I was looking for a legendary hat with AP/crit on it and came across Storm Crow, the only level 60 legendary Wizard Hat. It seems to me that in 1.04 Blizzard was trying to make legendary items more specific to certain classes (a good example would be the Three Hundredth Spear). Why would they make a class specific item such as Storm Crow give +stats that barely benefit the class that uses the item?
The helm is nice, but why not remove the near pointless +dex/str and up the int on the helm to something like 150-300.
Comparing this legendary helm to other class specific legendary helms (those for WD/monk), I don't understand why Blizzard left the useless stats on the Wizard Hat but got the others looking like they should.
Feels a bit like they are neglecting the Wizard.
Additionally -- I don't want to get much into this because I don't want it to be the focus of this post but I personally would rather use pieces of the Zurimassa set (WD) over Tal's because I feel the early set bonuses and item stats are just straight up better.
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Playing a Wizard. Looking for Demon Hunters to play with.
I've been using Dark Mage's Shade for a long time. And still using it and like it very much. It's a bit low on the main stats but it's good for many other things.
The helm is nice, but why not remove the near pointless +dex/str and up the int on the helm to something like 150-300.
Reaching ~500 dex for a wizard is a good idea for your mitigation. Str does give a boost to your armor. Sure, int and vit could have been buffed but I dont actually mind a bit of dex/str.
I know there are benefits to having those stats, that's why I used the word "near". However I find it difficult to stack dex/str on items when I'm already looking for high int, res all, vitality, life%, crit chance, crit %, etc. It just falls very low on the list of desired stats for a wizard and if you only have the str/dex from the helm and none on any other items, it's really not benefiting you at all. If you start stacking those stats on other items, you're probably missing out on potentially better stats.
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Playing a Wizard. Looking for Demon Hunters to play with.
The helm is nice, but why not remove the near pointless +dex/str and up the int on the helm to something like 150-300.
Comparing this legendary helm to other class specific legendary helms (those for WD/monk), I don't understand why Blizzard left the useless stats on the Wizard Hat but got the others looking like they should.
Feels a bit like they are neglecting the Wizard.
Additionally -- I don't want to get much into this because I don't want it to be the focus of this post but I personally would rather use pieces of the Zurimassa set (WD) over Tal's because I feel the early set bonuses and item stats are just straight up better.
I know there are benefits to having those stats, that's why I used the word "near". However I find it difficult to stack dex/str on items when I'm already looking for high int, res all, vitality, life%, crit chance, crit %, etc. It just falls very low on the list of desired stats for a wizard and if you only have the str/dex from the helm and none on any other items, it's really not benefiting you at all. If you start stacking those stats on other items, you're probably missing out on potentially better stats.