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Guide to Item Changes in Warlords of Draenor

posted 2014/05/16 at 6:53 PM by perculia

Warlords Profiler

Just go to http://www.wowhead.com/list and enter your character's name and realm on the left-hand side for "Lookup Battle.net Profile."

It will display your gear with up-to-date stats, including columns for self-buffs and raid-buffs.

Armor

When referring to "Armor," Blizzard is describing the following gear slots: helm, shoulders, chest, wrist, hands, waist, legs, feet.

Armor changes primary stats (Agility, Intellect, Strength) and set bonuses based on your spec. There is no "strength plate" or "intellect plate"--simply plate that changes based on your role.

Secondary stats for armor remain unchanged when switching between specs. This means that if you really want different combinations of secondary stats for each spec, you need multiple items for each slot.

When looking at an item's tooltip, you will see multiple primary stats on it now--with the stats that don't benefit your spec hidden. So for example, Vest of Forceful Fury would have Intellect hidden if a Guardian Druid wore it, and Agility hidden if a Balance Druid wore it.

On item pages, you can imitate Warlords of Draenor tooltip behavior by going to "Showing tooltip for " and changing the class/spec to see the stat colors change.

Spirit is no longer found on gear classified as Armor. It is only found on Non-Armor in Warlords.

Non-Armor

When referring to "Non-Armor," Blizzard is describing the following gear slots: Neck, Back, Rings, Trinkets, and Weapons.

These items are more specialized. Spirit is found on items suitable to healers, and Bonus Armor is found on items suitable to tanks. These items do not change primary stats based on spec.

Gear Changes in Warlords of DraenorGear AugmentationsThere are three ways players can get better-than-expected stats for a particular item

Warforged: The item is +6 ilvls higher.

Extra sockets: sockets will be used much more sparingly in Warlords.

Tertiary stats: Movement Speed (Increases your movement speed), Indestructible (Causes the item to not take durability damage), Leech (Causes you to be healed for a portion of all damage and healing done), Avoidance (Reduces your damage taken from area-of-effect attacks). We already saw some of this with Siege of Orgrimmar trinkets like Juggernaut's Focusing Crystal for Lifesteal and Frenzied Crystal of Rage for Cleave. These are also considered bonus stats and aren't part of an item's regular stat budget.

It will be very rare to get an item that has all three augmentations at once.

All Highmaul and Foundry gear, including Tier 17 set gear and LFR.

Loot from WoD world bosses.

Garrison loot from invasions and missions.

Dungeon loot from heroic bosses and the Rusted Challenger's Strongbox.

Regular dungeon gear can have a tertiary stat.

Honor PvP gear can be Warforged.

Uncommon-quality quest rewards can be up to 20 ilvls higher, and rare-quality quest rewards can be up to 10 ilvls higher.

Crafted Warlords gear.

Conquest ilvl 660 PvP gear.

Apexis vendor gear.

Legendary rings.

World-drop BoEs.

Random Stats

Crafted Warlords gear.

Garrison loot from invasions and missions.

Challenge Mode rewards in Rusted Challenger's Strongbox.

of the Fireflash, Crit/Haste

Peerless, Crit/Mastery

of the Savage, Crit/Multistrike

of the Quickblade, Crit/Versatility

of the Feverflare, Haste/Mastery

of the Deft, Haste/Multistrike

of the Aurora, Haste/Versatility

of the Merciless, Mastery/Multistrike

of the Harmonious, Versatility/Mastery

of the Strategist, Versatility/Multistrike

of the Guileful, Crit/Bonus Armor

of the Windshaper, Haste/Bonus Armor

of the Noble, Mastery/Bonus Armor

of the Stormbreaker, Bonus Armor/Multistrike

of the Stalwart, Versatility/Bonus Armor

of the Fanatic, Spirit/Crit

of the Zealot, Spirit/Haste

of the Diviner, Spirit/Mastery

of the Herald, Spirit/Multistrike

of the Augur, Spirit/Versatility

New StatsThere are new secondary stats

Versatility Increases damage and healing, and reduces damage taken

Multistrike Grants two chances for your damage and healing effects to fire an additional time, each at 30% effectiveness

Bonus Armor is only found on tank-appropriate Non-Armor pieces. This increases the tank's armor.

Readiness and Amplify initially were planned to be secondary stats, but were later scrapped.

Tertiary/Minor

Movement Speed: Increases your movement speed

Indestructible: Causes the item to not take durability damage

Leech: Causes you to be healed for a portion of all damage and healing done

Avoidance: Reduces your damage taken from area-of-effect attacks.

Changed and Removed StatsWarlords of Draenor Alpha Patch NotesPrimary Stats

Agility and Intellect no longer provide critical strike, as Strength does not and that caused balancing issues.

Agility users get Critical Strikes as compensation.

