Gear scaling isn’t linear on Beta for BFA gear, so making old enchants work can help with leveling. Right now any trade skill can turn gear into ilvl 100 (445 equivalent BFA) from any expansion when crafting it. However, heroic Ny’alotha gear is 115, crafted BFA 470/5 Mask gear = 125ilvl, and mythic raid = 130. The Legendary cloak =155 ilvl, and at least as of this past weekend was still proc’ing (maybe being deactivated in SL was reverted). All this gear is level 50, so being able to use any enhancement you want while leveling is pretty cool.
Sigh, I miss runspeed enchants. I guess we'll have a couple weeks with em now, anyway.
How can this post still be online? It's clearly WRONG in so many ways. Also: if the old enchants will have max ilvl set at 50, this means it's basically a NERF and not a buff, as some enchants on the beta-servers are still useable on items with ilvl 56 for example... holy cow...
And just to make it clear: ilvl 50 means character lvl 41! So... far away from usefull for 50+ characters!
I wish these types of gear enhancements and enchantments were a thing, it's really cool to see all the additional stats and just to feel powerful. As well as assist other professions with having a constant use during an expansion.
Article title is very misleading. Literally the ONLY thing that is changing is that enchants from Pre-BFA expansions can now be placed on gear up to ITEM level 50 instead of the old cap of item level 44. It's a minor change, but a good one for those who make use of this type of thing.
I feel like it's a monkey paw wish everytime we ask Blizzard to do something. You get your wish but lose something with it.
What about Engi enchants like cloak glider/belt sprint/etc?
ditto
I don't know about anyone else but the first time in 15 years I'm worried / considering quitting. The squish sounds like a clusterfk , I spent 80% of my time running old world content ..they say we still can but u know how that goes. As for the pack itself ..i hope its more than rehashed diablo 3. Im pretty sure wow and all its $$ for perks/subs is keeping blizz alive. A WEE more attention should be focused on it ..at least a little while. We don't even get reskinned stuff for holidays anymore, better than nothing. I now own a crap ton of hearth stones. Im still waiting on dance studio promised in wrath.
Fair enough, but I really do wish they'd make legacy loot mode specific gear and enchants we could collect that are balanced around farming old raids and dungeons, if they're gonna keep kneecapping speed buffs out of concern for the meta.