In the new patch 7.1.5 for World of Warcraft, Blizzard changes the secondary stats. You will need more points to increase the value by 1%.
The secondary stats Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, and Versa will be changed in patch 7.1.5. With these changes, you will need more points to increase the values by 1%. Blizzard aims to improve rings and necklaces with these changes. The item levels of items are supposed to play a bigger role again.
Changes to Secondary Stats in Patch 7.1.5
The current changes to secondary stats on the PTR are as follows:
- Critical Strike: To increase this value by 1%, you now need 400 instead of 350 points.
- Mastery: To increase this value by 1%, you now need 400 instead of 350 points.
- Haste: To increase this value by 1%, you now need 375 instead of 325 points.
- Versatility: To deal 1% more damage and healing, you now need 475 instead of 400 points. To take 1% less damage, you now need 950 instead of 800 points.
WoW: Legion – The Goals Behind These Changes in 7.1.5
The Community Manager Lore has commented on these changes and the goals the developers have in the official WoW forum.
- 1. Goal: The item level of various items should play a bigger role in upgrades. Currently, items with much higher item levels are not important for improvements because the secondary stats vary too much. By needing more points in the future to increase a secondary stat, the focus should return to primary stats. Players are currently forgoing upgrades of up to 15 item levels to avoid losing secondary stats.
- 2. Goal: Rings and necklaces should be improved. By removing primary stats from these items, WoW players must choose the right secondary stats. The secondary stats on these items should significantly increase at higher item levels. However, there will still be situations where one opts for item levels on rings and necklaces to get better secondary stats. This is intended.
- 3. Goal: The strength of players should not be changed. Due to the stat changes on the PTR, players currently deal less damage there than on the live servers. Work is still being done to ensure that items with item levels above 800 in patch 7.1.5 are equally strong or slightly stronger than in WoW patch 7.1.
These changes will affect some classes more than others. Ultimately, the power of your character should depend more on primary stats than it has in the past. This will make your attacks in World of Warcraft stronger overall, even if they do not critically hit as often. While working on patch 7.1.5, there may be adjustments to the various class specializations if necessary.
The 2nd PvP season starts soon – Will patch 7.1.5 come then?
