Enchants before patch 5.4?

[Bofir]

Hey, im gearing a 19 druid atm, and I was wondering if there are any point in getting all the enchantments for him now, or wait for 5.4? Is there going to be new BiS enchantments in patch 5.4, in that case, which?

Thanks

 

[willix]

You should check out https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnBPvCvqWJ3udENtVlVmcjA4Q3ZQWmZKWHE3c201UXc#gid=17 to find out which enchants you're going to want in 5.4. Get them squared away for when 5.4 comes.

If you plan on playing between now and then, of course get the enchants you need.

Not much will change for twinks in 5.4, just the addition of leg/shoulder kits and new weapon enchants.

 

[Nudge]

Lots of the enchants will change in 5.4. Until its release though no one will know the exact changes to each enchant as they scale. So unless you want to sit around until 5.4 release you might as well go ahead and enchant now.

 

[shanker]

was looking at a AH at some bracer enchants, and found a couple not on the doc, i'm curious what they would scale to:

- exceptional intellect
- super intellect
- superior spell power

 

[Dagamela]

weren't we supposed to get this when mop hit?

 

[Dramatized]

I was wondering the same thing.

This obviously depends on your in-game financial situation and how much you think you'll play until 5.4 hits.

 

[Arkant]

how much you think you'll play until 5.4 hits.

How does that matter

 

[Dramatized]

How does that matter

If he intends to play five games this patch it might not be worth getting enchants that won't be BiS for next patch.

 

[willix]

Lots of the enchants will change in 5.4. Until its release though no one will know the exact changes to each enchant as they scale. So unless you want to sit around until 5.4 release you might as well go ahead and enchant now.

Couple things wrong with this assumption:

1. Blizzard is notorious for letting PTR stuff go live as it was introduced on the PTR. In fact, 90% of all things on the PTR go virtually unchanged the moment they are patched in for testing. Even some major bugs and design flaws go live.

2. We know how things are scaling because we've done extensive research on the PTR. That's why I linked the spreadsheet in the first place. Knowing Blizzard, those numbers are going live and will remain unchanged for several patch cycles (until Blizzard gets around to fixing the extreme outliers).

Now, from the current PTR numbers, here's what's going to happen: MOST enchants we currently use prior to level 60 will remain BiS. Stuff like 15 agi gloves, 15 sp bracer, Stam to chest, Crusader, ect. What will change are enchants that confer a benefit not currently available to low levels (IE, power torrent, agi to bracer, int/crit/str to cloak, expertise, leg kits, shoulder kits, ect).

That's the other reason why I linked the spreadsheet. Any player making a twink right now can give that spreadsheet a once over and decide which enchants will still be BiS in 5.4 they can currently get now, and then also get the new ones which will be BiS in 5.4.

But just saying 'wait and see when 5.4 hits' is kind of telling players to waste all this prep time and then fall behind once the patch finally comes out. The data is there, no reason to avoid doing the work now.

 

[Bofir]

Couple things wrong with this assumption:

1. Blizzard is notorious for letting PTR stuff go live as it was introduced on the PTR. In fact, 90% of all things on the PTR go virtually unchanged the moment they are patched in for testing. Even some major bugs and design flaws go live.

2. We know how things are scaling because we've done extensive research on the PTR. That's why I linked the spreadsheet in the first place. Knowing Blizzard, those numbers are going live and will remain unchanged for several patch cycles (until Blizzard gets around to fixing the extreme outliers).

Now, from the current PTR numbers, here's what's going to happen: MOST enchants we currently use prior to level 60 will remain BiS. Stuff like 15 agi gloves, 15 sp bracer, Stam to chest, Crusader, ect. What will change are enchants that confer a benefit not currently available to low levels (IE, power torrent, agi to bracer, int/crit/str to cloak, expertise, leg kits, shoulder kits, ect).

That's the other reason why I linked the spreadsheet. Any player making a twink right now can give that spreadsheet a once over and decide which enchants will still be BiS in 5.4 they can currently get now, and then also get the new ones which will be BiS in 5.4.

But just saying 'wait and see when 5.4 hits' is kind of telling players to waste all this prep time and then fall behind once the patch finally comes out. The data is there, no reason to avoid doing the work now.

thx man really helped me out!

anyone know when the patch hits?

 

[willix]

anyone know when the patch hits?

Soon™.