Why dont items have a range of stats?

[HappyLuckBox]

I think the pve raiding game could have increased replayability factor if they added more incentives to farm current content. Seals, socketed, and warforged gear help alot, giving raiders reasons to run content on farm, even when they already have gear, in pursuit of that perfect drop (socket + warforged)

My suggestion would further diversify loot drops.

Assign a range of stats to all items, take any item and allow it to have a range of distributed stats, and remove or alter the current warforged mechanic.
Ie:


current ilvl670 railwalkers ratcheted boots
150 armor
182 agi/int
273 stam
123 mastery
118 multi
% tertiary/socket/warforged

instead ilvl670 railwalkers ratcheted boots
140-150 armor
177-185agi/int
264-276 stam
119-127mastery
114-122multi
% tertiary/socket


its not so much that it is game changing, in fact the range of values from worst to best are about the range for the current warforged mechanic, but this would add more uniqueness to every piece of gear that drops. And of course that special feeling if you get a great roll.

*many will realize the current crafted gear mechanic works like this, and its fun trying to craft that perfect roll.

[Xs]

Raiders already hate the current model, adding more diablo ideas would make it worse.

[dbabendererde]

If this happens I would blame you.

[Odobisean]

No, I didn't get BiS after many, many months of farming SOO because of Warforged and it will surely take longer now that there are sockets as well, and it would add additional RNG into world first races.

[Fenixdown]

No. Just no. Diablo 3 is that a way if you want stat rolls on gear. ------>

[Bad Ashe]

because 20 people rolling on all 5 items from every boss every time because of "better stats" is not a good idea.

[Jester Joe]

It's fine enough the way it is in my opinion. Any more randomness and it will just get frustrating for some who keep rolling the lowest stats.

[corebit]

If you want to borrow more Diablo ideas, then loot drops must also work like Diablo, meaning you get showered with items each time you kill mobs. This kind of RNG only works if items drop in great, great quantities to offset the randomness.

[ThrashMetalFtw]

No. No. No. No. No.

Warforged/random Sockets is one of the worst designs they ever implemented into WoW, and you want to make it even more random?

Realllllly?

[Jackielope]

A reason the items from raids don't have a range is because players would scream bloody murder and rightfully so. WoW is not an ARPG where loot drops like candy and in truth we hardly have any customization possible because the game is specifically built to be limited. The items only serve to boost a spec's kit instead of be a critical part of the kit in the first place.

For another game it might be okay but the game would have to specifically be built around it. WoW is not and will never be. Let this idea move on elsewhere or even just die.

There is already too much randomness in the gear. Let. It. Be.

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

Ya that would be the dumbest idea ever implemented for progression raiding.
Would be cool in dungeons or something but I think Warforged serves this purpose.

[Gourmandise]

The faster we stop posting the faster this idea can be buried where it belongs!

[Thelxi]

That is a terrible idea, why ruin the game with that D3 shit.

[Razecog]

I though WF/random sockets was the worst idea ever but this is a million times worse. Legitimately the worst idea I have ever seen.

[Marmot]

This idea works in D3 cos you can farm it repeatedly all day every day. Doesn't work here cos you can't farm raid gear like that.

[Kazuchika]

*many will realize the current crafted gear mechanic works like this, and its fun trying to craft that perfect roll.

Haha what? Fun? Wasting possibly hundreds (or at release sometimes thousands) of gold on reroll items for it to spit even worse stats back at you was fun?

[Deleted]

I've seen some stupid suggestions in my day but this takes the tee for today atleast. The current system is already stupid enough without adding more RNG on top of everything else. If anything this would have the opposite to desired effect and people would stop raiding.

[wyrdone64]

Terrible idea. I already get irritated with how rare warforged and sockets seem to be. This would just make it even worse.

[Desh]

If I wanted to play Diablo I would play Diablo. If they implemented this idea, they would have to removed lockout restrictions otherwise it would be completely unreasonable.

[Vapo]

Yea diablo that way->
I dont want more of randomness in these loots. You can do it for LFR loot all i care but heroic/mythic do-not-touch.