10-31-2006, 04:29 PM
Quote:We wiped on Nef last night due to no fear ward. Shaman call + fear during MT berserker rage cooldown = loose Nef blowing his shadow flame at the raid. The same is true for Ony. If totems are at a bad time in their dispel pulse they can rampage a good while, sometimes you can just run clear out of the AOE and get extra goodness. Fearward is a much more powerful PvE ability than blessings.
Only in encounters that rely on fear as a mechanic (Magmadar, Onyxia, Nefarian). In other encounters (Razorgore, for example) Fear ward is a waste of mana. Blizzard CMs have said that fear-based encounters will be much more rare (if they exist at all) in the expansion. Personally, I suspect the devs will just put in Death-Coil-like "horror"-based encounters instead, where the top of the threat table (or the entire raid) gets "horror"-ed.