Talk:Bear Shape

+50% nature resistance
To the contrary of what this page claimed for years (literally!), bear/bereskarn form does not gain any nature resistance bonus whatsoever. Technical details: tested in both 1.0 and 1.05. Methodology: in order to be certain it's not a hidden resistance that's just not displayed on the character screen, a shapeshifter was taken to the Broodmother's lair, stripped of all gear. The amount of nature damage Broodmommy's nasty Spit did to the human and the bereskarn forms was the same.

A couple of anecdotes: (1) I'm not entirely sure it wasn't my own edit 8 years ago in the first place -- if so, my path to redemption was a very long one, indeed; (2) eventually, this erroneous bit of information has made its way into a variety of build discussions as a fait accompli: I actually remember someone on the Bioware forums talking about how that wondrous high nature resistance bonus of the bear form makes Heart of Witherfang obsolete! Now that's what I call the placebo effect. Or see this, for example. IN (talk) 21:07, January 15, 2018 (UTC)