Do items have a stat budget based on rarity?

[Deleted]

This subject is really low priority. Blizzard will balance the numbers anyway the way they want to so we are talking strictly about the aesthetics of it. That being said, the aesthetics of it are indeed bad when epics last the entire expansion for about 99% of it. I agree it would be cool if the system was something like:

whites: questing, 5man normal, non-elite drops
greens: 5mans heroic, raiding normal, final-boss 5man normal
rare: raiding heroic, 5mans mythic, final-boss 5man heroic
epic: final-boss raiding heroic, mythic raiding

Of course, this is the point we all should remember why this doesn't happen. They want to please the majority. And the majority does not wait for end-game raiding.

[Surfd]

ahh, I guess that makes sense. Cant really balance the field properly when Bonus stats and Gem slots are completely random.

[merli]

Why exactly do these two items not have the same stats?
http://www.wowhead.com/item=128151/p...saster&bonus=0
http://www.wowhead.com/item=113859/q...tone&bonus=567

Same ilvl but not the same amount of stats.

[Deleted]

Why exactly do these two items not have the same stats?
http://www.wowhead.com/item=128151/p...saster&bonus=0
http://www.wowhead.com/item=113859/q...tone&bonus=567

Same ilvl but not the same amount of stats.

This isn't really relevant in the end. But LFR/Dungeon trinkets are generically generated. They are what you get when a trinket is on par with its itemlevel budget.

Raid trinkets are just way above their budget.

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[Schizoide]

This won't work. If white would be the normal leveling gear, everyone would wear their old addon gear until they reach new addon's equivalent.

Why, because they find the color purple soothing, even though the new expansion gear is better? I doubt that very much. It certainly didn't happen in every previous expansion.

[Deleted]

Why, because they find the color purple soothing, even though the new expansion gear is better? I doubt that very much. It certainly didn't happen in every previous expansion.

No, because white gear doesn't have any stats.

[Schizoide]

Obviously in this scenario, they would.