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Why bears don't have visible armor.
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Post by
Thror
I have a boomkin spec too, by the way. Consists mostly of ToC 10 and ToGC 10 items, with a couple ICC items. I do about 5k on the dummy, which is not bad.
Ive had a fun run in Azjol Nerub yesterday. Before we got to Anubarak, the healer got DCd... we did not want to wait, because the entire run went quite fast up to then... noone had a healing offspec... so i slapped 4 spellpower pieces on, and pulled. Managed to combo heal/tank the entire fight. Damage done to me was minimal, i could easilly get myself to full with a reju+regro combo. First burrow phase was easy, i only needed two rejuvs on two guys and everyone was topped. Second burrow phase was worse, but we got through that too without casualties... i had to pop out of form before venomancers came and used Tranquility. Third burrow phase got messy :D One dps died to an impale, the other two got their hp chomped by the small adds, but survived the burrow... only to be instantly killed by the first Pound >_>
So i ended up tanking the boss alone for the last phase... i was out of cooldowns... when i was at 5k hp, the boss was at like 50k still, the group was like noooooooo and then my frenzied regeneration CD ended :D Saved my ass, just on time. Finished him off solo. Must have been really exciting for the guys to watch. :)
Post by
Sokken
Love when you can show the people some bear ass imbaness :) glad to see some bears show the wow world how much we acctually rock at times :D
Post by
Tarkeel
Ofcourse, when guilded it all depends on what the guild needs :) I'm too used to pugging all my raids now (even my guild raids are technically pugs, but not with random people).
Sad story: My third-spec, ungemmed/enchanted healer gear has about as many ICC
drops
as my bear...
Post by
Thror
Which, i suppose, means you have had bad luck with feral drops. Thats unfortunate :( Ive been unlucky in the 3.2 patch... the staff from valkyrs and the stamina trinket just wouldnt drop. I finally got my scarab on christmas btw :D
We had a for-fun raid on 24.12. and i got it. Fun memories. :D
Post by
Tarkeel
I did get Ikfirus and the
neck
last reset, so I'm not complaining :) It's just that so much of the gear is available from frost. 10 man really doesn't hold many interesting drops for bears; I do have the ring but prefer to use clutch instead for armor.
I have scarab in backback, prefer glyph and black heart for normal tanking, swapping in scarab for HP checks.
Can you tell that I am a complete armor-%^&*!
Post by
hashmel
Tarkeel's a better man/woman (?) than I.
wish i had a joke to contribute with...
Jokes
Post by
curlymon
wish i had a joke to contribute with...
Jokes
Aaaand there went the 20 minutes of my life....
The other day I managed to pull 7.9k dps on the Heroic Training Dummy in IF for a solid 2.5million damage using only MotW and 2 innnervate of my own... How's that for some wicked RNG :P
Oh and my 4t10 set bonus was ticking for 22k at the end of the random 'just for fun' ToC Twins fight we did last night :P
Post by
etrin
Are people wanting it like the armored bear mounts?
Heck I am just glad I don't have visible panty line.
Post by
Thror
Some of those jokes are sooo epic...
What's the difference between a Gnome rogue and female Blood Elf without a mount?
Well one's a cunning runt....
or
The doctor called me and said I only have 6 months left to live. I said, "That's terrible! Isn't there anything I can do?"
He said, "Well, you can get a WoW account and farm rep in Silithus."
I said, "Will that help?"
He said, "No, but it'll be the longest 6 months you've ever lived."
Hahahah, classic.
Anyway, things turned back to the bright side, i am once again with my girlfriend :) I have had some gooooood weekend >:)
Etrin is back, oh cool i am looking forward to more emo quotes about bear tanks.
Hm. We have ICC 25 scheduled for todays evening. I wonder hows it gonna roll. We are most probably gonna bang our heads against Putricides for three hours, and then call it a day. Some people are so retarded. We have two 10 men raids that can kill Putricide without a wipe on 10m, but on 25m its like durr five people died after first slime wtf.
We got him to 600k hp once. It was very frustrating. The entire raid was dead, only me and the two pallies stood still.
Post by
LookOut
We got him to 600k hp once. It was very frustrating. The entire raid was dead, only me and the two pallies stood still.
Our 10man first kill was even more frustrating. We got him down to P3, down and down he goes, he's at 100k hp, still going down, 20k hp, we're already yelling "Gj guys, woohoo!" and all that jazz, ... then all of a sudden, he's back up to 100k+ hp (can't remember exact number). WTF? ... Yeah, that's a 0.2% wipe tyvm >< The tank not currently tanking died, which healed him.
Now THAT was frustrating. But no biggy, we got him 1 or 2 attempts later, and oneshot him the week after that.
On 25man, our guild is sucking hard. We keep avoiding putri and bloodqueen, and go for valithria instead. However, we just can't get her healed up. We even have to try hard to get her halfway -_-
... I'm not really hopeful for 25m progression if I'm being honest :(
Post by
Thror
Just got an interesting idea :V
Bear ability (no ideas for a name of it):
Costs 5-10 rage
Taunts the target and applies an ammount of Lacerate stacks equal to your combo points.
