Midpatch Itemization Changes Changelog

[Dragunovi]

Greetings! We're happy to announce that the Midpatch Itemization Changes (or M.I.C. for short) are now complete and went live with scheduled maintenance!
Do keep in mind we will be monitoring the items and their performances and might do future adjustments as needed. You can see the list of changes below:

Dungeon Set 2/Tier 0.5 Rework:
All pieces of the set are now item level 60 epics. This affects the item level 65-66 blues and the item level 55 epic gloves for all sets, increasing their stat budget.
In addition, some other pieces have seen some slight tweaks to make them more worthwhile to acquire.

• Warrior:
  • Bracers of Heroism: 9 -> 10 Strength, 5 -> 10 Agility
  • Belt of Heroism: 9 -> 12 Agility, Added 1% Hit
  • Spaulders of Heroism: 12 -> 13 Agility and Strength, Added 1% Hit
  • Legplates of Heroism: 11 -> 16 Agility, Added 1% Critical Chance
  • Gauntlets of Heroism: 18 -> 20 Strength, 12 -> 14 Stamina

• Rogue:
  • Darkmantle Bracers: 7 -> 10 Strength, 7 -> 10 Stamina
  • Darkmantle Belt: 13 -> 16 Stamina, 10 -> 15 Strength
  • Darkmantle Spaulders: 10 -> 12 Stamina, Added 1% Hit
  • Darkmantle Pants: 15 -> 17 Stamina, 15 -> 16 Strength, Added 1% Critical Chance
  • Darkmantle Gloves: 12 -> 13 Strength, 9 -> 13 Stamina

• Paladin:
  • Soulforge Bracers: Added 9 Agility
  • Soulforge Belt: 10 -> 11 Strength, 11 -> 12 Stamina, 12 -> 15 Spellpower, Removed 4 MP5, Added 1% Critical Chance
  • Soulforge Spaulders: 10 -> 12 Strength, 12 -> 15 Spellpower, Added 1% Hit and 11 Agility
  • Soulforge Legplates: 12 -> 15 Spellpower, Added 1% Critical Chance
  • Soulforge Gauntlets: 11 -> 15 Spellpower, 10 -> 11 Stamina and Intellect, 9 -> 11 Strength

• Priest:
  • Virtuous Bracers: 8 -> 9 All Stats, 9 -> 13 Spellpower
  • Virtuous Belt: 12 -> 14 Spellpower, Added 1% Spell Hit
  • Virtuous Mantle: 12 -> 16 Spellpower, Added 5 MP5
  • Virtuous Skirt: 13 -> 15 Stamina, 12 -> 15 Spirit, 14 -> 16 Intellect, 16 -> 24 Spellpower, Added 1% Spell Hit
  • Virtuous Gloves: Added 1% Spell Hit
  • Virtuous Crown: 11 -> 18 Spellpower
  • Virtuous Robe: 21 -> 17 Stamina, 22 -> 16 Intellect, 14 -> 24 Spellpower, Added 1% Spell Critical Chance

• Mage:
  • Sorcerer's Bindings: 8 -> 14 Spellpower, 8 -> 10 Stamina
  • Sorcerer's Belt: 14 -> 16 Spellpower, Added 1% Spell Hit
  • Sorcerer's Leggings: 16 -> 24 Spellpower, Added 1% Spell Crit
  • Sorcerer's Mantle: 9 -> 20 Spellpower
  • Sorcerer's Gloves: 12 -> 14 Spellpower
  • Sorcerer's Robes: 25 -> 18 Intellect, 16 -> 28 Spellpower, Replaced 20 Spell Penetration with 1% Spell Hit
  • Sorcerer's Crown: 25 -> 17 Intellect, 14 -> 11 Spirit, 11 -> 26 Spellpower

• Warlock:
  • Deathmist Bracers: Increased Spellpower from 8 to 13.
  • Deathmist Belt: Added 1% Spell Spell Critical Chance.
  • Deathmist Mantle: Increased Spellpower from 12 to 19.
  • Deathmist Leggings: Reduced Intellect from 21 to 20, Reduced Stamina from , 16 -> 24 Spellpower, Added 1% Spell Hit.
  • Deathmist Wraps: 13 -> 16 Intellect, 13 -> 14 Spellpower
  • Deathmsit Robe: 22 -> 18 Intellect, 27 -> 23 Stamina, 12 -> 25 Spellpower
  • Deathmist Mask: 24 -> 19 Stamina and Intellect, 16 -> 26 Spellpower

