Comments on: Healing and Spell Damage Gear to Become One

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:14:56 +0000

i saw u on warcraft u hade 2 buds at goldshire

By: Jonjammin

Jonjammin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:37:33 +0000

I just hope it doesn’t automatically decide it for you. (like when it decides whether your shadow / disc / holy on armory) As long as we can choose when we want our gear to be +dmg/heal and when we want it to be just +heal it should all work out in the end

By: L33T SAUCE MAGE

L33T SAUCE MAGE — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:42:15 +0000

I think this is a great change for the most part…. The only things i am worried about is wasting talent points to convert and also caster dps will have to roll against not only caster dps, but healers now to! So it will most likely take much longer to gear up unless you are a lucky roller.

By: Draskaelyn

Draskaelyn — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:06:09 +0000

You can guarantee that now, as a holy priest, I will be rolling against silly mages and warlocks for caster gear with spirit and mana regen on it.

People mention the usefulness of being able to swap sets depending on your spec, but i fear this will only bring out the idiocy of PuGs, as each caster thinks to themselves, ‘ooh, that extra point of spell damage might be nice’ while ignoring the other stats.

It will work, but only if people learn to recognize the class the gear was designed for originally.

IMO not a particularly favorable move by Blizz here.

By: Shiboito

Shiboito — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:33:30 +0000

the only thing any of us really need to worry about is the mnot balancing this right, which we shouldn’t even have to worry about

all that needs to be done is change a few formulas, fix the old +healing and +dmg to the new spellpower level, tweak the spells, and viola! new (and old) stat

By: Egma

Egma — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:29:53 +0000

”
This is horrible for people who can’t DPS but only heal!

The +healing gear is great because it is higher numbers than the +heal/spell gear

This will eviscerate pally healers!
”

How so? They already stated in the end with specing for healing or DPS all the gear will have teh same +heal/damage as it does now. All it does it make it so that You can decent heal gear without having to hope the 1 single heal gear piece of the 6 bosses drops this run, all you have to worry about is whether cloth/leather/etc drops because now instead of making it so theres mage gear or priest gear it will be mage and priest combined gear…

Which doesn’t take away from your chances, look at it this way all priests needed to get a heal and a dps set of gear, which means they where the only ones rolling on healing cloth but where also rolling on dps cloth as well… So basicly it made it so that priests could take any cloth they wanted to but mages where limited to just the DPS cloth… Now it is changing to where all the healing cloth is becoming DPS cloth so that mages can also roll on all gear… now you think well that takes away from healers odds…but also remember that now healers ONLY need 1 set as a pose to two…

So in conclusion mages now arnt limited to 1/2 the cloth rolls, and priest now dont have 8 less bank slots because they no longer need 2 sets… Its a win win

By: Morrdanas

Morrdanas — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:01:06 +0000

i honestly think this is the worst thing they could have done; healing is a thankless job, and now we’ll suffer for it thanks to some idiot thinking “oh, lets have fun watching the chaos unfold as priests slowly become redundant thanks to greedy mages, warlocks, and even shadow priests”. it’s all very well people compare the stats and say “oh, that doesn’t have enough intelect for a mage” or stamina for a warlock, but in reality, when you’re in a pug or even in a guild doing end game content, you can’t escape the loot whoring. this is going to put even more stress on end game guilds and raid leaders having to keep an eye on their raiders gear and making sure some asshat doesn’t decide to go all elitest on everyone, which in that regard will make raiding a less friendly environment. the raid leaders will be over stressed; the raiders will feel deprived, and blizz gets to sit back saying “everything’s working as intended.”

By: Volganis

Volganis — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:11:25 +0000

I applaud this, as an elemental shaman, I will, for once, see some gear dropping readily in raids that isn’t cloth/leather that I can use.

By: the decider...

the decider... — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:52:13 +0000

but the bonus stuff will be abit lower then the regular sets

By: the decider...

the decider... — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:48:43 +0000

people are so dumb these days…. what their clearaly trying to say… when a healer wants to change to dps…instead of wasting time and getting gear…the healing gear will change to dps gear depending on ur specc…so blizzard did a great favor for us :)