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tlbj6142
05-21-2008, 01:57 PM
Check out


http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/05/21/druid-tanking-is-up-in-the-air-for-wrath/

click'able talent tree...

http://www.war-tools.com/t52345.html

Berserk!!! (51 point Feral Talent) -- Instant -- Remove stun, fear, etc. for 20s -- 5 min cooldown. Nice!

ove Feral Charge down you can't pick it up with 11 points. Move FFF up. Also looks like there may be more separation between Cat and Bear specs.

Kyane
05-21-2008, 03:11 PM
Feral Charge was moved to a 21 pt talent and FFF moved up to an 11 pt talent where Feral Charge was.

tlbj6142
05-21-2008, 04:32 PM
Feral Charge was moved to a 21 pt talent and FFF moved up to an 11 pt talent where Feral Charge was.My bad, I had a type-o above. Now fixed. I assume this was done to nerf Resto's in arena's. I also read that Feral Charge will now work in Cat form as well. Which makes it a bit too powerful as a 11-point talent.

tlbj6142
05-21-2008, 05:03 PM
I've been playing with the tree a bit. Unlike today's Feral tree in which you can take just about every "good" talent, the new tree requires that you make some choices. And/or give up points in other trees.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out...

Kyane
05-21-2008, 07:01 PM
I was playing with it earlier too, and it seems like they are trying to differentiate a bit between pure cat and bear specs as well as throwing in some pvp flavor in there.

Taking all the good talents is going to be a bit rougher.

Poysonivy
05-21-2008, 07:34 PM
Shame couldnt make a moonkin/tree.. U need to be lvl 81 for that. :)

tlbj6142
05-21-2008, 09:30 PM
Taking all the good talents is going to be a bit rougher.The one thing we don't know about are new skills. I did read somewhere that Tiger Fury will cost 0 energy but have a cooldown (might have to add it to my bar if that happens). And that resilience no longer "works' in instances. Only in World PvP, BG and Arenas. I hope they give us bears some more +def items.

Allahanastar
05-22-2008, 08:29 AM
One of the new talents almost completely removes our need for any +Def items if I read it right. So now picking gear should be way way easier.

tlbj6142
05-22-2008, 09:22 AM
One of the new talents almost completely removes our need for any +Def items if I read it right. So now picking gear should be way way easier.Which one is that?

tlbj6142
05-22-2008, 11:59 AM
Which one is that?Found it...

FWIW, Defense Curl would help a bit as well.


Druid spells:

* Typhoon (Rank 1) - "You summon a violent Typhoon that does 530 Nature damage when in contact with hostile targets, knocking them back 5 yards."
* Nourish- "Heals a friendly target for 1550 to 1800. Heals for an additional 387.5 to 450 if Rejuvenation is on the target."

Druid talents:

