Thursday, January 6, 2011

[Bear]The most important PTR change for 4.0.6 is...

Sure, you've seen the patch notes at MMO talking about bears getting nerfed in damage but boosted in armor, and cats getting nerfed on bleeds but boosted on shred & mangle.

Alaron talked about it, as did Jacemora.

But what did they miss? Oh, they missed this little beauty.

The tauren racial trait War Stomp can now be used while shapeshifted.
Oh, HELL yes.

Even on a 3 minute CD this is great for PvE, especially heroics. Interrupts, stopping a lot of damage early on, being able to get stupid achievements like the one from BRC - it has tons of potential use. Just awesome. Of course ,it's something we should have had for a long, long time - but at least we get it.

15 comments:

lissanna said...

yay for tauren bears! It sure did take Blizzard long enough to let you guys use it.

Darksend Mercenare said...

you missed it too till i pointed it out to you!!!!!

Jay said...

I'm dying to see the animation for this on both cat & bear ;))

Anonymous said...

Just when i race change to troll >_< damnit

Anonymous said...

Kalon, I'm hearing different things on how to rate weapons for feral druids. Can you explain what feral druids gain from (or should ignore) stats like weapon speed, dps, and high and low damage. I'm trying to figure out if I should get the vicious gladiators staff or polearm. Since they have the same dps are they identical for feral? Or is the polearm better because it has 1795 - 2693 damage compared to the staff's 997 - 1497 Damage?

Isley said...

Hard BRC achivments?

lol kal your so crazy! Just get yourself a frost DK with chillbains!

Anonymous said...

I made a little video to anger & wake up some of the druid community out there ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKYAVXM8qnY

hope you like it :)

Anonymous said...

Kal,

I'm writing in the hopes that you, and other prominent members of the feral community might band together and issue your thoughts on the powershifting nerf in the current PTR notes.

If Blizzard doesn't listen to their customers, then perhaps they will listen to prominent members of the community.

Thank you.

Anonymous said...

War Stomp has a cast time and therefore the tank cannot dodge while it's being cast; it also suffers from pushback so you take a silly amount of damage while trying to cast.

Anonymous said...

Disappointed about lack of new posts, and specifically addressing proposed powershifting changes!

<3

Anonymous said...

PS It seems your Wowhead post-heroic Bear list trinkets overvalues armor by quite a bit

Anonymous said...

hay kal, it's santa :v

glad to have stumbled across this blog, and i'm bookmarking the hell out of it. hope everything is going well with you. i am still playing as a cat and it still rules

Anonymous said...

Where are you? :)

Anonymous said...

assuming the comment above was for me... right now im on Moon Guard (yes, I finally did it, I'm on an RP server, I AM KING NERD OF THUNDERBUTT MOUNTAIN)

started playing again with some dudes from a forum i frequent and it's been quite a thing. i got to help on our first 10man normal cho'gall kill :v placed in top 3 dps despite all the blues...

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/moon-guard/aretakh/simple

might have my pvp gear/spec on, whoops

Yojamba said...

Dam, why did I just start a Troll Druid? You can keep your war stomp, you Taurens!