After reading through the upcoming changes (which I'm very pleased with), one of the most important ones that struck me was the rebalance of 2 handers, especially the new Barbarian buffs will make a lot of barbs switch to these. Looking at the sample legendaries, it appears they are doubling the stat values (at least, for crit damage) on them to bring them in line with dual wielding.
This begs the question wether they will change the stats on existing 2 handers.
If they don't, they risk obsoleting all 2 handers dropped prior to 1.0.4 and the prices of decent 2 handers will be astronomically high compared due to relative rarity and high demand.
If they do, then they risk people "hoarding" decent 2 handers prior to patch and making large arbitrary profits. This can be avoided though, if they simply buff existing 2 handers without telling anyone.
Damnit, I wanted to mention the typo first. Anywhoo, unID'd items are ID'd once they drop, not when you right click them, so any unID'd items now will be the same in 1.0.4. Also, since legendaries aren't being buffed retroactively, there's a 99% chance (rounding down) that 2 handers won't be either.
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This begs the question wether they will change the stats on existing 2 handers.
If they don't, they risk obsoleting all 2 handers dropped prior to 1.0.4 and the prices of decent 2 handers will be astronomically high compared due to relative rarity and high demand.
If they do, then they risk people "hoarding" decent 2 handers prior to patch and making large arbitrary profits. This can be avoided though, if they simply buff existing 2 handers without telling anyone.
What do you think?
Also, the word is "retroactive."
Came here to say exactly the same, but, alas, I was beaten to it.
About the 'obsoleteness' of items, don't you think today's legendaries that won't be getting any buffs will be obsolete as well?
NO!