Druid Q&A Released

After reading and writing about the class Q&A’s that Blizzard has been releasing, I’ve pretty much noticed that it’s not very very helpful in answering most of the important issues of the different classes. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to read because you get to see what the devs are thinking about the class involved and where it stands now and going forward to the future. If anything it’s these future thoughts and plans that are most intriguing to read about. It’s time to talk about Druids now ! Tauren druid cat form Druids have come a long way since vanilla WoW since back then they were pretty much just healers in the end game content and now they are viable in Tanking and DPS as well. Several druid forms have allowed druids to maintain these roles in a way that other classes cannot. For example warriors can use their stances and Death Knights their presences to allow for some flexibility in roles but forms make druids to do this much better… in fact some may say too good. Let’s talk about the Balance tree and Moonkins. One major concern is that the eclipse talent, which allows some variability in the spells, allows for a solar rotation to be well received but the lunar rotation not so much. Blizzard doesn’t like that just half the talent is favored and they plan to fix this. they said the problem here is that the two spells involved, Wrath and Starfire, are almost the same thing. A suggested fix for this long term is to separate the two spells and add another one like Insect Swarm or Moonfire. They seem to want a dynamic similar to how frost mages use fireball when Brain Freeze procs. For PvP they feel that Moonkins aren’t where they want them to be especially in the survivability department. but they feel that other caster classes also have the same problem so it could take a while since they’re focused

on the classes that don’t have a strong PvP presence rather than those that do but have trees that under-perform. I think this Q&A was pretty disappointing for feral druids since Ghostcrawler didn’t really say anything new or exciting specifically for them. They’re pretty much ha[[y with the way they stand right now from how they tank to how complex the kitty dps rotations are and such things. One thing they did mention though is they really want to see a future where shifting costs are gone so that druids will be in different forms so they can be more versatile. For example, thanks to their versatility druids already shift out of Moonkin or cat to backup heal or battle rez someone. Eliminating shifting costs would make this easier. This brings us to Resto druids. Blizzard feels that there might be a problem with the fact that druids have to be in Tree of Life form to be as good healers as everyone else, losing some of their versatility. In fact they feel that it’s not really a good thing for druids to be locked into one form the whole time and this is where the plan to cut out the shifting costs comes in. They also feel like they want druids to be in their caster form a LOT more. For Tree of Life for example they might make it so that druids only use it for certain spells or to increase healing capability for a short duration like Warlocks and Metamorphosis’ damage increase effect. Does this mean that the same would be true for Moonkins? Based on their thoughts it seems like it. In other news, they also are working on a way so that +crit is more useful for Resto druids and in fact they want all casters to value haste and crit more. To see the whole Q&A, click here . Post from: WOW Obsessed

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Druid Q&A Released