• Hunter:
  • Beastmaster's Bindings: Increased Agility from 16 to 18, Increased Stamina from 7 to 8, Increased Intellect from 5 to 7.
  • Beastmaster's Belt: Increased Agility from 16 to 17, Added 1% Hit
  • Beastmaster's Mantle: Added 1% Crit
  • Beastmaster's Pants: Increased Stamina from 14 to 16, Increased Intellect from 9 to 12, Added 1% Crit
  • Beastmaster's Gloves: Added 1% Hit

• Shaman:
  • Bindings of The Five Thunders: Removed Strength, Increased Spellpower from 8 to 13, Added 4 MP5.
  • Cord of The Five Thunders: Removed Strength, Increased Spellpower from 12 to 15, Increased MP5 from 4 to 5, Added 1% Spell Hit.
  • Pauldrons of The Five Thunders: Removed Strength and Agility, Increased Spellpower from 12 to 18, Increased Stamina from 13 to 15, Added 4 MP5.
  • Kilt of The Five Thunders: Removed Strength and Agility, Increased Stamina from 12 to 16, Increased Spellpower from 18 to 24, Added 1% Spell Hit and 5 MP5.
  • Gauntlets of The Five Thunders: Removed Strength, Increased Spellpower from 12 to 14, Added 1% Spell Crit.
  • Boots of The Five Thunders: Removed Strength and Agility, Increased Intellect from 10 to 13, Increased Spellpower from 12 to 14, Added 1% Spell Hit.
  • Coif of The Five Thunders: Removed Strength and Agility, Increased Spellpower from 18 to 24, Added 5 MP5.
  • Vest of The Five Thunders: Removed Strength and Agility, Increased Spellpower from 18 to 26, Added 4 MP5.

• Druid:
  • The set has been renamed to Moonheart and this change is only reflected on the items for now, the set name and set bonus adjustments to make them fully caster oriented will be done with a future client update.
  • Feralheart Bracers: 12 Intellect, 7 Spirit, 8 Stamina, 14 Spellpower
  • Feralheart Belt: 14 Intellect, 11 Spirit, 12 Stamina, 13 Spellpower, 1% Spell Hit
  • Feralheart Spaulders: 14 Intellect, 13 Spirit, 12 Stamina, 18 Spellpower
  • Feralheart Kilt: 18 Intellect, 15 Spirit, 15 Stamina, 24 Spellpower, 1% Spell Hit
  • Feralheart Gloves: 15 Intellect, 11 Spirit, 12 Stamina, 12 Spellpower, 1% Spell Hit
  • Feralheart Boots: 12 Intellect, 12 Spirit, 12 Stamina, 14 Spellpower, 1% Spell Crit
  • Feralheart Cowl: 17 Intellect, 14 Spirit, 15 Stamina, 24 Spellpower, 1% Spell Crit
  • Feralheart Vest: 20 Intellect, 10 Spirit, 16 Stamina, 24 Spellpower, 1% Spell Crit

Mage Tier 1 and 2 Updates:
We've taken a second look at the itemization on these sets and have done some adjustments to bring them on par with other better options that became available later during the Vanilla patch cycle.

Tier 1 (Arcanist Regalia):

• Head:
  27 Intellect -> 25 Intellect
  10 Spirit -> 8 Spirit
  20 Spell Damage -> 26 Spell Damage

• Shoulder:
  21 Intellect -> 16 Intellect
  10 Stamina -> 13 Stamina
  Removed Spirit
  Removed Mp5
  14 Spell Damage -> 18 Spell Damage
  Added 1 Spell Crit

• Chest:
  25 Intellect -> 21 Intellect
  19 Stamina -> 16 Stamina
  Removed Spirit
  Added 1 Spell Hit
  23 Spell Damage -> 30 Spell Damage

• Bracers:
  8 Stamina -> 10 Stamina
  6 Spirit -> 5 Spirit
  Removed Mp5
  12 Spell Damage -> 16 Spell Damage

• Gloves:
  15 Intellect -> 17 Intellect
  14 Stamina -> 14 Stamina
  10 Spirit -> 12 Spirit
  Removed Mp5
  14 Spell Damage -> 19 Spell Damage

• Waist:
  20 Intellect -> 18 Intellect
  Added 1 Spell Hit

• Leggings:
  Unchanged.

