Hello all. Lot’s of happenings in the world of PTD, I have some upgrade stories, new levels of uberness, and a bit of a rant about my 10% less cool Fury Warrior. Let’s get this started.
The Great Fury Warrior Nerf of 3.1
Titan’s Grip was one of the first "new" talents that sounded really freaking cool. Be able to use TWO giant, badass 2-handers? Sign me up! Since it’s inception, though, it’s gone through a number of changes, tweaks, buffs and nerfs. Blizzard just doesn’t seem to have a clue how to balance the talent. I’m almost at the point where I wish they’d quit tinkering and just rework the 51 point fury talent completely.
If you recall, when we first got to take this talent for a spin, it came with a hit penalty when wielding 2 two-handers. It’s gone through quite a few iterations, and I’m not even sure where it started out. I believe it was in the neighborhood of a 15% hit penalty for yellow (special) damage, then a straight 5% penalty to hit, and then finally it was removed completely. Trying to actually remember the roadmap of changes to Titan’s Grip makes my head spin.
The newest change introduced in 3.1 gives Titan’s Grip a straight up 10% damage nerf.
Should there be a penalty or nerf to Titan’s Grip? If so is a straight damage nerf the best way to do that?
The answer to the first question is "yes," while whether a damage nerf was a good idea is more difficult. If you look at the talent honestly, you would have to think that a penalty-less Titan’s Grip is an overpowered talent. I think the difficulty, though, is determining just HOW overpowered it is. You see, the Warrior class is, in my opinion, THE most gear dependent class in the game. A poorly geared warrior can’t do anything, really, but that also means that we SCALE better than most with GOOD gear.
The issue is that if you looked at the TOP geared fury warriors in the game, they were often blowing other classes away on the damage meters. Personally, I was consistently in the top 5 in 25 mans, and that was with sub-par weapons. If I had a couple of BOH’s, I may have been leading the meters. (Though at this point I’ll never know.)
With this recent nerf, however, I’ve dropped a good 3 or 4 spots on the DPS hierarchy. I still do solid DPS, and with some recent upgrades I’m sure to be climbing the meters again (more on those upgrades later.)
My issue is this. Were fury warriors nerfed based on the performance of the top geared warriors in WoW? I’m a little afraid that just might be the case.
I’ve also heard the argument that warriors are a hybrid, and therefore should not be tops in damage. Well, that makes sense, but where is the explanation for the Ret Pallys and Feral Druids I see at the top all the time post 3.1?
Like I said, though, I’m happy with my damage output. I guess I just don’t quite understand the reasoning, and in some ways feel a straight damage penalty was a lazy way to fix the problem.
Lucky Night With the RNG
On a lighter, happier note, my terribad luck with weapon drops came to a merciful end last week. I was online doing some questing when a call went out for a DPS to fill Naxx 25, where they were on KT. I had no plans to run it later that week, so I piped up and got ported in.
It turned out to be the most profitable single, fill-in boss fight I’ve ever been a part of. 
It was the first time that KT dropped the Betrayer of Humanity for our group, and guess who was on top of the SK list in that particular raid. Wahooo! It’s about freaking TIME I got rid of my crap Naxx 10 mace, Demise.
Now, I felt a tiny pang of guilt, having only gotten on for that one kill, but at the same time I had run Naxx many, many times with this group previously. And we do use SK for a reason! I am also a believer that if you took part in a boss kill, you have the right to roll on any loot that he should drop.
And, just to make things even more profitable, I picked up my T 7.5 helm at the same time.
80 Number 3
This is a testament to how much easier leveling is in Wrath than it was in BC. I now have THREE, count them (3), level 80 toons. My Druid, my Warrior, and now my Hunter. Heck, it wasn’t until the tail end of BC’s reign that I got my 2nd level 70, and here I sit with 3 level 80s. I know I could easily get more, as well!
But, as a more casual player, I’ve always been pretty heavily invested in alts. If I only have a half hour, the best thing for me personally is to log on an alt and do a few quests. I just can’t stand dailies, I’ve never been able to, and I’m not really an achievement junkie, either, so alts are it for me.
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