Nature's Focus Vs Barkskin when duelingFollow

True NE is LESS useful after you get Barkskin but if it's on cooldown it's still nice to have. but I tend to agree that it's not so great, I'm plannig on getting NE but I'mnot wasting 5 more points on ImpNE. Also...

NE and ImpNE = 100% root on hit. +35% forn NE it's self and +65% form ImpNE.

Makes it sound a LITTLE better doesn't it :)

I think Nature's focus is quite a good talent as it greatly improves your healing abilities and means you can use Barkskin alot more recklessly. However considering the other talents available at that level in the resto tree if I had a spare 5 points, I'd probably prefer Naturalist for the extra damage, but then I am feral spec.

I suppose if you want to go down the Feral or Balance tree then as a talent it could be pretty handy for instances as people often want you to heal so it means you have a much better chance of casting without having to really go into the resto tree. I guess its just trying to decide whether you want to be able to do that little bit more damage or heal that little bit better, would definitely improve your survivability on bad aggro pulls.

The day BS becomes a no CD buff would be the day Boomkin would tear WoW apart. Ahhhh why, Quor? Why have you given me this idea? Tch, Might as well make starfire an instant cast as well.

I dont like Natures Focus. Even when I was Resto I didnt like it. Do not know why. Yet I never PvP healed, as I hated BG's 10-40.

Last time I resec'd I put 5 in Naturalist instead of NF. A half second off HT doesnt help much; I did it for the 10% damage increase. Now that I'm doing more PvP I really regret not having NF though. Pretty much impossible to get a heal off if there's more than one opponent on you. For some reason I always forget to use BS, maybe because it's not on a convenient key. That will change now with the improvement in BS, but next time I respec I'll still go back to NF. With a 1-min. cd on BS you'll be dead long before you can use it again.

this is why you:

heal early

heal often

learn to spell fake

the only interrupt moves i have issues with are counterspell and fel hunter spell lock, because both are ranged and not on the global cooldown. earth shock, kick, pummel/shield bash and even feral charge are pretty easy to fake with a little bit of thinking (a rarity in druids these days sadly).

1.Being a feral druid i try to stay in my form as long as possible, but i do agree i need to start popping out at a about 1/2 my bar
2.That is hard because im am not resto speced and casting for me takes a while.
3. kick u in ur fake? im no doctor, but as far as i know thats not any type of body part.



Edited, May 24th 2007 5:44pm by FlamingCookiesofdoom

spell faking is a lost art. thankfully, higher ranked arena teams are starting to bring it back.

spell "faking" is the art of faking a spell cast in order to generate an interrupt. interrupts only interrupt (and lock out) if they interrupt something. if youre not casting anything when a rogue kicks you, nothing happens (unless they have improved kick, but that only lasts for 2s which is almost nothing). so what you do is start to cast a spell, such as regrowth, and then immediately after you begin casting, you stop casting. how you stop casting is up to you. you could move, you could jump, you could just hit escape, or you can make a /stopcasting macro and hit that. what matters is that you STOP CASTING before they interrupt you.

if all goes well, youll start your cast, end it prematurely, get kicked/pummeled/counterspelled/spell locked/earth shocked, and then be free to heal soon afterwards. silence effects (such as from spell lock or improved kick or improved counterspell) will still SILENCE you. but you wont be locked out. so you wait out the silence, and heal to your hearts content.

its not hard to do, but for some reason casters nowadays rarely do it. which is sad really.

A few comments about your build:

1- Yes, Brutal Impact is an awesome talent worth the 2 points.

2- SotF > Thick Hide in terms of damage mitigation in Bear form and in PvP situations.

3- This is more of a personal remark: What do you want to do with that build? If you want to tank really well, you pretty much have to grab SotF unless you want to gimp yourself and give your healers a worse time than they could get away with. Just wondering, really. I suppose you can still off-tank well enough without SotF.