Comments on: Cloudy, With A Chance of Storms

By: Kayllnn

Kayllnn — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:01:44 +0000

I know there are a lot of passionate feelings regarding this topic. I have sort of been abandoning my tree for my shaman lately, but this still makes me super sad. I am among those who complained about tree form. But why not spruce it up and make it look cooler? That is what I rather see than taking it away from us. As far as pvp goes this isn’t a good thing, I rather use my brain in pvp a little more. I do arena on my druid, and I have to choose whether or not I need to be tree. I knock myself out all the time to help CC or to avoid that warlock, but tree form gives me armor and more healing so it is good to be in if I’m not dpsing or hiding from lock banishes. I feel as though if I never have to switch forms, and I can do all of these things in one form, pvp becomes less challenging. I can already move around forever and cast heals that don’t require a cast time. I saw tree form as an extra challenge that I enjoyed balancing. So for pvp and pve I am very sad at the loss of tree.

One thing I see all druids agreeing with, that I don’t understand is the fact that we aren’t getting any new spells! Please explain this to me. I was fine with it too at first, but the higher my priest gets the more this pisses me off. I’m sorry but priests have a huge amount of spells, yet they are getting new healing abilities!?

Priest- Heal, lesser heal, greater heal, flash heal, power word:shield, renew, holy nova, prayer of healing, binding heal, prayer of mending, divine hymn!! That doesn’t include the special extra heals from talents.
Holy- lightwell, circle of healing, desperate prayer
Discipline- penance
and these spells don’t include their cool downs or passive heals. These are all heals (or shields) they actually cast something to use.

Druids- rejuv, regrowth, lifebloom, healing touch, tranquility, wild growth, nourish

Ok so totals? Priests (without talents) have 11 healing spells druids have 7( with all possible talents) Fine if you want to count swiftmend as a heal (which I think it is a cooldown then 8) Am I missing something here?

How is this fair that we get no new heal spells? I mean I realize our spells are diverse and that priest’s don’t use all their spells but neither do we. They are re-working our spells why not re-work theirs and give us something cool damn it!

Why have no druids addressed this that I have seen? To me it is priest favoritism and they are getting some pretty awesome abilities in the new xpac. Life grip!? Druids have nothing exciting coming to them and I was utterly disappointed when I saw the druid changes.

By: Jasyla

Jasyla — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:49:11 +0000

Of course, they could have done the presentation better. For instance, if they had been able to give a better indication of what the tree form cooldown would be and how it would be used, I think people would not have reacted so negatively (assuming that it was something good, of course).

I think people are starting to calm down a little though. While we didn’t get any Healing Rain style additions (still jealous), I think the class preview was decent. If you can ignore the aesthetic implications, removal of tree form is a buff. Giving us a cooldown to use is another buff. I think resto druids will come out of this okay.

By: Tree of Life, Tranquility & Cataclysm

Tree of Life, Tranquility & Cataclysm — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:46:37 +0000

[...] not the only one thinking about it either. As I was thinking about this topic Keeva, Beru and a veritable forest of trees have been writing on the same [...]

By: Leafshine: Lust for Flower

Leafshine: Lust for Flower — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:14:06 +0000

The Tree Factor…

Ever since then being a “tree” has been part of who I was as a player. I’m not Beru the cow, I’m Beru the tree. I went through two expansions with being a tree as part of my identity, and……

By: Adeanna

Adeanna — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:32:22 +0000

as a NE druid, i can say that i prefer healing in my tree form over my NE form. why? because as a tree i don’t look like a NE priest. i chose a druid because i could change into forms and differentiate myself from the other classes. and when resto druids got their tree form, it felt complete in that all the roles a druid could fill finally had forms.

and i agree that blizzard’s reasons for changing tree form could be applied to all druid forms. forms enhance whatever strengths we need to fulfill a certain role. so why take it away, especially only one form while leaving the other 3? why not make the same changes to the other 3 types of druids?

and yes, i don’t see why we need to have more utility. and if we do “need” more utility, why does our tree form have to be removed? why not just open more spells available to us?

also cooldowns suck. i dislike trinkets with “use” as i forget to use them all the time.

lastly, in my experience, it is always a group of druids in forms dancing around that attracts attention. why take away a form of in-game entertainment?

By: Arcsin

Arcsin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:43:18 +0000

It seems to me like everything would be resolved by giving *any* druid a minor glyph option that hides their shape shifted forms. On top of that, I think it’s high time for them to update all the player models anyway. Of the millions of things you stare at in the game, that couple thousand pixels is what you stare at the most. I don’t really need 10 types of buffalo running around, even if they’re super cute.

The most frustrating things is the inconsistency of all the blue posts, which have certainly been covered in the post and comments. It’s like they’ve totally lost sight of the class. Sure, you lose some abilities in tree form, but you also have the option, regardless of spec, to do crazy stuff like shift into bear form and tank something for a few seconds if needed. What clothy is gonna do that?

Druids probably have the most abilities in the game, it just takes a extra GCD to get to them. QQ?

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:44:14 +0000

One with pink flowers!

By: Judis

Judis — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:07:11 +0000

Guess the psychology aspect would bring a new meaning to the question.

“If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:52:30 +0000

It really was handled very poorly. And for them to acknowledge that there were aware it would be met with resistance and still handle it so poorly only makes it worse.

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:50:13 +0000

Welcome back, Sylly!

I’m not counting on anything at this point