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New Embellishments in The War Within - Weapons and Armor
The War Within
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29 days ago
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Jezartroz
The War Within is bringing us new Embellishments for crafted gear, including several Jewelcrafting options as well as Armor and Weapon Embellishments.
We're not getting these powerful effects for free, however. While not yet present on any of the crafted items, we have found a new Embellishment tag, suggesting that the most powerful special effects on crafted gear will be limited similar to Dragonflight. While some of these Embellishments are clearly a work in progress, we're sure there will be many more to come!
Blacksmithing
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Captured Starlight
- Overcharge your gems for 15 sec, absorbing 50% of your maximum health and granting 101 to your secondary stats (based on your socketed gems). Once this effect expires, the affected stats are reduced for the remainder of combat.
Elemental Focusing Lens
- Your spells and abilities have a chance to deal damage or heal your target. Frequency increased but potency reduced per unique gem color socketed.
Prismatic Null Stone
- Increases effectiveness of Blasphemite secondary effects by 50%.
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Comment by
jpurebalance
on 2024-04-20T18:40:32-05:00
Hope these get properly tuned, so we don't get another season like DF Season 1 where every single person had to use Lariat,.
If they didn't even tried to make them meaningful for 2 whole years in Dragonflight, then why would they in the next expansion? You can be happy if these embellishments reach the ~+1.0% dmg or healing overall. (Currently, they mostly do 0.5-0.7%) ... ...
Lol what? Crafted gear was top in s1 and 2 for just about every spec. I think you misread the person you’re quoting much less have no clue about crafted gear.
Comment by
SpecBop
on 2024-04-20T19:21:21-05:00
That Captured Starlight embellishment already sounds bad on paper. Anything that can weaken you for a pretty long time sounds awful. Just imagine you have a 7 minute fight and would use that extra power to meet a dps check 2 minutes in, and for the other 5 minutes you are weaker. Or the other way around, you have an embellishment that does nothing for 6:45, because you only use it in the final 15 seconds. Probably without bloodlust, because that got used at the start of the fight.
That's a solid point. I feel like, as it is worded now, the meta would be to avoid this embellishment if possible in favor of other more versatile ones. The boost it gives doesn't really outweigh the extended power reduction after the main boost effect wears off.
OTOH, the "does something awesome" flavor text is somewhat amusing. Wonder what it will actually be when TWW goes live...
It has a 2 min CD though, so you would use it 4 times in a 7min fight, most classes have 2min CDs as is, so it would line up with those, and for several classes your damage outside those 2min CD windows are wet noodle levels anyways so probably not a big loss.
Comment by
Kestevavild
on 2024-04-20T21:46:21-05:00
Hope these get properly tuned, so we don't get another season like DF Season 1 where every single person had to use Lariat,.
If they didn't even tried to make them meaningful for 2 whole years in Dragonflight, then why would they in the next expansion? You can be happy if these embellishments reach the ~+1.0% dmg or healing overall. (Currently, they mostly do 0.5-0.7%) ... ...
Lol what? Crafted gear was top in s1 and 2 for just about every spec. I think you misread the person you’re quoting much less have no clue about crafted gear.
It's embarrassing, because it's actually you who misread the person you are lecturing.
Lariat was a stand out embellishment, an exception, which was decent, while all ~30 others were terrible, doing 0.5-0.7% output. Yet you defend embellishments, as a whole, just because there was Lariat, which was a single decent option. This is a very silly take, and you know it too.
Also, somehow you are mentioning "crafted gear" being good, which is very strange in this context. It's true, but what does it have to do with embellishments? It's two entirely different topic. You make very little coherent sense.
Also, Lariat was a "fixed" embellishment, and this news post is about ones that we can place into gear. Those were, and will be meaningless in the entire Dragonflight expansion. (And was the same in Shadowlands last tier too).
Comment by
Phoenixfiire
on 2024-04-20T23:30:37-05:00
God, i was hoping embellishments would have died a nice death in DF... ahhh well
Comment by
pawpurr
on 2024-04-20T23:30:50-05:00
Hope these get properly tuned, so we don't get another season like DF Season 1 where every single person had to use Lariat,.
If they didn't even tried to make them meaningful for 2 whole years in Dragonflight, then why would they in the next expansion? You can be happy if these embellishments reach the ~+1.0% dmg or healing overall. (Currently, they mostly do 0.5-0.7%) ... ...
they can't be "meaningful" or else people just complain about that - People want to play their characters and do well, not have random procs and bonus effects do well on their behalf. it's a fine line to walk with these sorts of effects.
What I hope is that they do better at managing the exclusivity and not let people exploit the crafting progression again. DF's crafting system was marred by the fact that we were all supposed to be stuck at poop quality with fewer recipes for longer, The types of monopolies that happened early on weren't even supposed to be possible. So many problems with the system (not enough orders, lariat cartels, etc) only happened because of the initial bug where abandoning professions->learning new ones let you get extra artisans quests and max rep super early. It's all evened out by now, but I look forward to TWW learning lessons from those growing pains..
Comment by
Garltok
on 2024-04-21T00:53:59-05:00
Can we not blizz?
Nobody liked a system where the meta pushes you into crafted gear vs earned gear. Having the same pieces in the same two slots every patch through the expansion is boring. That is until blizz nerfs an effect and you have to replace it with something else.
Or where only the rich or exceptionally lucky can craft meta pieces (looking at you lariat).
You aren't the entire playerbase.
I see, you got lucky with the lariat recipe and made millions
Comment by
Wabbitkiller
on 2024-04-21T09:45:50-05:00
Prismatic Null Stone - Increases effectiveness of Blasphemite secondary effects by 50%.
This means we get 7.5% mana/7.5% crit/15% movement speed/150% wealth in delves.
75% wealth and fame
20% base x 5 = 100% + 50% = 150% I could be wrong as someone pointed out and this is just the griftah of the store within.
Comment by
Chuubs
on 2024-04-22T06:52:10-05:00
That Captured Starlight embellishment already sounds bad on paper. Anything that can weaken you for a pretty long time sounds awful. Just imagine you have a 7 minute fight and would use that extra power to meet a dps check 2 minutes in, and for the other 5 minutes you are weaker. Or the other way around, you have an embellishment that does nothing for 6:45, because you only use it in the final 15 seconds. Probably without bloodlust, because that got used at the start of the fight.
It looks like a M+ or world targetted item. The stats reset when combat ends. I'm also assuming it will be a proc opposed to just once per combat. That would make it similar to the haste trinket in ATDH. It wouldn't be terrible in raid then. If it's proc based then it could be excellent for M+ pulls.
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