Comments on: Bear with Me http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/ So many numbers, you'll think you're getting audited Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kayeri http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8111 Kayeri Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:56:41 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8111 Awesome writing, Currant! I loved it, and yeah, I really felt Phae's pain at the end, too, being resto. As for the real point of your post, well, you may have fewer actual tools, but druid tanks make fantastic use of them and I wont hesitate to jump into an instance with our guild's awesome druid tank. He kind of sidestepped into tanking, taking a dps role on our initial forays into Naxx, and then stepping beautifully into the tanking job when our warrior went down not once, but twice! And did better at holding the mob and eating the damage than he did! I myself, DID have one slight step into tankage... what a laugh... We are trying the Four Horsemen for the first time.. .and of course, we have Two paladin tanks for the encounter... Paladins only have AoE taunts, which is why that combo sucks for this fight. I love paladin tanks, dont get me wrong, my own dear hubby is a wonderful one. Anyway, so our rogue throws out the brilliant idea that the druid (me) go to bear, growl at the other paladin's target to pull it off and away, then when we get a bit of distance, my hubby can take it off me... My feral gear is in the bank and it's cat gear, but I'm willing to try anyway... I can say I did my job! ::laughing:: I pulled the guy off Fox and one and 1/8 of a shot later, I was dead! He hit me for a 21k crit, which left me a bout 2k health... I have just ONE thing to say to tanks.... You can HAVE the danged job! ::laughing:: But you have my respect and appreciation and I DO have your back when you do it. :) but Blizz needs to give Paladins a single target taunt. :) Awesome writing, Currant! I loved it, and yeah, I really felt Phae’s pain at the end, too, being resto.

As for the real point of your post, well, you may have fewer actual tools, but druid tanks make fantastic use of them and I wont hesitate to jump into an instance with our guild’s awesome druid tank. He kind of sidestepped into tanking, taking a dps role on our initial forays into Naxx, and then stepping beautifully into the tanking job when our warrior went down not once, but twice! And did better at holding the mob and eating the damage than he did!

I myself, DID have one slight step into tankage… what a laugh… We are trying the Four Horsemen for the first time.. .and of course, we have Two paladin tanks for the encounter… Paladins only have AoE taunts, which is why that combo sucks for this fight. I love paladin tanks, dont get me wrong, my own dear hubby is a wonderful one.

Anyway, so our rogue throws out the brilliant idea that the druid (me) go to bear, growl at the other paladin’s target to pull it off and away, then when we get a bit of distance, my hubby can take it off me…

My feral gear is in the bank and it’s cat gear, but I’m willing to try anyway…

I can say I did my job! ::laughing:: I pulled the guy off Fox and one and 1/8 of a shot later, I was dead! He hit me for a 21k crit, which left me a bout 2k health…

I have just ONE thing to say to tanks….

You can HAVE the danged job! ::laughing::

But you have my respect and appreciation and I DO have your back when you do it. :) but Blizz needs to give Paladins a single target taunt. :)

]]> By: Gibbie http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8106 Gibbie Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:45:33 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8106 Agreed, the story was completely awesome, I nearly cried for some reason when I read Phalia coming to the rescue. I don't know much about tanking, i'm resto, but I do know our Celdinna is our go-to girl. She's got 43k HP (sink that in for a moment), and MTed malygos fine. I am not sure if anyone is arguing this, but I don't feel like our class needs more bells and whistles. <abbr><em>Gibbies last blog post..<a href="http://gibwow.blogspot.com/2008/12/big-80.html" rel="nofollow">Big 80</a></abbr></em> Agreed, the story was completely awesome, I nearly cried for some reason when I read Phalia coming to the rescue. I don’t know much about tanking, i’m resto, but I do know our Celdinna is our go-to girl. She’s got 43k HP (sink that in for a moment), and MTed malygos fine. I am not sure if anyone is arguing this, but I don’t feel like our class needs more bells and whistles.

