about the xpac changes!Follow

Hehe, what would Blizzard have to do to druid to make me stop playing it? Stop enjoying it?

...take away my ability to shift forms...

Too late!

If the rumored area of effect heal over time is not included, I'm gonna be a sad druid. Same with roots inside. I'm even leveling a priest alt, for fun but also in case the druid healing playstyle gets mutilated and I end up not enjoying it anymore.



Edited, Jun 3rd 2008 6:43am by PhoenixOmbre

A lot of people fear change. And if the changes they've anticipated don't happen, they get upset. It's normal.

I feel like a lot of changes will occur with WotLK. However, it will be like TBC. You'll get new strategies, and in a year, you'll look back on how you used to play Druid and think "Ugh, was it really like that? This is SOOO much better!" I have faith that, even if the changes do not occur as they're stated in Alpha, we'll still have many varied and awesome things to look forward to :)

What I meant is that the style changed dramatically when BC was released, so it could change again. There's a little apprehension there. I'm a picky person. And I can't help but get my hopes up when there's talk about roots inside. How could I! ^^

I think it'll be a lot like when I visited my gramma's each Christmas -

NEW COOKIE CUTTERS!

(ok, granted that applies less to us droods than to other classes, but this is the only like thread I could find).

Personally one of my main concerns is that the feral tree will remain bloated. Currently it requires a heavy dedication of points as well as putting a minimum of 11 in to Restoration, and I just hope that they let up a little on the number of points in the tree. I would definitely not quit playing my druid, but I would like to be able to pick up the PVP (Primal Tenacity & Nurturing Instinct) talents along with having enough points to snag what I want in the Restoration tree (5/5 Naturalist & Natural Shapeshifter). Having a quick look at the WotLK Alpha information, I just find that the tree is almost MORE bloated, and I hope it doesn't stay that way.

Aw, you're just saying that because I always agree with everything you say.

Seriously guys, less love, more flaming. Our reputation as the Nice Forum is going to have all kinds of riff-raff and contest-winner-wannabes over here, thinking they're safe from rate-downs, posting all kinds of empty nonsense that's just full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.

(Nothing like this post right here.)

Now now Tea, do not let anything change here. Nice place, along with the hunter forum.

Now you want ugly, try the Shaman forum, right Quor?? I am afraid to ask a n00b question there, I like my head in the place it is now. Shamans are fun to play, almost as much as druid, but getting some newbie advise, no way man.

Anyhow, I got bored with dailies, got my flier. Our guild has a hard time grouping to do Kara, much less going beyond that. PvP got me some gear, but it is hard to do all the time.

I real love is leveling and twinking 19's so much that I have another account just to get more little guys on the same realm. Sick I know but as they say, it's my $30 a month

Not worried about the changes being awful once the expansion is released. Worried about them possibly being totally awesome and then taken away or nerfed again a few weeks later like it was with bear form right after TBC came out.

I'll laugh if they give indoor roots, but make it so all the dungeons only have trash mobs with 60yd range and can shoot through walls

Actually, right now it's 25 health/rage (max rank). You would need 25k health to get equal returns from the old Frenzied Regen and the proposed change. I'm hoping they scale it up to .2 or .3% per rage, making it at least somewhat useful at all levels. Consider early levels of Frenzied Regen; you would need 10k health at level 36 for this change to not be a huge nerf.

im a little peeved at the change to frenzied regen. ive never liked the idea of it scaling, because i dont see FR as a scaling "self-heal". its intent when implemented was, in my mind, meant to be a druidic pot. druids couldnt pot (or HS) in feral forms, so blizzard tossed in the rage-to-life mechanic as a means of saying "here, look, druids have a pot-like effect so now you cant use that as a reason to keep druid from tanking". given how rage gen is happening on your average raid boss fight, dropping 100 rage in 10s for a nice heal isnt too bad an idea.

so youve got a nice heal at the top end that scales about as well as a pot does, and youve got a nice heal for the leveling druid that, again, scales about as well as an at-level pot.

so ive never really been able to get behind the idea of a scaling FR. granted, blizzard could always change what it was intended for, especially now that potting in feral forms is quite easy to do with a macro; it is an ever-evolving game after all.

Well, mangle was totally awesome, to the point that many feral druids never really left bear form anymore in PvP. After enough complaints Bliz decided to cut it by like 30% - only to increase the damage again after a couple of weeks. Don't remember the whole thing anymore since it has been a year and a half since then. I was pissed back then though :)