WTF thats a lot of stamina clothies will be gaining from spell power to stamina conversion... gold flecked gloves and spidersilk boots lol.
Gold flecked gloves, ilvl 22, +15 ability points
VS say...
Thorbias Gauntlets, ilvl 23, + 11 ability points
gloves of fang, nimble etc all +11 ability points
This is early early days tho. Looks like blizzard have :
1. normalised damage to ilvl
2. added some new items, with crit and hit rating featuring.
3. converted (a few) of the spell power stat items to stam and int.
This is phase 1. The spell power chants are still untouched. Lots of boes and quest items with +sp havent been touched yet. There's a long way to go.
As they've done in the past I think they'll add new, convert old then normalise stats on some of the other items, followed by a round of altering coefficents to fine tune.
I expect the current +sp to stam conversions will be lowered and they'll raise the int to +sp coefficients to balance OR they're something coming for mail wearing / melee classes in armor damage reduction / hp / stam / talent bonuses that we haven't seen yet.
Who knows, early days.
edit : Just noticed they've taken +sp off BOA staves but haven't altered stam or int at all.
Glad I didn't buy that fang off that dude in the auction house a week ago... God bless a public NDA lifting date
