ArPen’s stat removal and others
Ghostcrawler’s hoping this answer “gets read,” so we’ll help. A player asks why Blizzard is worrying about armor penetration with the Scourge Strike ability — isn’t, they ask, ArPen getting removed in Cataclysm like we heard at BlizzCon? The answer is basically no: Armor Penetration rating is getting removed from gear (along with Block value, Defense, Attack Power, and a number of other gear stats), but Armor Penetration as a stat is not getting removed from the game. Talents and other abilties will still depend on removing and penetrating armor, even if your gear selection won’t revolve around it. They’ll still be balancing it, but as players choosing gear, it won’t be a part of our calculations there
.Mconniff asked…
“Why are Tabards cut off at the waist when you put on a robe? Is that good?”
It doesn’t look very good, but it’s a victim of World of Warcraft’s graphics engine. If the bottom of the tabard were displayed with robes, the two layers would mesh together and become some pixelated abomination of fabric.
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