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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Some more talent changes

Synopsis
Latest PTR patchnotes include some more changes for feral druids.


  • Rend and Tear now increases the critical strike chance of your Ferocious Bite ability on bleeding targets by 5/10/15/20/25%. (Down from 10/20/30/40/50%)
  • Primal Tenacity now reduces fear effects duration and damage taken while stunned while in Cat Form only.
What does that mean? We can stack up to 75% crit now! The 1st soft cap at 50% for FB has gone up to 75%. The other soft cap for glancing blows (which as I understand it can not crit) is at 76.something%. They are closer together though I doubt any druid will ever get to that percentage this expansion. It seems more like a pvp nerf.
Also with dual speccing Rend and Tear in catform might not be worth it anymore. I don't have the time to do the math though, but we might look at spending those 5 talentpoints somewhere else (if there is such a place). Then again I suspect us being able to do a lot more FB during a bossfight then we do now with the new glyphs and the new 4t8 bonus. That would increase the value of Rend and Tear.

On a somewhat positive note, for PVE that is, there is no longer the odd choice to take 3 talent points in Primal Tenacity when tanking. Those few fights in which you could be stunned you won't be asked to respec and take those 3 talents (in case of progress raiding). It is now purely PVP.

2 comments:

  1. You have to fill up Rend and Tear for Primal Gore anyways, so still worth it imo.

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  2. Ah yes I totally forgot about the 20% extra Shred damage. So yeah we will need it.
    *slaps himself and hopes the pain will remind him to check full description next time*

    Well I think we can take a small dps nerf in 3.1 next to all bonusses we get.

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