Comments on: Where Wulfa flatters the Triple-B

By: maelune

maelune — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:30:40 +0000

Thank you for this list. i am but a brand new (as of yesterday) 70 feral druid and finally made it to your site following some links. glad i did, you will be a fount of information for me as a tanking druid :)

By: Minmon

Minmon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:35:10 +0000

Another fairly significant upgrade is the gloves. The Handwraps of the Aggressor are quite a big step up from the t4 gloves, even if you lose the 2pc t4 bonus (which isn’t that hot for bears).

Other than that, nice gear set. ^_^

By: KhyBearStare

KhyBearStare — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:25:48 +0000

@Everyone – Sorry for perpetuating the myth. I had read that res will have no affect in the PVE environment and hadn’t seen anything (until now) that said otherwise.

Thank you for calling me on my error. :)

@Boobah – Even with the doubling of SoTF, I think we are going to need to keep up with our def/res gear. Chance to crit currently scales with mob level and I haven’t seen anything yet that says that trend won’t continue. Base defense also scales with your toons lvl, so at lvl 80, we should have a natural 400 defense. It’s my guess that raid lvl bosses (probably lvl 83?) will have a pretty high crit %, maybe around 8-10% or so. That’s just purely a guess though.

@BBB – Have you seen anything about wotlk raid lvl bosses and their hit tables?

By: Kheldar

Kheldar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:48:07 +0000

similar to me as well. main difference being i dont raid at all so everything i have is crafted / pvp or badge rewards.

Next on my list is the 100 badge chest which will be a nice upgrade over the pvp chest.

Have to say i am loving my PVP S2 shoulders and helm. they rock and are way better than other stuff i could get as a non raider.

I’ve never been sure on how much +hit i need as its a difficult stat to find already on items i can get.

Then i use stuff like, Boots of Natural Grace, Belt of Natual Power, Badge of Tenacity, Bands of the Swift Paw, Verdant Gloves (need an upgrade here!), Earthwarden, Idol of Terror and a Iron Band of the Unbreakable, Ring of the Stalwart Protector and a Darkmoon Card : Madness.

self buffed in bear i run with about 16.6k HP, 30k armour, 27.8% crit and 33.43% dodge. lack of +hit and expertise but i am not sure i need these for the places i go or that i can easily get these stats ? but otherwise i seem to do ok in heroics upto now.

By: Cyrus

Cyrus — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:24:48 +0000

Well, Dreadbite is not really a 25 man toon – she’s my ‘Oh Cthulhu, just stop your whining for a tank ALREADY’ alt : ). I considered stacking STA, it does play to a bears strengths a bit more than AG I think, but having 50% dodge unbuffed is just so damn nice : )

I’m also curious to see if I can pump it higher and whether it’ll have an effect on my rage generation. At the moment, the extra crit from all that AG means I have rage to burn, will be interesting to see if that stays the case at 60%+

But yeah, I personally think you can’t really go wrong stacking STA as a bear – I just tend to obsess on one stat and lucky me it’s dodge right now : )

By: Llangar

Llangar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:04:32 +0000

I think S2 is better than T4, at least for Head and Shoulders (especially once you get the SSC Staff). I have full T4, of which I use none for tanking. Pretty sad.

By: Stupid Mage

Stupid Mage — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:56:48 +0000

That’s scary.
It means Blizz will think Leather needs no Def nor Res on it.

By: Boobah

Boobah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:11:26 +0000

Unless they revert the change to Survival of the Fittest (they’re doubling its effects), bears are going to be uncrittable nekkid, so neither defense nor resilience are going to be needed on y’alls gear whether or not the often-claimed resilience change is true.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:21:25 +0000

I’ll log in and grab my stats when I get home tonight, I don’t actually have Rawr on my work computer. :)

And yes, I stacked Stam, because I have my two trinket ‘oh shit’ Dodge buttons which have served me very, very well.

If I were still intending to push into 25 man content, I’d be micromanaging my gemming a lot more, so your use of more mitigation might be a much smarter load balance.

For what I’m doing, stacking more stamina just gives my healers more of a cushion. I certainly haven’t had any problems so far.

By: Cyrus

Cyrus — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:39:52 +0000

Hmmmm, very similar to my druids loadout except I’m gemmed for avoidance over HP.

How much dodge are you runing, triple B?