Necrachilles wrote:
Besides, in BC the engineering goggles were like level 62 and were BiS till around BT - Sunwell, least for rogues. Just because they have a lower ilvl doesn't mean they won't be better itemized or just better in general. I'm hoping blizzard will find a middle ground between how overpowered goggles were in BC and how shitty they were in Wrath. But it's blizzard, so maybe I'm asking for too much.
This was true only for reasons that won't apply in Cata - the extremely limited availability of drops, and how bad much of the itemization was. Since tiers of content will be undifferentiated - Bliz has said everyone will see the end of every tier of content, get full sets of tier, and gear inflation will continue throughout the expansion, there won't be the situation of guilds progressing through T5/T6 and still needing to upgrade their Spellstrike or whatnot. Since itemization is homogenized, players will simply use whatever has the most stats on it, which means engineering helms will be passed up quickly due to the low itemization value. This also of course lowers the skillcap with regards to itemization and removes much of the planning element.
Baneleaf wrote:
Besides Aestu, your not playing in Cata so why even post?
All good things come to an end, but certainly it's not my first preference. It's too bad, really. And you should know me well enough to know that I have serious difficulty with lettings things go in general.