I Wipe My Car With You
“Dear BRK, I ran Slave Pens for the first time this week and because our healer was MIA, we pugged one excellently-geared shammy. As we cleared the last trash before the final boss, we [got the Shaman's] sweet buff of nature resist. Because I am an Uber-Hunter-In-Training, I decided to put up Aspect of the Wild and further increase everyone’s nature resist and thus make them love me more. Suddenly, I’m getting yelled at by the pugged Shammy that, ‘AofW doesnt stack with the speacial buff, you n00b, L2P ect. ect.’
“So that got me thinking — when do I use AofW? Does it ever stack? How does it work? Please explain this strange aspect. Shlayer & VasDeferens”
Aspect of the Wild, Rank 3
150 Mana
Instant cast
The hunter and group members within 30 yards take on the Aspect of the Wild, increasing Nature resistance by 70. Only one Aspect can be active at a time.
So sayeth WoWWiki, so let it be done.
Now all the cr@p that they don’t tell you:
AotW does not stack with a Shaman’s Nature Resistance Totem.
AotW does not stack with a Druid’s Mark of the Wild.
AotW does not stack with magic-resistance potions.
AotW does stack with nature-resistance gear.
We have never seen a tank say, “OK, lemee slap on my nature-resist gear,” for a 5-man instance.
You know what stinks about being a tank? Having to collect resistance-gear. We remember our AQ-tanks b!tching up a storm at having to get nature-resist gear. What you guys should do is get your guild’s tailors to outfit you with those 20-slot bags gratis, just so you can lug around all that garbage.
But we’re a hunter not tank; maybe we’re just being stupid.
When running with a Shaman, always tailor your aspects to his totems. And it is perfectly acceptable to beg like a little boy crying at the grocery store for Crunch Berries for the Chamois to drop the agility totem. It’s that good.
However, when one of those mail-armor thieves decides to start mouthing off with “n00b-talk”, be sure demand a Totem of Adult Behavior.
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There would be some ridiculous nature resistance if all that stuff stacked. Though I do feel its uncalled for the shaman to call him a noob.
Would this be a time that Misdirection /target Shammy be ok?
Just ran this for a friend last night. I didn’t do the math, but with the hunter Aspect, Mark of the Bite, MotW, and one stupid nature resist ring I tanked quag sans-healer. My total NR was 180-something. So the 70NR aspect _does_ stack with the “speacial buff” even if not with the 60NR totem. From WoWWiki:
“Nature resist totems/auras stack with the “Mark of the Bite” buff and should be used if available. Hunters turn on Aspect of the Wild, Shamans drop Nature Resistance Totem.”
That shammy needs a beat-down.
I had that happen with my guild Shammy in Slave pens too..however neither one of knew it didn’t stack until after we kiled the boss..DOH!! Guess we were both Noobs..LOL! Live and learn…
Btw, gotta luv “VasDeferens” for a pet name..thats gotta be worth some BRK cool pts…??
Our shaman perfers to drop mana/dps totems, so after our druid buffs with MotW, then I active good ol’ AotW. Typically, unless the leader or his assist tells me to, I stay AotV or AotH though, but in Coilfang I know when they always ask for it.
When would you ever use AotW? Hunter tanking (yes BRK HUNTERS DO TANK!) the Shaman add of the High King fight. Why bring 5 tanks to Gruul. You really only need 3 tanks and some OT’s (Fury Warrior who can taunt / sword&board, etc).
That’s when it’s useful. We have 2 hunters who tag team the shaman while the rest of the raid burns the Priest, Mage and Warlock before focusing on the Shaman. The Shaman will just cast at you (big deal, you have a dedicated healer and 200 NR). Once in a while he’ll sheep you so your hunter partner takes the lead. Simplest add to tank on that whole fight. 3 people and the add is controled.
And it is perfectly acceptable to beg like a little boy crying at the grocery store for Crunch Berries for the Chamois to drop the agility totem. It’s that good.
No, it’s not. (Either acceptable, or that good depending on group)
Any Shaman that knows what he/she is doing is going to drop the correct totem for the group, not the one that makes you personally look the best in the ego-meters.
The only way you’re getting GoA in a “normal” 5-man is if you have a Druid tank and there are no DPS Warriors in the group. 1 Warrior = WF totem, period.
One thing has been left out here. Radius.
If your fight spreads the team out enough, there still may well be reason for you both to use the effect.
As one of the afore-mentioned real mail wearers (for the love of pete you guys don’t even get close to stuff, you don’t need armor
), your shaman was an idiot.
The air totem slot is the single most crowded element for us, almost everything good is in there (WoA, GoA, and WF). Having to give one of those up for NR sucks, badly, think ‘having to put away the bow and melee’ sucks. Having a hunter around to turn on Aspect of the Wild which conflicts with far fewer uber-buffs than the NR totem is lovely.
Tranquil Air Totem is far more useful than making the warrior look good on the ego-meters.
@shutter:
And Grounding is in there too, which is uber-useful at times. *sigh*
Tranquil Air Totem is far more useful than making the warrior look good on the ego-meters.
I was talking about 5-man runs up above, where TA is … less than useful.
If you get a warrior in your group in a raid, you are a “WF group” by definition. If he’s threatcapped after Salv, you can twist TA with WF for 30 sec or so at the start which should be good enough, but it should never really come to that. TA is a relic put in to attempt to compensate for Horde not having paladins.
@jabari
Yeah, forgot about Grounding, ugh, wtb less air totems, can’t they shove one of these over to the fire or earth slot or something?
Tranq isn’t a complete relic, at least not after the experience of both me and a fury war being threat capped on VR at 25% or so to go with Salv on. Go go aggro wipe (only a 10% durability reagent cost, woo!)