Can we get an explanation why Craftsman’s Passion is still disabled after tonight’s patch?
It was fine as originally intended. Not game breakiing BiS, but very nice. It was 30 Dex, with Thwarting Strikes, which meant to get full use, you would need to run 300 Str, but with 30 Dex on the weapon, you would have no way to get to 200 Con, which is a big sacrifice for melee in PvP. Also, because of the rapid Heavy auto in Onslaught Stance, Trenchant Strikes is a better perk than Thwarting. Also, BoE, which meant that Crafters could actually make some money selling them, because it was something people would buy until they could get something better.
Then we saw the PTR nerfs. BoP, and Thwarting is replaced by Angry Earth Bane. So now, it’s completely dead for PvP, since it’s a 2 perk item, and it’s meh for PvE. Only really decent for Genesis DPS runs, but not BiS since no Rogue or Trenchant Strikes. Again, kinda worth crafting, especially since Gen is this week’s rotation, but likely to get replaced eventually by most people who have the ability to craft it, especially with how many busted PvP crafts are going to come available with Bane. So, useful for this week, And we were told that this would be available to craft after the next update, which was tonight.
So why is it still disabled? Can we get some clarification about when we will be able to craft this? Are the perks being changed from what we saw on the PTR?