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Reforging

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Deuo
#0 - Aug. 24, 2009, 5:10 p.m.
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Very HIGHLY speculative but interesting to think about. Reforging could possibly be the medium through which all gear of a type (cloth, leather, etc) can be an immediate upgrade based on ilvl. No brain necessary.

All Cloth Drops: Stam, Int, Spi +Modifier Stat (Crit/Haste)

All Leather Drops: Stam, Agi, Int +Modifier

All Mail Drops: Stam, Agi, Int +Modifier

All Plate Drops: Stam, Str, Int +Modifier

Examples: Holy Paladin converts Strength to Spirit, Rogue converts Int into Haste, Tank converts Int to Dodge.

All plate wearers roll on all plate, all leather wearer on all leather, etc

Good thing? Bad Thing? Discuss
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Ghostcrawler
#2 - Aug. 24, 2009, 5:51 p.m.
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It's too early to go into a lot of detail on the new features, but the basic idea here was to make an undesirable drop possibly more desirable. It still shouldn't compete with gear that is actually itemized for you.

As an example, letting someone turn stamina into a dps stat is something we'd be unlikely to do (or at least impose a lot of restrictions) since that lets you turn an undesirable stat for most characters into something good.

Think of reforging more as a consolation prize or as a way to work around things like hit caps, and not the kind of thing that clever players are going to be able to use to vastly min max their character power.