• Boots:
  14 Intellect -> 16 Intellect
  11 Spirit -> 9 Spirit
  11 Spell Damage -> 14 Spell Damage

Tier 2 (Netherwind Regalia):

• Head:
  Added 1 Spell Crit.
  7 Spirit -> 11 Spirit
  Removed MP5.

• Shoulder:
  13 Intellect -> 15 Intellect
  12 Spirit -> 10 Spirit
  Removed MP5.
  Added 1 Spell Hit.
  21 Spell Damage -> 23 Spell Damage

• Chest:
  Unchanged.

• Bracers:
  9 Stamina -> 11 Stamina
  Removed MP5.
  19 Spell Damage -> 21 Spell Damage

• Gloves:
  Removed Spirit.
  20 Spell Damage -> 22 Spell Damage

• Belt:
  20 Intellect -> 18 Intellect
  13 Spirit -> 8 Spirit
  Added 1 Spell Hit.

• Legs:
  Unchanged.

• Boots:
  Unchanged.

AQ20 Set Reworks:
All set weapons' item level has been increased from 70 to 74 and turned into Uniques, increasing their stats and DPS/Healing Power/Spellpower and only allowing one per character as a result. We've also adjusted stats on a few pieces to make them worth the trip to the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj.

• Hunter:
  • Scythe of the Unseen Path: Reduced Agility from 16 to 14. Reduced Stamina from 9 to 6. Replaced 3 MP5 with 1% Physical Critical Chance.
  • Signet of the Unseen Path: Reduced Agility from 19 to 17. Increased Stamina from 11 to 12. Removed Intellect. Added 1% Physical Hit Chance.

• Warrior:
  • Sickle of Unyielding Strength: Damage values increased to 81 - 151.

• Priest:
  • Gavel of Infinite Wisdom: Increased MP5 from 4 to 5. Increased Healing Power from 90 to 106.
  • Ring of Infinite Wisdom: Increased MP5 from 4 to 5. Reduced Intellect from 13 to 9. Reduced Stamina 10 to 8. Added 29 Healing Power.
  • Shroud of Infinite Wisdom: Reduced Intellect from 14 to 11. Reduced Stamina from 12 to 8. Reduced Spirit from 11 to 10. Added 5 MP5.

• Mage:
  • Blade of Vaulted Secrets: Increased Spellpower from 40 to 56.
  • Drape of Vaulted Secrets: Increased Intellect from 9 to 10. Reduced Stamina from 14 to 13. Removed Spirit. Increased Spellpower from 18 to 22.

• Paladin:
  • Blade of Eternal Justice: Damage values increased to 73 - 137. Intellect reduced from 8 to 7. Stamina reduced from 16 to 14.
  • Cape of Eternal Justice: Stamina reduced from 13 to 9. Added 1% Haste.
  • Ring of Eternal Justice: Reduced Intellect from 12 to 9. Reduced Stamina from 11 to 7. Increased Spellpower from 13 to 15. Added 1% Physical Hit Chance.

• Rogue:
  • Dagger of Veiled Shadows: Damage values increased to 69 - 130.
  • Band of Veiled Shadows: Reduced Agility from 18 to 17. Added 1% Haste.

• Warlock:
  • Kris of Unspoken Names: Spellpower increased from 59 to 71. Increased Stamina from 9 to 13.

• Druid:
  • Mace of Unending Life: Damage values adjusted to 100 - 188. Added 50 Armor and 1% Dodge. Increased Feral Attack Power from 140 to 196.
  • Cloak of Unending Life: Removed Intellect, Spirit and Spellpower. Reduced Strength from 12 to 10. Added 16 Attack Power and 1% Physical Critical Strike Chance.
  • Band of Unending Life: Removed Intellect and Spirit. Increased Stamina from 9 to 13. Increased Agility from 10 to 13. Added 1% Haste.

• Shaman:
  • Hammer of the Gathering Storm: Removed Strength. Increased Spellpower from 53 to 64. Added 1% Spell Critical Chance.
  • Cloak of the Gathering Storm: Removed Strength. Reduced Intellect from 13 to 10. Reduced Stamina from 10 to 9. Increased Spellpower from 14 to 18. Added 1% Spell Hit Chance.
  • Ring of the Gathering Storm: Removed Strength and Agility. Increased Spellpower from 12 to 20.

