02.07.07
A New Grind Begins
Yes, I know I have not been updating for a loooong time. As you may have guessed, everyone has been busy with leveling their toons to 70. And getting keyed for Karazhan. And grinding reputation to enter the Heroic dungeons. And for the faction rewards. On top of all that, I have a new guild to run…
Now that the excuses are out of the way, let’s get to some good useful information. Thankfully, it seems that other druids have taken over doing some of the stuff I used to do. Special thanks to Emmerald from over the Euro forums who did the approximation of DPS values for sustained cat DPS, and for bear tanking as well, and came up with the item lists.
I’ve checked the calculations myself and I’m mostly satisfied with the results and the methods obtained. However, in the case of the bear tanking gear list, I’ve found that some subjective factors need to be added in. There are three things affecting bear survivability - damage mitigation, damage avoidance, total health. The values obtained for the bear tanking list treats them all equally for the purpose of surviving many small hits without receiving heals.
When you start receiving heals (most tanks do), then the value of health diminishes. You want to be mitigating and avoiding more damage so that the healers do not run out of damage quickly. When you get very large hits, then the value of avoidance diminishes - you cannot rely on avoidance because a bad roll of the die - which will happen a lot, will kill you.
Therefore I think a weighted approach to the tanking stats will rather more accurate. Unfortunately there is no objective way to assign the weightages, so it has to be done arbitrarily. I would probably give health a coefficient of 0.5 and avoidance a coefficient of 0.85.
Amythryx has came up with a very useful ingame mod that calculates “DruidPoints” based on the rating system that Emmerald has obtained. Check it out!
I haven’t been fully idle, and have been working on the Lacerate threat side of things. Check out the thread where I post results and some calculations of the testing that I have done.
Corveroth said,
February 17, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Just as I began to think I’d have to figure out TBC for myself, you return and bring in the ranked item list I love so very very much (even if you didn’t make it this time around). And Lacerate info!
Anyways, this info will be very helpful, my guild’s turned to Druids for all serious tanking until the warrior/druid imbalance is fixed. Many thanks to you, good sir.
gmack28 said,
March 8, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I found this guide very very useful and thank you so much for putting it together. Does anyone know if there is a guide of this sort for PVP as well? I am tyring to gear up for that (ugh - DPS, Tank, Healer, and PVP gear set…. I need more bags - 50 slot gear bag would be nice).
Well please let me know and/or help guide me in the right direction - thanks.
And again, great work putting this together!!!!
Resto4Life» Blog Archive » More Places to Go Barefoot said,
October 20, 2007 at 8:59 am
[…] A player that is well-informed on changes made to the druid class, Tangedyn is probably best known for his extensive work compiling gear lists for cats and bears. His blog hasn’t been updated in quite some time, unfortunately. […]
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