Infraction for Jayde: Trolling

Kaubel · 06/02/07, 8:33 PM

Post: Bear tank item comparisons
User: Jayde
Infraction: Trolling
Points: 1

Administrative Note:Message to User:

You're repeating yourself and stirring shit. Shut up already.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Boevis

Frist, show me the gear to hit 80% without LoH or at least Inspiration, Devotion Aura, and going to lengths such as armor enchants or the +550 armor potion that no one uses anymore.

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Third, how exactly does it trivialize any current content for said druid, considering they will have practically (if not completely) cleared Hyjal and BT by the time they even can think about this. What's trivialized? months old content? The next expansion? They didn't rebalance Strat when druids were soloing it for their idol in Naxx gear, in fact it got nerfed again and again and again...

Percentages are percentages. It doesn't matter if you are fighting Onyxia, Karazhan, or Arthas. 80% base armor reduction is 80% armor base reduction no matter how you slice it. The argument that "Warriors will be able to get 75% someday" doesn't really change anything. (Also, the effective 85% DR? Defense Stance doesn't work like that. It's 77.5% maximum reduction.) It's still 20% less damage taken than is possible right now.

Saying "without Imp. LoH" means nothing. It's in player's spellbooks. If it could actually be used that way, you can rest assured that numerous guilds would use and abuse it as much as possible. (I'm sure all the Paladins would be very happy to be "forced" into specing into it because of how powerful it came too.)

Anyway, I have only been doing my best to explain the (seemingly) obvious rationale behind why the cap exists. It has been evident in enough games in the past to be a rather logical decision from a system design standpoint on Blizzard's part. I would not cross your fingers about it being raised. I really doubt it's going to happen. Blizzard would probably sooner nerf the Armor reduction curve like they did when TBC came out than raise the cap. Rather than fixating on demanding a change that will probably not happen, you should probably be looking at the other avenues of armor upgrades being easily at the cap affords--more HP, more avoidance, etc.