Plate itemization???

#0 - June 27, 2010, 4:45 p.m.

so seeing how you guys are making downgrading less interesting does this mean you guys are finally gonna itemize plate to have equal crit as leather/mail gear? And if you don't know what im talkin bout, its the agi thats the only reason why leather/agi gear becomes best in slot is so we can reach a nice amount of crit in pve, you give us a str dps ring in icc with equal crit to the agi ring, yet the agi ring is still better cause it gives us 1.8% crit and we lose like 100 ap or so.

So my question to you is are we gonna get an increas in crit raiting on plate gear to equalize the crit given by agi?

Ghostcrawler

#3 - June 27, 2010, 7:44 p.m.

Warriors don't need to have the same amount of crit as rogues to do the same (or sometimes higher) damage. The only risk is that rogues who scale both AP and crit from Agi will end up doing higher damage with extreme gear levels, but usually we have the opposite problem. In any case, at extreme gear levels crit often becomes less and less valuable.

We balance warriors around wearing plate. When they can then wear leather and do higher damage (and who can blame them for making choices that maximize their dps?), that presents a problem and the solution is often to nerf warrior damage, which then hurts the guys actually wearing plate. We need to finally fix this design flaw, which we're doing in two ways: itemizing leather the way we itemize plate (i.e. just Agi rather than Agi and AP) and giving warriors more of a benefit for wearing plate.