That's a... suspiciously specific scenario :P :P
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Because of set bonuses. HoX will see a noticeably increase due to the BtD buff on that set, I guess it will be deemed as "OP" compared to the other set bonuses. Lets see when we get there what these finesse hits are all about and how much of an impact they will have.
Possible buffs are:
- Con & Armor (-pvp armor)
- Heal rating (-pvp hit)
- Fire & Unholy prot (-pvp prot)
- Hit rating ( - PvP hitrating)
- Offhand rating ( -PvP hitrating)
- Hate increase
- Hate decrease
Unless they add ungodly amounts of offhand rating for barb/sin/conq I don't think there will be a whole lot of power increase for dps. Hate increase might make up for the soldiers not getting a aggro upgrade over T4 gear while some dps gets a decent dps increase from T5 gear.
Don't get me started on the other buffs.
Overall I think impact from those bonuses will be pretty small and only really useful for very specific fights.
Base stats I have seen on weapons so far are not really desirable over T4/T3.5, or in case of the blunt, not even over T3 crafted.
I'll be getting T5gear purely for the setbonuses but it is pretty disappointing.
Without the set bonuses, T5 gear is worse than T4 for soldiers and healers.
And that BS T5 blunt is no match compared to the good T3.5 one with constitution.