* Living Seed - "When you gain a critical effect from your Swiftmend, Regrowth, Nourish or Healing Touch spell you have a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to plant a Living Seed on the target for % of the amount healed. The Living Seed will bloom when the target is next attacked. Lasts 15 sec." (Restoration)
* Spark of Nature- "Increases the critical effect chance of your Swiftmend and Nourish spells by 5/10/15%." (Restoration)
* Improved Tree of Life- "Increases your Armor while in Tree of Life Form by 120/240/360%, and increases the effect of your Bark's Blessing by 1/3/5%" (Restoration)
* Nature's Fury - "Converts 2/4/6/8/10% of your bonus healing into bonus spell damage. In addition, your Wrath and Starfire spells have a 20/40/60/80/100% chance of applying the Nature's Fury debuff on the target. The Nature's Fury debuff increases Nature and Arcane damage done to the target by 2%. Lasts 10 sec. Stacks up to 3 times." (Balance)
* Starfall (Rank 1, Level 80, 866 mana, instant, 3 min cooldown) - "You summon a flurry of stars from the sky on all targets within 30 yards of the caster, each doing 500 Arcane damage, and an additional 170 Arcane to all nearby targets within 10 yards. Maximum 20 stars. Lasts 10 sec." (Balance)
* Infected Wounds - "Your Shred, Maul and Mangle attacks have a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to cause an Infected Wound in the target. The Infected Wound reduces the movement speed and casting speed of the target by 10%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 12 sec." (Feral)
* Berserk - "Removes all Stun, Fear, Snare and Movement Impairing Effects and increases your energy regeneration rate by 100% while in Cat form, and increases your total health by 20% while in Bear form. After the effect ends, the health is lost. Effect lasts 20 seconds." (Feral)
* Flourish (Rank 1, Level 80, 450 mana, instant) - "Heals friendly party or raid members within 10 yards of the target for 665 over 7 sec. The healing is applied quickly at first, and slows down as the Flourish reaches its full duration." (Restoration)
* Improved Moonkin Form - "Your Moonkin Aura also causes affected targets to have a 33/66/100% chance to gain 100% spell haste when they critically hit with spells for 10 seconds. This effect cannot occur more than once every few seconds." (Balance)
* Replenish - "Your Rejuvenation and Flourish spells have a 4/7/10% chance to restore 10 Energy, 4 Rage, [broken]% Mana or 10 Runic Power per tick." (Restoration)
* Gale Winds - "Increases damage done by your Hurricane and Typhoon spells by 25/50%, and increases the range of your Cyclone spell by 10/20%." (Balance)
* Owlkin Frenzy - "Attacks done to you while in Moonkin form have a 5/10/15% chance to cause you to go into a Frenzy, increasing your spell haste by 25% and increasing your damage by 10%. Lasts 10 sec." (Balance)
* Eclipse - "When you critically hit with Starfire, you have a 20/40/60% chance of increasing damage done by Wrath by 10%. When you critically hit with Wrath, you have a 20/40/60% chance of increasing your critical strike chance with Starfire by 10%. Effect lasts 12 sec." (Balance)
* Tree of Life - "Shapeshift into the Tree of Life. While in this form your movement speed is reduced by 20% and you can only cast Swiftmend, Innervate, Nature's Swiftness, Rebirth, Barkskin, Nourish, poison removing and healing over time spells, but the mana cost of these spells is reduced by $5420s3%. Your heals also grant friendly targets your Bark's Blessing, increasing healing done to them by 25% of your total Spirit. Bark's Blessing lasts 8 sec." (Restoration) [Changed in 3.0.1.8303]
* Defense Curl - "You have a 33/66/100% chance when critically struck while in Bear Form, Dire Bear Form and Cat Form to increase your Agility and Armor by 40% for 6 sec." (Feral)


Druid

* Entangling Roots can now be used indoors as well.
* Base damage of Maul, Rake and Ravage has been increased.
* Demoralizing Roar now removes more attack power than before.
* Soothe Animal is now instant cast.
* Tiger's Fury no longer costs energy, but now has a 30 second cooldown.
* Hurricane cooldown has been removed.
* Frenzied Regeneration now only has one rank. Frenzied Regeneration will now restore 0.1% of your max health per rage instead.
* Ferocious Bite's damage for extra energy now scales with attack power.
* Nature's Grasp can now be used indoors as well.
* Nature's Reach now reduces threat generated by your Balance spells by 15/30% in addition to it's old effect.
* Brambles now gives your Thorns and Treants a 5/10/15% chance to daze the target for 3 seconds when dealing damage in addition to it's old effect.
* Omen of Clarity is now a passive effect instead of a self-cast buff.
* Feral Charge is now available in Cat Form as well.
* Improved Mark of the Wild has been reduced to a 2 point talent, increasing the effect of Mark of the Wild by 20/40%.
* Nature's Focus has been reduced to a 3 point talent, now reducing chance to be interrupted by 23/46/70%.
* Subtlety has been reduced to a three point talent, now reducing threat and reducing the chance your spells will be dispelled by 10/20/30%
* Improved Tranquility now reduces the cooldown of your Tranquility spell by 25/50% in addition to it's old effect.
* Improved Faerie Fire works for spells too now.
* [B]Survival of the Fittest's effect has been doubled.
* Tree of Life can cast the new Flourish spell. Old extra healing aura has been removed and replaced with Bark's Blessing, which increases healing done on target's of your healing spells by 25% of your spirit for 8 seconds.
* Mangle (Bear) now increases the damage of your Maul ability instead of the Shred ability.

