tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post2644940995535400299..comments2024-01-04T02:49:23.470-08:00Comments on Blessing of Kings: Intellect PlateRohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09090769681887119989noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-52355419412460533602011-04-07T05:19:47.945-07:002011-04-07T05:19:47.945-07:00As a Holy Pally I love Int Plate. I gear up while ...As a Holy Pally I love Int Plate. I gear up while raiding reasonably quickly as a result.<br /><br />Rather than removing Int Plate, perhaps the developers should replace a consumer of Str Plate with an Int Plate user. The way to do that of course would be to fairly significantly reform the Retribution Tree (or perhaps one of the DK trees).Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088238208613243886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-23671026489169140922011-04-06T17:14:28.904-07:002011-04-06T17:14:28.904-07:00I always thought a better (from players' point...I always thought a better (from players' point of view) solution would be that bosses can only drop int plate if there's a paladin in the group. This would probably be a pain to implement though, and it might set a dangerous precedent.Katherinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-25082605346175571512011-04-06T10:35:33.554-07:002011-04-06T10:35:33.554-07:00Is stamina and spirit, and two expansions behind, ...Is stamina and spirit, and two expansions behind, close enough?<br />http://www.wowhead.com/item=32854Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-35375670350203820792011-04-06T09:29:48.169-07:002011-04-06T09:29:48.169-07:00I don't know why they didn't continue down...I don't know why they didn't continue down the Sunwell route and let you trade in that int plate plus some type of token (maelstrom crystal? X valor points?) to exchange it for str plate (or vice-versa.) It reduces the depth of the loot tables without reducing the depth of gear available.Kadaanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826029508824702882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-22876197656654464232011-04-06T08:09:46.818-07:002011-04-06T08:09:46.818-07:00All they have to do is allow reforging of intellec...All they have to do is allow reforging of intellect mail to plate and vice versa.Tetumornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-60631171601082663482011-04-06T07:38:12.429-07:002011-04-06T07:38:12.429-07:00Just for the record, Hunters don't rol on ever...Just for the record, Hunters don't rol on everything anymore, not even close. So much gear in Cata has STR on it and we don't roll on those items. Maces? Can't use 'em. If an AGI item has INT, we don't roll on that either. Just sayin :PSeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08962869066012176921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-90764087506358764302011-04-06T05:51:52.870-07:002011-04-06T05:51:52.870-07:00I would have preferred making Paladins 'streng...I would have preferred making Paladins 'strength casters'. Essentially, Holy Paladins would be the same as Retribution Paladins except that instead of channeling melee into more damage they'd channel melee into more healing.<br /><br />However, I think the Blizzard devs really want to avoid having radically different types of healing because while leading edge raiding only impacts a small number of players, the vast majority tend to key off of it to the point where the fact that some spec isn't very good in a specific endgame raid makes players who aren't even close to endgame raiding complain about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-81518033314069246372011-04-06T02:58:45.116-07:002011-04-06T02:58:45.116-07:00"As it is, holy paladins and holy offspec pal..."As it is, holy paladins and holy offspec paladins gear up so fast it's silly and it winds up being sharded..."<br /><br />I wish this were true for us. Our guild has been raiding since Jan and has about a total of 60 boss kills across BoT/BWD/ToTFW with the guilding being 10/13 overall.<br /><br />Of those kills, there have been 3 Intellect Plate drops for 2 Holy Paladins. 3 drops total....<br /><br />RNG is RNG but from my prespective, please get rid of Intellect Plate drops, have us use Intellect Mail drops and give us a talent to uparmor it AND change the appearance. Have the design team still make their models and all but actually have the loot table consolidate to just Intellect mail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-45241988375071490602011-04-06T00:34:31.070-07:002011-04-06T00:34:31.070-07:00The problem is that there are 30 class/spec combin...The problem is that there are 30 class/spec combinations out there and only 1 uses intellect plate. So the devs have 3 choices:<br />1) 1/30 of the boss armor drops is intellect plate. Since about 1/3 of the boss drops are not armor but weapon or neck-cloak-finger-trinket, it means that only 2.22% of the drops are int plate. So out of a full 12/12 10-men clear you see half!!! int plate. <br />2) the bosses give disproportionally high amount of int plate like 1 every 10 men full clear. This means that after 2 months the holy paladins have 2x more epics than anyone else.<br />3) the bosses give more tokens/points and less drop. Like they could give 1 item and 250 valor points instead of 70 (and the weekly cap is also elevated to 3000 or such) Or they could give 70 valor, 1 item and one epic orb that can be used by crafters to create drop-level armor (and of course blacksmiths can make intellect plate to every slot except where tier token is needed).<br /><br />I don't ask which would you like (the second), but from a developer perspective which would you prefer?Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-73120031745832990412011-04-06T00:30:37.927-07:002011-04-06T00:30:37.927-07:00What if all loot was without a initial armour? But...What if all loot was without a initial armour? But when you equipped a piece you could transform it into the armour class you preferred. So there would only be:<br />- caster dps gear<br />- caster healing gear<br />- tanking gear<br />- agility dps gear <br />- strength dps gearUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04821036652535273158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-82079342266883565612011-04-05T22:58:29.773-07:002011-04-05T22:58:29.773-07:00I was always surprised that DKs weren't design...I was always surprised that DKs weren't designed around int plate with int~str conversions (instead of the str~spellpower conversions they use). Unholy especially seemed like it would have been perfect for it. Probably would have run many of the issues you just mentioned, but at least more than a single spec in the game would be using the int plate. <br /><br />As it is, holy paladins and holy offspec paladins gear up so fast it's silly and it winds up being sharded. Even worse is when int plate drops, but it's so poorly itemized no holy paladin would ever want it.<br /><br />I like wearing plate, but it would clean up the loot tables SO much if they just made you wear mail to heal.Elladrionnoreply@blogger.com