Originally Posted by Hobs
I fully realize the stam to dmg conversion. That was put into the game to counter the removal of salv. If warriors get a major threat boost from just being in D stance, that is our equal. Why keep your same threat level if they are giving us a ton more? This arguement does not hold water with me.
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Our equal to defensive stance is Righteous Fury. Just as Imp Defensive Stance was folded into the base ability, so the increased threat gen of Imp Righteous Fury was folded into the base spell. The stamina->spelldamage conversion was put into the game for the purpose of homogenizing our gear with warriors - letting us wear their high-stamina plate and still get the spell damage we need to power Consecration and Exorcism (which look, so far, to be about the only two of our abilities that do NOT scale with attack power). Not to mention that all our other abilities seen so far appear to scale by both AP _and_ SP, which gives us a double bonus for stacking both strength and stamina. I will certainly be challenging my aggro-whore boomkin to a test of firepower come Lich King.