Druid discussion

[Karakuru]

I have a question for Xaar. You seem to have maxed Nature's Grace in your resto spec despite being at the haste cap. What is the benefit you see in this talent over Improved Barkskin and 3/3 Living Spirit for example?

[arx]

@steffenreutzer:

You should. With the amount of haste rating you have, you should also look into speccing 3/3 CF in balance.


@Karakuru:

It's something I thought about when I reached the haste cap without CF. In the end I haven't had much need for any more reduction for barkskin in ICC, and 5% spirit is negligible.

If you're casting more than one nourish, the NG proc makes them all land earlier but you still spend the same amount of time inside the gcd. Regrowth obviously gains a bit more. This is also a very minor benefit. I consider it roughly equal to the alternative you presented and mostly a matter of personal preference. I've raided with both; for progression raiding and unknown encounters I would favor Improved Barkskin, though I doubt it'd make any difference.

[Zoogin]

Hey Lappe, i wonder if u cud give me some dps tips :p i think i can do more dps :l doing 8,5k ish in Voa 25 and 9-10k ish now in ICC 25 with 10% buff depends on the fight if i have to move alot etc.

My rotation is: FF, IS, MF, wrath til ecplise, SF til eclipse. Keeping dots up.
Trents at the start and im using Starfall when its aviable.

Here is my Armory http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet ... &cn=Zoogin

would be cool if u took a quick look :p

/ Zoogin

[Tapeuntrait]

Your crit is incerdibly low, and I can't find why because you have mostly ICC gear. I have about 1.1k crit rating atm without including the 220 from the idol. Maybe when you reach your soft crit cap your dps goes up a little

I'm not lappé, but just tryin to help

[Cheesis]

Hey this question is towards Lappe, I'm just wondering why your using Nibelung over a MH/OH combination. Is the Valks with the heroic Nibelung do that much more dps than the extra stats with the MH/OH? btw grats on your H LK kill.

[lappe]

HC nibelung > 264 MH+OH, i will change it to LK HC mace+ Prince OH once i get both of them

[Zoogin]

Thanks for the answer Tapeuntrait and i understand lappe got better things to do then help me :P ive been lookin on some other persons thats bin askin about the same thing ^^ been rly helpfull thanks for all :P

[Seija]

Hello,

I'm a Feral Druid and love to tank. But now I have a big problem when I look at our other two tanks.
They have more health points, more TPS and more damage absorbtion/reduction (so it seems to me and our heals).

I have following stats in the moment (unbuffed, only in dire bear form):
Stamina: 3526
Agility: 1461
Armor: 33221
Defense: 442
Dodge: 44.66% (24.66% in ICC)
Hit: 257 (7.84% without Draenei aura)
Expertise: 32

When I now look at some Items that I could get, I see that my hit will fall down to a value that is not nice.
But if I gem expertise rating and hit into my gear I'm afraid of falling down in the other stats.
I don't even have a chance to get items from PDOK25 cause my guild don't want to go there and with a random raid I think there is no chance to clear it.

The item I would buy are following:
T10 Head ( http://de.wowhead.com/item=50826 )
T10 Legs ( http://de.wowhead.com/item=50825 )
Ikfirus's Sack of Wonder ( http://www.wowhead.com/item=50001 )

Here are the Armory links to my tank mates:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet ... cn=Maridin
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet ... 3%A9ynight

And my own:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet ... e&cn=Seija

And some Logs:
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/p33yp0dplwadrcir/ (Wed 04/07/2010)
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/ibjt1mcjn1j18zqd/ (Thu 04/08/2010)

I really don't know what to do. Seems to me that Blizzard don't want Druid tanks.

Could someone of you please give me some advises?
Maybe only gemming agility and stamina and ignore hit?
Or gemming stammina and hit/expertise and only take agility from bonus?

I've my back to the wall. Please help me.

Greetings
Seija

P.S.:
Sorry for the bad english I wrote. I come from Germany.

[Seita]

Hello, ...

I don't really understand what you are asking for here but if its how to correctly enchant and gem your gear for tanking:

For pure tanking purposes I would go for 30 stamina gem (3x 51sta gem of course) in every slot, except for one 10agi 15sta gem for the metagem requirement and also changing all the enchants for pure stamina versions: 18sta gloves&chest. Also replacing the armor trinket with the badge stamina trinket: Unidentifiable Organ -> Corroded Skeleton Key.

[Seija]

Thank you,

thats one part of my question ^^ I was afraid of gemming only stammina because then my dodge rating dropping to very low values. But I'm also afraid that I drop on TPS.

But the main problem I have is that if I buy some items (the three that I postet above) my hit rating is dropping. Now my question is what I should do? Ignore the low hit rating or maybe grabbing some other items (which I don't know at the time).

I only wanted to get some advises. In the offical german WoW forum someone tells you to go on armor, someone other tells you to go on dodge and someone tells you to make a balanced mix. So I don't know which I can trust and which is the best for bear at the moment.

Greets
Seija