forums.worldofwarcraft.com - 11/20/2008
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This is an update to my previous post on Feral armor changes. ARMOR As previously announced, we are changing the way bear armor works so that bonus armor on items does not receive the bear armor multiplier. Specifically this means that weapons, trinkets, rings, necks and cloaks with bonus armor ...
forums.worldofwarcraft.com - 11/25/2008
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forums.worldofwarcraft.com —
There is definitely a lot of AE (area
effect damage) going on in World of Warcraft dungeon...
runs at the moment. We re not too worried about it for now on the contrary it s nice to see so many people doing the level-up dungeons on the way to level 80. ...
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English (NA) Forums -> Upcoming AE DPS Changes
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forums.worldofwarcraft.com - 11/26/2008
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We are making some upcoming changes to the
Elemental shaman tree. Our goal was to streamline a...
few of the utility-based talents while giving shamans a little more damage scaling in later tiers of gear. 1) Unrelenting Storm reduced from 5 points to 3 ...
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English (NA) Forums -> Upcoming Elemental Shaman changes
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Druid Feral Armor + AP Updates
TankSpot —
Keeping this short to keep the guides listing near the front of the page -- Ghostcrawler's made another "Upcoming Feral Changes" post on the Tanking forums, with some details on how the Feral AP and Bear Armor changes are going to work. In particular, bonus armor on items will no longer benefit from the Bear scaler (it's not being removed, ...
Armor my furry butt!
Big Bear Butt Blogger —
Armor my big furry bear butt, that is.
Oh, wait, I’m missing half the sentence….
“They’re letting me keep all the lovely armor on my big furry bear butt.”
Ghostcrawler posted an update providing more details on the Armor changes in the pipeline. A very specific, incredible update.
I mean, seriously… he sets down what they’re doing, how they’re changing things to compensate for it, what effect on our gameplay they expect it to have, and when we can expect to see it go live.
That’s like, the definition of how to provide me a happy-happy update.
Enough ...
What the hell is Bonus Armor anyway?
Big Bear Butt Blogger —
In the patch notes, you may have seen the Blizzard comment;
Bonus Armor: The mechanics for items with bonus armor on them has changed (any cloth, leather, mail, or plate items with extra armor, or any other items with any armor). Bonus armor beyond the base armor of an item will no longer be multiplied by any talents or by the bonuses of Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Frost Presence.
Sounds great, but… can someone provide me with a definition of Bonus Armor?’
Yes… yes I can.
Let me give you, purely as an example of Bonus Armor, the Flowing Cloak of Command.
The item ...
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