Epic Crafted Items, Blizzcon Contests, Concept Arts

Potential Engineering changes listed, and things like the Elementium Dragonling (first post so I can't link to it apparently) certainly have me hopeful.

ummm... did they forget about strength gems?

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Originally Posted by Senaelanna

Good to see welfare epics are out again in full force for all the trashcan casuals to feel good about themselves.

why do you have to hate? play your game, and they will play theirs. quit trying trying so hard to sound like a hardcore raider on a message board.

Originally Posted by Blur

thank you for informative answer

Informative, but unfortunately dead wrong.

A - Mastery stat has NEVER increased the passive masteries
B - Masteries don't work like that anymore.

Now, you get a couple certain bonuses for picking a tree (you get this when you put your first point in the tree): I.E. Fire mage gets +crit and +fire damage (I think) for putting their first point in fire at 10.

Each tree has one unique "mastery" ability to the tree, which will take affect just about when you get the 31st point in the tree. Arms Warrior unique mastery ability is much like the old sword specialization, a percent chance to proc an extra weapon swing. Let's say at base it is 5% chance. Now, with mastery rating, that percentage will increase. Perhaps ~100 mastery rating = 1% better chance to proc the extra swing.

Some other class/spec unique abilities:

Ele Shaman get elemental overload (proc a 2nd identical spell) - mastery rating increases the chance to proc
Fire mages get an extra ignite effect - mastery rating increases the amount of spell damage that becomes the dot

Yay for profession goodies!

Double yay for engineering perks! =D

Oh snap, time to dust off the ol' Photoshop and have a whack at that art contest.

Anyone notice that that crafted 1h axe hs attack power as a stat on it?

Originally Posted by silendeath

Anyone notice that that crafted 1h axe hs attack power as a stat on it?

explain your surprise, please?

Unless engineers cannot create gems on agility and strength?

This is me begging blizzard to add stamina options for eng so my tank can use the profession

is it me or did blizz go berserk with RNG stats? weapons with nearly 2k spellpower...

amg, crafted bows, and a looter-rang, awesomeness!

To the people arguing over what makes epics epic etc.; just stop wasting your energy. This is MMO-champion, land of the stubborn. Neither side of the argument will change anyone's minds, it's a cesspool of stupidity.

Originally Posted by Kiro

This time, hopefully people can't do the first raid in T10 gear, and need to gear up appropriately first.

1) Wut?

2) What's your problem?

Originally Posted by bregtann

So 359 is the new 200...

If you think about it. This jump in iLVL really isn't that big. a lvl 75 axe has iLVL 162. and that's a green so, 5 levels up and epic (200) = + 38 iLVL'S. not too much.
Considering this is an expansion and the jump is from starting epic to starting epic. an increase of iLVL from 200 > 359 isn't that much.

The power on random greens in cata at lvl 81 will be astounding

Originally Posted by rokshox

If you think about it. This jump in iLVL really isn't that big. a lvl 75 axe has iLVL 162. and that's a green so, 5 levels up and epic (200) = + 38 iLVL'S. not too much.
Considering this is an expansion and the jump is from starting epic to starting epic. an increase of iLVL from 200 > 359 isn't that much.

The power on random greens in cata at lvl 81 will be astounding

Seems pretty big to me. The jump from BC to WotLK was from 115 to 200. Roughly half the jump here.

Originally Posted by Karnadas

Well, taunts are on the spell hit table.

Yeah but they rolled spell hit and melee hit together into one stat a while back. I really hope they aren't making them two stats again /facepalm

Am I the only one who would take Thralls armor (even Garoshs) over these plastic manga crap with Christmas lights we are getting usually ?

Originally Posted by Notos

Seems pretty big to me. The jump from BC to WotLK was from 115 to 200. Roughly half the jump here.

From starting epic to starting epic? I haven't seen the starting epic's at 70. if you could link that would be great

Engineering Ranged Weapons are BoP, while all the other epic craft are BoE...also BS Weapons...
Hope that's going to change, or i'll have to quit LW on my hunter to take Engi :S

Those item stats are messed up...