Jacemora: BREAKING NEWS!

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Friday, March 13, 2009

BREAKING NEWS!

From MMO Champion...

Item - Druid T8 Feral 2P Bonus (Class: Druid) -- The periodic damage dealt by your Rake, Rip, and Lacerate abilities has a chance to cause you to enter a Clearcasting state.

This is HUGE!

To refresh your memory the old 2T4 Proc returned 20 energy. This will basically give you a free special on your next attack which as we all know is more than 20 energy.

Depending of course on the proc rate and internal CD this is potentially a bigger deal than the old 2T4 proc and I am sure everyone remembers what a huge deal this was. It was OP enough that Blizzard had to remove the 2T4 bonus @ 80 and scale back the proc rate after level 70 to make sure we stopped wearing 2T4 as we went into Wrath content.

I would assume with the proc happening from periodic damage it will happen a little less and that they are going to make sure through the proc rate that it is not as OP as the old 2T4 but as a feral druid this bonus has to get you excited about wearing T8 4 sure.

And look at the 4 piece bonus...

Item - Druid T8 Feral 4P Bonus (Class: Druid) -- Increases the duration of Savage Roar and Survival Instinct by 8 sec.

This is one happy Hybrid Feral Druid (Soon to be dual spec Tank/DPS feral druid). I mean I have been really happy with my Tanking and DPSing ability since going with a Hybrid build, check it out... top 5 on Thaddius last night (WTB Ret Pally Nerf :P or DK faceroll ability :P)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

2p Sounds great for cat, but isnt it kind of wasted in bear since we have infinite rage? Oh ok well occassionally, I may have no rage: start of a fight, a few too many mauls combined with too many dodges... But I was profoundly unexcited by the bear implications.

Jacemora said...

Well, I don't remember being excited about the bear implications on Tier gear ever.

If memory serves we got like 1200 more armor for 4T4?

Darksend Mercenare said...

4t4 was 1400 armor which was a lot because it was right at the time we lost our armor modifier down to 370%. It worked out to needing 3 pieces of t5 to make up the difference so most druids used it until 2t6.

t6 bear bonuses were both really good, 15% more threat on mangle and 15% more damage on swipe