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Bear Tank opinions (Stam, Agility or Hybrid?)
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Post by
Dbizzle
Hi Guys,
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/stormrage/Yayorails/advanced
This is my bear's current set up. Prior to recently I used to follow the idea of gemming purely for agility and reforging only to dodge. I have adopted a more of a hybrid approach to him now using agility/stam gems in the place of agility gems; as well I make sure to get 8% hit and 26% exp. I went for this option after I started looking at our logs in depth. I have a very high up time for my savage defense, usually between 65% and 80% up time. My savage defense always beats my main tank's Blood Shield. My dodge sits at 43% and my Savage Defense procs at about 36k absorption.
Right now I am swapping in Indomitable Pride (lfr), Fire of the Deeps, Wrath of Unchaining (lfr) and Stay of Execution in my first trinket slot depending on the fight: Soulshifter and WoU are my baseline set up.
I am very happy with the current performance of this bear but I am always entertaining the idea to change my set up if there is an even better option.
So with that in mind I was hoping to ask what other bears have been finding is optimal. Right now I am kind of leaning toward reverting to gemming for pure agility again since in my current role I off-tank beside a Blood DK so when we only require one tank I am going kitty (I have all my old ilvl 397 pieces for this set).
Thanks
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Post by
Dbizzle
@Gusideon, thanks very much for the thorough response :D
I had forgotten about WoW Reforge (I usually use askmrrobbot, but I couldn't set it to what I wanted so was doing by eye only lol). I plugged it in with the stat weights as you suggested: got another 2% dodge out of it.
Yeah the fury swipes I will try out without, they are usually around 3-4 place for my damaging abilities so they add quite a bit of dps to my overal.
The armor enchant advice I like as well, since they aren't modified by my bear form they add such low value at my level so I'll be switching those.
Cheers
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Post by
LookOut
If he were a tauren, herbalism would have been a viable choice. Tauren druids are the best herbers out there. Ofc that's not an option when you wanna go hardcore raiding, but still ...
Post by
Edimmu
might wanna do few arenas to get
Cataclysmic Gladiator's Ring of Cruelty
, it's better than the LFR signet you have (even with the epic gem), and it's easy to obtain:P
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