subject: World Of Warcraft Items 101 News [print this page] World of Warcraft is the most complicated online game so far. Sometimes it can even overwhelm those new players with its huge in-game mechanism. WoW Items System, for example, is one of the hard bones. Here, I would like to share some break down tactics I used to comprehend this system quickly.
1. Differentiate the Item Type
There are so many types of item in WoW, but I would like to cut them into only 6 categories: Crafting items (recipes, reagents, raw materials, glyph etc); Equipment; Quest items; Reputation wow's items; Mount and Pet Moreover, for equipments, I will separate them into sellable or not sellable categories depending on their binding type (BOP, BOE.......). In these ways, I can easily systemize and remember the whole items systems quickly.
2. Realize the Item Level and Rarity
There are two kinds of level setting involved in one item: equipping level and quality level. Higher quality level usually means better item status and attribute, which is also an important reference for items' price making in AH. Also, WoW gives a drop rate for each item you can find on field (poor, uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary etc), normally the rarer the better. However, there are exceptions. For example, green sets and twink items all depending on the supply and demand proportion. So as you can see, these item standard is good for new players to tell the approximate value of an wow item without knowing it.
3. How to distinguish a good item
This is the last and the most important tactic. Good players can always tell the quality and price of an item. First, to tell an item's own value, you need to at least understand what can it does and how to use it. To do that you need to learn read the items' attribute status and how this status figure affect different character. For example, when you see two congener mage staffs with slightly different status (one has +3 int while the other has +3 stamina), which should you pick? The Int one of course, for a mage int is the one of the most valuable status. Without mana, a mage can do nothing.
All of all, swimming in the WoW items ocean could be fun actually, because you will be satisfied when you know the quality, level, rarity, and type of items by one simple glance and you will have the mental superiority while you are able to pick up the best and cheap wow items when the other players can't.
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