I first want to start off by saying that i love the new Onyxia raid, but what is up with the new helms and those measly +10 resistances. I loved the old animations of the helms, but +10 resist to shadow and frost is not going to make even a small difference in incoming damage. I would like to know what some other player feedback is on them as well.

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It's a nostalgia thing...like everything else about Onyxia at 80.

Also, resist budgeting on gear is extremely cheap, so we're not losing a debilitating amount of stats.

Utility: 0
The Rule of Cool: 1

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Actually, I think it's free resist itemization for retro-awesomeness.

But yes, I lol'd hard and with good cheer when I saw all of those resists on the mined-loot.

It's there as a joke.

I'm just disappointed that the polearms aren't called "Vendorstrike" and "Nexustrike".

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It's there as a joke.

I'm just disappointed that the polearms aren't called "Vendorstrike" and "Nexustrike".

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Probably because they are amazing weapons now /drool.

It's there for the nostalgia factor.

Given the way that item budgeting works (cost of a stat increases as you have more of it) you'd probably only get 2 or 3 of any other stat out of those item points, so it's not like you're losing much.

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It's there as a joke.

I'm just disappointed that the polearms aren't called "Vendorstrike" and "Nexustrike".

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Uselesstrike would be better. They are horribly itemized.

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Uselesstrike would be better. They are horribly itemized.

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Roll a druid.

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Uselesstrike would be better. They are horribly itemized.

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They're itemised fine for druids.

And no, "uselesstrike" would not be better. There's no nostalgia value at all with that.

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They're itemised fine for druids.

And no, "uselesstrike" would not be better. There's no nostalgia value at all with that.

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So wait... the item that was known for being absolute garbage returns and becomes an item that's only good for the spec that was considered to be absolute garbage* back then? I wonder if that's intentional.


*And I'm allowed to say that, I played a feral druid back then.

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It's there as a joke.

I'm just disappointed that the polearms aren't called "Vendorstrike" and "Nexustrike".

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It's Shardstrike.

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The gear was done very differently back then and its a piece of the past. It shouldn't make much of a difference, if anything, in the grand scheme of things but it's like a free cookie, just sit back and enjoy it. :)

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Blue post in the R&D forums? wtf.

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Blue post in the R&D forums? wtf.

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read the r&d forums more.

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The gear was done very differently back then and its a piece of the past. It shouldn't make much of a difference, if anything, in the grand scheme of things but it's like a free cookie, just sit back and enjoy it. :)

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Just curious, are the resistances using any amount of reserved stats on the items? Or were they added purely for nostalgic purposes?

If there was more resist, no one would ever wear them because they'd be vastly inferior.

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Just curious, are the resistances using any amount of reserved stats on the items? Or were they added purely for nostalgic purposes?

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Dunno about other classes but the 245 warrior dps helm is itemised better (while having the exact same stats) as the badge counterpart. So I would say that the resistance doesn't seem to mean much on the overall utility of the items.

the prot pally helm has more stam than the ilvl258 t9

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The gear was done very differently back then and its a piece of the past. It shouldn't make much of a difference, if anything, in the grand scheme of things but it's like a free cookie, just sit back and enjoy it. :)

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WTB my avatar moving around in the picture. I like cookies.