Don't ever do again what you have done with gear stats on 3.4

[Chiramu]

They're planning to change/adjust it come 4.0, if memory serves. To what extent, I haven't the foggiest clue, but after three years of parry being subpar, I hope they have a good idea or two.

There are a lot of good MMORPGs coming out in 2017, hopefully it is fixed .

[ADVSS]

i always thought that if the raid gear was gonna be equal to the tome gear upgraded, the least they could do is make its stats customizable within reasonable means, but maybe that isnt really appealing idea,,

[Brannigan]

You've no idea what you're talking about, no one is saying buff lower tier gear, we are saying let us take existing stats on gear and switch them for equal of less numerical value of another stat.

I very much do know what I'm talking about. You want to take a WEAK piece of gear (say, something with accuracy and speed) and turn it into a stronger piece of gear (crit/speed for example). This actively devalues raid gear by allowing you to reconfigure the occasional crap stat on tomestone gear. Seeing as the only reason raid gear is even remotely worth the trouble is because it has stats that tomestone gear doesn't, that would be bad. If you don't want that much accuracy, go raid and get some pieces without it.

[Zojha]

Seeing as the only reason raid gear is even remotely worth the trouble is because it has stats that tomestone gear doesn't, that would be bad.

Seeing as raid gear is the pinnacle of gear and cannot be used on any content other than content with lower gear demand, it is pointless overkill by default and therefore very much "not" worth the trouble for the stats. It exists solely for E-Peen and for everyone realizing that fact, it would be better if it had completely new, unique models than superior stats, because it's easier to show your E-rection around when the gear stands out.

[Brannigan]

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1) You can use raid gear on new raids that come out. Remember when everyone did it in 2.2 and 2.4? SE shit the bed with raids and rewards in 3.x, but I'm allowing myself the faintest hope that they won't continue this course in 4.0 (which is also the absolute earliest a feature like "rerolling stats" would be implemented).
2) The reason I said "even remotely worth the trouble" was to tell you that raid rewards as they stand are only "remotely worth the trouble." That's because they don't offer superior stats. They offer alternative stats and, before this HW raid tier, didn't even offer unique looks.
3) Allowing people to reconfigure the stats on their tomestone gear would further devalue the already low-value raid gear. I think that's a bad thing.

[Aquaslash]

the 270 drg gear + alex weap actually only has about 900 crit, if you aim for MAX crit, which is really low. My ilvl 250 set has about 1200 crit

that said, dragoons really got shafted this patch

This is why I'm so butthurt. I've had a taste of the high crit life and there's no turning back now.

Before you lot ask, yes I raid, yes I have a relic and I'm hoping the final step delivers