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I think it's obvious enough on the character pane which stats do what. The only further explanation that would help would be showing how much strike-through is required to hit an equal level NPC and that critical hits affect healing as well as damage.


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I thought the fact that your abilities are divided into Assault, Support and Utility categories made it pretty obvious that Assault power affected Assault skills, and Support power affected Support skills.


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Yes, it is true. Every healer uses Insight. Every tank uses Tech. Every single one. There are no exceptions. Medics using Tech as a DPS stat is irrelevant to the fact that every tank uses Tech. The character's class is already checked when displaying item tooltips, that is why you can see how your Stalker Support Power or your Medic's Assault Power is affected when you mouse over a piece of gear with Tech. If gear were tagged as Support, no medium-armor wearer would ever be confused because the client already takes class into account before showing them any information, and that would include any Support tags that could be added. There is no room for confusion there at all.

With the way items are currently statted, preserving the illusion of choice for those that don't know any better is taking those who most need help and setting them up to fail.


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