Keftenk wrote:It's also not listing Consecrated Sharpening Stone, Coarse Sharpening Stone, Dense Sharpening Stone, Heavy Sharpening Stone, Rough Sharpening Stone, and/or Solid Sharpening Stone. What's your point?
Categorical difference isn't the same incremental difference. Logical failure.
But it is understandable since the nomenclature is similar enough.
Category 1: A sharpening stone increases weapon damage on a sharp (sword/dagger/axe) weapon by X for 30 minutes.
Incremental difference:
Rough Sharpening Stone: X = 2
Coarse Sharpening Stone: X = 3
Heavy Sharpening Stone: X = 4
Solid Sharpening Stone: X = 6
Dense Sharpening Stone: X = 8
Category 2: Increases critical strike chance by 2% for 30 minutes.
Only 1 variety, no incremental levels.
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If it were like a weapon damage sharpening stone, it'd also have a weapon type restriction. It doesn't, it can be used on blunt weapons. The naming similiary doesn't entail categorical equivalence.
After all, if a patch mentioned "Iron Bars should now..." would you argue Dark Iron Bars should behave the same way? Or if an "Elementium Ores can be..." would you conclude Enchanted Elementium Ores should also be the same? They are categorically different things with naming similarities.
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The patch note as well as gaming websites all agree that sharpening stones and weighstones, types that increase weapon damage did not work for a druid shifted in cat or bear form (does work for moonkin). But the elemental sharpening stone, category of its own that therefore requires a separate information assessment, is not contained in 2.4 and gaming websites agree that it did /should work for these 2 forms. I initially thought it also shouldn't work due to the tooltip wording it as a 'melee weapon' based temporary enchant, but after researching on theNIF's claim seems his first hand recount is validated.
Not the first time Blizzard's tooltip lack semantic rigour. Paladin One-Handed Weapon specialization should increase Seal of Righteousness damage even though the tooltip doesn't refer to it.
