Armor Class Loot Ratios
Armor Class Loot Ratios
(I posted this on the items forum, but i’m not sure if it gets any traffic, or if it’s the correct forum to post this topic.)
Also, sorry if this has been brought up before.
Just curious, but what exactly is the plan for armor class loot ratios. If you look at the three types of loot function for each class it seems the numbers look like this. Not sure to separate healing/caster for each armor class. For the sake of this I won’t separate it, even though I realize they look for different stats. (Also note: I have no idea if tanking Deathknights use “prot” gear or “dps” gear. I’ll assume they use dps gear.)
Armor Class: Number of specs use for particular function
Tank Plate: 2 (Prot Paladin, Prot Warrior)
DPS Plate: 6 (Arms, Fury, Retribution, Blood, Unholy, Frost)
Healing Plate: 1 Holy Paladin
Phys DPS Mail: 4 (Beast, Marcks, Surv – Enhancement)
Healing/caster Mail: 2 (Elemental, Resto)
Phys DPS Leather: 4 (Sub, Assissination, Combat, Feral)
Healing/caster Leather: 2 (moonkin, Resto)
Healing/Caster Cloth: 9 (holy, disc, shadow – fire, frost, arcane – demonology, destruction, affliction)
Alright now to my point. In all the 5 man loot tables I’ve seen in wotlk, the ratio of armor class to corresponding number of specs that use a particular subclass of armor seems wonky. I mean 9 cloth specs that use similar itemization, and yet only 1 peice of cloth drops from an entire instance, while there is 1 peice of holy paladin loot. The ration is 9:1 and yet the loot tables are 1:1….
Sorry if the argument doesn’t make much sense. It’s late and I was just expressing something I noticed.
What are your takes on this? Also please, if I made a mistake somewhere feel free to point it out. I’m looking to make sense of this all, not to whine about there not being enough cloth loot.
Edit: I also notice this with alot of weapons. There will be a staff with Stamina, Int, Spirit, and spell Power…. This is now an item for like 1/3 of the class specs.
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