Re: Hunter's Crit Change

Christian Stauffer wrote: 
"Stavros Christoforou" <stgreek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OMFG Blizzard don't nerf +defense and give the feral tree some
love, damnit!!!

Chris


Nerfing +defense IS love for ferals (not as much as it should be though), since now warriors don't have THAT much over us druids. 


Hrm? This nerf hits both warriors and druids, and in my opinion it
is a bigger impact for druids. I already wear 2 green "of defense"
items to have 376 defense (with a warden staff, a cloak of warding
and the medaillon of grand marshall morris).
After the patch, I'll have to sacrifice another one or two armor
spots to be at about 375 defense again.
Warriors don't need green "of defense" items to keep their def
skill up, there is more than enough blue gear.

Sadly, there are close to no leather items designed for tanking
druids - the warbear items are the only ones that are obviously
designed for that purpose. If there were blue leather items with
+defense I'd immediatly stop ranting :o)

Chris

yeah, I never said it doesnt hit druids, but I believe warriors get a much bigger hit which i think brings us closer to them. My reasoning? since bear doesnt have dodge/parry/etc, high stamina is nessecary. Now warriors get high sta by default, since many of their pieces have it anyway. So far, we had to sacrifice +sta for +def items, but since +def items are becoming *relatively* useless, we can now use high armor +sta items for better bear tanking. Have you seen the new Zul'Gurrub stuff? 300 armor on a leather item is insanely good :). Now, if we could get a proper feral set...
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