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Comment by 884267

I can't tell if the bear in the icon is excited or enraged...

Comment by sidhebane

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to apply the damage if the target is immune to stun - like almost all bosses :(

Comment by n4rt0n

30% of the Bear's total hp is a lot of damage.

And it's quite a funny name.

Imagine in an Arena match conversation: "dude I can't heal, he's hugging me" lol

Comment by OldWolf2

This seems to use the druid's maximum health, not current health as the tooltip seems to suggest.

Also, the damage is physical damage and subject to mitigation by armor; so each tick will do about 7% of your max health against normally-armored targets.

Further, each tick can crit, and as Bears tend to have high crit (I have 36%) , you'll typically end up actually doing about 120K damage over 3 seconds - a very nice move in PvP or trash.

Comment by Joejr82

Seeing how this pretty much only works when soloing, PvP, or trash mobs in instances, you should all ways use Might of Ursoc first which will increase the damage Bear Hug does.

Comment by Lordplatypus

HUGGY HUGGY!

Comment by asloversgo

I immediately thought of Kuma's/Panda's special attack in the Tekken series.

Comment by 908565

The tooltip says 11% of hp on my bar, does it change depending on something? Ive seen other people say different amounts too.

Comment by 2picnic

Couple of useful pieces of info about this spell for any who want to know more. Patch 5.2

-The stun and damage isn't channeled, its applied like a DOT, whereas the root is a separate effect applied to you. That means if someone trinkets out of it they'll also trinket out of the damage, but you'll still be immobilized for however long the effect would've lasted. Same is true for mage blink.

- The immobilization effect which is applied to you will not be broken through shapeshifting unlike most other roots. You can however use stampeding roar to free yourself, leaving the opponent stunned for another 1.5 seconds (2.5 with pvp gloves) while you are free to run or attack.

- You can shapeshift out of bear form while bear hug is applied and it will continue to do damage based on your stats when you applied it, though since it is only available to guardian druids there isn't much use for this.

- Any player or mob who is immune to stuns will take no damage from this skill.

- Targets afflicted by diminishing returns, I.E. if someone stunned your target player a few seconds before you, will take less damage from this skill, proportional to how long they're stunned for.

- When targeting an immune enemy with this skill, sometimes an "immune" message will pop up but you'll still be rooted for the full duration, other times you'll be free to move. It is unknown under which circumstances either of these things happen.

Comment by 1116642

Got mine to do 500k while doing some dailies today. =D
Might of Ursoc, trinket from council in ToT while crtting. Did not use PVP set for 4 sec, could be more. =P
Maybe I should take a trip to ICC...
~Ghettopaws-Ysera

Comment by SoooWhoCares

Marvelous ability. Doesn't work on most of the important NPCs so that it despite of it's 1min CD becomes totally useless against these and there where it works it immobilizes you - in an addon with *move out of that area* spells all the time and everywhere.

Marvelous ability, indeed.
Oh and because of heavy scripting there are some enemies that - despite being stunned - will use their otherwise interrupted *deadly* abilities still... while you are immobilized. *cheers*

Coming next addon:
Bear Fart (5min CD) - Your character turns his back towards the enemy and starts emitting deadly gasses while growling loudly. While doing so the chance to be hit as well as being critically hit is increased to 100%.
Only works on raid bosses.
Only useable by Druid tanks.

On successful cast ob 'Bear Fart' you lose all your armor for 5s.
On enemies below 20% HP the cooldown is reduced to 4min.

Edit: My PVE concerns are being answered by telling me that this ability is great in PVP - which I knew because I didn't complain about PVP. Internet.

Comment by 667568

Every druid has a right to bear arms.

Comment by Whoisthiscook

Best screenshot ever!

Comment by Magnatross

Marrogar voice: "BOUND BY BEAR!"

Comment by 1034183

RIP Bear Hug... you were my favorite WoW ability of all time... (planned to be removed in Warlords)

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/13423478/warlords-of-draenor%E2%84%A2-beta-patch-notes-july-11-7-11-2014

Comment by 1362717

I know this is being removed, but isn't this ability useless when raiding... Immune to stun = no damage

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Bear Hug

Bear Hug
Melee Range

Instant	1 min cooldown

Melee attack that stuns the target for 3 sec and each 1 sec deals 10% of the Druid's health in damage. The Druid is immobilized for 3 sec. Using this ability activates Bear Form.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

3 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

5 yards (Combat)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 minute

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Stun
Mechanic: Stunned
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 10 every 1 second
Mechanic: Stunned
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Root
Mechanic: Rooted
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Initiates Combat (Enabled Auto-Attack)
Require All Targets
No Partial Immunity
No Caster Aura Icon
Taps immediately
Periodic Can Crit

Bear Hug

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