"Blood in the Water now refreshes Rip to the correct value."

[gollie]

Just read this line in the patch notes for 4.0.3:
"Blood in the Water now refreshes Rip to the correct value."

Does anyone have an explanation for this? Will it be considered a "refresh" now instead of applying your stats as they were when you used FB? I mean, if you apply Rip with TF up, and then use FB to refresh it, will Rip keep its TF-bonus?

[Woogs]

I'm pretty sure it means it will now grab your stats again when you FB to refresh Rip. I'm sure they don't want us to do what Shadow Priests and Warlocks were doing with their dots, after they just fixed that.

[kittyrawr]

if you apply Rip with TF up, and then use FB to refresh it, will Rip keep its TF-bonus?

Try it on a dummy tomorrow and see what happens!

[shags the penguin]

I would expect its so you can't stack increases on things that get refreshed, hunter 2 part 10, afflic lock with corruption.

To your direct question, no when you cast FB again rip would have its numbers recalculated so if it had a 15% bonus damage before and you press FB it would base it on what is happening currently not carry the bonus across.

That is the theory at least :P if it works is down to you to test.

[Deleted]

I love this, this makes feral druid's live so much more easier and makes our dmg put so freaking high.

[exochaft]

I originally thought it was a fix to a previous bug concerning Rip refreshing to the wrong duration (refreshed to 12 seconds duration instead of 16 seconds), though if the refreshed Rip wasn't taking damage modifiers into account, that could also be the fix (or all of the above). Of course, my brain's been addled trying to keep Live, PTR, and Beta builds separate, so that issue may have been fixed, I honestly haven't used a PvE kitty spec since pre-4.0.1.