Gripe of the Week: Leather Specialization
by Sunfyre on Oct.01, 2010, under Gripe of the Week
Okay, so I really AM glad we have leather specialization, and fortunately I have been unfortunate to not get many cloth pieces of gear in ICC. That being said, I’m going to be running around in ilvl 245 bracers come 4.0.1 if I can’t manage to find something better… and soon.
How many pieces have you guys had to scramble to replace with leather?
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October 1st, 2010 on 3:36 am
I know this can be bad, but I always refused to wear anything but leather!
I feel your pain tho, bracers never seems to drop for me too. Still running around with ilvl 251 ones despite many Valithria Dreamwalker’s kills in both normal and heroic mode
October 1st, 2010 on 8:15 am
Just boots (Plague Sci) I think.
On several occasions I was close to dumping my LW for tailoring (seeing as every crafted piece I wanted in Wrath was cloth). Managed to hold off, and very happy I did.
October 1st, 2010 on 8:52 am
I think I’ve managed to replace most of my cloth, and I really have been trying to avoid taking cloth the last few weeks…
October 1st, 2010 on 9:06 am
I don’t have any cloth, but armor has always been one of my five RP hang ups. I’m not even sure you could say druids “have” to wear leather, but I do and sadly I still have 245 bracers.
October 1st, 2010 on 9:39 am
Luckily only 2 – I managed to get bracers of Dreamwalker this week replacing Bejeweled Wizards and got another 264 mark to replace my 277 GSM =( Just need a few more badges to make the change.
October 1st, 2010 on 2:14 pm
Yesterday I grabbed the only cloth peice, but really needed the upgrade. Hopefully I can get leather to substitue.
October 2nd, 2010 on 6:07 am
HEllo
i replace
wirst bracers and boots but have all leather 277 gear
so i am happy to have
i hope i write all right .. i am not english
October 4th, 2010 on 2:22 am
I’m currently wearing 4 cloth pieces (boots, bracers, belt and pants)
In all those cases, I’ve a leather piece 13 ilevel below (two of them optimized for dps, the other two being more heal-oriented). Not sure if it’s worth to change the 4 pieces to get the 5% int
In any case, with the changes regarding +touch and spirit, I’ll have to test lot of things…
October 4th, 2010 on 4:13 pm
Still have cloth 264 bracers and 277 legs. I have some 264 leather spirit ones but I need the RS bracers. >:|
October 5th, 2010 on 2:38 am
when i put on all my leather stuff i reforgd (i hope it is right) spirit into haste and crit into haste ( once per item) and double stats items like neck i convert crit into mastry)
Sushka ( Eu – Blackhand – Erzritter)
October 5th, 2010 on 11:11 am
Crit is rated at a higher value then mastery. I’d keep the crit.
October 6th, 2010 on 2:14 am
Crit have a uptime ( when we could call it so ) from 100 % … mastry only 60-70 % .. means 1 mastry point = 1 % + damage
maybe we could reforg later in other stats but don´t think that wie reach the soft haste cap with wrath so easy like in wotlk
Sushka ( EU – Blackhand-Erzritter)