No, carrying difference gear for different specs is the most stupid thing in wow.
Its really sad that tanks that use shields dont get to have tanking stats on them imo wow needs to go back to having gear with stats for specific specs
With the games current loot systems in place, HELL NO. To keep the number of potential offerings per dungeon equal as they are now, you'd see boss loot tables skyrocket to stupid amounts, which is just silly. With that, if Timmy Plate DPS gets a drop that they don't need, Danny Plate Tank can't take it off of their hands if it's an upgrade for him, as it won't have the defensive tank stats he needs to do his job. If we still had Master Loot rules, it would even worse. Using Mythic as an example, with 4 drops per boss (going with the original 20% per person in the raid, with 20 people is 400% - 4 drops) you'd be screwed if items stats returned to being role directed.
You'd have 10 total role possibilities across the 4 armor types. Healing and DPS Cloth. Healing, Tank and DPS Leather, Healing and DPS Mail, and Healing, Tank and DPS Plate. If the what ever the primary stat was on the item could still change on what role you were fulfilling, it wouldn't be horrendous, but if that changed too, oh DAYUM.
Cloth wouldn't matter, as all cloth classes use Int, but you'd still tailor stats towards the two roles. Leather would have Int Leather Healer gear, Int Leather DPS gear, Agi Tank gear, and Agi DPS gear. Mail would have Int Healer gear, Int DPS gear, and Agi DPS gear. Plate would have Int Healer gear, Str Tank gear and Str DPS gear. All-in-all 12 possible combinations, you better hope the damn thing you want drops.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
I don't understand why you'd want to regress to such a horrid system, that only caused frustration to players. Be it lack of offspec gears, tanks and healers having a hard time doing their solo activities, and bags filled with items for every spec.
So no, it should absolutely not.
The irony of your statement (and most of the responses in this thread tbh) is that with the exception of wasted bag slots for off-spec gear nothing has really changed between Vanilla and current Retail.
All Blizzard has done, in reality, is rename and change the method of acquisition of talents/desired stats. A tank without enough Defense in Vanilla is equal to a tank without the right combination of "borrowed" powers in Retail. The so-called benefit of the streamlined "regular" gear stats in Retail isn't enough to allow a fury warrior to succeed in higher end content so the only real bonus is not needing to take up extra bag space with off-spec gear. The "borrowed" power(s) system in retail is as alt unfriendly, or more, than anything in Vanilla. And all of this "modern" gearing and stat accumulation is now tied to a time gated MAU hamster wheel system that is reset every patch and continues throughout the course of the current expansion.
The fact that you, and many others, think this is a better system speaks volumes. It's the same basic concept. It's also arguably worse. It's definitely not better.
You're just coming across as silly.
Let's take vanilla into account, as you mentioned.
Healers needed +healing gear. Healers needed mp5 or spirit gear, depending on their class. So, with their regular healing gear, if they decided to go farm some mobs, they'd a very boring time, with a very slow clear rate. So, they'd have to pick up offspec items with offensive stats, crit, spell damage, whatever. So, in reality, they'd have to keep several gear combinations for multiple purposes.
Now? Since everything is standard, their typical Main Stat \ Secondary stat works both ways! Maybe not optimally since some stats still matter more than others, but pretty well enough.
The fact that you do not understand this simple difference, and decide to call out others with silly reasoning, just makes me scratch my head in confusion. Just go play a tank or healer in vanilla to 'experience' this feature request, and figure it out for yourself.
That particular aspect that you're now focused on could have been remedied in a myriad of ways without the entire MAU "borrowed" power hamster wheel in Retail. In fact dual spec largely solved it. And It doesn't change the fact that all they have done is change the process / placement of optimal stats from the original talent trees / gear stats to a convoluted borrowed powered system.
When they first revamped, I mean destroyed, the talent tree system the corporate line was a combo of the choices not being meaningful (cookie cutter specs) and/or boring (passive talents). Which was then replaced with new talents every 15 levels and later borrowed powers on top of that which, you guessed it, were also an illusionary boring choice since there was still only one cookie cutter optimal choice.
My very first character was a resto shaman in 2005. I know what it was like. My friend recruited me for his guild and told me I was going to be a healer. Not knowing better, WoW being my first MMORPG experience, I levelled to 60 as a healer. I know what the limitations of that were. And in every expansion since, up to Shadowlands which I haven't played, including the borrowed powers ones I levelled as elemental while taking healer borrowed power stats along the way because it was still more efficient to do that than level as a true resto.
