Bruising Spirit, Strapping Spirit, Deadly spirit, heavy scarring

[Blaloch]

<DIV>Does anyone really use these mitigation buffs? Bruising Spirit, Strapping Spirit, Deadly Spirit, or heavy scarring?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't the mitigation increase is worth the loss in HPs or the stun.  Why not have them be a power drain?  And why not have Heavy scarring be a longer buff after the stun?  As it is I never have used them.  What are your experiences with these skills?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Blaloch</DIV> <DIV>50 Bruiser</DIV>

[etch666]

<DIV>The spirit line of buffs are awesome, I make sure to click em on whenever they are up when tanking, the 80 something hp per tick is nothing really, the mitigation bonus is very nice.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dont use heavy scarring much, although you can taunt while stunned, if you get an add or you lose agro, its a wipe. Might be useful for a raid mob after you have made a lot of agro.</DIV>

[Raidi Sovin'faile]

<P>It's not per tick.. it's every 30 seconds. Which is laughable as a cost really.<BR>I have it up whenever I can. ~500 more mitigation is nothing to sneeze at.. definately saves me more than the 77hp every 30 seconds.</P> <P>I've used Heavy Scarring a couple times now... our group was getting add after add because people hadn't learned that they need to keep an eye out yet.</P> <P>Since we have a single taunt that works even while stunned, and since everyone was low on power, I could keep aggro and we were able to survive the fight despite the healers being low on power.</P> <P>I can see it having a use when we pull aggro in epic fights and want to survive for a bit. This basically makes it so we don't have to redo our stances.. .just slap on Heavy Scarring, stop fighting for a bit for the MT to get aggro back, and voila.</P>

[Jezekie]

It's not every 30 seconds, it's every 6 seconds, ie. 1 tick.And the health drain is a percentage of your max health.<div></div>

[Tatt]

<DIV>I tank in grps im in all the time. im lvl 50 and never use those skills.</DIV>

[Pauleh]

I use them, they work very well

[Raidi Sovin'faile]

<DIV><FONT color=#ffff00>It's not every 30 seconds, it's every 6 seconds, ie. 1 tick.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Um, look at the description, or better yet use it and watch when your hp drops. It says 30 seconds, and I can see it drop only every 30 seconds as well. Where are you getting this "every 6 seconds" from? I know that might have been how it USED to work... but have you looked at it since the revamp went live?</DIV>

[Danan]

It used to be every 6 seconds, But after it was changed to 3 min recast it was also changed into 30sec drain

[Wasz]

ya i have adept 1 bruising spirit (31 bruiser) costs 32 health to start and 32 health every 30 secs.  It is well worth it when i fight clay guardians in rov.  It easilly absorbs that 32 health every 30 secs with the bonus 372 mitigation.  Since my mit is 1200ish with buff it matches me up with tank classes mit well over my level. 

[Danan]

<DIV><SPAN class=headline>Update Notes :<I> 9/21/2005 7:00 AM</I></SPAN> <BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bruiser changes: <BR>- Bruising Spirit, Strapping Spirit and Deadly Spirit once again consume health every 6 seconds while the buff is active.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Raidi Sovin'faile]

Bah.. now it's an actual cost.<BR><BR>At least the monks can stop whining about this ability now. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Mum]

yah...up untill that patch like a day ago it was every 30 sec =D was VERY NICE ....it's still good...just not as sweet as prepatch. -Tamaran 54 Iksar Bruiser- AB <div></div>

[littleman17]

<DIV>Bruisers now = the best class at killing them selves... all I got to say</DIV>

[twinche]

<DIV>should pretty much change it back to either drain health every 30 secs or make it have less recast time. i actually used it when it didn't drain much health at all and only being able to cast it every 3 mins is a long time to wait. soe made it pretty much useless..</DIV>

[Raidi Sovin'faile]

<P>Dunno why they can't just have a high hp cost with toggle, so it's not a straight up benefit, rather a way to reduce spiking.</P> <P>As it is, it's an "every second fight" thing (depending on the length of your fights), and only really useful when fighting things you have a hard time mitigating against (ie, high yellow+).</P> <P>It's lost any real use for soloing now.</P>