World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor/itemization changes

Attribute changes

• Hit and expertise - Gone!
  • Blizzard felt like they didn't feel like a bonus.
• Dodge and parry - Gone!
  • Tanks will still be able to dodge and parry, but they will no longer be gear stats.

Enchants, gems, and reforging

• Blizzard felt like there was too much modification needed to be done every time you get a new piece of gear: enchants, gemming, and reforging your caps.
• Fewer items which can accept enchants, but more powerful enchants and more choice.
• Fewer gem sockets, but gems will be much more powerful.
  • No more socket bonuses or metagems. Sockets are a bonus which can appear on gear and do not count towards item budget.
• Reforging - Gone!
  • This was like a crutch for bad initial and less stats.

Armor, weapon, and other equippable item changes

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• Armor (excluding jewelry, trinkets, or weapons) primary attributes will change to fit class and spec.

Item numbers squish

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• Stat values would be reduced roughly to 1/20th^{[citation needed]} from before, across the board.
  • Basically a re-valuation of stats that shouldn't affect results significantly, but theory-crafters will be given a headache due to needing to redo formulas and try to reverse engineer new logic.
  • Counters dramatic stat inflation, but affect on item level ranges is unclear.

See also

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News

WoW Insider BlizzCon 2013: Huge changes coming to itemization by Adam Koebel Nov 9th 2013 6:30PM