BlizzCast Episode 4
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Drysc: Let's go ahead and jump into specific points for every profession we can hit in the time we have. Let's start with, Tailoring. So with Tailoring we had the Frozen Shadoweave set which was kind of a problem early on, maybe still a problem, it's very powerful obviously. What did we learn, maybe from that slot, with the Frozen Shadoweave set, and how are we taking that into the Lich King expansion?
Jon LeCraft: Well, Frozen Shadoweave suffered from some interesting problems and I say that with quotes even though you can't see them in that it was over optimized. It used school damage, which generally you get a lot more points out of that, and the sockets were extremely well done. So it ended up being so DPS oriented that people would compare just the DPS portion to all these other tiers, because that's all they cared about. And it was just vastly superior, so . and that was partially in reaction to Tailoring not being very good before Burning Crusade, and just really wanting to make it awesome, but we definitely overstepped the boundaries a little bit there and we'll just be more careful in the future. Also, that stuff didn't require any Nethers, so a lot of people would just go (Oh, well, you know I can just kind of pay for my way up to get that one) which is cool, and I'm not sure that everything's going to necessarily going to take a Nether for the bind up pickup in Lich King, we like some of the crafting skills to be different from one another, but that also contributed to the overall issue.
Drysc: when you say Nether you're referring to something Lich King specific, not necessarily...
Jon LeCraft: Right, we're not going to be using Primal Nethers in Lich King.
