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    Gear Inflation & the new enchants

    all the new enchants listed on the front page are for item level 300 or higher ...that would appear to be a substantial jump from the best gear in Wrath...Boub do you think it's a placeholder number or will Cat be like TBC where the first few quests give you a green or blue weapon much better than epic Vanilla weapons (and if so how does this jive with all their talk of reducing gear inflation?)

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    Re: Gear Inflation & the new enchants

    Quote Originally Posted by Sensa
    (and if so how does this jive with all their talk of reducing gear inflation?)
    gear inflation is between tiers of raiding, not between expansions. yes, expect huge jump in stats

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    Re: Gear Inflation & the new enchants

    If Im not mistaken the Heroic blues and entry level raiding purples in wrath started at 200 so its only makes since that when cata launches the heroic blues and raiding purps will start at 300 plus why would you waste enchants on old gear with a new expac

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    Re: Gear Inflation & the new enchants

    Well, let's look at the best Naxx40 tanks. They were rocking about 10k hp. Then we came to Black Temple where the Tanks rocked a whopping 20k hp, now in ICC25HC gear Tanks are reaching 55-60k with little to no effort. I can see a pattern - can you?

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    Re: Gear Inflation & the new enchants

    Quote Originally Posted by Devlan ED EU
    Well, let's look at the best Naxx40 tanks. They were rocking about 10k hp. Then we came to Black Temple where the Tanks rocked a whopping 20k hp, now in ICC25HC gear Tanks are reaching 55-60k with little to no effort. I can see a pattern - can you?
    As I remember it, the very best, BiS gear tanks in Naxx40 had 15k HP. In BC, 20k HP was normal for ZA, Sunwell/lateBT had a couple thousand more.

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    Re: Gear Inflation & the new enchants

    Don't you think the tank comparison is quite silly, considered they said tanks would be on about 100k hp in entry level, and most others at around 90k?

    Btw, just as a notice;
    Entry MC gear Ilvl = ~58-62.
    Entry Kara gear Ilvl = ~98-102.
    Entry Naxx gear Ilvl = ~178-200.
    Entry Cata gear Ilvl = ~300.

    The jumps have become bigger, simply for the reason of scaling. It would be quite boring to level up 5-10 more levels, only doing 50 more dps. Especially considering, as lvl 80 you'd really, really be annoyed with a lvl 75 being able to go toe to toe with you.

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    Re: Gear Inflation & the new enchants

    The big jump in itemlevels is because of the 10 and 25man instances that came in WotLK. since they needed to have the 10mans half a tier under the 25man, but still slightly above the 25man gear from the previous content.

    And when ToC and ICC came with their heroic modes that had every item in the instance with higher item level they had to increase item levels even further.

    Since they had to have an entire tier difference between the lowest items and the highest items in the same content patch it became huge jumps.

    The jumps will be lower now in cata when there will just be a Normal and Heroic gear levels.

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