OMG ArmorFollow

I can't wait to go home and find out.

I have several pieces of new gear waiting for me in my bags. I have armor rings, neck and a bonus armor cloak so I am not as optimistic about an armor boost. But with new gear my health, dodge and threat should see a nice jump.

I was totaly going to make this thread asking about what people have seen, you beat me to it as I am sure it is on the minds of all feral druids right about now.

So happy that the patch has finally gone through. Really feel like I have been in limbo with my tanking gear. Now I can really look at it properly. Also fantastic that if I am DPS'ing and have to switch quickly to tanking, I have almost as much armor as in my full bear gear! Really makes us more flexible again.

i wish i was like ya'll sadly i lost 4.4k armor today. then i changed gear and droped down to 33.3k armor i was up to 38.8k armor buff free or self buffed i cant remember wich it was. i know i was raid buffed with a 800 armor pot on and hit 42k armor lol. but i did take my buff free dodge up to 37% i think it is and took my hp up a bit more to 32k.

My armor went up 5k. Self-buffed at 33k. Unreal. I was certain I'd lose armor since I have a fair amount on rings and trinkets.

eh mostly epiced cept maybe bracers had the 550 armor trinket the 850 armor trinket 630 armor on staff 489armor on cloak i think it was and 350 on neck item plus all the norm leather. too bad i droped all but 1 ring and the 850 armor trinket just cause i cant find better stats/clicky to fill the slots yet.

I'm in love with my bear again. I love the fix in armor I once again can say druid are near the top for pve if not at the top. I will actually be dangers to prot pally in my bear form, Yahoo!! Oh happy day.

Since I had 26k armor going in, with armor on my neck and rings, I thought I would lose some armor overall. Instead I was happy to see my armor boost to 32k. I changed out my necklace for an epic one with better avoidance stats, but have yet to upgrade my rings. I'm very happy; my armor felt so low before I was thinking of trading in my epic staff for a blue. Now I'm quite content.

eh i think the big problem wasnt the items. i think the big problem was they still have other raids to release and we was already almost armor caped. It left no room to upgrade your armor all you would get would be stats. sure you could get higher armor on other items and drop your trinkets/rings but really wouldnt be that big of a deal. on another note this may have something to do with it also. Anyone notice when you mouse over your armor it no longer says damage reduced by x% on (your)lvl mobs?? now it just says physical damage reduced by x%. no lvl there so i think they may have gotten rid of the diminishing returns for mobs over your lvl added it to our dodge and since armor was so big they had to gimp it down some. any ideas on that??

side note anyone know of a formula that tells when to stop stacking agi and shoot for dodge rateing since each have they're own diminishing returns?? not sure if there is a prime number yet but figure worth a try.



EDIT: yes i did have defenders code. and i am highly disapointed people who aint in 25 mans can get just about the same armor as i can being in 25 mans. seeing all epics are within 10-20 armor of each other, and blues aint far behind on some slots.

Edited, Jan 23rd 2009 1:04am by punkspider

I must admit, its nice that I can look at armor now for its stats rather than its bonus armor. I remember more than a few times through BC leveling I'd turn down a superior piece in stats because I couldn't afford the major loss in armor.

Now most of us get an armor boost and can now gear like all the other tanking classes...looking mainly at stats and not be so finicky about armor numbers.