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Does Blizzard hate druids?
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LookOut
It's only a 8.3% nerf. (110% instead of
125%
increase)
Fixed.
And we already got a 2% nerf in 3.2, so that brings us down to 10.3%...
But to all you crybabies whining that Blizz hates ferals, you're all selfish like hell. Do you really think kitties are the only arpen users? Arpen is getting replaced by mastery anyways when Cataclysm comes out, so who cares?
Post by
Dewchugger
It's only a
12%
nerf. (110% instead of
125%
increase)
Fixed.
Fixed
Post by
Timmeh
It's true, a nerf that potentially affects 7 classes was aimed specifically at nerfing feral druids who in reality got a lot less out of ArP than other classes who don't have a pile of armour-ignoring bleeds.
This thread has now become my favourite example of how idiots cannot differentiate between balance and some apparent moronic notion that Blizzard hates one or more of the classes that they themselves created. I'd paste the facepalm image but looks like I've been beaten to that one.
Post by
soterios
So ArP is getting removed from gear and stuff in the expansion... is this nerf Blizzard trying to take back what they did when they introduced ArP?
Glad to see the percentages, though. I was wondering how much it would hurt us ArP stackers.
Post by
Celdhyrean
Except the percentage shown here only represents the loss of value for ArP rating. I doubt it translates directly into the same percentage of dps loss.
Post by
Yunaleia
Bummer, now Ill only top DPS by 1% instead of 13% ...
In all reality I can see why they've done it. I believe Aadra wrote a post containing a full ArP set + BS sockets + JC which brought the "predicted" ArP value, from gear alone, to around 900.
Thats pretty rediculous in itself when you can imagine in two 2 tiers time you "could" ArP cap yourself on gear alone and THEN go for agi/arp/ap/crit etc.
The nerf, even if it can be classified as a nerf, is a blanket change to melee as it has been stated becoming "too good for its own good" and melee (maybe barring DKs who arent blood) are stacking it religiously.
I doubt it will stop people from stacking ArP, I just think it will take longer to reach the golden ArP cap.
~Yunaleia
Post by
mgman640
Arpen is getting replaced by mastery anyways when Cataclysm comes out, so who cares?
Problem is cataclysm isnt coming out for another year+. So it does affect things in the meantime.
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etrin
trust me its the same post in every class.
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slasher0161
To a degree, you need to pick your fights. It is fun, for sure and
lots
of fun to shred to rogues, but I've found retri's a huge problem. One hit me so hard yesterday in bear form, wearing ALL pvp deadly kit, that i actually had to check i was wearing my pvp kit at all.
You can't tank down a retri paladin (well a smart one anyway), all they have to do is switch to seal of vengeance/corruption and 33% of their white swing is holy damage (bye bye armour), combo'd with wings talent and a decent timing of procs its easy enough to burst a bear even with resil.
As to your question about meta with primal tenacity i would imagine not.
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Post by
anywherenotes
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Druids are like the favored Blizz class.
We can fulfill all 4 roles: melee dps, ranged dps, tank, heal
no other class comes close, ok maybe they can do 75% of what we can do, but that's not very close.
As a cat dps, you can grab a raid boss and at least not get crit (assuming you go bear). No other dps can do that. Every other tank/dps class requires +def gear to be uncritable, and switching for shield/sword does not give as much of a +def boost as one may think. Also going into bear automatically gives you similar armor to that of a dps warrior putting on a shield.
We can BR. Ok, a lock can SS a person, but you have to guess who will die. Shaman can raise himself. But you have a choice of rezing anyone (except yourself) during a battle. And, I belive our BR has lower or at least same cooldown as the other mentioned abilities.
I hope no one reading outside druid community sees this, but druids are the one and only hero class.
Ohh and on top of that, we are the best gatherers. We don't have to dismount from flying mount.
Post by
oberondreaming
DPS nerf in 3.2? What DPS nerf?
~Signed a Boomkin
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Post by
Lightrain
I for one am not happy about this nerf... However, I am still going to play feral, and possibly switch to JC+BS as my professions instead of LW+Skinning, which both do next to nothing for my dps sets... 20 crit and 80 ap is a joke....
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