It is actually sort of a buff, if you change your spec some. It is a bit complicated, but they explain it in this blog post way better than I can: http://theincbear.com/4-1-what-in-the-fu-changes/
That blog is also a great feral resource in general. But it sounds like popping enrage at the start of a fight will make aoe tanking much easier after the patch. We will have to see how it actually plays out though.
After reading that.. it just seems that bears are just going to be doing a lot of dps again. It's also very informative so thanks :D It didn't really answer my threat question tho, because my main concern is that over geared dps can easily pull aggro from me. Reading the post, it seems that blizz is buffing bear dps to match it?
yeah, I'm not sure why they traded out threat for the dps increase, since threat gen is a *problem*? Unless threat gen from the increased dps will greatly outweigh the bonus threat gen they're trading, it just doesn't make sense. Maybe they're buffing the threat gen from feral dps in the process? *baffled too*
I think the issue is they're trying to get away from any threat modifiers and have threat strictly related to damage. I don't have the exact post but a while ago they said something along the lines of "Lots of tanks have told us that spamming high threat moves like sunder armor is boring, they want to do damage to do threat". So they moved the threat model to more damage = more threat instead of the old threat modifiers
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Doesn't this just mean that bears are almost just being put back the way they were during wrath (not as "spammy" of course). I mean like you said...the more damage we do the more threat we pull which is just like it was during wrath. Bears did a lot of damage during wrath. I mean...A LOT at least from my experience in raids.
That blog is also a great feral resource in general. But it sounds like popping enrage at the start of a fight will make aoe tanking much easier after the patch. We will have to see how it actually plays out though.
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it just seems that bears are just going to be doing a lot of dps again. It's also very informative so thanks :D
It didn't really answer my threat question tho, because my main concern is that over geared dps can easily pull aggro from me. Reading the post, it seems that blizz is buffing bear dps to match it?
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*baffled too*
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Bears did a lot of damage during wrath. I mean...A LOT at least from my experience in raids.
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