Reforging in WoW Cataclysm
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World of Warcraft Cataclysm will introduce a new ability to professions that let them improve the stats on gear. Because simply adding new stats to gear would have made certain professions in too high a demand, Blizzard has decided to let crafters for most professions simply taken 50% of a certain stat on an item, and then put another stat on there for that same amount. This should allow for much more item customization possibilities in WoW Cataclysm. Here is some more info:
- This new Reforging mechanic is added to most production professions.
- Blacksmithing – Will change Plate armor and weapons
- Engineering – Will change Ranged weapons and trinkets
- Jewelcrafting – Will change Jewelry (rings, necklaces)
- Leatherworking – Will change Leather armor
- Tailoring – Will change Cloth armor
- Reforging will allow you to reduce one of the current stats on an item by 50% and place those points into another stat.
- The new stat cannot already be on the item; you can’t reduce stamina to add additional strength, but you can reduce stamina to add hit rating to the item, for example.
Reforging in WoW Cataclysm will allow the masters of these professions much more work on a daily basis, and should bring in some money to these expensive to develop professions. Players get yet another avenue to customize their characters. Sounds like a win-win to me.
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sounds fantastic, and would certainly allow for some of the Tier gear to be best utilised, effectively best-in-slot will be gone, and your gear set up will be unique to your play style – all i can say to that is FANTASTIC!
Indeed….FAN-TASTIC
this makes it much more worthwhile to take on a crafting profession (enchantments were the first step to that imo) and we should see a much more diversified profession population (instead of a hundred enchanters and jewel crafters running around LFW)
What about mail armor?
Mail armor is in the same teir as leatherworking
ive been an alchemist for 4 years and have about every single recipie give or take a couple faction ones and drops but with this proffesion im thinking (as a rogue who raids end game and pvps) of switching to LW and JC to get the full benifits of LW enchants and JC gems as well as reforging. Unless i here a huge change to alchemy where its worth keeping im still in a limbo on what im going to do.
Um…what about alchemy,inscription? Isn’t it a bit unfair that they can’t reforge anything?
Finally! i can have my Melee Warlock again! My T10 Equivalent productions will get STR and AGI! MWAHAHAHA!
What about Inscription? Scribes make offhand items, and it doesn’t look like those are claimed yet – why not let us reforge them?
Can you only ‘Reforge’ your own items?