I mourn for my armor webbing

Was just looking over the engineering changes post on MMO-Champ and was a little annoyed by what I saw. For one (and this is my largest complaint) the armor gloves tinker is going from a straight stat boost to a on-use proc.

While 1500 armor is a pretty sexy chunk of protection, I’d rather that be always up than an extra cooldown. I’m all for extra cooldowns, for sure, but… I feel the need to gripe.

Also I don’t see any rocket boots listed, which is a shame. I’ve yet to work the courage up to swap those into my tank set and they’ll soon (well, relatively speaking) be gone.

Lastly, the Cogwheels and Hydraulic pumps thing looks interesting but if I had to bet I’d say it’s just a way to customize an engineering-only trinket so they only have to make one. A +stam empty shell with two sockets, one of each kind. Which basically means we’ll probably be making an avoidance stat stick with this and this. Good starter, but ultimately a yawn-fest for sure.

Hopefully things pan out to be a little more exciting.

4 Comments to “I mourn for my armor webbing”

  1. Rilgon Arcsinh
    @Rilgon
    13 July 2010 at 1:36 pm #

    The way I look at it and am hoping they do it is that the tinkers also grant either a hydraulic or cogwheel socket.
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    • Rhidach
      @Rhidach
      13 July 2010 at 1:51 pm #

      That would be pretty awesome, but our sounds like our tinkers would be pretty OP with a free “gem” to go with the proc. Still, anything’s possible at this point.

    • Joe Ego 13 July 2010 at 2:08 pm #

      Gaining sockets with the tinkers actually sounds like a good idea. This way they control the availability of sockets without the need to make engineer-specific gear for every new tier.

      I am glad to see Engineering moving up to compete with other professions in raid viability and, by selling cogs and pumps, profitability.

  2. Joanna 13 July 2010 at 3:50 pm #

    This too shall pass.