I am writing up the following to post on the Suggestion section of the WoW forums. If anyone has suggestions post them in comments and I'll edit this before posting.
I think that Blacksmiths should be able to make belt buckles.
- Tailors can make spell thread for legs.
- Leather workers can make armor kits for chest, legs, hand, and feet.
- Enchanters can enchant a variety of items, including feet, hands, wrists, chest, weapon, and cloak.
- Jewelcrafters can cut gems for everyone's sockets.
- Engineers can make scopes for guns and bows.
- Different factions can give you different head or shoulder enchants.
The only pieces of armor not covered by some sort of bonus is the belt, wand, offhand, thrown, and relic. I think that blacksmiths should be able to craft a belt buckle. The player should be able to apply this to their own belt. The belt buckle would have various different bonuses to it. (+damage, +haste, +defense, +healing, +attackpower, +dodge, etc) Depending on how it was coded the higher-end buckles could even have sockets on them.
Blacksmiths should have the ability to create beltbuckles because they currently have no useful commodity item to sell to other players. Yes, blacksmiths can make spurs and shield spikes and weapon chains. However with the riding crop and various enchants for shield and weapon I don't see very many people with any of those items.
I could also understand an argument for allowing Jewelcrafter to make this instead of blacksmiths. However Jewelcrafters are already able to cut all the gems.
(What to do with wands, offhands, thrown, and relics is left as an exercise to the reader. I suggest either an enchant or an inscription for them.)
EDIT: Apparently my new and brilliant idea is not actually new. :-( There were several threads on the front page of the Suggestions forum detailing the idea. Ah well, I still think it is a good idea.
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I want offhands to be enchantable, darnit! But I guess that would be really unfair to staves. :(
Good idea by the way! BS is so hard to level and really has very little reward at the end unless you PvP. And the belt is the one socket that still needs something to enhance it other than gems.
I'm guessing enchants for wands won't happen until you can also enchant bows/guns, throwables, totems, librams, and idols.
Hmm I think that wand enchants will happen sooner rather than later. There are already scopes for guns/bows so an inscription or enchant for a wand doesn't seem all that out there.
Totems, Librams, and Idols seem a bit harder to deal with. I guess a blanket set of enchants for "Relics" would work. They all generally need the same classes of things.
And yeah, having something for Blacksmiths to sell to other people is my main motivation for having this be a BS item, rather than a JC item.
And if offhands were enchantable then it'd be pretty easy to balance staves. Just make different enchants for twohanded caster weapons versus onehanded caster weapons. This is pretty easy, since they already to this for agility etc.
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