Dabender

As a new Fury (once Warden) I struggle with putting together the right gear. As a warden I was comfortable running at a 680 to 720 plus heal mode and 425 to 500 spell dmg.

With the addtion of several pieces of equipment I can now buff out my plus heals to 1020 and If I go strictly dps I can roll 1215 spell dmg with a 645 plus heal and 57 percent crit dmg (non grouped). Interestingly neither one provide the healing power my warden did. And OMG the power issues are incredible.

Anyway what set up do you guys use for a raid type situation. What combinations do you look for to provide you with both the Healing power and offensive prowess.

Lastly how in does animal form work. I have tried it a couple of times and it still doesnt click.

Thanks in advance for your help

dab

AricaJade

the best is to have 2 setups, 1 for dps & 1 for heals so u can get the most out of each situation.

for heals, have all the normal effects ur used to (+heals, heal crit, overloaded heal, power proc on heals such as the blue shiny belt, manawell & replenishing heal). when u have all that together, u should have a decent +heal & heal crit.

for dps, go spell crit, +dmg & power procs on hostile spells (blue shiny belt again & anything with soul siphon). ideally u want to get 100% crit (125% i believe the number is for orange raid mobs, been awhile so i cant remember exactly) & 1k+ is a nice spell mod. there's also a couple of items (bloodthirsty choker, cmayong orb, etc) to increase ur base dmg to add more to ur parses.

it's not hard to heal a group in full dps gear without a problem. only time id pop on the full heal gear is for named pretty much just to have that extra efficiency in case it turned into a heal intensive fight.

animal form is a spell that u have to cast on somebody, but it has to be a mage or a priest. if u want to use it on urself, probably be best to set up a macro to target urself, cast it & switch to the wep ur gonna use for animal form (if it happens to be a diff one than u usually have equipped). u can toggle it off early if u need to because it does stifle u while it's up. plus u usually dont have to leave it on the entire time to get full or really close.

& dont forget ur potions & temp adorns for ur weps to up ur crit in either setup 8-)

furies have the quicker bigger heals rather than everything being over time, that's pretty much the only difference in heals. & ull learn to <3 hibernate & return to the pack 8-)

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serum321

On the dps setup drop some of the +spells and heals for +spell crit if you can, after around +850 spell damage the only thing its effecting really is thunderbolt and thats if you have m1.

Feithen

Yeah, beyond 800something, +spell is useless. Crits for the win, for both heal and spell.

I have 3 sets of gear:

- BASE gear. This is my favorite gear for "every day" stuff, has my favorite peice for each slot. No power items, no real focus on dps OR heals, just a good medium ground.

- DPS gear. This switches my heal items from base, about 6 peices, out for +spell crit, +spell dam, casting speed, hostile reuse reducer, proc off damage, etc.

- Heal/power gear. This switches all the base dps pecies out for power, overheal, base heal boost, etc. Useful for hard named/avatars, or when I'm grouping and solo healing a hard instance, or when I have no power folks in my group.

I got so tired manually switching gear!

Feithen

Oh... and power proc gear + chain casting low level group spells = instant power win. I don't do it any more but did back at the start of the expansion when power was hard to get and nobody had mythicals.

Meows

animal form is a target spell that you can cast on any mage / priest and it stiffles them for the durration for it. they gain 100 haste, and every time they hit a mob get back 110 power, and drop their agro by 1000. if your using it on yourself remember you have to make a macro to cast it on you, or be targeting yourself. and you cant heal when its on, your stiffled.

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Thaya

On raids I generally have two macros of gear setup I switch between... On trash and easy named I use my DPS-gear, if I really need to focus on healing and keeping my power up throughout a fight I switch to my heal/power regeneration gear.

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Krista

Animal Form is probably my most loved skill, ever since I found out what it did at like level 36.

Basically, like the others said, you cast it on a mage or priest ally, and it stifles them, giving them 100 haste, and everytime that person hits, they do an extra 60-90 damage (this ability is called Tear for those who look at ACT), giving that person 108 power (which can crit), and dehating them by 1000 threat. If that person is a mage, they get 1800 mitigation, as well.

Since this ability is really hard to coordinate with people, it's best just used on yourself. When you use it, note that you're not trying to get max damage out of it, and you gain more power the more times you hit your target. So, find a weapon with a really low delay (preferrably 1.3 or 1.2), and cast the Agi debuff and swarm, just before you use it, so you're guaranteed to hit for at least 5 seconds. I personally use Shock, from SoH when I use animal form, because it has a 1.3 delay (which goes to .7 with animal form, and .6 with Feral's proc; .5 is the fastest anyone can auto-attack). Modinthalis, from Unrest, is a good one as well, because it procs a stun (for grouping and soloing).

Do note that if you double-attack, it counts as 2 hits from animal form, giving you twice the power and twice the dehate.

Also, a really fun thing to do, while dueling other priests, is put the Agi debuff on, then the casting skill debuff (which drops focus), and swarm, then animal form, and watch them try to cast something. It's hilarious.

Dabender

Thanks for the help I currenlty use 3 different set ups, one is for strictly dps, one is my main healing with a mix of power proc, heals, and dmg, then my last one is were I have every piece of overloaded heals on due to the amount of dmg that is forth coming.

Thanks again for the help.