02-10-2005, 08:12 PM
UberJason,Feb 10 2005, 07:08 AM Wrote:One thing I have noticed about Enrage.... It seems to only reduce 75% from your BASE armor, not from the bonus you get in Bear form. At level 40 (Dire Bear), the actual armor loss is actually rather trivial. I enrage whenever I can.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but try it, keep your character screen on and hit enrage, you will still have most of your damage reducttion.
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I can confirm this, Enrage is currently applied to your base armour.
Bear Weapon speed is 2.5 seconds, reasonably fast for a two handed weapon. The DPS of the inherent weapon is identical to two handed greens of the same level, at least for Dire Bear from level 40 to 45 which is how long I've been tracking it. At 45 it is actually a tiny fraction superior, I don't know if this is the start of a slow improvement or a roundng error.
In terms of power I'm quite happy with Bear form - it doesn't make warriors obsolete, but it can get the job done. A couple more skills to use so soloing with it was more interesting wouldn't hurt, though.