02-20-2005, 07:02 PM
Artega,Feb 19 2005, 10:07 PM Wrote:What's this rage-healing all about? How would it be activated? How much healing are we talking about? Why should I dump my spare rage into negligible heals versus a more powerful Execute?Why would my bear want to do the same, especially considering he has multiple different healing spells which a warrior lacks. Besides you aren't going to be using execute if you are above a certain threshhold percentage of your target's hitpoints. You are trying to argue this point with me: your warrrior needs this ability less than my bear does. Consider the healing spells of a druid before arguing that.
Quote:I don't think you're gonna want Swipe to be more like the Rage-expensive, low-output Cleave. Not unless they're gonna increase Cleave's damage output significantly, anyway.I can tell you have not had much experience with a bear druid, if any at all by this one. Swipe costs the same rage as cleave. And if you think cleave has a low damage output, try a skill that uses a flat number damage rather than including your melee damage. That not bad enough? Swipe damage is also reduced by your target's armor, can miss, be dodged, parried, and blocked. Maybe half the time I do use this (which is very rare) do I even manage to cause damage (which is usually in the 30s-40s, with a rank 4 ability) to all 3 targets. Swipe at it's very best is an aggro holding ability, and it sucks at doing that.
By comparison I've found with my warrior when I'm tanking 2 instance mobs that building enough rage for cleave is easy. As for cleave being a bad damage skill? Remember it's to 2 targets, it's an effective doubling of damage/swing. Even more past rank 1. Again to compair, swipe is more like spreading my total damage to 3 targets (when everything goes right anyway).
Quote:As far as healing would go, it would make sense for some injuries to be healed while shifting shapes.Did you read the linked to post at all? It's a heal that costs rage, not a heal that comes from shapeshifting. IMO: dumb. Especially for a class with healing spells as good as the druid has. If I'm shifting shapes, hopefully I healed before then. If I'm playing tank for a group, it would be wise to have someone else handle healing.