Weapon normalization

[Thundathys-amanthul (Thundathys)]

@Proaris-bleeding-hollow

All it did was make it so that you did not have to study weapons or understand the math to get the best weapon.

Find the slowest weapon in the tier of content you’re doing, aim for that. It wasn’t rocket surgery.

[Ziryus-doomhammer (Ziryus)]

@Proaris-bleeding-hollow

Certain weapons were better and did more damage so Blizzard made it so that they all did very similar damage.

In my opinion this was a bad step that took detail away from the game and was one of the first dumbing down moves.

It’s more that blizzard made it so weapons had one scaling stat instead of two which is a more sustainable model. Although it would have been hilarious to see Naxx weapons with like 5-6 second swing times.

[Boomsky-moonrunner (Boomsky)]

Pre-normalization melees are absurd. That’s how you end up with world of roguecraft when you make Barman Shankers hit harder than BWL daggers. Melees are strong enough in 1.12, they don’t need this absurd buff.

Weapon Speed Normalization

This isn’t a weapon speed normalization, it’s only normalizing the scaling of abilities from weapon speed. That way you don’t end up with 6.2k damage Aimed Shots or barman shanker rogues hitting harder than BWL rogues. There’s no reason to not have the weapon ability normalization unless you want melees to be buffed, and I’m pretty sure most people on these forums know just how strong rogues and warriors are in 1.12. They don’t need to be buffed on top of it.

[Zeliek-moon-guard (Zeliek)]

Since it hasn’t been directly stated, Normalization did not affect the weapon’s damage. So abilities would do weapon damage + normalized AP * weapon speed + ability bonus damage. Using a fast weapon in the main hand would still cause you to lose dps if speed is the only change.

[Khaun-grobbulus]

You’re exactly right with this statement. That is exactly what effect normalization had.

[Zeliek-moon-guard (Zeliek)]

Faster weapons were still dirt, it was meant as a way to tone down damage in pvp and help the item creator’s butt stop being sore.