It seems pretty likely that fairly soon we'll be looking at a updated
Midsummer Fire Festival. Why am I so sure, you ask? Well, as many tipsters have stopped to inform us, there's a plethora of new gear in the armory that looks likely to be iLevel 232 updates of
Lord Ahune's loot table. We have the
Frostscythe, of course, which people have noted before. But now we also have updated versions of his infamous cloak drops, in
tanking,
physical DPS, and
two forms of
spell cloak. The first cloak has spirit, meaning that classes like mages as well as healers that use spirit might like it, while the second has crit, haste and spell power but no spirit, meaning it's better for shamans and paladins than the spirit one.
I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to farming my favorite frost lord all over again.
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items
Jun 15th 2010 at 9:00AM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
DJ_Rage Jun 15th 2010 9:21AM
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DJ_Rage Jun 15th 2010 10:24AM
boredom ftw
Dreamstorm Jun 15th 2010 9:03AM
Locks might like the spirit, not mages. Mages will prefer crit/haste/sp over spirit/haste/sp or spirit/crit/sp
Scooter Jun 15th 2010 9:07AM
Mages get a crit rating bonus from spirit while Molten Armor is active. :)
Groth Jun 15th 2010 9:07AM
given that mages still get a bonus from spirit, they may prefer the other cloak, but I'd still be happy with that one on my mage.
bob Jun 15th 2010 9:29AM
The spirit -> crit conversion is not 100%, even accounting for running with Molten Armor and having the Molten Armor glyph, I'd say we're definitely better off with the version that just gives it to us as a straight 45 crit rather than the 45 spirit version.
BTW: Two of those cloak links go the the attack power cloak, the spirit cloak is here: http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=54805
Dreamstorm Jun 15th 2010 9:32AM
@ Scooter: I know, but that doesn't mean you'd RATHER have the spirit one while the other one gives you flat crit rating.
@ bob: That's exactly what I mean :)
LittleHamster Jun 15th 2010 10:03AM
I think everyone likes the crit/haste/sp distribution over the spirit ones. None of our casters or healers want the spirit loot, while everyone bid on the sp/crit/haste stuff. The spirit (and hit actually) loot always go to offspec.
feniks9174 Jun 15th 2010 10:22AM
Spirit is currenly better than Crit for 2 lock specs.
KJP Jun 15th 2010 10:49AM
One thing that I don't think has changed about Cata is that caster gear going forward is going to be clearly delineated between DPS gear and healing gear. If a mage plans on having one of these cloaks the day Deathwing hits and changes everone's stats, I would think they would definitely prefer the one without spirit.
All that said, isn't it a bit late to be minmaxing level 232 gear?
Scooter Jun 15th 2010 10:52AM
Actually taking a closer look at the stats don't they seem a bit off? Usually we see spirit/crit together on the same item not spirit/Haste.
Valt Jun 15th 2010 11:44AM
At the end of the day it doesnt matter.
232 cloak "with spirit rather than crit" is still better than nothing. If you have 178 quest/dungeon cloak or some stuff you will take spirit cloak even if its not minmax-wise better of two.
Kylenne Jun 15th 2010 12:54PM
@ Scooter: Arcane mages don't give a crap about crit. We'd much rather have haste. Fire mages do, but the tiny percentage of those out there don't give a crap about ilvl 232 cloaks because they're all rocking ilvl9000 stuff.
JAREDO Jun 18th 2010 3:29PM
And my Resto Shammy geared in ilvl219/232 gear from emblems and 5man rejoices!!
That staff and cloak are pretty hot upgrades.
Scooter Jun 15th 2010 9:06AM
Ah, If only I made a warrior far back enough to have the level 70 version.. I would dual wield the frost scythes and do that spinny thing they do
Veras Gunn Jun 15th 2010 9:21AM
Doesn't really matter anyaway. Warriors can't dual wield staves.
Nathanyel Jun 15th 2010 9:37AM
proof: http://www.wowhead.com/spell=46917
"Requires One-Handed Axes, Two-Handed Axes, One-Handed Maces, Two-Handed Maces, One-Handed Swords, Two-Handed Swords, Fist Weapons, Daggers"
So only the typical "physical melee" weapons - polearms apparently were already considered unusual melee weapons in 3.0 since WotLK polearms always had Agility and were thus aimed at hunters - and ferals after 3.0.8
Scooter Jun 15th 2010 10:32AM
I still wana do it. I just think a gnome buzz-saw would make a hilarious screenshot.
Cosagma Jun 15th 2010 9:07AM
I want that scythe
flawless Jun 15th 2010 12:07PM
I still have the level 70 version on my hunter :3
Shame we can't dual-wield them :(