lvl 28 pieces

Here's a look at my Vet vs my F2P warrior. Vet is pretty well stacked with ilvl 28 and F2P only has one (not very good) cloak. I actually have an ilvl 28 belt, boots and chest on my vet too, but opt for the TBC socket pieces in those slots.

Youll notice that the difference is like 3 str, 2 stam and a different distribution of the same amount of secondaries. That said, you'll also notice I'm not using ilvl 28 neck or rings on my vet, which would open up 3 more sockets. My gearing preferences are to stack stam, so thats 18 stam more that my vet could *theoretically* have. [side note: There's also a possibility that Legion dungeons may eventually start dropping socket/tert procs for low levels, at which point the builds even back up but thats speculation]

The biggest difference is that getting to my current secondary balance was a lot easier on the Vet, given that flexing around ilvl 28 pieces is relatively easy. On the F2P it takes hunting down very specific pieces.

tl;dr - I play both interchangeably and maybe Im just not good enough or way too brain damaged to tell, but there's no real difference in performance. Maybe better warriors out there really notice the difference of 4% less vers or 5% more crit but I certainly dont.

 

I think there's really something to be said for ilvl 28s with tertiary stats. I have dreams about like... full leech locks or a full speed warrior. But I also (as I mentioned) think we'll see legion pieces start procing socket/terts in like 9.1 or something, so the gap will remain somewhat small.

 

my suspicion is that the reason they dont is some kind of weird oversight in the scaling that may be fixed in the future. Its also possible that Im being a little optimistic in favor of my general laziness towards farming ilvl 28s

 

I got a few socket procs in regular on my main while dragging my 20s through for relics though.

Either way, its a side note to this thread that Im starting to regret even making.