Steel Plate Armor Adjustments:
The Steel Plate pieces have seen some adjustments, correcting their lackluster item levels to be the baseline required level + 5 values and adjusting their stats accordingly.

• Steel Plate Barbute: Item level adjusted to 50. Increased Armor from 426 to 510. Decreased Stamina from 17 to 15. Increased Strength from 9 to 10. Added 1% Dodge.

• Steel Plate Pauldrons: Item level adjusted to 50. Decreased Stamina from 14 to 12. Removed 1% Dodge.

• Steel Plate Legguards: Item level adjusted to 50. Increased Defense from 2 to 3.

• Steel Plate Boots: Item level adjusted to 48. Decreased Stamina from 11 to 10. Decreased Strength from 10 to 9. Increased Armor from 322 to 334.

• Steel Plate Gauntlets: Item level adjusted to 49. Decreased Stamina from 15 to 12. Decreased Strength from 8 to 7. Added 2 Defense.

• Steel Plate Armor: Item level adjusted to 50. Decreased Stamina from 15 to 14. Increased Strength from 9 to 10. Decreased Defense from 5 to 4.

Hateforge Armor Rework:
The Hateforge Blacksmithing Armor Set has been reworked to become a full blown haste centric set.

All the pieces are now Bind on Equip and can be traded amongst players and sold on the Auction House, including the epic Hateforge Grips.

• Hateforge Grips: Increased Strength from 9 to 13. Removed 1% Haste.

• Hateforge Belt: Reduced Strength from 20 to 15. Changed 13 Spirit to 15 Stamina. Added 1% Haste.

• Hateforge Boots: Reduced Strength from 17 to 13. Increased Stamina from 5 to 13. Removed Spirit. Added 1% Haste.

• Hateforge Cuirass: Increased Strength from 10 to 18. Increased Haste from 1% to 2%.

• Hateforge Leggings: Increased Strength from 19 to 22. Increased Stamina from 10 to 13. Added 1% Physical Hit Chance.

• Hateforge Helmet: Increased Strength from 18 to 19. Increased Stamina from 7 to 19. Added 1% Haste and 1% Resillience.

Armor Penetration Adjustment:
The Armor Penetration stat's value has been doubled from 0.2 to 0.4, meaning current items will have their armor penetration amounts halved. The changes go as follows:

• 100 Armor Penetration -> 50 Armor Penetration:
  • Breastplate of Earthen Might
  • Band of Calamity
  • Bone Fracture
  • Chimaera's Eye
  • Giants Heavy Mace
  • Tooth of the Packlord

• 75 Armor Penetration -> 40 Armor Penetration:
  • Mark of the Worgen
  • Corrosive Core

• 75 Armor Penetration -> 35 Armor Penetration:
  • Shieldbreaker Arbalest

• 50 Armor Penetration -> 25 Armor Penetration:
  • Dark Iron Destroyer
  • Darkflame Helm
  • Dreamsteel Leggings
  • Earthbreaker Belt
  • Nature's Call
  • Sabatons of the Endless March
  • Sandstalker's Shroud
  • Coldheart Icicle
  • Deepstone Boots
  • Rune of Duty (Level 40 Version)
  • Slateplate Leggings
  • Apefist Pummelers
  • Golden Scale Coif
  • Sharp Teeth Necklace

• 40 Armor Penetration -> 20 Armor Penetration
  • Shawl of Haunted Memories
  • Pulverizer Gauntlets
  • Blackhammer Pauldrons

• 30 Armor Penetration -> 15 Armor Penetration
  • Granitized Bracers
  • Golden Scale Cuirass
  • Rune of Duty (Level 20 Version)
  • Golden Scale Leggings

• 20 Armor Penetration -> 10 Armor Penetration
  • Dreamsteel Boots
  • Sentinel's Glaive
  • Golden Scale Bracers
  • Golden Scale Gauntlets

• Armor Penetration Removed
  • Sentinel's Breastplate
  • Sentinel's Crown
  • Sentinel's Leggings

Shady Rest Inn Quest Rewards Update:
All rewards' item level updated to item level 47, increasing stats, armor, block and DPS. Additionally we've adjusted the itemization on these items to make them more viable.

