As promised here's a listing of how the Dungeon 2 (Tier .5) upgrades will improve the Dungeon 1 (Tier 0) set. I'll be adding to this as the week progresses so check back if your set isn't up here yet.

For specific piece comparisons there's always the Blizzard Armor Compendium

Blue bonuses are not included on the Dungeon 1 set.

Druid
+69 Armor
+60 Strength
+52 Agility
+30 Stamina
-10 Intellect
-25 Spirit
+84 Damage/Heal
+12 Mana per 5 seconds

Hunter
+149 Armor
+19 Agility
+23 Stamina
+21 Intellect
-20 Strength
-49 Spirit
+1% Chance to hit
+1% Critical Strike
+3% Pet Max Health
+10% Pet Armor
+2% Pet Critical Strike
+3% Pet Damage

Rogue
+69 Armor
+27 Agility
+14 Strength
+10 Stamina
-36 Spirit
+1% Critical Strike
+2% Chance to Hit
Increase to Effective Stealth Level

Warrior
+265 Armor
+28 Strength
+19 Stamina
-6 Agility
-35 Spirit
+2% Critical Strike
+2% Chance to Hit
+15 Defense

Warlock
+37 Armor
+43 Stamina
+20 Intellect
-95 Spirit
+101 to Damage/Healing
+2% to Spell Critical Strike chance
+1% Spell Chance to Hit

Paladin
+265 Armor
+4 Strength
+36 Intellect
-10 Stamina
-22 Agility
-25 Spirit
+94 to Damage/Healing Spells
+3% to Critical Strike chance
+12 Mana per 5 seconds

Priest
+37 Armor
+37 Stamina
-19 Intellect
-19 Spirit
+97 to Damage/Healing
+27 Mana per 5 seconds
+1% Spell Critical Strike chance

Mage
+37 Armor
+38 Stamina
-22 Intellect
-7 Spirit
+107 to Damage/Healing
+1% to Spell Critical Strike chance
+1% to Spell Chance to hit
-20 to Spell Target's Magical Resistance

Your math-fu is impressive.
The Force is strong with this one.

Your math-fu is impressive.
The Force is strong with this one.


Ah, but I never said the math was correct! O.o
I may just be a Sith Lord intent on getting you to spend all your cash and time questing for useless upgrades while I ruthlessly slaughter your leaders and rape your women!

Mwhuahahahaha!

dun duh nuh NUUUH nuh, dun duh nuh NUUUH nuh *imperial march with me!!* duh duh nuh NUUUH nuuuuh nuh... ah you get the idea.

Sith lords are sexy. And so what this post is telling me is that it's worth it to upgrade? I'm confusdeded.

I think for a lot of classes it depends on how you're spec'd. For example, the new pally set adds to healing and magical effects for almost every piece of Soulforge, without taking away the +200 set bonus for armor until it's absolutely necessary, since that's the first set bonus you get.

This is AWESOME for me, because I'm holy/prot, but might not be so awesome for Jami, who is ret spec.

Whether it is worth it to upgrade as a priest will probably depend on the spec too - for example, if the priest upgrade adds a lot to healing effects but reduces +Int, it's probably not worth the mana loss for a Shadow Spec priest, but it might be worth it for a holy spec priest. :)

(Please tell me if I sound like an insufferable Hermione-type know it all, as it is totally not my intent, and I have become annoyed at people who have done so to me.)

The stats listed are how much better (or worse in some situations) the Dungeon 2 armor is over the original.

For example,
Shadowcraft armor has a combined Armor rating of 978, while the Darkmantle has a combined armor rating of 1047, a difference of +69 armor.

Indeed, Ing, and I am the saddest facemelty priest ever because Virtuous is so much prettier than Devout (Aro looks lovely in yellow) but the int loss kicks my ass.

Also remember that this info is for the COMPLETE set, individual pieces may not be worth upgrading until you can do the whole set.
Also remember that the set bonuses were "flipped" for the upgraded armor, so that may be something to consider as well.

Oh and Arolaide, that has to be the funniest sig I've seen in a loooong time!

Ing wrote it. XD

The best part is that it came up when we all were, in fact, discussing the merits and demerits of having hot toons in a bar.

... and this was before someone randomly messaged me last night with 'r u rele a girl'

finished.

Thanks for doing all that math-fu captain!

r u rele a sitth?

lol tere r alwys 2 a 1337 & a n00b

hehe

lol tere r alwys 2 a 1337 & a n00b
...Now I'm going to have to do 1337 h4xx0r Star Wars, aren't I?

I vote YES YES EEEEE!