1 combo point - 1 stack
2 combo points - 2 stacks
3 combo points - 3 stacks
4 combo points - 4 stacks
5 combo points - 5 stacks
Cat passive ability:
When shifting from bear form to cat form, your physical damage is increased by ( - 50)% for 15 seconds. (of course you never get a "negative bonus". nothing happens if you had <50 rage pre-shift)
The effects of these two:
When main spec bears do not tank (meaning when other tank has to tank the boss due to a debuff) they switch to cat form and do damage... usually. Sometimes you have to taunt the boss already, and then you have those combo pts from cat form just sitting there and useless. Also when you do taunt the boss, you have to refresh all the lacerate stacks. The transition of CPs-> lacerate stacks is interesting imo. The taunt aspect of the ability further adds to its "tank switch" utility value, and would also discourage DPS ferals to somehow abuse it to get an extra DoT up.
Feral DPS druids usually suffer a DPS loss when they have to move from the boss. Quite often when they have to move away, they get damaged from something. Lets say... Mimirons lightning nova. The passive ability i made up could make up for the DPS loss a little bit. It would require you to shift into bear form for the phases when there is something about to damage you and you can not hit the boss... eat the damage with Bear Form, generate rage, perhaps also pop enrage for more rage, shift back into cat, and make up for the time you couldnt do DPS. I think it would be good if the ability only worked if you had more than 50 rage, so ferals would not just start every pull with bear+enrage+pre-pot haste potion for huge opening burst (could also be problem in PvP if the limit wasnt there? i dont pvp)
I think these changes would encourage druids to shift into their off-spec forms way more often, and therefore fulfill the Blizzards idea of druids actively using shapeshifting mid-fight. I dont think the advantages those abilities would provide are game-breaking or anything... they would just be nice little additions skilled players could tinker with.
What do you guys think? Bad ideas?
Post by
hashmel
I'd see it serving leveling druids and feral dps more than tanks really considering when a cat gets in trouble their only 2 options are to either stop dpsing all together which is bad or to switch to bear form to not die which either way means losing an unforgiving amount of dps and most likely letting everything fall off causing an even bigger dps loss.
A bear on the other hand isn't designed to primarily deal damage and threat isn't an issue, when they're not needed as a tank they can shift back and forth juggling rip, rake, and lacerate till they're needed again then just taunt.
I guess I'd have to fall back on the "don't fix what isn't broken" argument but it sure brings back memories of powershifting.
Post by
Thror
Meh... not trying to fix anything really. Just got bored at work and had a rush of creativity. I should probably just draw something instead :B
Post by
Tarkeel
It sounds like a good idea to me, and not too powerful either.
It just has to be balanced so that shifting to bear, auto-attackiong to 100 rage, and shifting back again isn't better then doing normal cat stuff.
@Hash: Man, but my chars are about a 50-50 mix of male/female. I couldn't bring myself to looking at a male nightelf... My Tauren druid is male though.
Post by
hashmel
"Mr. Owl, how many Starfires to the center of a mob's face?" "Lets find out. 1...2...Yay Eclipse! Wrath...Wrath...Wrath...Sorry it died...The world may never know."
Got bored messing around as boomkin so had to make a new macro. =)
Post by
thekeeper
tonight and tomorrow evening will be fun gonna attempt a rotface,festegut, putricide, and council kill with the guild pretty sure i will need to weed out some bad ones for the rotface and putri encounter :P
(yeah i know we should have downed em already in 10 man but we have a few key role players who took a 2 week break >.< )
Post by
hashmel
Going to Hotlanta to escape the cold and spend time with family for a week, it's a nice airport but not someplace I'd want to live. Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays, though the rocket was a horrid drop rate it seemed and I only got about 3 good Eranikus moments before Moonglade was back to a regular ghosttown, and have a good week.
Amusement.
Post by
Thror
Just enjoying my last minutes before the end of todays shift at the bookstore. Its calm here, customers are gone... my guilds ICC 25 run starts in like 6 minutes, im not gonna make it :D So yeah, guess i will miss the first wing this week :<
But we managed to clear the first 3 wings of ICC 10 yesterday with ease. We can kill Valithria too, but we were falling asleep.
Also... GOOD NEWS, Slovakia has some goooood hockey results. Czechs are going home, haha... my guild is half slovak and half czech... hockey is a rather popular topic... so its gonna be hot today on Vent. But i think we wont make it through the semi-finale D:
Post by
hashmel
All I keep seeing is curling...yeah.
I can watch football and soccer all day but anything else and it's just not much fun unless you're part of the action.
Post by
Aadramelekh
Anyway, things turned back to the bright side, i am once again with my girlfriend :) I have had some gooooood weekend >:)This is the best thing I've read around here in a while. Glad to see you are happy and back in business.
Pst... hey, you could take a look at a some books like
THIS ONE
and spice up things a bit. Sex is not the foundation but it sure does help a LOT in solidifying a relationship built on strong respect and love :D
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