Quote:I logged KV onto the PTR to check changes. Same talent build as live (though Savage Fury is now pointless).
The green items with masses of free armour are all unchanged for now.
Unbuffed HP went from 11805 to 10872; armour from 20095 to 18317. No big deal. I wonder why they nerfed the class instead of the relevant overbudget items.
Swipe against critters went from 318 to 219. Ouch. Threat wise that's just 14% better than Swipe was in patch 1.8 at level 60 and I know I need a lot more than 14% more healing than I did then.
I need to do some math on physical mitigation compared to warriors and multiple-target threat generation compared to the new thunderclap but it's almost midnight here. If there is still a niche where Druid tanks are preferred it's a lot smaller.
I wouldn't get worried about the (druid) threat nerf. Lots of warriors were crying that they wouldn't be able to hold aggro with their changes, and it turned out to be much ado about nothing. Druids will end up the same. Skilled players will do well, unskilled will have to learn to do better. What this may have changed is that joe pug druid may not have it any easier than joe pug warrior tank. Both will have to work at it now.
Nice buffs to the warrior. With even more rage, my *prot* warrior will do real damage now. Interesting. And, even more rage for tanking, even though I personally had all I needed. Now if joe pug tank could actually tank...oh, wait, what was I smoking?
And, TD, you may have lost your niche again. #1 damage AND tanking at the same time. That was a little much, anyway.
Edit: Did anyone catch the TF proc nerf? Wondered if they were going to let it stay the #1 threat weap.
--Mav