• Wattapo's Bulwark and Dustwallow Defender: Removed 10 Nature Resistance, Replaced 5 Spirit with 7 Stamina.

• Brackenwall Longbow and Theramore Arbalest: Increased Agility from 3 to 8.

• Stonemaul Seer Club: No longer gives any stats, instead grants 1% Spell Hit.

• Ornate Dagger of Jalvan: Increased Intellect from 3 to 6, Increased Spellpower from 7 to 9.

• Krog's Pike: Increased Strength from 12 to 20, Increased Stamina from 8 to 14.

• Garran's Pike: Increased Strength from 16 to 20, Added 1% Crit.

Gilneas Quest Rewards Update:
Some rewards have been updated to properly fit in the stat budget.

• Dark Footpad Belt: Increased Strength from 13 to 15, Increased Agility from 5 to 10.

• Blackthorn Gauntlets: Increased Stamina from 4 to 6, Increased Agility from 2 to 6, Increased Spirit from 1 to 7, Increased Vampirism from 1% to 2%.

• Signet of Gilneas: Increased Stamina from 4 to 11.

• Ravenshire Gloves: Increased Spirit and Stamina from 7 to 9.

• Varimathras' Cunning: Increased Intellect from 12 to 18, Increased Spirit from 5 to 8.

• Stillward Amulet: Added 1% Haste.

• Garalon's Might: Increased Strength from 18 to 21, Replaced 13 Intellect with 1% Haste.

Hyjal Quest Rewards Update:
Some rewards have been updated to properly fit in the stat budget.

• Gladeforge Breastplate: Increased Stamina from 23 to 25, Increased Agility from 12 to 15.

• Dreamwind Sigil: Reduced Nature and Shadow Resistance from 12 to 10.

• Moonseeker Staff: Item Level increased from 62 to 65, increasing DPS roughly from 48 to 50. Haste increased from 1% to 2%.

• Talisman of the Dreamshaper: Increased Nature Resistance from 3 to 5.

• Defender of Nordrassil: Increased Intellect from 4 to 6, Increased Stamina from 2 to 6, Replaced 16 Holy Spellpower with 7 Nature Spellpower.

• Clutch of Renewal: Replaced 24 Nature Spellpower with 20 Normal Spellpower.

• Dreamwind Spaulders: Reduced Spellpower from 22 to 19, Removed 7 Nature Spellpower.

• Windtalker Cape: Reduced Strength from 16 to 15, Removed 10 Nature Resistance.

• Cuffs of Nordanaar: Removed Intellect and Spirit, Increased Agility from 7 to 10.

• Groveslicer Glaive: Increased Strength from 7 to 9, Increased Nature Resistance from 3 to 5, Changed damage values from 88 - 133 to 76 - 142 (DPS remains the same).

Miscellaneaous:

• Lasher's Whip now properly binds to the player upon pickup.

• Fixed double Intellect stat on Ancient Jade Leggings.

• Axe of Dormant Slumber, Vampiris Kris, Ring of Nature's Duality, Vial of Potent Venoms and Medivh's Foresight are now Unique.

• Reduced Intellect on Dawnstone Hammer from 32 to 25.

• Fixed Armor value on Leggings of the Shrouding Mists.

• Reduced Strength and Stamina on Anasterian's Legacy from 16 to 12.

• Fixed Dark Iron Reaver's equip spell to properly function and have the proper effect.

• Reduced the Haste of Wing of the Time-Lord from 2% to 1%. Increased Strength and Agility from 11 to 12 and the Stamina from 8 to 11.

• Fixed Spellweaver's Turban stats as per told in the patchnotes.

• Fixed sheathing on the Spear of the Endless Hunt.

• Slightly buffed Shield of Mathela and Sword of Laneron.

• Fixed the unusually high armor value on Boarskin Cloak.

• Dwarven Battle Bludgeon's stun effect has been changed to a proc instead of being an on use effect.

• Added 1% Spell Hit Chance to the Ring of Nature's Duality. The previous nerfs in the last changelog were excessive, so we have decided to restore some offensive power to the ring.

• Decreased Haste from 2% to 1% and increased Stamina from 10 to 13 for the Sanctum Bark Wraps.

• The Nemesis Gloves should now have the reworked stats as specified in the patch changelog.

