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In patch 1.3.5, we're going through all abilities which do not currently gain any contribution from weapon DPS, and modifying them all to do so. This includes both damaging abilities and healing abilities, bringing a general overall improvement to game-wide healing. In order to add +DPS from weapons to these abilities, we'll be reducing their base damage, which will result in a new positive gain for everyone. If you're curious, abilities which currently gain +DPS from weapons already work this way - they've already had their base damage adjusted when they were originally created in order to account for their contribution from DPS. In other words, this change will bring all damaging and healing abilities, game-wide, onto a level playing field. This allows us to move forward with more equal Career and Item balancing in the future.

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We like to say that that career balancing is an on-going process built on incremental changes, and patch 1.3.5 is no exception. While there are numerous balance adjustments coming across a broad scope of careers, there are a few specific changes which we wanted to call out so that you had a bit more of an idea of what we've been working on for 1.3.5.

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So how do we look at ways to change our current economy to balance both supply and demand? To accomplish this we need to look at solutions that will tweak the way items are rewarded. Not just how useful they are to the individual, but also as potential trade goods in the economy. We have a good idea on how to do this, but we want to throw the issue out there and get some feedback proactively, before we settle on a design.

What we’d like are some thoughts on how to change our world drops, PQ loot, and the like to make them more viable and valuable to the economy which will hopefully balance supply and demand. Examples would be: making items BOE versus BOP, making items useful to multiple classes, etc.