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Concerning aug slots on this, the devs mentioned that the priest epic 1.5's will have another aug slot put on in an upcoming patch. I believe they said type 4.

Well first time I ever wanted to whine as a Druid. Looks like a crock, wow a whole 10ac, primary only. A clickly that dont work on a 10 min timer and wow a hate reducer of 4%. Were do I sign up oh and 1 whole aug slot. Just gets better and better. Now that 34 damage will come in handy when I'm toe to toe with a mob, we are tanks after all! Oh and lets not forget we lose the current DOT, lol not much use in high end but I still stick it on anything that moves for free damage. About the only saving grace is the fact that we have so few weapons choices as it is that this will probably be the best stat bump out there. Heck would have been better to give us a ED5 or IH5 focus. Yes I will complain this is the highest upgrade a none uber guild druid will ever see and I'm blown away at how much of a step up it is from my 1.0 blerg. Whoops and forgot it was nice to change it from a 1HS to 1HB shouldnt be to hard to get my skills up to tanking them Dragons!

Oh and for the flamers, lets face it dmg stats are no help on this for us. The old 1.0 is 15 Str so we lose that it had 15 Sta so we gain 5. Cha is pretty useless unless you want to go charming all the time. 10 Wis is nice as is 30 Dex but seeing as we dont use weapons process its open to debate as to how much benefit it is (AGI might have been better for AC). HPS, Mana great upgrade. Wow 60 on Saves. 1.0 had 50 Saves and unlike this crock it covered the hard ones for us such as DR and PR. Hands up all you druids out there who need to change out 10 SV Desease for 10 more saves on cold or fire? Okay so it weighs 2.1 so a big upgrade on the 3.0 Sorry I just dont get it!!!! I lose saves were I need them and get stat increase in areas that are probably not the most useful. Yes it will be nice to have a new graphic. Bah more I look the more angry I get.

Edited, Sun Oct 10 09:30:31 2004

Ya and I tested it out, it does no more damage at all, guess its broke ATM, I cast it, removed my focus item and cast, did 1705, no more damage




Azhe Phoenixflame
70 Druid Karana
Grey Hawke

Edited, Sun Oct 10 00:58:53 2004

Only 1 slot for augments? Thats kind of a jip, the focus effects aren't that great either. Seems like its not worth the effort for a weapon slightly better than GoD/Time