druid - WOTLKFollow

Currently it's listed as a level 80 spell. 1-79 is a long stretch with just our trusty battle rez, so it will only add to our utility in end game only. It will be a welcome addition, but it doesn't mean druid healers are better then any other.

You get the first level of your battle res (30 min cooldown, uses reagent) at 12.

The new reuseable res is a different spell that you won't get til 80 (allegedly)

Even if it's slightly earlier, it won't make Druids better at healing overall. We'd just be better at ressing.

The new spell will overtake as our main res, leaving the battle res purely as an 'Oh Sh*t' res. One with a 30 min cooldown no less, so hardly gamebreaking as you'll still only get one chance to use it per boss fight. Although I wouldnt be surprised if they increased the cooldown somewhat.

As far as I know they're not planning to change the cooldown. I believe he just had a slip of the tongue and listed Rebirth's previous cooldown. It was changed a few patches ago from 30 minutes to 20 minutes.

This is definitely a welcome addition, but I don't think it will make us the #1 sought-after healing class. We still can't cure disease or cleanse magic effects, but it does go a long way towards increasing our usefulness.

Remember the other classes will be getting overhauls as well, as well as their own kickass new talents. I haven't checked any other class's WotLK talent trees, but could see Blizz giving the other healing classes fancy fun stuff like a talented battle rez of their own, or mass resurrection, or or or or...I dunno, they're more creative than I am. And with both our potential talents and their potential talents being nothing more than potential, who knows how it'll shake out.

But we're a hybrid class and as such kinda need to have some (very very tiny) gaps and (very very slight) weaknesses in each of our roles. Properly spec'd we're currently the only class that can kick *** at a B+/A- level in any of the four primary roles in the game: healing, melee dps, casting dps, and tanking. Hell we're even the 'best of the best' at healing or tanking some types of situations thanks to things like our strength with HoTs, insane armor/hp, or non-polymorphable-ness. That's beyond good for the most hybrid/versatile class in the game -- let's not get greedy and hope for A++ at stuff now.

My $.02

I tried out one of the possible talent calculators, and I saw that there are too many new toys to play with. I can't get all the dps and tanking talents in one spec. Oh well...other tanking classes can't dps at all in tanking spec; I should be happy and take what I can get.

And yes, I am going to completely bypass the rest of the thread because I don't want to talk about resto, or a possible normal rez. It really won't be all that useful to me personally. If I am alive and the healer is dead, then something went wrong. I could rez the healer anyway. And then the healer could rez whoever else died. Unless it was a druid. Wait, I don't have to worry about that anymore....

If we got vanish, rogues would have to get one of our oh **** buttons. I think barkskin tranquility is out of the question, so the other options are travel form and bear form. Oh wait, they have sprint, so that rules out travel form. What you really have to ask yourself is this: would you really swap bear form for vanish? I mean, bear form is the only way I can kill rogues (but it is rediculously easy to do so if they dont catch you in cat or caster). If they had bear form too how would I kill them?

I only meant that our abilities tend to mimic what the other full fledged classes obtain earlier, which is fine given our nature. Also, I don't seriously hope for vanish. It would just make me insanely happy ;)

I also meant specifically for our feral tree, as the new resto skills seems innovative, not copycat abilities. That's very positive :)

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Edited, Aug 26th 2008 10:20pm by kawainui

I don't want much for dire cat. Just burning footprints and lasers coming out of the eyes. And maybe some fixes to stupid model stuff, like how when you sit down your waist becomes extremely small. Also, some in-form emotes would be nice. A new tauren flight form would also be appreciated, because (in case you didn't know) currently it is just a brown version of the NElf one. That's right, I haven't bought epic mount training and done the chain, so I am forced to fly around with rediculously huge and pointy ears....

You know those storm crows? The ones out in the wild that hunters can tame? Yeah, they have those ears too.
At least your brown and not following every hunter with a bird fetish. Now save your money for the sheer awesome that is the swift flight form.