Stealth detection items nerfed
May 15, 2009 – 4:27 amPosted by: Chevalier
I tried to make a “stealth nerf” pun in the headline, but it just wasn’t coming to me. Anyway, Blizzard has decided that items that grant stealth detection were feeling too mandatory in arenas, “forc[ing] players to use lower level equipment even when more powerful items were available to them.” Therefore, they’ve nerfed the lot of them.
- Ultra-Spectropic Detection Goggles can no longer be used in arenas.
- Epic engineering goggles will no longer grant stealth detection.
- Stealth detection on many other items (Catseye Ultra Goggles, Blood Guard’s Dragonhide Gauntlets, Marshal’s Dragonhide Gauntlets, Knight-Lieutenant’s Dragonhide Gloves, General’s Dragonhide Gloves, Bloodvine Lens, Knight-Lieutenant’s Dragonhide Grips, Blood Guard’s Dragonhide Grips, The Night Watchman) has been reduced.
This hotfix is already live; tooltips are not updated, yet, but will be in the next patch (patch 3.1.2).
What’s your reaction to this? Obviously it’s bad when people feel compelled to wear low-level items because they’re overpowered (witness the Badge of Tenacity for Druid tanks), but is this going to lead to rogues becoming even more overpowered than (I hear) they already are?
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