Orion Ryder
11/29/2010 4:55:00 PM
On Nov 29, 11:33 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS...@totalise.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:25:22 -0800 (PST), Orion Ryder
>
> <orionry...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >At least for me and my wife.
>
> >Case 1
> >My hunter's meta gem - I had the ultimate one that was used by many,
> >21 agility + 3 % inc crit damage. I forget what the meta requirement
> >was but it was quite easy to get. Maybe it was one of each and
> >Pristine fixed that up but good. Now the requirement is that there has
> >to be more blue gems than red. HUH??!!
>
> >But da red gems was da boss gems for da hunter, mon!!
>
> >Now there will need to be a spreadsheet built to solve the dilemma of
> >making the maximum usage out of all the gems. Can;t just throw in one
> >Pristine and a zillion reds with +20 agility anymore
>
> Blizz have apparently decided to undo that "soon", shame they didn't
> do that before pushing it live, they got enough feedback about it on
> the beta forums for it to be obvious it was not a good idea!
>
> >Case 2
> >My wife's rogue, several gems - rogue had several orange gems combos
> >for agility and crit or agil and hit. Some of the socket colors that
> >she had those gems in have changed color. They are now blue instead of
> >the yellow that was there before. Now she does nto even have the bonus
> >because the color is mis-matched.
>
> >Blue gem on hunter and rogue? They are telling us to make an agil/
> >stamina purple now?
>
> Hit is now blue so take agi/hit, simples ;-) More of a nuisance for my
> caster alts, since I don't raid and only need 6% hit to cap as a
> result - it's totally impossible to get *under* 6% in any kind of
> decent gear, even with reforging as much of it off as I can, and so
> those blue sockets are a bit pointless... either ignore the colours
> entirely, or if bonus is good enough, use int/stamina, sigh.
>
> >Well I guess in a short while all that gear will be replaced.
>
> >But then again maybe not. When I hit Northrend my hutner and priest
> >were still using much of their gear from Kara and Gruul's until they
> >hit the level 80 dungeons. I think the only thing my hunter replaced
> >prior to that was the ranged weapon was replaced with that one from
> >the group quest in the Borean Tundra on the east side atop that
> >floating temple in the sky.
>
> It won't be like that this time. From all I hear, if you're in ICC
> heroic gear, it'll last till Deepholm (mostly), if you're in anything
> lower, you'll replace it in Hyjal/Vash'jir. And even if you're in ICC
> gear you'll *want* to replace some of it before Deepholm, since mobs
> will start hitting harder at that point, and your old gear has half
> the stamina new greens do. Now granted I've not levelled myself to
> test it, but it's what pretty much everybody has said, anyway!
> --
> EU-Draenor:
> Sagart (80 Undead Priest)
> Balgair (80 Human Rogue)
> Tairbh (80 Tauren Druid)
> Buinne (80 Troll Shaman)
> Ruire (80 Blood Elf Paladin)
> Eilnich (75 Blood Elf Warlock)
OMG!!
I just texted my wife to tell her not to redo her gems.
She texted me back. Let's see what she said.
"I already did grrr"
Dang it. I thought her top priority this morning was going to be north
STV.
I guess she reprioritized.
Oh well
OH! OH! OH!
Orion