• The Strength and Stamina values on the Thick Obsidian Breastplate have been swapped.

• The Magus Blade no longer deals Arcane damage on swings.

• Decreased Strength from 31 to 26 and increased Stamina from 4 to 13 for the Dreamsteel Boots.

• Changed 14 Agility to Stamina and 1% Vampirism to 1% Physical Hit Chance for the Dreamsteel Leggings.

• Decreased Intellect from 26 to 19, removed 5% Meditation, and added 19 Spellpower to the Dreamthread Mantle.

• Reduced Strength from 33 to 25 and changed Agility to Stamina, increasing it from 12 to 15, Removed 1% Haste and 12 Attack Power, and added 1% Critical Chance to Dreamsteel Mantle.

• Shoulders crafted from Dream materials (Dreamthread, Dreamsteel, Dreamhide) now require a profession skill of 300 to equip, as they are much stronger than other pieces in their sets.

• Fixed damage values on Axe of the Wildtusk.

• Band of Infinite Possibilities now provides a flat 18 spellpower instead of a range of 1-36 spellpower. This change was made because the spellpower value is randomized per equip, not per cast.

• Fixed the feral attack power bonus on the Grand Marshal's Glaive and High Warlord's Pig Sticker.

• Maladath, Runed Blade of the Black Flight: Increased +Swords from 4 to 5.

• Magnetic Band: Increased Intellect from 3 to 5, Increased Spirit from 2 to 5.

• Towerforge Breastplate: Increased Strength from 20 to 23, Increased Stamina from 23 to 28, Reduced Critical Chance from 2% to 1%.

• Towerforge Crown: Reduced Haste from 2% to 1%, Replaced 1% Critical Chance with 1% Hit.

• Towerforge Pauldrons: Reduced Strength from 17 to 15, Replaced 1% Critical Chance with 1% Hit.

• Boreal Mantle: Increased Intellect from 8 to 11, Increased Stamina from 5 to 6, Reduced Frost Spellpower from 29 to 24.

[Gantulga]

Most of those gear pieces with halved ARP will be downright worthless or inferior to similar options from easier content.
If you're going ballistic on ARP then you gotta rebalance the gear by adding different offensive stats to compensate.

[Saxxon]

In order for armor pen to overcome diminishing returns in the opposite direction, you pretty much already had to stack it. While there will now be half as much armor pen, the armor curve suggests overall armor pen is worth less than half its original value.

Good thing nobody already stacked armor pen, eh?

[Rowrow213]

• Reduced strength from 33 to 30 and changed agility to stamina, increasing it from 12 to 15.

There seems to be a missing item

[Rowrow213]

Why not just have armor pen be a %based thing? Like crit% or hit%? It would maybe solve some issues with the constant nerfing of it

[Dragunovi]

• Reduced strength from 33 to 30 and changed agility to stamina, increasing it from 12 to 15.

There seems to be a missing item

Fixed.

[Marsm]

Can we reobtain t0.5 item if we already did those quests and got rid of some of them?

[Elisleris]

Does paladin's Blade of Eternal Justice also have increased Spell power like on other caster weapons?
For example like mage's blade 40 SP -> 56 SP

[Jimbo96]

so basically 100 armorpen are not 100 armorpen but 20? same after the change 50 -> 20 due to 0.4 factor. this makes armorpen pretty useless

[Sylveria]

Wait Wait Wait.. I have an Alt-Character with the Steel Plate Set on lvl 47 right now.. does this mean, when this change drops (and I'm not lvl 50 at that point), that my char will stand there without any equipment?.. or am I mixing up item level and required level? (iLvL is something i'm not used to) '-'

[Calli]

• Hunter:
  • Scythe of the Unseen Path: Reduced Agility from 16 to 14. Reduced Stamina from 9 to 6. Replaced 3 MP5 with 1% Physical Critical Chance.
  • Signet of the Unseen Path: Reduced Agility from 19 to 17. Increased Stamina from 11 to 12. Removed Intellect. Added 1% Physical Hit Chance.

While the weapon change is very nice, with the ring you just gave another Master Dragonslayer's ring to hunters(They need the intellect). Could it be possible to leave the ring unchanged and rework the set bonus? There is already 1% hit on the cloak and 3% pet damage is one of the weakest set bonus. Then this set would be a nice addition to any tier hunter armor.

