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How much additional dps will you get with the "ignores 1000
points of armor" enhancement? I am a Tailor* who mainly does
melee combat and am curious. :)


*its a long story.

Totally depends on how much armor the person you're fighting has. Armor scales exponentially. If you're fighting a clothie with only 3000 armor, ignoring 1k has a huge effect (like a 10% DPS increase). If you're fighting a druid in bear form with 20k, 1k will have a small effect (like .5% DPS increase).

That said:
1. What is embroidery?
2. What enchant are you talking about? I'm thinking Executioner, but that's around 800 armor ignore, I believe.
3. What does enchanting have to do with tailoring?

Edit: Also, I remember hearing armor penetration is getting a hefty nerf in the expansion/next patch, so current formulae like the one I just recited may be irrelevant come tomorrow. I recommend looking up info on mmo-champion or wowwiki.

Edited, Oct 13th 2008 10:44am by LockeColeMA

If they're nerfing armor penetration then factoring in current AC values with what kind of increases we'll see in the expansion, that will make this effectively useless.

For example, my feral druid only has 2-3 peices of T5 and the rest is T4 - he can easily pull 30k+ armor without raid buffs and 20k+ health right now.

So boost him up to 80 and I suspect that he'll be seeing 40-50k armor or better and I'd guess at least 30-35k health - ignoring 1k of armor isn't going to even phase me.

We are only talking about an enhancement for cloaks here, Its really not that bad in comparison to what else you can pick for a cloak. I mean most druids would perfer AGI of course.

I guess we will see the viability for it when we see what the mats will cost. If its cheap, some people may use it for leveling purposes.