What’s with the sudden change from red to yellow sockets between T7 and T8 for warrior tanks?
April 13, 2009 – 10:38 pmPosted by: Damfreville
I have a question. What’s with the sudden change from red to yellow sockets between T7 and T8 for warrior tanks?
One Response to “What’s with the sudden change from red to yellow sockets between T7 and T8 for warrior tanks?”
Sockets have always been notorious for not being the optimal color for certain specs and classes. T7 seemed like the odd duck to me in that case, where the sockets were generally pretty good for most classes. Now they’re back to being sort of weird like has almost always been the case.
If I had to take a complete, total guess, I would say Blizzard prefers it that way. It forces you to make a decision. Do you want to socket the gems that are optimal for your class, or do you want to use something else to get the bonus? Would using different gems actually end up being optimal with that bonus? With strangely colored sockets, you actually need to consider those things. To pull a random example out of my rear, if a Protection Paladin’s breastplate had two blue sockets with a socket bonus of 12 stamina, would there be much question as to what they would put there?
I think they quite prefer it when gems are a bit of a puzzle. If I socket A and B will it be better than C and D? If I socket X and Y instead, can I get the socket bonus and keep my meta gem active? It’s sort of a minigame.
By kyrios on Apr 13, 2009