so whats new and good for the bruiser class in this new expantion cant seem to find any thing?

[laawintown]

<p>so whats new for use any thing?</p><p>any new raid utilitys?</p><p>any decent dps?</p><p>any decent tanking?</p><p>any thing thats realy a help to are class?</p><p>is there any site to see any of these things?</p><p>does any one have any opions on whats new/</p>

[Quicksilver74]

<p>flames has some good info.   But here are some highlights:</p><ul><li>Revamped STR line allowing the use of weapons.</li><li>Divide and Conquer Castable on the move, gains 2 hate positions, and has longer recast.  Upgradeable to lock whole encounter through AA. </li><li>Raidwide getting changed to buff Strength, 5% BASE CA damage, and 16% Base threat from Taunts.  AA"s will allow you to upgrade it further, to gain 5% melee and spell accuracy, and another AA will allow you to give it 10% de-hate for all non fighters. </li><li>Lots of extra avoidance - Several AA's buff our Deflection ability, nearly bringing in line with a shield.  </li><li>Extra Mitigation - similar to monk's Mythical epic, We can gain extra mit on our armor. </li><li>Tsunami for all - Through AA we gain a deflection based Tsunami.</li><li>Raid Tanking - We gain some abilities that aid us in raid tanking.  One of them is an activatable 2 charge stoneskin that absorbs hits that deal 35% or more of our Max HP.  </li><li>Overall DPS boost - Through some new AA choices, the revamped STR line, and the revamp to CA"s allowing them to crit for Max dmg+1 up to max dmg *1.3, we shoudl notice a nice dps improvement.</li></ul><p>Basicly yeah they heard our concerns and are fixing us in many ways. </p>

[Arimish]

<p>Also boost to Balanced and def stance by now adding PArry skill</p><p>ALso AA can be spent to incr benefit to all stances</p><p>Dev fist changed to regular CA , can now Crit and Master1 choice</p>

[laawintown]

<p>so what seems to be the over all thought  to these as far as t8 raiding will we be more in  demand on t8 raids instead of bench warmer?</p>

[Quicksilver74]

<p>More so than now yes, however the player is always more important than the class. </p>

[Caliga]

<p>We get our STR line back.  Which means healers won't be out dpsing us anymore.  I couldn't be more happy.</p>

[Antas22]

<p><cite>Caliga@Befallen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We get our STR line back.  Which means healers won't be out dpsing us anymore.  I couldn't be more happy.</p></blockquote><p>Healers out-DPSing us? Did I miss something? Don't get me wrong, I couldn't be happier to drop the pointless WIS line that just seems to be an agro magnet at all the wrong times and pick up more DA and Chi, but even that isn't going to help you if you can't out-DPS a healer. Even tanking, with my crap gear, can't say I've ever had that problem.</p>

[Caliga]

<p><cite>Antas@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Caliga@Befallen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>We get our STR line back.  Which means healers won't be out dpsing us anymore.  I couldn't be more happy.</p></blockquote><p>Healers out-DPSing us? Did I miss something? Don't get me wrong, I couldn't be happier to drop the pointless WIS line that just seems to be an agro magnet at all the wrong times and pick up more DA and Chi, but even that isn't going to help you if you can't out-DPS a healer. Even tanking, with my crap gear, can't say I've ever had that problem.</p></blockquote><p>I was exaggerating.</p>