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Loved the sounds of the stat and itemisation changes announced just
now; quick copy+paste from MMO-C:

   " Getting new items should be exciting. Right now it feels like you
have to do a lot of work when you get a new item.
    Hit and Expertise don't feel like a bonus, so they are now gone!
    Dodge and Parry, gone!
    Reforging, gone!
    Enchanting is still around, but fewer items can be enchanted.
There will be more enchant choices for those items.
    The number of items with gem sockets will be gone. Only one gem
slot per item. Gems are more powerful. Sockets are a bonus that don't
count towards item level budget. No more socket bonuses or meta gems.
    The stats on armor will now change based on your spec. Plate drops
and it will have whatever stats your class needs, no more Intellect
plate! No more PvP Priest Healing set and PvP Priest DPS set, just a
Priest set.
    Jewelery, cloak, trinkets, and weapons will be more role focused
and might keep stats.
    Armor will become a good tanking stat again, Spirit will be good
for healers.
    Tertiary stats are bonus stats that can appear on gear that don't
count towards the item level budget. Lifesteal, avoidance, sturdiness,
movement speed (stacks with other bonuses), cleave, and more.
    Item squish is in! All of the big jumps from old expansions and
raid tiers will be flattened.
    Your relative power won't change, just the numbers. The speed at
which you kill things won't change. You can still solo old content."


So, the best bit: armour primary stat changes with your spec. It'll be
awesome to be able to consider specs that use different stats without
having two sets of gear! The bullet points above don't mention it but
setbonuses also change with your spec so there's just a priest set, a
druid set, etc and you get whatever bonus is relevant.

The tertiary stats stuff sounds kinda cool, doesn't reduce regular
stats so just a bonus, but some nice bonuses indeed. Item squish will
take getting used to, but so long as it really doesn't make me feel
weaker in old raids and stuff, I'll live with it.

Another change I love the sound of: the old raid finder will be
expanded for anything you like, transmog runs, achievements,
worldbosses, the lot - and it's crossrealm. Think there's some addons
which do that but to have it builtin, I love that idea, might persuade
me to group up occasionally in that case! ;-)

Seems like they're doing a whole bunch of interesting things here,
some of the ite changes took me by surprise, others I think cool, was
hoping they'd do that. All seems like improvements to me anyway.