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New relevant hardmode loot, more hit for us - awesome! It seems slightly weird, at only 70 Agi and 112 Attack Power. Compare that to the 82 Agi and 196 Attack Power of the tier headpiece. Usually there seems to be some balance between those two stats, an item with high AP will have low Agi and vice versa. This one seems to have both subpar Agi and AP compared to an item of lower ilvl. Somehow the item seems underbudget, anyone with knowledge of ilvl calculations that can investigate?
I've tried to fit it into the current spreadsheet, dropping gear so the 4T8 bonus does not play in and making sure I can use the hit. It only comes out as a 20 DPS upgrade compared to the T8 headpiece. Remember that it is using the full hit on the headpiece. Hit is a powerful stat and any item that has the full use of +2% hit should rank significantly higher. There's
gotta be something wrong with this item. Comparing it to Circlet of True Sight, an item with almost identical stat distribution, makes it even more impossible to believe that this item is properly itemized.
Originally Posted by Ingmar
Well, not sure if this is the right place to discuss stat distribution on items here, but still:
Circlet of True Sight compared to Boundless Gaze (Boundless Gaze as base):
1056 Armor (-44)
+70 Agility (0)
+95 Stamina (-5)
+54 Intellect (-14)
Meta Socket, Blue Socket (+8 crit, -8 agi socketbonus)
Improves hit rating by 60 (-6)
Improves critical strike rating by 42 (-27)
Increases attack power by 156. (+44)
Now, considdering the equation part of Item level mechanics ( Item Level Mechanics) you get a total of:
2/3 * 5 + 14 + (-8+8 = 0) + 6 + 27 - 44*1/2 = 50 1/3 - 22 = 28 1/3 more stat points for a 13 ilevel upgrade, which seems pretty decent. The fact that hunters would prefer another stat distribution is irrelevant to item level.
(edit: if compared to the 213 T7 helm, the circlet has: -14 + 16*2/3 + 7 (-8+8=0) + 7 + 5 + 22*1/2 = 26 2/3 stat points more, so the amount of stat points increased seems just fine for boundless gaze)
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The Circlet of True Sight is ilvl 219 and Boundless Gaze is 239, a 20 ilvl difference and not 13. Also comparing Boundless Gaze statpoint wise, which given that we just have the stat modifiers correct is not a precise but still decent comparison tool. Boundless Gaze comes out with 3.666~ statpoints more than the T8.25 helmet. Circlet of True Sight comes out at 24.666~ statpoints less than the T8.25 helmet. 24.666~ statpoints for 7 item levels and 3.666~ statpoints for 13 item levels, something is wrong. At least I hope this is so, because right now the helmet is utterly useless.