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Originally Posted by Graham,March 11th, 2006 @ 12:49AM
Vael is one of the few fights where I think even we could make good use of bears. Bears with good crit rates could give you a noticably wider aggro lead for #1 and #2 above 3, which would make the fight safer.
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I don't know why people even bring up Vael as though it's aggro-sensitive in a meaningful way. Maybe it was last summer, but it's not now. Aggro-sensitivity in the manner, say, Broodlord effects a raid, is not what wipes us on Vael under those rare occassions where we do.
Aggro in time-attack type fights is generally a matter of load balancing. That a bear might allow 14% more damage out of the number one damage dealer in the fight is meaningless, since that damage dealer need only do so much if members of his/her class is slacking. In other words, if a raid is doing it's job properly, it's a non-issue.
Also, Vael is all about transitions. If the bears at #1 and #2 do great, that's only useful if the warrior in #3 can push out enough threat that you don't catch on the transitions and wipe to a sloppy spin to burn.
On the other hand, bear capable druids are simply stellar in AQ40 - Druids in general have many impressive options. While I disagree with pointless pure feral builds - Sorry, giving up flexibility for a little more dps umph is moronic - the things a druid can do in AQ40 are very impressive, and add a lot to a raid. Innervate is amazing in long fights, but all the bear abilities makes Skeram, the triplets and Sartura especially better. A good bear form druid is priceless. Hell, they're good on the trash.
AQ40 is a very well designed instance when it comes to pressing raid groups hard on numbers and spreading things thin. And druids react to that exceedingly well.
I don't get the argument when you can look at a situation where a druid tank is less a luxury and more a key to success.