Weapon enchants for a feral druid in cat or bear form?Follow

Having read the sticky I take back both questions (gives himslef a slap).

Do I take it that the ONLY enchant worth having is +Agility?

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Edited, Aug 27th 2008 12:39am by kawainui

kawainui, I'd be glad to compensate you, come over to Lightbringer (EU) and I'll do the fiery enchant and see if it works :)

You're right, it would be amazingly cool!

Yeah, +AGI is the best way to go for a druid.

Your name is red and all, I so i speak with great trepidation, but are you sure?

The 2.4 patch notes say "Weightstones and Sharpening Stones: The bonus damage from these temporary enchantments now works while shapeshifted." Seems pretty clear to me that they should work.

You call the Adamantine Weightstone the "crit rating" weightstone but it has +12 damage as well. By the "+damage weightstones" i assume you mean the lesser weightstones that have +damage but no +crit, but I don't see why the +damage on those WOULDN'T apply given the very clear description in the patch notes.


Edit: Woohoo, I beat rarebeast to the punch! :p The benefit of working from HOME where the only "pretending to work" I have to do is getting something done every once in a while and responding to IMs. ; )

Edited, May 30th 2008 5:17pm by JeeBar

Can you explain the mechanics of how +damage works for us furballs? I ignored it forever since it was part of weapon damage which doesn't matter for us, but now I have +12 damage from my weightstone and +7 damage from my Crystalforged Trinket out of Ogri'la. The latter is crazy high on Emmerald's list of DPS trinkets, and I think I heard that +7 damage is worth like 90 AP or something insane like that. That'd make a weighstone worth nearly double that...that can't be right can it?

Found it hard to find data or explanation on the math behind weapon damage and AP. Nothing at wowwiki, and the closest thing I found with some quick googling was a comment in an elitistjerks post where a guy said "+12 weapon damage amounts to 130 ap or so." Backing the math down to my +7 trinket to be 80 AP, that's a combined 210ish AP that I'm not seeing. I knew it was a nice buff but didn't know it was THAT nice. I've been liberal with the weightstones already, but am gonna have to use 'em even more now. Even when tanking for the damage, which I haven't bothered with...I wonder how much it adds to bear damage with the slower attack speed.

Edited, May 30th 2008 5:58pm by JeeBar

Okay, so the +damage enchants don't work, but all weightstones do. I missed that or forgot about it in the 2.4 patch notes, but I just checked it with a cheap weightstone off the AH.

That's what I get for having to cut back my WoW time from having a job that starts at 4:30 AM.

It's just silly that using a weightstone on a mace increases the damage you deal with your paws when a magical buff on your weapon doesn't. If anything, the enchant should work while the stones shouldn't.

My mace is, like, heavy and stuff. This puts more momentum behind my Mauls. Yeah. Also, ghosts and robots can bleed. They do not possess any life force, but they have souls.

Welcome to the world of wtf.

I can't believe nobody mentioned this, but Iron Counterweight pwns. At 70, a whole 20 haste rating changes your attack speed in cat form from 1.00 to 0.99!!! Can you believe it? But seriously, if you can't afford it, +agi. But that's only if you're really, really poor.


...lol.

Haste rating does help ferals, just not by much. Rogues, Shaman, and maybe Ret Pallies do a lot of their damage with auto-attacks; warriors get more rage and more damage from haste. Only ~30% of our damage comes from auto-attacks, the rest is from attacks not affected by haste.