Comments on: Taking my own advice on gear

By: dfv

dfv — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:43:50 +0000

Hehe. I had to de-equip my Watch and put the Scarab on to be crit-immune in 4xT4 and 1XT5. Sure I have 34500 Armour and 45% dodge, but I needed other slots and enchants to focus on getting some Stam/AGI, so my compromise was to keep a DEF trinket. I did leave the DEF bracer enchant on though and will be seeking the Gladiator Glyph in the near future though.

By: Messyah

Messyah — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:18:08 +0000

DFV - Believe it or not, as many times as I have run Kara, the pocketwatch has yet to drop for me. Up until getting the scarab, I had been tanking with the Adamantine Figurine and the Badge of Tenacity, so as of now, the Scarab is an upgrade from the Adamantine Figurine. And did you "de-equip" or "re-equip" the watch? I'm confused. LOL

By: Stobnor

Stobnor — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:14:29 +0000

Started to write a long comment about something that happened last night, and then decided that B^3′s comments isn’t the right place for it – it’ll become the second post on my WoW Blog, I think – right there after the Intro post that’s not yet written…

The end point of the story, though, was “Are Druids more likely to be influenced by Theorycrafting and understanding Game Mechanics?”

Last night I ended up explaining uncritability to a Tankadin and why it was a bad idea for him to be tanking Heroic BF if he wasn’t… And trying to explain chain trapping to a Hunter…

Maybe it’s just my “type” that I’m interested in “being better” and “where the numbers come from”, but I was amazed that the Tankadin didn’t already know that…

By: dfv

dfv — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:08:57 +0000

The Scarab exactly fills a defense void in these tight situations where you’re mixing and matching set bonuses to get a good combination of Armor / Sta and Hit for your tanking gear. Using Rawr, the Scarab gives me a higher overall total than if I lose +6 stats to Chest with a Def enchant or Cloak Resilience enchant or add extra def gems in other pieces (usually at the expense of STA). The problem is that you only pickup about 2% dodge with the “on use proc” as opposed to the Moroes Pocket Watch’s superior avoidance – so I sadly (for now) have had to de-equip the watch.

By: scotth

scotth — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:45:45 +0000

WoW is a cool game and all, but I could really do with less math. Seriously.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:30:23 +0000

I miss you too buddy… I miss you too.

I’ll have to get some Smithwicks and hoist one in your honor.

By: Mannyac

Mannyac — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:59:33 +0000

Sorry I can’t meet you for lunch…miss that place

By: Kal

Kal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:42:08 +0000

Also, I thought about it some more and bought the nether vortexes as soon as I relogged. I ended up spending 250g each, but I figure that’s actually cheaper than what they’ll end up being. With the amount of dailies increasing both in what you can do and how many there are, I expect to see some inflation. And as you pointed out, it’s a lot easier to make 250g than it is to get 15 badges.

Just need to farm/get the rest of the mats, and the Natural Power will be all mine! MWAHAHAHAHA

By: Kal

Kal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:31:18 +0000

Rawr does the math already. :p

Make sure that you get your guild enchanters up so that they can get the enchant chest: defense enchant. (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=46594) Given how bad the all stats is, the defense enchant should be an easy deal. It requires honored with SSO, but that shouldn’t be hard to do if you’re doing your dailies.

The chest is probably better than the legs, badge wise, depending on what you have and what you can raid. I thought of it this way: is it more likely that I’m going to down KT or…uh…anyone else? If you’re not doing KT/T6 stuff, it’s an easy choice.

Another option for badges that I’m going for is the new ring. That’s the best ring in the game for druids, and it should help a lot.

By: Messyah

Messyah — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:11:03 +0000

I have the Belt of Natural Power and I LOVE it! In fact, two Shifting Nightseyes is exactly how I socketed it as well. LOL

Did you see the Shattered Sun cloak you can get that has High Armor, High Stamina and Resilience? Perhaps they are realising what theorycrafters knew all along. I guess that’s a start.

I’m kinda stuck in a similar position. I mean, it looks like no thought was given to our Tanking needs since the Heavy Clefthoof set, which included defense on each piece of gear. Now, I have T4 Helm and Legs and T5 Shoulders and Gloves and I am hanging on to my required Defensive Rating number by a thread and once I replace the Heavy Clefthoof boots, I’ll have to completly re-evalutate my gems and resocket accordingly. It’s actually quite frustrating.

I may go the route of Resilience since it is becoming more easily obtainable, thanks to some new enchants, gem cuts and gear items.

I did get these two items the other night off of Hydross:

Scarab of Displacement
Binds when picked up
Unique
Trinket
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases defense rating by 42.
Use: Increases your defense rating by 165, but decreases your melee and ranged attack power by 330. Effect lasts for 15 sec.

Living Root of the Wildheart
Binds when picked up
Unique
Trinket
Classes: Druid
Requires Level 70
Equip: Your spells and attacks in each form have a chance to grant you a blessing for 15 sec.

(Proc Values)
Cat form: 64 strength
Bear form: 4070 armor
Moonkin form: 209 dmg
Tree form: 326 healing
Caster form: 175 dmg/healing

The scarab is a nice tanking trinket, but probably a bit better for Warriors and Paladins since it would give them a nice bonus to shield block and parry as well as avoidance. It still doesn’t fill the void that us feral tanks face when looking to remain uncrittable.