No, you're not wrong at all, it's more than a minor tweak for sure. Considering current cycle lengths (~12 secs), it would allow 2 Rips per SR with roughly 62-64% Rip uptime, and 90%+ SR uptime .. with the possibility of aligning SR downtime with energy queuing.

Just as a note: there's not a single point of strength on our currently known pvp-gear, neither the 5 set-parts, nor the staff, therefor high amounts of agility... Is that the way we go?

edit: I think it's worth noting because it's completely against our current pvp-gear, which hast lots of strength and no agi on it.

We'll be gemming for strength, according to Blizzard.
It shouldn't be too big of a problem since Rogue gear comes with +AP anyway which will supplement the PvP gear.

Also of note is that the druid PVP set is identical to the rogue PVP set (except set bonuses, and the gloves having a deadly throw bonus vs no bonus on ours) The no bonus likely due to not figuring out a suitable replacement since they added our prior glove bonus to maim by default.

Also there is no "Druid melee" 3 piece (at least not yet)

I would have thought with the talk of us being too agi based, at least our set itemised pieces would have strength rather than AP (SoTF alone would encourage this approach)

I don't see intellect on arena druid stuff...
According to me, it's a very bad thing to remove intellect because it's nice to have 10k ap but if we can't demorph...

Seems like Rampage(warrior) is the same buff as LoTP now, though it has shorter range but affects raid members.
I'm fairly certain that we will see the raid-wide part of the buff apply to LoTP too, once they get to druids.

As for removing FAP, the simple solution would be to just add in an "adds your weapon dps * X to your ap while shifted" -effect to bear and cat form, then remove all the FAP on weapons, and restoring their dps to the appropriate value for their Ilvl. You would also need to update Predatory strikes, ofcourse.

I'm still curious about if they plan on going back and removing +armor on TBC items, or just ramp up both "base armor" and the armor cap, to make sunwell gear have less armor than WLK items.

The change to Savage Roar is interesting. I think the increase in duration was necessary to make it usable in a standard rotation, but I wonder why they didn't do it through a talent. It would have been a textbook example of how to separate bear and cat talent specs, which they claim is one of their goals.

Wow, that is simply amazing for feral pvp. One of the weaknesses of feral pvp was having to completely stop dps and waste energy to do any CC or healing. This would be a fantastic change.

Also, this would significantly buff powershifting, with the only limitation being our mana!

Fingers crossed this isn't a bug.

Just had another thought: Does this also work for Bear Form rage? It would be nice to retain rage after shifting out and it would then also allow rapid rage generation via bear-powershifting too.

That'd be kind of hilarious. Starting every pull by spamming bear 10 times for a full rage bar.

Confirmed, this is happening for me too. Lets hope this is intended, that's a huge buff for PvP, and all powershifting. And it makes Powershifting really easy to model; each powershift is just a spell that costs X mana, 1.5sec GCD, and -40 energy cost.

EDIT: Important note, it does not work that way for Bear rage. That says to me that it's not just an accidental side-effect of enabling items in forms or something.

Powershifting takes 1.5sec, not 1sec, but yes, you end up with 100 energy (plus 20 wasted, 10 from being at a minimum of 10 when you powershift and 10 from getting too much from powershifting)