Thread: The 2.1 Inner Beast change: He's not the Mesiah! He's a very naughty boy!

Paikis is arguing over spherical cows in vacuum. Again.

1) All that "old IB potentially mitigates more damage with it's heal than the new one" works with one condition: There will be few to none incoming heals from the moment you take your big hit till the moment you pop IB. Which is the case... Once in a blue moon or what? Because in every other case, when the tank is expected to get hit hard, healers make sure he's as close to being topped off as it gets. HoTs, heal pre-casting, you name it. And in this case, most of that old IB will become overhealing and get wasted.

2) Old IB has near-zero synergy with shields. Stone skin, Adloqium/Succor - they work wonders on Warrior due to high HP pool and that healing bonus. New IB will work nicely with all that, old one just won't. Again, "if" we're using direct heal spamming only (another cow in vacuum) old one looks not as bad. Switch to real in-game situations and there you go - that "nerf" doesn't look so nerfy now.

Why don't you just pop the 2.1 IB when it's up ?

Defensive skills are supposed to be Vengeance (straight damage reduction), Thrill of Battle (damage is dealt to a virtual Hp pool) and Holmgang (can't die !!!).
These 3 skills can be up almost every 30 seconds.

Maybe for this one rare boss (like the hardest boss of the game) you can save your Inner Beast for the few times the others 3 aren't up, and spam it the rest of the time.

Originally Posted by Paikis

In the current game, Inner Beast heals me for about 2100 in a raid with no crit and not using Berserk. However, I am going from memory here and I don't have a screenshot of this. Getting one would prove bothersome,

WALL OF TEXT

You can now start telling me why I'm wrong.

What a long, untrue, silly post about make believe numbers. Because.

Old Inner Beast: 300% heal. you have to not be at full, and not cause a cure to be over-curing for this to be useful. This also removes your wraith stacks so cures hit for less potency.
New Inner Beast: 100% heal, 20% dmg reduction for 6 seconds. Good for telegraphed attacks, and group pulls. This scales with incoming damage rather than being stat dependent.


The utility changes
Old: "I just took a shitload let's make me harder to heal, for a medium self heal!", let's be honest with the healing reduction you're saving about one cure I / Physic spell here... two at the most and likely not saving your life.
New: "20% DR for 6 seconds, and if I'm not topped off a small self heal!", sure it isn't going to net you back as much HP, but with the move of healing bonus to defiance (albiet reduced), this is a worthwhile use of your wraith stacks and will net about 2-3% less damage taken over time (with rough account for uptime 1/3 = 7%~ max average reduction and you may be holding charges for telegraphed attacks or not able to use the GCD right away)

I'm ok with this change, it's not a boost to the ability, but it gives the ability more utility in a broader range of content.

Originally Posted by Exstal

Hm, I can't find anything wrong with this. Damn. You win this time, Paikis.

For one, there will eventually be harder hitting content than TT.

Second, why is he wearing griphonskin while main tanking TT?

Third, the self healing isnt that great, it comes down to maybe a single heal from a healer. And even then it relies on Berserk or a Crit. DR will always be useful.

Topping yourself off or healing some back after a big burst attack is simply not as advantageous as simply reducing its damage. Have fun totally topping yourself off that one time while TT one shots you with a queued cleave and death sentence.

Dont forget the 5% increased healing recieved we will also be getting. Im ok with losing a little healing on IB for that.

Originally Posted by Giantbane

Nice UGGs

/snicker

THE BOOTS WITH THE FUUUUURRRRR