To a certain extent at least. I am quite fond of the new talents that I see in all of my druid's talent trees and I can't wait to see them all in practice. Unlimited Swipe targets, improved Mangle and other movement impairing and bleed effects, a talent for expertise and energy refunds. It all sounds awesome.
But they are essentially taking away my hybrid-ness. See it is quite possible that, at lv 80, I could put every single point of mine into feral and get all the talents I would need to improve both my dps in cat form and my tanking abilities in bear form. But this would be at the expense of some key Restoration tree talents that I have long been very fond of, namely Furor, Omen of Clarity and that 5/5 one that increases Healing Touch and damage done in all forms (I forget the name, sorry).
Ultimately, Blizzard is forcing me to make a choice. Spec as a tank and do mediocre cat dps, or spec as a dps and do mediocre bear tanking. I just can't really stomach that notion, and in a way it feels a little unfair to so drastically change what I have grown so used to. With the press of a single button (ItemRack FTW) I can go from an *** kicking cat pushing 900 dps in 10/25 mans to a bear tank in 28k armor, 20k health and 45% dodge that can tank most raid bosses.
But 3.0 is taking that away from me, and that's why I am sad. Sure it'll be nice for me to use Entangling Roots indoors, and all the better if their reliability is on par with the other standard forms of CC. As it currently stands I am seriously considering just speccing myself as a dps/cc with my 2nd spec as resto and never going back to tanking. That is, if 3.0 turns out as bad for us druids as I suspect.
Now, with the dual spec notion that I have been hearing so much about, there is the option of setting mine up in such a way as to just be able to switch between a tanking spec and a dps spec which in and of itself wouldn't be so bad. But that would probably leave me with having to shell out 50g every time I want to heal for my guild in a raid. Which, if Blizzard left my feral tree the way it was, wouldn't have been an issue because I could have just made that 2nd spec the resto spec.
What will all of you ferals do? Will you choose a role? Will you dump all your points into the Feral tree to do both still? Is losing those awesome Resto talents really worth the ability to both tank and dps without having to spend gold or alternate specs? Would we even be able to still tank or dps as effectively without those resto talents?
I'd love to hear what you all have to say.