Bit early, don't you think?
Yeah in some way they will!I fear the linked heirlooms thing will ruin the f2p bracket.
Bit early, don't you think?
the new neck and ring enchants!
Every patch the gap closes between the trials and subscribers. Makes the bracket a better place to
Most changes are agreeable. The prepatch will probably drop late second quarter or early third. I am sure it will need some tweaking like 5.0. There will be the usual rerolls. The heirloom tab will make that easier for F2Ps actually. Presuming they have access. What has not been mentioned is the new neck and ring enchants! Professions will be less of a factor. Stamina may shoot through the roof. Every patch the gap closes between the trials and subscribers. Makes the bracket a better place to play. Just be ready to regear. That is half of the fun. Too bad we can't get another battleground.
Sweetsidney
patch 5.3 closed the gap between the trials and subscribers in 20-24 bracket due to gear upscaling
patch 5.4 did not close the gap, when P2P now had access to shoulder, leg enchants, reactivated GF'd head enchants, high level enchants that out scaled preiviously used BIS enchants. this made many F2P classes and spec's unviable., gap was worse ever between trials and subscribers
well, it can't possibly be any worse than mop.
So, you are saying, now, that the gap is worse than it has ever been? What specs were viable in 5.3 for F2P that are not viable now due to the enchant scaling? I am unaware of enchanting making a class spec unviable. But then again, pretty much all I do is play non flavor of the month heals.
Besides, very very few people have enchanted helms in this bracket. I for one only have it on a Lucky Fishing Hat on a 19. I am sure there are a few 20-24's that do, but they rarely play those particular toons. I even have some shoulders with resistance enchants on them.
The trials and subscribers need to stop making this an us vs. them all the time.
As was mentioned above, there are ways to get heirlooms( and other gear)to trial accounts. I have done it, others have done it. You just have to be persistent and creative.
/cheers
Sweetsidney ...
OK let's talk about the gap:
White gear f2p shaman: 877 Healthpoints 24 Spellpower
F2P geared: 1822 Healthpoints 124 Spellpower
F2P with your enchants: 3847 Healthpoints 204 Spellpower
I hope this puts the "gap" in perspective. It's an us vs. them because we are worlds apart. And it is not about us TI folks that we can't join them. But we know we would just be the in the minority on the other side of the gap which does not seem too desirable. When we complain about 24s it's about this "abyss" that sets us apart.
I am quite flattered that you went to the trouble of looking up one of my toons seeing as I do not link them. /blush If you went to that much trouble you will also note that I am unguilded and that I am a level 20 and a heal.
My toon is specifically enchanted for survivability and to heal. Guess who I mostly heal? Trials... I rarely FC. I rarely attack. As I do not have a superiority complex. Practically all I do is heal and dispell. I do not heal GY farmers, period.
Besides, each and every enchant and piece of gear that my toons have are available to trials in some form or fashion. Perhaps not a so called "pure" trial, whatever that is.
/cheers
Sweetsidney
And to be blunt if you think/say otherwise are simply not worth my time