Comments on: Druid patch notes from the Beta

By: Ishvi

Ishvi — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:49:41 +0000

Oooo, thanks for the link to the pally stuff, looks like a pretty nice boost is in store for pall tanks in the expansion. Also, anyone know if Blizz has actually posted notes from the Beta or is this from people typing it up? Just curious about pally talent tree reworks but can’t find anything on it. <— beta n00b

~joe/ishvi

By: Landorien

Landorien — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:18:12 +0000

No worries BBB. It was in fact in the alpha patch notes. For example: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=27285

Mind you whether that will make it live is anyone’s guess.

By: Kal

Kal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:55:02 +0000

BBB, it wasn’t a blue post; it was part of the alpha patch notes. I’ll see if I can find a cached copy. It should be fairly easy to test.

Dire Cat was mentioned at the WWI. It isn’t in the game yet, but I very much expect it to be.

By: Felkan

Felkan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:11:02 +0000

@BBB: Ditto for “Dire Cat”. I see it referenced quite often, but have yet to see a blue post on it.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:23:03 +0000

Landorien, no one anywhere has been able to actually provide me with a link to any Blizz person that has said that about Res. Anywhere.

i’m not jumping down your throat on this, I thought I had read it somewhere also, and Matticus agreed with me… but nowhere has any actual proof been able to be found that came from any Blizzard employee, bluposter, interviewed designer, etc. Nada.

If you can actually provide a link stating a direct quote that indicates Resilience will not apply in PvE, please do so. I guarantee it will appear in WoW Insider, cause no one there could find reference to it as confirmed as being said either, and I put them all to work on it.

Until we can find proof, let’s not be saying that Res will not work in PvE as a definitive known in WotLK, ok?

By: Kal

Kal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:20:27 +0000

@Sizzler: The uncrittable cap will likely increase to coincide with raid bosses (probably) being lvl 83. That’s the only reason I can see for doubling the crit reduction of SotF.

What’s more likely is that they’re going to not give feral druids a reason to get resilience for PvE. As it stands in WotLK, druids will not need any extra defense or resilience to hit the uncrittable cap. This allows for itemization to be shared between rogues and druids more. The only difference is armor.

However, if they’re getting rid of crushing blows (which is very likely) chances are that they can’t stack druids with armor like before, which points to druids and rogues sharing gear even more.

By: KhyBearStare

KhyBearStare — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:42:57 +0000

Or I could just be talking trash and Landorien is spot on

By: KhyBearStare

KhyBearStare — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:41:34 +0000

@Sizzler: The uncrittable cap will likely increase to coincide with raid bosses (probably) being lvl 83. That’s the only reason I can see for doubling the crit reduction of SotF.

Of course…it could also mean that Blizzard intends to “itemize” druids for tanking instead of our gear (give us more crit reduction and maintaining the status quo of no defense rating on higher lvl leather pieces)…but I doubt that.

By: Landorien

Landorien — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:21 +0000

^ I suspect it relates to the fact that resilience will no longer function outside of pvp combat.

By: Sizzler

Sizzler — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:23:37 +0000

Survival of the Fittest (Feral): Increased to 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%.

Do you think this will mean changes to the “uncrittable” cap?