Quor wrote:
hmm, 10% ap would almost be a nerf.
10 ap would give you 11 ap. 5 str would give you 6 str which gives 12 ap.
either the number is wrong, or theyre planning on reducing feral ap at the high-end. which is....really kinda scary if you think about it. a straight out nerf that cant be rationalized any other way than to say "druids had too much ap".
that might explain the buffing of feral ap on weapons then.
Quor, I think what you are missing is that our AP is much much higher than our strength. Right now raid-buffed my strength is around 550 and my AP somewhere between 3k and 4k depending on the buffs I gain.
Out of this 550 str, about 100 comes from HotW (450 str + 20% = 540), which translates to 200 AP (not 240 because I'm talking about str after the HotW bonus already). 10% of my AP is somewhere between 300 and 400.
So in raid it means already +100-200 AP flat.
Then they also said they would increase the FAP on feral weapons, which means yet more AP. And I wouldn't be surprised if they would modify a few more items as well (tier sets?) to make them more friendly under the new framework.
All in all it's a buff aimed at bridging the gap between cats and other dps classes at t5-t6 level (it's well known that druids rule the t4 content and then fall slightly behind in t5 and quite a lot in t6).
EDIT: the other important point to realize is that it doesn't make str useless overnight. The AP gained from str will still be multiplied by the AP gain, e.g. 100 str = 200 AP + 10% = 220 AP. So in effect we had 20% bonus on AP coming from str, and 0% bonus on regular AP. All they have done is spread this better so that we get 10% everywhere, from str or from regular AP.
Edited, Oct 9th 2007 4:01am by anathor