[Bittermens]

Can we reobtain t0.5 item if we already did those quests and got rid of some of them?

That would be nice if the NPC can restore them once all quests are done or if the system claims you have done it

[Verdict]

So basically as an Elf Prot Paladin I have to tell my Warrior & Rogue guildies that somehow Maladath is better single target TPS for me than Lok'amir...

I love the change guys, but it creates so much friction between classes & races that it's straight up disheartening.

[Kharkov72]

those aq20 weapons seems kinda overbuffed, being as good if not better than bwl-aq40 weapons. i do think they need a buff, but not THAT much

[Dyco]

Any chance on adding a scope to ranged weapons with melee hit?

[Tacticalnelf]

Any chance on adding a scope to ranged weapons with melee hit?

[Hyperopia Scope]

[Dragunovi]

Wait Wait Wait.. I have an Alt-Character with the Steel Plate Set on lvl 47 right now.. does this mean, when this change drops (and I'm not lvl 50 at that point), that my char will stand there without any equipment?.. or am I mixing up item level and required level? (iLvL is something i'm not used to) '-'

Required level will not be affected.

[Quidoba]

those aq20 weapons seems kinda overbuffed, being as good if not better than bwl-aq40 weapons. i do think they need a buff, but not THAT much

Yea, you probably don't want to over tune these such that they are better than AQ40 difficult to get options since you get so much CC rep when farming AQ40 (so you get them for essentially free). However, I think its fine if they are better than BWL options, or the easier to get AQ40 options. In order to be exhalted with CC you are either already in AQ40 quite a bit (meaning you probably have BWL on farm), or you have spent very large amounts of time farming CC rep, and/or running AQ20.

Making all raid gear a linear step above the solo obtainable gear only encourages a "raid-log" only environment which is one of the things (among many) that killed later retail expansions IMO.

You need to leave it such that progression through early raids is still necessary for filling in SOME slots, so that those raids are not irrelevant, but also leave it such that those that can invest time and research into finding obscure or difficult solo/grind obtainable items might still have a slight advantage over the simple raid-logger in the various tiers of progression.

Having a very few rare dungeon drops, or arduous grind items BIS even into naxx is healthy for the game IMO.

[Isvya]

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Yea, you probably don't want to over tune these such that they are better than AQ40 difficult to get options since you get so much CC rep when farming AQ40 (so you get them for essentially free). However, I think its fine if they are better than BWL options, or the easier to get AQ40 options. In order to be exhalted with CC you are either already in AQ40 quite a bit (meaning you probably have BWL on farm), or you have spent very large amounts of time farming CC rep, and/or running AQ20.

Making all raid gear a linear step above the solo obtainable gear only encourages a "raid-log" only environment which is one of the things (among many) that killed later retail expansions IMO.

You need to leave it such that progression through early raids is still necessary for filling in SOME slots, so that those raids are not irrelevant, but also leave it such that those that can invest time and research into finding obscure or difficult solo/grind obtainable items might still have a slight advantage over the simple raid-logger in the various tiers of progression.

Having a very few rare dungeon drops, or arduous grind items BIS even into naxx is healthy for the game IMO.

Hard agree. If you gonna replace every item in the next raid tier we are not far from retail itemization where every item has a generic name thats basically just a flat ilvl. You cant name a single item in current wow bcs you dont care, higher ilvl=upgrade. The flavour in vanilla is that you still run MC for stuff like onslaught, quickstrike, talisman etc bcs they are only replaced in naxx. Same with bwl trinkets that are bis whole game.

[Jc473]

Yeah, I completely echo the last two comments.

[Roalie2]

I know this isn't a big thing, but wonder if a version of the original t2.5 for druids could come back with all the tier changes as an option?

[Cowdy]

When will be this midpatch changed online?

[Zmdhf]

After the update, the vampire attributes are no longer correctly stacked.

[Zmdhf]

why?
Warlock:
Kris of Unspoken Names: Spellpower increased from 59 to 71. Added 1% Spell Hit Chance.
Mage:
Blade of Vaulted Secrets: Increased Spellpower from 40 to 56.

???

Both Spellpower increased should be changed to 71 to be fair.

[Tiancaixin]

Kris of Unspoken Names: Spellpower increased from 59 to 71. Added 1% Spell Hit Chance.
Mage:
Blade of Vaulted Secrets: Increased Spellpower from 40 to 56.

