Tanking Druids: Better Dodge equals more crushing blows?
A very interesting point was raised on Blizzard‘s WoW Europe forums regarding the dodge ability of Druids. Whenever you raise the avoidance( specifically) dodge, does it mean you’re also increasing the chance that each blow will be crushing?
In addition, it was also raised that it is possible to reach a point where every blow will be crushing, now is this true or not? If this was the case then it would be counter-productive since damage spikes would really be a problem for you and your healer.
It’s true that the chances of crushing blows do increase but damage spikes should not. A poster named Athinira gave a very good mathematical explanation on the unlikeliness of straight crushing blows.
If a boss is attacking with attack speed X and 15% of all his attacks made are crushing, then the chance to receive crushing blows is still only 15% per attack, the chance to receive 2 crushings in a row is still only 2.25% and the chance to receive 3 crushings in a row is still only 0.33% etc.
So, there’s really nothing to worry about, the common consensus though is that you should focus on dodge till you can get you armor up to 26,000++. Another tip that was given is that you should really should focus on HP and Armor to lower damage from whatever crushing blows that may come your way.
A very interesting point was raised on Blizzard‘s WoW Europe forums regarding the dodge ability of Druids. Whenever you raise the avoidance( specifically) dodge, does it mean you’re also increasing the chance that each blow will be crushing?
In addition, it was also raised that it is possible to reach a point where every blow will be crushing, now is this true or not? If this was the case then it would be counter-productive since damage spikes would really be a problem for you and your healer.
It’s true that the chances of crushing blows do increase but damage spikes should not. A poster named Athinira gave a very good mathematical explanation on the unlikeliness of straight crushing blows.
If a boss is attacking with attack speed X and 15% of all his attacks made are crushing, then the chance to receive crushing blows is still only 15% per attack, the chance to receive 2 crushings in a row is still only 2.25% and the chance to receive 3 crushings in a row is still only 0.33% etc.
So, there’s really nothing to worry about, the common consensus though is that you should focus on dodge till you can get you armor up to 26,000++. Another tip that was given is that you should really should focus on HP and Armor to lower damage from whatever crushing blows that may come your way.