Originally Posted by
endersblade
I miss the days when Bob's Epic Shoulders of Epicness had the same exact stats no matter who got them or how. It annoys me to no end that gear can now 'proc' tertiary stats, sockets, etc. That's too much RNG for WoW. Not only do you have to get it to drop, but you have to get it to proc the 'right' stats to make it good.
I don't know if this has been fixed recently, but I remember the last time I played I was getting gear from quests that didn't make any sense. I would get a pair of blue pants from one quest that would have (e.g.) 400 Stam, 400 STR, ilevel 145, and then the very next quest I would get a pair of epic pants that were identical in every way, except they were epic. It made absolutely no sense. Two items, different rarities, same exact stats, same exact ilevel. Never before did I feel like epics were so worthless.
I miss epics feeling epic. And no, I don't mean that they have to be rare and hard to get. The differences in stats between greens, blues and epics feel like they margins have been getting smaller and smaller. It was always fun doing a long quest chain that resulted in an epic that blew your other gear out of the water. Or doing raids and getting epic gear from higher tiers, where you look at it and just go "duh, major upgrade here!", instead of having to play spreadsheet sim calculator to figure out if the .001% increase in DPS is worth losing another stat for.
So yes, I want them to bring 'normal' gear back.