The base chance to critically strike is now 5% for all classes.

Weapon Scaling

Each point of Agility or Strength now grants 1 Attack Power (down from 2). All other sources of Attack Power now grant half as much as before.

Weapon Damage values on all weapons have been reduced by 20%.

Attack Power now increases Weapon Damage at a rate of 1 DPS per 3.5 Attack Power (up from 1 DPS per 14 Attack Power).

Attack Power, Spell Power, or Weapon Damage now affect the entire healing or damage throughput of player spells.

Dodge and Parry

Active mitigation has been a tanking model that has worked out well, so Dodge and Parry is kept on the low side.

Dodge and Parry are removed and have been converted into Critical Strike, Haste, or mastery on armor pieces, or Bonus Armor on non-armor pieces. In addition, all players now have 0% chance to be dodged and 3% chance to be parried. Tanks receive an additional 3% reduction in chance to be parried.

You can't get Dodge and Parry from gear anymore, but you can get it from other stats and some abilities like Sanctuary.

The amount of Dodge gained per Agility has been reduced by 25%, and the amount of Parry gained per Strength has been reduced by 25%.

Hit and Expertise

Hit and Expertise are removed and have been converted into Critical Strike, Haste, or Mastery on existing gear. In addition, all players now have a 100% chance to hit and 0% chance to glance when fighting creatures up to 3 levels higher.

For gems, enchants, and all consumables, hit has been converted to critical strike, and expertise to haste.

Secondary Stats

Haste: Spell Haste %, Melee Haste %, and Ranged Haste % are just simply Haste.

Crit: Spell Crit %, Melee Crit %, and Ranged Crit % are just simply Crit.

Spirit is no longer found on armor pieces.

Warlords ProfilerGear SquishRobes of Riven Dreams on liveRobes of Riven Dreams in WarlordsEnchants and Gems

Fewer items can be enchanted in Warlords, and the goal is to have enchants feel like a bonus instead of something mandatory. The only Warlords enchants are for amulets, rings, capes, and weapons.

Old enchants cannot be used on items above ilvl 600, such as Greater Precision

Meta gems and socket bonuses aren't found on Warlords gear, and many fewer items will have sockets in Warlords of Draenor. This was announced at BlizzCon.

All gem sockets in Warlords are prismatic, and Warlords gems do not have colors--they work in any color socket.

Like gear, enchants and gems are scaled down in Warlords of Draenor, which the database reflects.

Item Data ChangesKorven's Crimson Crescent

6.0 Siege of Orgrimmar items and Warlords Tier 17 items like Korven's Crimson Crescent now have raid difficulty bonuses. All of our comments and screenshots have been consolidated and moved over to these new pages in 6.0 to reduce database clutter.

Warlords of Draenor quest items like Frostwolf Hunting Crossbow now display uncommon, rare, and epic versions. When completing a Draenor quest, the reward has a low chance to be rare or epic.

Warlords of Draenor dungeon items like Robes of Swirling Light now display a Heroic option as well as bonuses that modify the required level and item level. The same item can drop in most dungeons--just scaled appropriately to the dungeon's difficulty and intended level.

Korven's Crimson Crescenthttp://wod.wowhead.com/item=112920&bonus=448:450

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Comment by stymExcellent recap, thanks! It might be worth mentioning that bonus armor increases the attack power of all tanks thanks to the Bladed Armor passive. It's not just an Effective Health bonus.Comment by Jkpmanthe scaling was so silly the squish is kinda needed

Blizzard should REALLY consider to hire a native english speaking person, instead of these monkies that never heard about grammar or logic:Comment by IBPwNinThe only reason I'm hesitant about WoD at all (even though I have the pre-order lol) is because these tertiary stats sound a lot like how Diablo's gear works. Not only do we have to pray anything we can use drops, but now we have to pray that item has our favorable stats + augmentations on it? They increased the chances something will drop that you can simply use with this all-inclusive idea of 'plate is plate, no more int-plate and str-plate' etc. Which is wonderful! Now, to receive the best-in-slot with these tertiary stats and augmentations you have to hope that piece of armor has:
1. the highest ilvl available (e.g. warforged)
2. your favorite tertiary; out of however many possibilities there are for that item. It does appear they limited that to a single tertiary type per slot (bracers can have lifesteal, gloves can have cleave etc.). If that's true, it drastically helps our odds!
3. a bonus gem socket on it!
Getting all three of those in your favor sounds like a 0.00001% drop chance for a single piece of gear to me. Multiply that by all of your equipment slots and nobody will reach "best-in slot" before the next expansion! The whole reason I don't play Diablo is because I'm a perfectionist and there's just not enough time in one's life to get the best gear possible with that model. I know, I don't need the best of the best to play and succeed in the game. It's just so demoralizing knowing there's a better version of what you just got, for the same amount of effort, and you'll just have to try again next week.
I just hope I missed an important memo somewhere that proves me wrong.Comment by MunboBlizzard needs to learn what "solo" means. If you're still having to involve other people, it's not solo.Comment by PragmaticSoulBlizzard needs to learn what "solo" means. If you're still having to involve other people, it's not solo.Comment by LocoslayerAm I the only one here that think they're really squishing out the fun of looting during leveling? With this kind of squish, leveling to 90 will be like leveling from 10 to 15 now.. "OMG, a dagger that gives me 1 more agility! Such OP, much wow" Imagine all the in-game mayhem when someone finds an item that has 2 more strength than what he has :D. Yes, I'm being really sarcastic right now, but I'm just very curious about the leveling process with such low numbers.. Okay, a stat-crunch was needed, but really.. from 4k to not even 200 as is shown with some items here? I'm feeling like I could take on Illidan stormrage like that ony my 90 dk with lvl 1 gear as a matter of speaking..or will this new gear even prevent me from soloing him since the numerical difference is pretty much zero from 70 to 90 gear..?Comment by Thansons@Pragmatic soul, this is about gear changes, not about why you're not getting better gear. I think you're in the wrong forum. Besides, complaining on wowhead isn't going to get you what you want, it's only going to detriment people who read comments.

