Wednesday, January 5, 2011

[Bear]FYI - looks like skull bash can miss

The rumors of skull bash's awesomeness and lack of need for hit (at least as a bear) appears to be a bit dead now, as logs have shown that skull bash can actually miss. Well, okay, it could always miss - but the interrupt can now also miss, and that means hit is actually more useful than it was.

What I'm not clear about is whether or not skull bash uses the melee or spell table for hit. More testing is required. In any case, make sure to have some backup hit gear just in case you're the interrupt guy; interrupts are a Big Deal nowadays.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would swear a week ago my skull bash would hit spot on every time, even with my 1% hit.

Now this reset I've seen it miss at times as some ppl died while I was spot on with my interrupt (hydro lance).

Anonymous said...

Cataclysm Hotfixes - Updated Jan. 5

Druids
* Skull Bash no longer interrupts the target if it fails to land successfully.


Bummer.

Xarnen said...

Sounds like Fluid Death and Key to the Endless Chamber might be handy to have even for tanks when interrupts are crucial.

Anonymous said...

Anyone else hate this hotfix? As a cat, it really pisses me off since hit and expertise are so poorly valued for cats, now my group's probably gonna hate me despite the fact this is squarely blameable on Blizz.

Anonymous said...

had this happen to me last night... switched out of raid since I wasn't hit capped..... reforged everything to manage to hit it :/

Goodmongo said...

More BS so the PvP'ers won't QQ is my guess.

Anonymous said...

Question: Can other classes miss their interrupts?

Also, more bad news for cat today:(

But it seem that Bear mitagation (armor) was increased.

Anonymous said...

testing on the raider's training dummy and i am getting parry on skull bash as well. I have 8 expertise, but strangely no dodges. Only parry.

Anonymous said...

ahh right, casting mobs can't dodge or parry. Yay!

Anonymous said...

I got some dodges and parry on skull bash as well.

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