thoughts?

[Remen]

hey duridz...I am just wondering on something...it's not to wine or QQ, just some words, and I would like to know how the community looks at it.

qoute from patchnotes :
*New Spell* Savage Defense, 1 rank, level 40 - Each time you deal a melee critical strike, you gain Savage Defense, reducing the damage taken from the next physical attack that strikes you by 25% of your attack power.
Talents

Survival of the Fittest (Tier 6) now increases your armor contribution from cloth and leather items in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by 11/22/33%. (Previously 22/44/66%)

now those two should balance each other out, but.... for some reason I don't think its completly fair as in, half of the bonus armor to compensate for a new ''shield''?
I am not great on digits but is it fair? tbh, the shield altho nicely found and a good thing, doesn't look so strong to compensate with the armor loss...

your thoughts? thanks

[getefix]

welcome to warrior world (without parry).

this should discourage people from using Polar gear.

[Elunedra]

i never liked polar gear i prefer avoidene :P

but look around the baord u will find tons of topics about Savage Defence

overall it seems for AOE tanking its a nerf for single target tanking it depens its roughly the same as before

[Furicious]

Is savage defense only related to bear form? since the quote doesn't confirm this fully..

also im assuming that savage roar will be a passive skill?

[Remen]

Is savage defense only related to bear form? since the quote doesn't confirm this fully..

also im assuming that savage roar defense will be a passive skill?

yeah it will be passive, and only in bearform as far as I know...
but I don't see how this should discourage people from holding on to a piece of polar gear, ofc you'r not gonna use the full set, but hey I am still walking around with the boots... I don't see how this change should convince me to not wear it anymore? my overall avoidance is around 47 % self buffed and I walk around in 37 K with it...

[arel00]

Look in this forum for my thread called "Savage Defense math".
It's on 2nd-3rd page at worst.

You'll see numbers there.