Anyways about the gear, I'm glad it's going down finally. I was getting so tired of seeing thousands and thousands of damage. It seems like it will be back down to wrath level again where people were more evenly matched and the gear just made you just a tad better.

Also I really really hope they shy away from putting another timeless isle in the next expansion because that gears item level might have been 535 with the upgrade token but the stats on it were complete crap compared to a 528 from SoO. It may have gotten you a higher item level than people who didn't have those pieces but it didn't reflect on dps. It was just a cheap way of getting into LFR and being carried.Comment by Imiona"We are not dumbing the Game down"Comment by JillyBean4179"Bonus rolls will be more intelligent in Warlords and take items you've recently gotten from rolls into account."

This is the single best thing I've seen in all the notes. If this means I don't get the same trinket I'm already wearing 5 weeks in a row, I'll be thrilled.Comment by TheBaron87I thought that tanks had LESS chance to be parried? The description implies the opposite:

. In addition, all players now have 0% chance to be dodged and 3% chance to be parried. Tanks receive an additional 3% chance to be parried.Comment by robbiedehandWe want gear that's the same iLvl as the gear you disenchanted or vendored about a year ago.Comment by robbiedehand@Pragmatic soul, this is about gear changes, not about why you're not getting better gear. I think you're in the wrong forum. Besides, complaining on wowhead isn't going to get you what you want, it's only going to detriment people who read comments.

Anyways about the gear, I'm glad it's going down finally. I was getting so tired of seeing thousands and thousands of damage. It seems like it will be back down to wrath level again where people were more evenly matched and the gear just made you just a tad better.

Also I really really hope they shy away from putting another timeless isle in the next expansion because that gears item level might have been 535 with the upgrade token but the stats on it were complete crap compared to a 528 from SoO. It may have gotten you a higher item level than people who didn't have those pieces but it didn't reflect on dps. It was just a cheap way of getting into LFR and being carried.Comment by GnarstyMultistrike better give a lot more proc/point than crit or else its a useless stat (for most classes). It's essentially watered down crit that can also be based of crit but not proc any abilities that function via crit (explosive shot, extra secondary resource).Comment by TertiamI'm very nervous about the changes to crit, specifically that intellect and agility no longer add to it. Giving agility users and extra 10% crit chance helps them somewhat, but what about intellect using damage specs that are crit dependent like boomies or fire mages? Aren't they kinda getting completely screwed by this change as it is written here? Maybe I'm missing something, but when I put my boomy into the tool to show me what his gear will look like in warlords, his crit change percentage dropped like a stone. This will kill boomy dps, and boomies can't afford to be nerfed, they are already average at best in any fight that doesn't allow multi-dotting.Comment by ScreaminMy rogue mastery is at 80.00% and guess what im going to lose it all!Comment by MrVolareNow I see what they've lead with so much fore-warning and explanaition about the squish. That is a pretty shocking difference.

The new scaling reminds me of pen-and-paper AD&D, where +1 was "Ooooo!" and a +3 was "Oh crap, I'm a naughty dwarven god!"Comment by MunboBlizzard needs to learn what "solo" means. If you're still having to involve other people, it's not solo.This is as solo as it gets.Comment by LillajagSo will we do less dmg now and dont be able to solo-farm old raids for stuff we need/want? will the mobs and bosses kill us?Comment by AdamsmSo will we do less dmg now and dont be able to solo-farm old raids for stuff we need/want? will the mobs and bosses kill us?Comment by StraferWhere do I see the damage?

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