Epic Crafted Items, Blizzcon Contests, Concept Arts

Originally Posted by Falkus

The amount of stats that are appearing on the items are getting out of hand, I think. 500 odd stamina? 300 odd strength? Some 400-ish agility?
I can't help but think that we'll be sitting on some 100k health or whatever as a tank.

Dude, your HEALERS will have over 100k health. Tanks will be pushing 200k.

Originally Posted by Dahakas

this all looks like more easy to get welfare epics. Whatever happening to increasing the importance and rarity of epics, this was one of the things that made vanilla so fantastic, that feeling of accomplishment when getting an epic in vanilla was what captured the original fan base. sigh.

Apparently when they said they wanted to bring back the feeling of epics being epic, what they really meant was they wanted everybody to have them so everybody could be equally epic!

So stupid on Blizzards behalf.

Originally Posted by Lumocolor

Engineers getting love?

Hell, at least half my guild has engineering already it needs a nerf not love hehe

Seriously, engineers got so many awesome things and yet they whine and whine and whine that their profession is worthless. But we all know that isn't the case.
I'd even level it if it wasn't so freaking boring and annoying, because if there is one thing I hate it's to have 60 bag slots of mats just to gain 1 skill point.


"this all looks like more easy to get welfare epics. Whatever happening to increasing the importance and rarity of epics, this was one of the things that made vanilla so fantastic, that feeling of accomplishment when getting an epic in vanilla was what captured the original fan base. sigh."

SHUT UP, god you wannabe elitist whiners get annoying. Not one news page is without whining about casuals, give it up.

The times were you got carried and could stand on the bridge in IF all day are over. Deal with it.

Originally Posted by Senaelanna

Apparently when they said they wanted to bring back the feeling of epics being epic, what they really meant was they wanted everybody to have them so everybody could be equally epic!

So stupid on Blizzards behalf.

So you're only happy with your epics if nobody else has them? Selfishness just reached a new level.

Originally Posted by Siton

So you're only happy with your epics if nobody else has them? Selfishness just reached a new level.

Congrats, you just discovered the ultimate truth about wannabe elitists.

They cannot be happy with their gear and mounts when there might be a "loser casual" out there who has the same.

And I understand them, if I'd be a loser in RL it sure would be important to me what other people have in a video game.

Hehe, wow players and their epics ;-)

Originally Posted by pbean

I really hate all these simplified stats. I really liked it when the average chest piece has so many different stats, like stamina, strength, dodge, defense, parry, expertise, etc. Sometimes fewer, sometimes more. Now it's just stamina+strength+dodge, and if you're lucky it has hit or mastery too.

Ah, but don't forget about reforging. Sure, it's not huge, but if you want a whole bunch of different stats, you can mix some things around to get an extra one. The possibilities for customization is actually quite large.
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Edit: Battleaxe of the Sober Dwarf has one of the best sub-text in cataclysm so far.

Also, I'm wondering what exactly this does, and where this will teleport you.
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Edit2: Inb4 Loot-a-rang > Booterang.

"AYAYA! My epic lootz! One day me have dat loot-a-rang......"

"Why it put da loot-a-rang on da epics?? Why??"

"OOF! Loot-a-rang ninja'd me! Me tink me more stealthy den loot-a-rang!"

"Hey! No more loot-a-rang! Me Sorry! Me stay dead!"

Originally Posted by Vasz

Those epic gems don't look very epic to me.

3 Prismatic gems ATM give 102 AGI, that's 42 more than non-JC's.

The new gems only give 67 agi each, that's still only 201 AGI total. About 140 more than using WoTLK's normal blue gems.

Engineers get TWO 132 of the same stat weight (like mastery and hit)

Seems like these are normal epic gems and not JC only gems

That's a good observation. Generally, Cata stats are 250% the size of WotLK stats. Blue gems which gave 16 stats in wotlk will have their equivalents give 40 stats (16x2.5 = 40) and so on. This goes across the board and makes sense also in that the starting epic iLevel used to be 200 in WotLK and seems to be 359 in Cata, an increase of roughly 160 iLevels is in the same ballpark of meaning "stats are about 2.5 times bigger".

