I don’t get why this was removed, the people who find it “confusing” won’t use it anyway.
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Because you’d plug your char into a third party site then reforge every piece of gear to rebalance stats.
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Never knew this was a thing tbh lol
I’d love for Reforging to come back. One of the coolest mechanics.
An important distinction from everyone using external sites/programs to sim every new piece of gear to see if it’s an actual upgrade or not.
The “confusing” argument felt disingenuous, but it was made at a time when they were trying to make the game more accessible via pruning (WoD). It didn’t really work.
The main thing that was confusing about it was the combination of simming to hit exact stat values as well as balancing the reforging to get as close to hit cap without going too much over. Hit rating is gone, and the people who want to absolutely min/max their secondaries are going to sim anyways. Realistically, as long as you know what stat you want, being slightly off from how a sim would tell you to reforge is a very marginal difference.
Bring back Reforging!
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Similar but at the time there was the whole rebalancing expertise/hit.
Nowadays it’d be fine but we’re so showered in loot and can craft custom pieces I don’t imagine they’ll bring it back. 
Which is a shame. I remember first seeing the new crafting system and thinking “they’ll do anything but bring Reforging back.”
To be fair, that tracks right along with how Blizzard does most things. Once something is gone, it rarely ever comes back.
Because bringing it back means that they were wrong to remove it. 
I just wish we had public recrafts, man. I don’t wanna go into trade and talk to somebody and pay 5k to recraft something to try out some meme stats.
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Which they won’t admit to!
Sounds like you need some Reforging in your life.
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In a way we have reforging in the form of The Catalyst using Harmonized Silk. It is not as absolute as reforging was, but close. Also to boot you have limited charges with The Catalyst. It also cannot be used on Timewalking or crafted gear.
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Reforging would probably have very little effect now with stat diminishing returns (i hate that please remove). But this gane is for people that feel good getting that plus 1% stat so I agree. Hell whenever I get 1% more versatility I wanna go into a bg and PUMP. Pure placebo effect but thats what moves wow players
Reforging should come back.
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Yeah, wow players will run a dungeon 82 times for a piece with bis stats but won’t spend 4 minutes looking up a raid encounter.
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It was made in MoP
PvP crafting > Reforging.
But sure, for PvE bring back reforging.
It was made in Cata btw
they spent their reforging budget re-reforging wc3
I agree. We need real reforging back so we can respec and change stats
Was it really? Was it on launch patch
Yeah now you just grind stuff for your gear instead of getting what you want when you want it.
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Raid encounters usually have to spend 4 mins looking me up!