WotLK Enchants from a warrior’s PoV

Along with talents, the leaked information also included enchants. As i am a 375 enchanter, i looked around, and there’s some new and interesting things in there.

Besides upgrades to the current enchants (think +16 stam to bracers and things like that) there are some new enchants that open new possibilities for gearing our warriors.

• Enchant Cloak – Haste: “Permanently enchant a cloak to increase haste rating by 20. Requires a level 60 or higher item.”

• Enchant Bracers – Expertise: “Permanently enchant bracers to increase expertise rating by 15. Requires a level 60 or higher item.”

• Enchant Gloves – Expertise: “Permanently enchant gloves to increase expertise rating by 15. Requires a level 60 or higher item.”

• Enchant Weapon – Lifeward: “Permanently enchant a melee weapon to sometimes heal you. Requires a level 60 or higher item.”
• Enchant Weapon – Scourgebane: “Permanently enchant a melee weapon to increase attack power by $44594s1 against Undead. Requires a level 60 or higher item.”
• Enchant Weapon – Icebreake: “Permanently enchant a Melee Weapon to sometimes inflict Fire damage. Requires a level 60 or higher item.”
• Enchant Weapon – Deathfrost: “Permanently enchant a weapon so your damaging spells and melee weapon hits occasionally inflict an additional 150 Frost damage and reduce the target’s melee, ranged, and casting speed by 15% for 8 sec. Requires a level 60 or higher item.”
• Enchant Weapon – Giant Slayer: “Permanently enchant a melee weapon to have a chance of reducing movement speed and doing additional damage against Giants. Requires a level 60 or higher item.”

• Enchant Ring – Haste: “Permanently enchant a ring to increase haste rating by 20. Only the Enchanter’s rings can be enchanted, and enchanting a ring will cause it to become soulbound.”
• Enchant Ring – Assault: “Permanently enchant a ring to increase attack power by 40. Only the Enchanter’s rings can be enchanted, and enchanting a ring will cause it to become soulbound.”

Personally i think the biggest thing is Deathfrost. Depending on it’s proc rate it may become the new tanking enchant of choice. Not only will it add threat, but it will also add a good deal of mitigation through the slowing effect, which unlike Thunderclap applies to casting sped also. If it stacks with TC, even better.

For DPS, the thing that pops up first are the new expertise enchants. This is a very powerful stat, and seeing 2 new sources for it is quite good. Also of note are the haste enchants, but the value of haste is still being disputed, so we’ll have to see how they do.

Finally it looks like weapon enchants are steering away from stuff like Mongoose or Executioner and going back to stuff like Fiery and Icy.

~ by Kuroyume on May 22, 2008.