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#1 May 15 2009 at 4:31 AM Rating: Good
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Figured I'd post this on the warrior forums as Arms warriors benefit a lot from Armor Penetration and are likely to stack it.
Ghostcrawler wrote:
We are now considering capping armor penetration at 100%. Armor could no longer go negative. We're not sure if we would do this in a hotfix or in 3.1.2. We just wanted to let anyone know who is furiously trying to acquire every armor pen item in the game.

Note that there is not a not a cap on the amount of armor that can be reduced in WoW at the moment. Also note that capping armor penetration at 100% does not mean that you can always reduce every target's armor to 0%. The tooltip says "up to" for a reason.

While it's not a definite change yet, it might be worth knowing, especially for those who are stacking tons of Armor Penetration with high-end gear.

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#2 May 15 2009 at 2:57 PM Rating: Decent
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The way it is working right now, ArP, is blatantly not the way they want it to work at bliz.

But nerfs are nerfs, and they really don't want hybrid dps ever out competing equally geared and skilled dps classes.

Too many people where too vocal about how ArP actually worked on the Oforums, and I'm fairly certain that bliz is watching EJ a lot more closely these days. The nerfs changes to mechanics are happening faster and faster after it been announced on EJ that this mechanic or that mechanic does not work as intended.
#3 May 15 2009 at 3:04 PM Rating: Good
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Agreed, though I think this may in part have been aimed at Rogues too. They're already doing quite well on a lot of fights, and I know it was theorycrafted that ArPen became a very good stat eventually. Dunno, I could be off on that though.
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