hi i was just in the test realm bought several raven hoard packs for my lower char ( note just to check the stats of the gear in case i wanted to buy some in live realm)
and the first pair of boots she got was
forgot name but it gave frozen armor for ANY level
and other ones that gives icezilla
the gear is great but the lower level versions are kinda crazy with the spells they give
Thought what I am going to do with a helmet that ONLY gives a card, be it blizzard or not, or armor that ONLY gives icezilla.
So that low level can get access to a spell that will instantly win a fight at the cost of life, accuracy, damage. Well seems fair to me. Icezilla or no icezilla, that level 20 waiting about 5 rounds to cast a spell that could very well fizzle and then on top of having to weather attacks for those five round with no life from the gear. Well, hardly seems a game changer.
In PvE, yes. Those boots will give anyone 1225 additional health and more if you own an Ice mastery amulet.
Not as much in PvP, since the caster has to wait so long to reap higher rewards (thereby vulnerable until they cast). Also, lots of folks carry a single Pierce or Shatter in the arena and it makes that entire cast worthless. Again, not so true in PvE where those debuffs aren't seen as often.
As you know this gear provides little to no resistance compared to arena gear so in no way is it OP. Also an x pip spell for an absorb is kind of a ridiculous move at lower lvl lvl as every pip counts.
