Infraction for david0925: General Idiocy

• LodeRunner · 08/20/08, 2:42 AM

Post: [Druid] Feral talents/abilities - WotLK preview / discussion
User: david0925
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

The Blizzard quote you decided to post has already been posted near the top of this page. More importantly, you did a sweet double post following this instead of editing the two together. I'm merging them. Don't waste my time.

Original Post:

Quoting from a blue post found on MMO

"Armor is one of the most important stats a tank can have. We aren't trying to keep bears from getting it.

The change to itemization was done solely to avoid having so much diversity in the items we could drop. It's lame when you're leveling up to keep seeing quest rewards that are itemized for your spec (which TBH is still a problem we haven't solved for Feral weapons and idols). It's lame when your raid kills a boss and he drops say elemental mail, healing leather, and a spellpower mace, none of which your group can use. Having bears, cats and rogues all desire the same leather drops isn't a panacea -- it helps some problems, but it creates others. Having bears run around with as much armor as a rogue would be a big, big problem.

Fortunately there are plenty of ways to give bears the armor they need -- through talents (like the crit resistance one) or through Dire Bear form itself for example. Even if another tanking class ends up having slightly more armor than a druid, the differences should be so minor that neither of you is at a significant disadvantage on a boss.

I am glad someone mentioned the hunter example. I am really hoping you guys have the same reaction when you see the next pass on druid talents."

In my opinion, as long as tier pieces are separate and we retain armor from it, all is well. If it doesn't, and we still don't receive benefits for losing the armor, then its time to complain.

As mentioned above, you CAN put armor on tier pieces and badge gear because you won't have the "RNG rotting loot" problem. I think we need to actually see what the loot looks like from Tier 1 raiding instances in WoTLK before we can judge.