Comments on: Okay… I am loving it!

By: Pixiedark

Pixiedark — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:04:22 +0000

This pic makes me think X-rated thoughts.

/GRIN

By: skdmarkpanda

skdmarkpanda — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:02:13 +0000

Dude, do yourself a favor and go to hyjal. I was there last night and i swear i never had more fun tanking ever. Watching swipe hit a billion targets at once and berserking 3 targets at once with mangle is amazing. I was wearing my dps gear also with a couple pvp items thrown in for extra armor and i hardly got hurt. So if this is any indication as to the performance of feral tanking in rouge gear i say full speed ahead.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:20:14 +0000

Just did the “pull all of deadmines and swipe” because I noticed I was missing the “Kill Van Cleef” achievement :) It’s awesome. Cat charge is also wonderful – the animation of a single graceful leap is beautiful.

By: Typhoonandrew

Typhoonandrew — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:24:06 +0000

As a Paladin Tank I say welcome to AoE tanks! That type of rain of damage has been our joy for a long time, good to see some other folks getting in on the action.

Wait till you pull all of Deadmines in one pull and AoE it dead. Too funny.

By: Duruk

Duruk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:01:26 +0000

This is what pallytanks has been staring at for a loooong time. Grats to you guys, and welcome to the fun of single pulling BM trash :)

By: Takira

Takira — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:15:49 +0000

Just my 2 cents on the changes; I felt like my dps, or at least my tps, was lower than usual tanking in BT tonight than it usually is – but I suspect that it wasn’t actually lower. The melee DPS were totallly rocking! Plus I think I need to adjust my spec, maybe I went overboard on mitigation over damage. I didn’t have time to get a working meter going to check/record all I had was Omen.
Beserk was awesome, SI put me over 30k hp, got the Glyph for Frenzied Regen and it really seems to actually make a difference. I also used the Maul glyph; I feared for the sheep but did it anyway. I didn’t seem to notice the challenging roar glyph, at least not in there. The CD has been reduced so much anyway, it was always up when I tried to use it.
My guild did a full BT clear in one night! We were aoe pulling 2 packs at a time o.0 Even with 2 wipes – lag to RoS and a tank DC in Council.
Best part: I got to tank Illidan. My Bear face vs. Illi. Not a fire elemental… ILLIDAN. OK so it went super fast it was like Kara Temple, but still!! Almost as exciting as the first time we had a hunter tank his shadow phase. How can everybody complain so much at Blizz when they did that?

By: Bitterleaf

Bitterleaf — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:41:49 +0000

Thank goodness for swipe. I never did master the Barkskin / Hurricane combo for mass tankage.

By: Morthas

Morthas — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:13:43 +0000

Haha I know you allready have said it, swipe rocks. I went to Onyxia with some friends and when she died, I decieded to try swipe for real. I pulled like 20-30 dragon welphs and hell, I havnt had so much fun for a long time.

By: Toon

Toon — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:48:34 +0000

BBB,

Now that our “green” armor was nerfed. Do you think Druid tanks should get PvP gear w/ their hi armor rating even though resiliance means nada? Seeing that we are uncrittable now w/ SotF, the focus is still on survivability meaning armor>stam>agility(AP)

By: Javan

Javan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:48:24 +0000

That’s an awesome pic, BBB. I didn’t even think to go to ZF to test out Swipe – I just ran around the newbie areas, pulled mobs with our new ranged taunt (!!) and would swipe 5-6 and laugh. My wife thought I was nuts.

I read all the people worrying about bears in 3.0, but I have to say, after the change, I’m really liking my bear – even more than before, and it was hands down my favorite character to play.

I can’t wait to run some real instances without CC (it’s 50/50 if we have any CC or just face-tank it) and Swipe the bejesus out of the mobs.