Comments on: Ze Items, Zey do Nothing http://procrastinationamplification.com/ze-items-zey-do-nothing/ Punditry on MMOs and games in general. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:08:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: scrusi http://procrastinationamplification.com/ze-items-zey-do-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-54 scrusi Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:50:16 +0000 http://scrusi.de/pa/wordpress/?p=40#comment-54 Yeah, cataclysm seems to go in exactly the opposite direction. I have a tiny shimmer of hope though that they will use the stat-streamlining to introduce new and more interesting stats. Likely not though.<br /><br />Recent blog:=- <a href="http://procrastinationamplification.blogspot.com/2009/10/ze-items-zey-do-nothing.html" rel="nofollow"> Ze Items, Zey do Nothing</a> Yeah, cataclysm seems to go in exactly the opposite direction. I have a tiny shimmer of hope though that they will use the stat-streamlining to introduce new and more interesting stats. Likely not though.

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]]> By: scrusi http://procrastinationamplification.com/ze-items-zey-do-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-52 scrusi Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:09:54 +0000 http://scrusi.de/pa/wordpress/?p=40#comment-52 Coming from EQ2 I was immensly disappointed at the continued boring itemization of WoW. In EQ2 you of course still had your items with pure stat, but many of them also had procs - being it life leech, dmg, managain, etc.. basically like WoW trinkets.<br />In the end it's nothing groundbreaking but it allows for a more interesting itemization.<br /><br />Your ideas and comparisons with Diablo II are even better.<br /><br />In the end though seeing how Blizzard will change itemization in Cataclysm for an easier job for both them and the players, I don't see sth. like this happening soon or at all. Coming from EQ2 I was immensly disappointed at the continued boring itemization of WoW. In EQ2 you of course still had your items with pure stat, but many of them also had procs – being it life leech, dmg, managain, etc.. basically like WoW trinkets.
In the end it's nothing groundbreaking but it allows for a more interesting itemization.

Your ideas and comparisons with Diablo II are even better.

In the end though seeing how Blizzard will change itemization in Cataclysm for an easier job for both them and the players, I don't see sth. like this happening soon or at all.

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