Comments on: Surviving PvE as a Critty Kitty

By: Skip Cocoa

Skip Cocoa — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:32:46 +0000

I’m still debating my own personal feelings on switching to bear in a crisis. In a stand-alone, one-on-one fight, going bear, especially with a hybrid build, can be the best way to turn near-invincible. The cons to the situations seem to be that:
1) If you’re having trouble dumping aggro, turning into a bear is only going to make that harder.
2) An SI’d bear is going to have massive HP. That’s great for not dying, but also makes you much much harder to heal back up.
3) Peoples always yell at me if they see me in bear. Stupid peoples…*grumble*

In the right hands, I believe that these can be largely mitigated, but it’s definitely not for the newbie kitty player who hasn’t seen their bear form since level 19. That’s what I love about druids, though. The versatility helps you break out of that “the right way to play” mentality, and with practice, work your own style out of them.

By: Skip Cocoa

Skip Cocoa — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:19:59 +0000

Thanks and done!

By: Skip Cocoa

Skip Cocoa — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:18:16 +0000

Those would probably be the first three I would give up, in a priority list. Survival Instincts and Improved Leader of the Pack are both nice to have on opposite ends of the spectrum (SI is an emergency save while ILotP is a slow, maintenance heal), but both are kind of “Great for Bear, nice to have for kitty”.

Though, to my knowledge, Protector of the Pack has no benefit to kitty (the tooltip is pretty ambiguous on that point). At last I tested, the kitty gained no attack power benefit from PotP. Only beary bear, who revels in its absolute awesomeness.

By: Giselle

Giselle — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:33:27 +0000

Aside from Barkskin, don’t forget: Survival Instincts (if you specced for it), Bear form, and the beautiful T10 4 piece bonus (12% less damage when you hit Enrage in bear). That last one has saved my life a few times ever since I got it!

By: Baila

Baila — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:56:14 +0000

Like your blog but have a request for links on the sidebar to past posts. It would make browsing your site easier.

By: 3 Minute Kitty

3 Minute Kitty — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:17:29 +0000

I love your thinking on this man, I myself however have to ignore it, I am as my name states a 3 minute kitty, though not necessarily 3 minutes since I last longer than mages I do huge amounts of damage, i keep up with ranged peeps pretty well, here’s my thing “OP damage = less damage to thyself because less time for damage done to kitty” Your mentality is great, I love it, my suggestion however is for each feral druid dps to tank for a few months before they go kitty. They become infinity aware of their survival stuff, believe me I tanked for years and even now months after I quit, I am still aware of all those survival techniques such as being aware of all that goes on around me (Something that can be my downfall because I can get confused because I see a lot of things in Sarth). I took my dps to a whole new level by sacrificing three of the things you mentioned.

Those three things are: Survival Instincts (Now it’s hard to remember I don’t have it =P)
Imp leader of the pack (No benefit to my dps so I traded it in for protector of the pack)
and of course Primal tenacity.

I found out even if I don’t last long in pvp, even with my raid gear all on I still hit like a truck. You can look at my spec on the armory by looking up Bloodyrain of Perenolde.

By: Skip Cocoa

Skip Cocoa — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:15:17 +0000

I like that mentality. And zero is a really nasty number to have when it comes time to average it all up. I learned that way way back in math class… when I almost failed it for not doing my assignments.

By: typhoonandrew

typhoonandrew — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:13:23 +0000

The basic guideline I use when trying to get dps to think about the damage they take and the healing needed is; “You do Zero dps when you are dead, so avoiding death is your number one priority.”