Spear of Rethu, 605 iLvl level 1

[Tokas]

Now usable at level one and stays 605 iLvl, bug, or intended super fun for leveling?

[FelPlague]

its 700 ilvl for me, but doesent say al evel requirment, so idk
wait wtf its also a 1 handed polearm, what the utter fuck!?

what is this weapon!
700 ilvl, level 1, 1 handed polearm...

[Tokas]

my friend just saw level 20 druid owning everything in dungeons all around him in 1 hit.... I just had to google this shit!

[Deleted]

there was a sword in early wrath, just a grey item but it had no ilvl req so i remember people farming in dragonblight for it for hours to send to alts because it was super op for low levels, this is probably similar. just a bug that will get fixed in time.

[Tokas]

there was a sword in early wrath, just a grey item but it had no ilvl req so i remember people farming in dragonblight for it for hours to send to alts because it was super op for low levels, this is probably similar. just a bug that will get fixed in time.

it's super fun! yeah it'll get fixed

[Stormspark]

it's super fun! yeah it'll get fixed

Yeah, if bugs cause an unintentional BENEFIT to players, they will shut the servers down and hotfix it faster than you can say hotfix. If the bug is an annoyance or detriment to players, it gets ignored for months on the basis of "it's not important" (see the Sunsong Ranch master plow bug).

[Deleted]

Yeah, if bugs cause an unintentional BENEFIT to players, they will shut the servers down and hotfix it faster than you can say hotfix. If the bug is an annoyance or detriment to players, it gets ignored for months on the basis of "it's not important" (see the Sunsong Ranch master plow bug).

the sword in raf was around for around a month afaik

[ComputerNerd]

Yeah, if bugs cause an unintentional BENEFIT to players, they will shut the servers down and hotfix it faster than you can say hotfix. If the bug is an annoyance or detriment to players, it gets ignored for months on the basis of "it's not important" (see the Sunsong Ranch master plow bug).

And you ignore many other changes.
Cherry-picking one example does not prove your point.

In this case it is certainly not intended and its impact stretches way beyond dungeon.
It isn't purely a player-benefiting bug as it has impact in PvP for example.

[Stabbyfists]

And you ignore many other changes.
Cherry-picking one example does not prove your point.

In this case it is certainly not intended and its impact stretches way beyond dungeon.
It isn't purely a player-benefiting bug as it has impact in PvP for example.

How So? PVP stats are normalized based on Ilvl and even then its based on your current level and you cannot go beyond 5% extra stats. Even at lvl 19 there are people using Wrath ilvl items to cheese the ilvl and get a boost to their stats but its not too much. This item in PVP isn't a huge deal in my eyes.

[ComputerNerd]

How So? PVP stats are normalized based on Ilvl and even then its based on your current level and you cannot go beyond 5% extra stats. Even at lvl 19 there are people using Wrath ilvl items to cheese the ilvl and get a boost to their stats but its not too much. This item in PVP isn't a huge deal in my eyes.

Unaware of the capping of the template at lower levels.
That much is true, but it doesn't change the original argument about what is or isn't ignored.
Not by a long-shot.
Something like this cannot be argued to be intended, simple as that.
It isn't some minor effect or niche benefit either.

I expect that to have a moderately quick fix if blizzard are able to do that.

[Moonfall]

It was level 100 last week... when did it go back to level 1??

[Eon Drache]

Yeah, if bugs cause an unintentional BENEFIT to players, they will shut the servers down and hotfix it faster than you can say hotfix. If the bug is an annoyance or detriment to players, it gets ignored for months on the basis of "it's not important" (see the Sunsong Ranch master plow bug).

Tell that to the people PvPing at low levels because someone has this item and ruins the whole thing for everyone else. That's a really good benefit to the players, huh?

[Beace]

Was doing a lvl ~65 dungeon a few hours ago, and at first I couldn't understand how the paladin was basically insta-killing every pack before anyone else could touch them. Asked him about it and he linked this spear.

[Orange Joe]

Not seeing the issue here. It's a BoA scalable weapon

http://www.wowhead.com/item=131733/spear-of-rethu

[Archimand]

Not seeing the issue here. It's a BoA scalable weapon

http://www.wowhead.com/item=131733/spear-of-rethu

you ignore what he mean, its 700 ilvl at level 1 instead of ilvl 10

[Orange Joe]

you ignore what he mean, its 700 ilvl at level 1 instead of ilvl 10

Doubtful. What You see is gonna be based off YOUR lvl not the person equipping it. If you're lvl 100+ looking at it on a lvl 1 toon your going to see a ilvl 700 item.


If it isn't scaling correctly then yes it's clearly a bug.

[Typhoria]

http://imgur.com/a/FchL9

Its 700.

[Dequanacus]

Doubtful. What You see is gonna be based off YOUR lvl not the person equipping it. If you're lvl 100+ looking at it on a lvl 1 toon your going to see a ilvl 700 item.


If it isn't scaling correctly then yes it's clearly a bug.

Just glancing through the posts in this thread makes everything you said invalid. It's clearly giving the stats of a weapon far above what it should

[Beace]

Disregarding the scaling issue, what's up with a 1H spear, with 3.6 speed?! Everything about it screams that it should be a 2H.

[Raiju]

Doubtful. What You see is gonna be based off YOUR lvl not the person equipping it. If you're lvl 100+ looking at it on a lvl 1 toon your going to see a ilvl 700 item.


If it isn't scaling correctly then yes it's clearly a bug.

Well you certainly made yourself look silly