Spooncraft

I spoke about this a while back but as new comments have come to light, so must a little update and reminder. People are worried about their level of gear going into the expansion pack. Before BC came out nobody really knew what to expect so there was a relatively large outrage when people started noticing their hard earned epic raiding gear was being easily replaced and all of their e-peen achievements were pretty much rendered obsolete within a few levels.

That is the fact of life in MMOs since gear is the sole method of progressing your character until leveling gets reintroduced when the cap is raised. I could go on about hierchy and gear stacking or itemization philosophies but I don’t want to pull another 4am night. Three in a row is plenty enough for me right now.

Wrath of the Lich King will work similarly to The Burning Crusade in that higher tiers of raid gear won’t be replaced immediately and they may help out the leveling process but a person in blues may get upgrades from their first quest completion.One thing I have been reminding players of is that we don’t currently plan to completely redo a statistic this time like we did with stamina. Where in The Burning Crusade players saw items with a ton more stamina that lead to immediate changes to their gear, in Wrath of the Lich King you should more or less be seeing gear that is just higher level.

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