Gibbies last blog post..Big 80

]]> By: Kal http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8105 Kal Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:16:04 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8105 Really nice post. It captures a lot of my frustrations as well. While there's no denying that druid tanks are viable (and I'll be writing more on that in a bit), the gear just doesn't feel fun, and with the additions of DK-specific tanking weapons, it feels like bears are the odd man out when it comes to specific gear tailored for them. It's not critical that this gets fixed, and mechanically it's not necessary, but it would be nice to look at gear and be able to evaluate it based on more than the agility and stamina it has. <abbr><em>Kals last blog post..<a href="http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2008/12/druidhandwraps-of-preserved-history.html" rel="nofollow">[Druid]Handwraps of Preserved History: most ironic name ever</a></abbr></em> Really nice post. It captures a lot of my frustrations as well. While there’s no denying that druid tanks are viable (and I’ll be writing more on that in a bit), the gear just doesn’t feel fun, and with the additions of DK-specific tanking weapons, it feels like bears are the odd man out when it comes to specific gear tailored for them.

It’s not critical that this gets fixed, and mechanically it’s not necessary, but it would be nice to look at gear and be able to evaluate it based on more than the agility and stamina it has.

Kals last blog post..[Druid]Handwraps of Preserved History: most ironic name ever

]]> By: Hinhana, formerly Dunae/Silmae/Inwe/Inwë/Yaku http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8100 Hinhana, formerly Dunae/Silmae/Inwe/Inwë/Yaku Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:54:39 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8100 love the story!!!! The hot's description is great!! love the story!!!! The hot’s description is great!!

]]> By: Shopshopshop http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8098 Shopshopshop Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:59:26 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8098 Restoration Druids don't really have specialized loot anymore, or at least not a lot of it. Most of the Naxx/Emblem spell power leather has crit, haste or no spirit on it, which favours balance rather than resto. <abbr><em>Shopshopshops last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADruidInTime/~3/490762674/argh-christma-winter-veil.html" rel="nofollow">Argh, Christma... Winter Veil</a></abbr></em> Restoration Druids don’t really have specialized loot anymore, or at least not a lot of it. Most of the Naxx/Emblem spell power leather has crit, haste or no spirit on it, which favours balance rather than resto.

Shopshopshops last blog post..Argh, Christma… Winter Veil

]]> By: Sorayn http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8096 Sorayn Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:01:43 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8096 Better to say that Damage Shields is a rip off of the Paladin's ret aura, more than druid's thorns. Even if it's not, it's hard to be rankled by an ability that is hardly iconic. Better to say that Damage Shields is a rip off of the Paladin’s ret aura, more than druid’s thorns. Even if it’s not, it’s hard to be rankled by an ability that is hardly iconic.

]]> By: lethal http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8095 lethal Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:49:07 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8095 Just in regards to saying that Moonkin, Tree-Druids, Holy Pallies have gear itemized specifically for them. Holy pallies are easy, only 1 plate wearing-spell damage class exists. Restos - Resto gear suffers from lots of Crit and Haste, which is abundant on most spell casting gear and most leather. Moonkin benefit from this, restos dont really Mages suffer from having an abundance of spirit on most cloth gear while only Arcane mages benefit at all, Frost and Fire and Frostfire mages gain almost no benefit from spirit. Bear Tanks seem to be doing pretty good, just based on what my housemate seems to be doing Just in regards to saying that Moonkin, Tree-Druids, Holy Pallies have gear itemized specifically for them.
Holy pallies are easy, only 1 plate wearing-spell damage class exists.
Restos – Resto gear suffers from lots of Crit and Haste, which is abundant on most spell casting gear and most leather. Moonkin benefit from this, restos dont really

Mages suffer from having an abundance of spirit on most cloth gear while only Arcane mages benefit at all, Frost and Fire and Frostfire mages gain almost no benefit from spirit.

Bear Tanks seem to be doing pretty good, just based on what my housemate seems to be doing

]]> By: Zackoria http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8093 Zackoria Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:22:38 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8093 Truly an epic tale. That was very well written. I love the description of the the HoTs on the tank and the apologetic nature of the healer when someone died in the fight (We all feel like that). ^_^ Truly an epic tale. That was very well written. I love the description of the the HoTs on the tank and the apologetic nature of the healer when someone died in the fight (We all feel like that). ^_^

]]> By: Eranthe http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8092 Eranthe Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:59:03 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8092 Where can I read more stories like this? :D Where can I read more stories like this? :D

]]> By: Krythia http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/comment-page-1/#comment-8091 Krythia Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:41:32 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/2008/12/21/bear-with-me/#comment-8091 Hey now...those fights could be easier with a Death Knight tank too! Hey now…those fights could be easier with a Death Knight tank too!

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