#0 - Feb. 7, 2009, 4:06 a.m.
The 25% damage reduction would only proc off our crits which limits our ability to mitigate by our attack speed so if you lowered our armor to compensate for it like I have heard you plan to do, you will actually be nerfing our mitigation against anything that attacks faster than we do or any AoE pulls as they are hitting many times faster than we are.
If you really plan to help feral avoidance out without nerfing us on the overall, just make it scale off our existing stats in a much more straight forward fashion.
How are these idea?
1) Allow ferals dodge rate in bear to increase by a percentage of our attack power. And as an added bonus, it would help ferals since we are now forced to stack strength for kitty and agility for bear. This change would effectively allow us to socket strength and still have a benefit when we spec for bear so we can tank and dps without spending 4,000g in new enchants and gems to do it right. Or.....
2) Give bear specced druids the ability to reduce damage of an incoming attack by a potion of our attackpower and the chance to proc it is our crit rate. So if the bear has a 35% crit rate, then there is a 35% chance on any incoming attack to have it reduced by a percentage of their attack power, effectively giving bear form the ability to block without gimping us on the overall. And you can always change the percentages so our avoidance and mitigation are equal to other tanks.