While the viability of tanks / healer farming has improved the ultimate solution implemented by Blizzard, in my opinion, is an example of the cure being worse than the disease.
Nonononomonononono. I don't want to have to farm multiple sets of gear again. And have my entire inventory just full of gear for 2 specs in pvp, and 3 specs for pve. Please just no. And libram/quiver? No thank you. Less items that you would be able to trade with other people in your raid.
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What we need is Reforging back. And Profession combat perks. And Profession specializations that lead to end-game gear. And being able to enchant every piece of gear. And the removal of Versatility. And stats like Hit, Resistance, Parry/Dodge, Armor/Spell Pen, Defense, and Hit should be brought back. And Wands, Bows, Guns, Librams, etc. should be brought back. And combat Glyphs should be brought back too.
That's a good start.
Don't forget, we even have HUGE DR on all mastery now too, and it applies in torghast as well.
So even if mastery is good for your spec, you get so little from any mastery you do gain. My mastery on my hunter is BiS heroic raid level, forgot the % as I haven't played in over a week, and last torghast run I done, I had like around 120% mastery from anima power things, and my mastery was only at like 30 - 40% from about mid 20s.
I wish gear stats were more interesting too. Leech is an example of a bonus stat that could be made interesting and be made a secondary stat; like instead of healing you for x% of the damage you do, it could have a % based proc rate, that deals damage equal to a % of the damage of your last attack, extra leech increases the % of both.
Or instead of changing the secondary stats, having more risk/reward effects, similar to corruption from BFA but without being OPAF, could be an angle to look at too.
Overall, I liked what the corruption system was trying to do, by adding power for other various drawbacks, but even after all their balancing, it wasn't implemented as well as it could have been. Something like that could be explored, effects could change / be added each major patch (or maybe after a set period after each patch to give people time to replace their current items) or each expansion.
I disagree with pretty much all you wrote there ....
Crafting a tank in Classic is SO much more fun because you have options. Having 3 gear set (Defense, Offence, Mix) is amazingly fun if you get it right! I really dislike the way retail gearing works and think im not alone in that.
Is that the way you always reply to people?
I do in fact enjoy a good discussion like this if people ask me about it. I don't shout it off the roofs but I think it's an interesting topic with many different opinions.
Wether i am part of the minority i don't know. Classic with all it's good and bad things was pretty popular so i wouldn't be too surprised if the oldschool RPG character building is more popular then you expect it too be.
@Poopsnacker, your on an open forum so try to be open for other peoples opinions.
Funny, I rather liked Hit and Expertise, and thought they made gearing a much more interesting process. Some people may have disliked them, but they engaged with gear and gearing up in a way that most people don't any more.
And if people do that, that's no different for them than now. For those of us that cared, gearing these days is really dull. Enchants and gems are simply a power boost, in the case of gems one that's random, like warforging. I miss BC and Wrath gear, with all those lovely sockets, and the choices about socketing to match the colours and get the socket bonus, or to ignore it - sometimes you should do one, sometimes the other.People will not ever actively engage with so much crunching of numbers with gear - they'll just get an addon to tell them what pieces of gear they own are optimal to equip, and then whatever interaction you have with the gear gets thrown out the window.
Armour Pen was a problem, but mainly because it was impossible to balance across many specs with widely varying amounts of physical damage, and it also did weird things to PvP balance. The other stats were fine.There's a reason the Defense and Hit/Exp and Res and Pen and Regen stats and all that went out the window -- they were inferior design, they were automated and not interacted with anyway, they weren't fun, they were a waste of dev/balance time, so they were axed.
I much prefer clean stats we have now than going back to this soup of nonsense we had before for god knows what reason.
The most immediate benefit of current stats is that they are simply friendly to new players, you don't have secret caps and shit. Then for everyone else - you don't need to lug 500 items you don't need just to play around hit cap or other silly magic caps.
Azerite gear said "You need three pieces for swapping for each spec" right there. Add in 1-2 trinkets and possibly weapons as well and while not as bad as the old days of complete sets, it was still half a set per role, plus 1/2 to a whole set for PvP. SL is quite good in this respect, though if you're serious you might need swap pieces because of differing secondary stat values.
Having the primary stat just be whatever you current spec needs is fine. Having Crit grant a defensive stat to tanks is also okay. No longer having Hit, Expertise, or Defence makes for much less interesting gearing.
More gear in the bags.
If I want to run a offensive tank in +15 or world content but still play a tank, I would need different gear set. Tanks being as rare as it is now, it would not help at all.
I like tank specific stats, they are nice, but it would have to come as an addition which only work in tank spec and not cost stat budget