In that logic, the new JC only epic gems "should" be 2.5 times 34 (=85) (the stats of the Dragon's Eye gems), but they turn out to be only 67. We can expect the "normal" epic gems to be 2.5x20 = 50, so the total JC bonus in Cata seems to end up, for 3 Chimera Eye JC only gems:

3 x (67 - 50) = 51

Which is only marginally smaller than the current 42. Certainly not the expected 2.5 x 42 = 105 that we would have expected if JC bonus grew proportinally to alkl other stats.s

lol the Loot-A-Rang, that'd make questing quicker

Originally Posted by TobiasX

A little, but half the reason that an epic was Epic was that less people had them. If they're just as common as greens then that's just not Epic.

After WotLK I don't think blizzard can ever go back to that model but we may just have to accept that. Epics will be Epic for the first tier but once the second tier of raiding comes out that'll be over.

What do I care about the stupid TEXT COLOR of my Equipment?
How It looks on my Draenei is way WAAAY more important to me. ^-^

Originally Posted by Boubouille

Yeah, screwed up on the prismatic. Not sure why I wrote that, I guess I just miss the overpowered-JC days. Fixed, we'll all pretend it never happened and I'll unlearn Jewelcrafting from my DK.

What happened to your hunter?

why isnt there any spellpower on the casterdagger?! fkn worthless shit. unless 1int give like 10sp my iccwep will be better

Originally Posted by TobiasX

It's never been about the text color of an item but how rare it is or how difficult it is to get. This isn't the same for everyone but personally an item feels far less Epic to me if it was easy to get or if everyone can get it. I've no problem with people looking cool in WoW but if there's no exclusively-awesome items to aim for I get bored with content quicker.

I think the color and/or looks of an item were the two easy ways to tell if someone was epic.

If all the gear is the same text color, and it all looks roughly the same, then no one can really tell he was an epic raider or not. It's just the 10-20 item level difference and heroic tag on loot that shows it; neither of which seems to have hit home with many people.

I can't blame them too much, because epic... is... well... *ques TotalBiscuit podcast intro* EPPPPPPIIIIIIICCCC!!!

It's mostly nostalgia, really, but it'd be cool to see it back, since it really shouldn't take much to change color text. (I know, the color actually affects stats, but it can't be that hard to unlink them, or just create new colors that look the same as the previous, with equal modifiers, but with both blue and purple text.)

hate to replace my Shadowmourne at lvl 81 with http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/55052/o...n-executioner/

why does my beautiful spell power plate have hit rating on it..?

"Tailoring
Your epic items aren't in-game yet, don't hate me! "

I don't hate you - but where is the scribe stuff...did I miss it?

Where is the inscription and enchanting stuff?

Originally Posted by Senaelanna

Apparently when they said they wanted to bring back the feeling of epics being epic, what they really meant was they wanted everybody to have them so everybody could be equally epic!

So stupid on Blizzards behalf.

I know so stupid for Blizzard to want to grow there BUSINESS and get more subscribers. When will Blizz ever learn to just please people like u 2 morons.

2 fails there tbh
first is only 2 hander being poleaxe = looks shitty and isnt itemized for actual 2h users, just hunters... i really hope there is more to come (and most likely there is)
2nd fail is making bow nad gun 2.8 speed while xbow is 2.9 FIX pls

a lot of the patterns use elementium correct me if im wrong but isnt there already elementium on the live servers used to create thunderfury but the tool tip shows it as a rare quality item the elementium from blackwing lair is legendary has it been downgraded or completley different item

current elementium will be renamed

finally a little bit of love for engineering, might finally be worth me getting it on my pally