College of Magic Item redundancies

[Kel'Thuzad]

Trying out Gelt's new campaign, and noticed some of the items from the various schools of magic overlap with abilities those wizards already have.

Some examples;
-School of Fire weapon, adds flaming attacks.. Which Bright wizards already have.
-School of Beasts armor, adds 'causes Terror'.. Which Amber wizards now already have thanks to Griffin mount.

Just a little disappointing and something I hope can be fixed in future patches.

[playing tf2 whilst driving]

Reminds me of one of Tamurkhan's chieftains giving beasts of nurgle horrible regen

[Fendelphi]

Beast Armor has an effect when on an Amber Wizard that havent gotten a Griffon mount yet(requires level 22). Or if you simply do not want to use the Griffon mount(The Pegasus is faster and a smaller target after all).

I agree that the "adds flaming attacks" to a Bright Wizard is kind of pointless. Maybe it is required to avoid the "burned" tag to not override the base "flaming attacks" tag?
The rest of the item is pretty decent though.


There are other cases of pointless redundancies in various factions(and have been that way for a long time now), so it is a coin-flip if it is going to be fixed.

[Kel'Thuzad]

Originally posted by Fendelphi:

Beast Armor has an effect when on an Amber Wizard that havent gotten a Griffon mount yet(requires level 22). Or if you simply do not want to use the Griffon mount(The Pegasus is faster and a smaller target after all).

I agree that the "adds flaming attacks" to a Bright Wizard is kind of pointless. Maybe it is required to avoid the "burned" tag to not override the base "flaming attacks" tag?
The rest of the item is pretty decent though.


There are other cases of pointless redundancies in various factions(and have been that way for a long time now), so it is a coin-flip if it is going to be fixed.

I dunno, I'll take the +1720 HP the griffin mount offers, plus better melee stats and WS.

Some of the other items reduce the cost of spells that are universally considered pretty bad. i.e. Penumbral Pendulum. Would be so much nicer if it reduced the cost of Pit of Shades.

I'm hoping CA will listen. In the past I brought up the issue of Lords of Change being weak because they shared the Winds of Magic pool with the multitude of caster Lords/Heroes that Tzeentch fields. To their credit, they changed Lord of Change spells to *bound* spells as I suggested.