Kyane
05-22-2008, 12:01 PM
One of the new talents almost completely removes our need for any +Def items if I read it right. So now picking gear should be way way easier.


aybe I'm blind but I'm not seeing anything like that :(

- Reinforced Hide: reduce spell dmg by 10% & additional 10% increase to armor contribution by items

- Primal Precision: Increases your expertise by 10, and you are refunded -60% of the energy cost of a finishing move if it fails to land.

- Berserk: Removes all Stun, Fear, Snare and Movement Impairing Effects and increases your energy regeneration rate by 100% while in Cat form, and increases your total health by 20% while in Bear form. After the effect ends, the health is lost. Effect lasts 20 seconds.

- Improved Mangle: Reduces the cooldown of your Mangle (Bear) ability by -20%, and reduces the energy cost of your Mangle (Cat) ability by -6.

- Infected Wounds: Your Shred, Maul and Mangle attacks have a 100% chance to cause an Infected Wound in the target. The Infected Wound reduces the movement speed and casting speed of the target by 10%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 12 seconds.

- Primal Aggression: Increases the critical strike chance of your Maul and Shred abilities by 5%.

Nothing there about defense unfortunately. Assuming the math for crit chance from bosses stays the same, we're going to have to stack about the same amount of defense ( beyond the level cap ) that we do now.

tlbj6142
05-22-2008, 12:51 PM
Maybe I'm blind but I'm not seeing anything like that I thought it might be the change to SotF (in bold above), but I bet it is the ability boost that was doubled, not the crit avoidance.

FWIW, the talent tree has not been removed at Blizzard's request. Obviously, the above is subject to change. Some of the changes seem a bit to IMBA (especially the Balance and Resto changes).

Vencoris
05-22-2008, 03:46 PM
Both parts were boosted

Spell 33856
Name: Survival of the Fittest
Description: Increases all attributes by 6% and reduces the chance you'll be critically hit by melee attacks by -6%.


Also Mark of the Wild and Thorns saw very large gains

Spell 48469
Name: Mark of the Wild
Description: Increases the friendly target's armor by 750, all attributes by 37 and all resistances by 54 for $d.
Description2: Increases armor by $s1, all attributes by $s2 and all resistances by $s3.

Talented it would be 1050 armor, 52 to all attributes and 75 all resists.


Spell 46766
Name: Thorns
Description: Thorns sprout from the friendly target causing 140 Nature damage to attackers when hit. Lasts $d.
Description2: Causes $s1 Nature damage to attackers.

Talented (with brambles) it would be 245 damage per hit (and have a 15% chance to daze the attacker), that is a huge boost to the viability of thorns.

Kyane
05-22-2008, 04:07 PM
Ok, I see I missed that then. Well, if we don't have to stack defense anymore....wow.

Falloraan
05-22-2008, 04:48 PM
click'able talent tree...

http://www.war-tools.com/t52345.html

This item has been remove by request of Blizzard.


All in all it really feels too powerful to be honest. Of course all the other classes will probably get beefed up as well. Just don't plan on seeing all this at release.

tlbj6142
05-22-2008, 04:56 PM
All in all it really feels too powerful to be honest.I agree. Not so much the Feral changes, but the Balance and Resto changes seem to be significant.

Riverwish
05-26-2008, 06:12 PM
Ooh that makes me really happy ^^

* Owlkin Frenzy - "Attacks done to you while in Moonkin form have a 5/10/15% chance to cause you to go into a Frenzy, increasing your spell haste by 25% and increasing your damage by 10%. Lasts 10 sec." (Balance)

I feel a respec coming on :P