Couple of minor whimpers

[Heynanni]

#1 What is the deal with gear having the "normal" stats, the new heroic stats, sometimes a focus effect, and then like 9 or 10 "add-on" stats (clairvoyance, strikethrough, etc) I literally just looked at the Warped Steel BP and it has 12! add on stats. How much further can SOE go? What does "Heal Amount 1" mean anyway? 1pt of healing? 1%?

Not to mention they have sort of 2 sets of gear dropping, one set with slot 7 only and the EXACT SAME ITEM with 2 extra slots. It boggles me and I can only dread what will happen this time next year. I hope I'm missing some major point to it all, and someone please fill me in if I'm oblivious.

Now a good thing, people here have always mentioned what they've managed to vendor dive but I have a new one that I do, I vendor dive for tribute! Things like centaur plate wrists, wurmfire rings, lamalae wrists, they don't sell well in bazaar but often have like 1200 tribute value! So instead of making items to skillup on and tribute (aka anything bd cultural), I can just vendor mine it!

Last one is a huge roar- YAY FOR TEMPLATES!!! Tailoring has never gone so smoothly for one of my toons (Haversacks anyone? ) TYVM!

[Tiroon]

AFAIK mods like healing or clairvoyance add their value to the heal landing on you or reduce the mana cost of a spell respectively.

Mods like Strikethrough have been eround and are pretty well documented (over at Samanna's for example).

Vendor diving for tribute: I used to fire star ruby encrusted steins but the biggest bang for the buck I have found so far still is the mantle of stealth that drops in GE and sells off vendors for the princely sum of 1 copper.

[Ngreth Thergn]

The healing and damage mods add that much to every instant spell of the appropriate type (they are looking at how to do it with dots without it going crazy)

Clairvoyance is a CHANCE to gain that much mana every time you cast any spell.

None of these are capped. It is just controlled by the small numbers you currently see.

The Damage Shield reduction reduces the damage you take when hitting an NPC with a damage shield by that much. This one is capped. (I am not at liberty to say what the cap is, that is up to others to say)

All of these are cumulative.

[Heynanni]

Wow! I was not expecting a real answer, thank you very much for clearing that all up for me

BTW- I love templates! Best ever implementation to tradeskills EVER (even better than the tradeskill UI) My druid hit 300 tailoring today