Gladiator Weapons = A joke now.

#0 - May 8, 2007, 1:10 a.m.

On the PTR, Karazhan loot was giving +15 item levels on many items... Gladiator weapons are still slightly nerfed.

So whatever happened to:

Gladiator gear will be comparable to some of the top available PvE gear?

That was Blizzard's stance on it, and before 2.1 that was the way it looked.

Now on the PTR, the Gladiator's Shanker is equal to the Emerald Ripper (Shanker got nerfed, KZ loot got buffed).

Malchazeen, a relatively easy drop to get out of the easiest raid instance in Burning Crusade (now 91DPS) now easily beats what was supposed to be the "best of the best" pvp gear.

Looking to be an offensive powerhouse in pvp? Better hope you got a spot in your guild's raid after 2.1

I understand that Blizzard has said that "more changes will come", but since they have already nerfed Gladiator weapons... I hope to god that Blizzard does something to compensate gladiator's for this new change or else KZ set > Gladiator set for pvp.

Drysc

#121 - May 8, 2007, 3:23 a.m.

Not all of the item buffs have been implemented, the arena items apparently being some of them. As was the case last week when some of the tier set items had been buffed, but not others. The public test realm (PTR) patches are implementing data as we make changes and won't always contain the entire spectrum of intended changes all of the time.

The arena items I've checked don't appear to have received any changes yet. Other items may not reflect their intended values on the current PTR as well.