How did this happen？
The Mage is the son of his stepmother?

[Elisleris]

I did some research regarding spell power amount on caster weapons in dependans of item level.
There are list of epic one-handed weapons with item level > 67 from wowhead classic.
Link: https://www.wowhead.com/classic/items/w ... ems;0-2+20
Each item level more than 60 increases SP about 4 per lvl , e.g.
70 item lvl = 10*4= 40 SP
78 item lvl = 18*4 = 72 SP
81 item lvl = 21*4 = 84 SP
83 item lvl = 23*4= 96 SP
Usually weapons from list have that amount of SP

Regarding our weapons from AQ20:
74 item lvl caster weapon should has about 14*4=56 SP
For Mage all is Ok
For Paladin and Druid need increase to 56 SP
For Warlock 71 SP is near 78 item lvl weapon
For Shaman 68 SP is 77 item lvl weapon - that lvl weapons drops from AQ40 / BWL or from R14

[Elisleris]

One additional remark: on turtle wow AQ20 weapons are simple one-hunded, on classic wow they are unique one-handed.
I saw few rogues that wear 2 daggers of Veiled Shadows in same time.

[Ghola]

Please look into fixing field duty quest for horde so that we can farm rep with cenarion circle for the updated gear

[Cowdy]

Kris of Unspoken Names: Spellpower increased from 59 to 71. Added 1% Spell Hit Chance.
Mage:
Blade of Vaulted Secrets: Increased Spellpower from 40 to 56.

How did this happen？
The Mage is the son of his stepmother?

But you dont mention mage ZG enchant overpowering warlock, why?

[Ezuba]

Necessary to add level 60 requirement to t0.5 set? These sets were the best option for twinking a level 59. Perhaps an additional quest to turn your t0.5 into improved t0.5? or just dont worry about requiring level 60 at all? These upgrades aren't going to break the game in favor of a level 59 being OP nor are they really going to make them that much more attractive to a level 60 who can join a MC pug with ease. The goal should be unlocking more ways to play the game not removing options for ways to play the game.

On a similar note, the quest to turn in ZG idols is level 58 but the reward requires 60 to apply. Perhaps change the reward to level 58 to match the quest?

[Tiancaixin]

Kris of Unspoken Names: Spellpower increased from 59 to 71. Added 1% Spell Hit Chance.
Mage:
Blade of Vaulted Secrets: Increased Spellpower from 40 to 56.

How did this happen？
The Mage is the son of his stepmother?

But you dont mention mage ZG enchant overpowering warlock, why?

Im a pvp player,can you provide me ZG enchant overpowering warlock？You want PVE and PVP are strong ？where is such a good thing?

[Cowdy]

Kris of Unspoken Names: Spellpower increased from 59 to 71. Added 1% Spell Hit Chance.
Mage:
Blade of Vaulted Secrets: Increased Spellpower from 40 to 56.

How did this happen？
The Mage is the son of his stepmother?

But you dont mention mage ZG enchant overpowering warlock, why?

Im a pvp player,can you provide me ZG enchant overpowering warlock？You want PVE and PVP are strong ？where is such a good thing?

Well, i've been playing for months and havent join any BGs once, so pvp isnt my consern, all i know is warlock needs more hit than mage without talent supports

[Shambakriger]

Would you consider lowering the attack speed of one-handed fAP weapons like the AQ20 hammer and End of Dreams to 1.50-1.70?
You chose to give fAP to moonkins as well so it’d be nice to be able to melee-weave with some of them!<3

[Dragunovi]

One additional remark: on turtle wow AQ20 weapons are simple one-hunded, on classic wow they are unique one-handed.
I saw few rogues that wear 2 daggers of Veiled Shadows in same time.

Most likely an oversight by VMaNGoS itself as we haven't touched most AQ20 set weapons before this, I'll add the unique flag to them with this patch.

[Dragunovi]

Kris of Unspoken Names: Spellpower increased from 59 to 71. Added 1% Spell Hit Chance.
Mage:
Blade of Vaulted Secrets: Increased Spellpower from 40 to 56.

How did this happen？
The Mage is the son of his stepmother?

An oversight with the spellpower DPS sacrifice calculation, going to replace spell hit with extra stamina for warlock kris to keep it equal as the mage blade has 1% spell hit to take the place of the extra spellpower.