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Hey.
Is it just me who has noticed the amount of skills, talents and buffs druids have that have something to do with the number 3?
3 Treants
3 Lifebloom stacks
3 Tranquility stacks
3 Mushrooms
3 Lunar Shower stacks
3 Nature's Grasp stacks
3 FF stacks
3 Lacerate stacks
3 Recources
3 Branches that make up the barkskin animation
I tried searching for similar threads but couldnt find anything.
No, i'm not mental.
edit: Is it because druids have three elements? hmmm...
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Thread: Druid class and the number 3
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2012-06-30, 07:33 PM #1Deleted
Druid class and the number 3
Last edited by mmocecfe952a53; 2012-06-30 at 08:05 PM.
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2012-06-30, 07:37 PM #2DeletedMists of Pandaria changes - Resto druids get 5 mushrooms and 4 different talent specializations.
Originally Posted by Jagsvarbrehh
C-c-c-c-c-combo breaker!
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2012-06-30, 07:39 PM #3Stood in the Fire
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3 faerie fire stacks,
3 branches that make up barkskin animations (have a closer look)
3 times hotter than your average watermelon
the list goes on
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2012-06-30, 07:40 PM #4The Lightbringer
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Maybe that's as high as they can count in animal form.
"Terror, darkness, power? The Forsaken crave not these things; the Forsaken ARE these things."
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2012-06-30, 07:43 PM #5DeletedYeah, knew I had forgotten something! Originally Posted by Jeire
WHY THE NUMBER 3!?
Why not 4?
Why not 5?
Why not 6?
Why blizzard, why?
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2012-06-30, 07:45 PM #6Field Marshal
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Maybe it's an OCD thing.. all Druids are innately slightly OCD? *laugh*
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2012-06-30, 07:46 PM #7Brewmaster
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3 set of glyphs
3 types of glyphes
3 gathering professions!!
I SMELL A CONSPIRACY!!!!!He slipped out of his royal garments, left eternity to enter time, divinity to wrap himself in humanity.
The sea of glass, for the ocean of separation. He left peace, and for the first time felt pain.
Because the very hands that held the stars were now sentenced to wear my scars.
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2012-06-30, 07:48 PM #8DeletedMy druid also has 3 legs, Originally Posted by AutomaticBadger
if you know what I mean.
But seriously blizzard, why?
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2012-06-30, 08:01 PM #9Deleted
3 different power resources (Mana, Rage, Energy)
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2012-06-30, 08:04 PM #10DeletedThats right. Originally Posted by Ixuzcc
Also, Lacerate has 3 stacks.
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2012-06-30, 08:08 PM #11The Undying
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Blizzard just likes the number 3 in general, it has nothing to do with Druids in specific.
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2012-06-30, 08:13 PM #12Deleted
Because 3 is a number our brain still handles easily but not too few. 2 would be too few, 4 or 5 may still fit. 6 is close to too much.
3 is not limited to druids, it is rather a human thing (not the wow human but an irl human)
4 resources (xyz amount of mana, 100 energy, 100 rage, 100 eclipse)
2 different eclipses
4 specializations
5 combo points
many shapeshifts (bear, cat, travel, aqua, moonkin, ToL, flight, swift flight, treant, stag, orca)Last edited by mmoc8823406b83; 2012-06-30 at 08:17 PM.
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2012-06-30, 08:15 PM #13Stood in the Fire
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3 (offensive) Combat forms: Moonkin, cat, bear
3 Travel forms: travel, flight and aquatic.
3 Hots: Wild growth, rejuv and lifebloom. (regrowth not really a hoT)
3 damage types: Arcane, Nature and physical.
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2012-06-30, 08:16 PM #14Blademaster
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You totally made me laugh out loud here. I play a drood as a main and use online gaming as a way to manage my OCD (I can be as OCD as I want online and it lets me release some control in real life). Pure win. Originally Posted by Kharalla
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2012-06-30, 08:29 PM #15Warchief
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3 fingers
10 charLast edited by Redpanda; 2012-06-30 at 09:07 PM.
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2012-06-30, 09:08 PM #16DeletedI doubt it's because our brain handles it easily. Originally Posted by Sicc
"Three is a Magic Number"
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Which other class has this amount of spells, abilities and talents with the number 3 involved? Originally Posted by huth
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2012-06-30, 09:17 PM #17The Undying
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The highest amount of points you can currently invest in any talent for any class is 3. Every class currently has 3 specs. In MoP, there's 3 talents for every tier.
Many classes have spells with a 3 second cast time.
Really, you just need to look. 3, and multiples of 3, are everywhere in the game. As are 1, 2, 4 and 5. This is purely a matter of perception and the human minds predisposition for finding patterns, whether or not any actually exist.
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2012-06-30, 09:23 PM #18DeletedFirst of all, are you serious? Originally Posted by huth
Druids have faaar more things with 3 involved than any other class.Last edited by mmocecfe952a53; 2012-06-30 at 09:26 PM.
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2012-06-30, 09:32 PM #19The Patient
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5 Combo points.
Oh.
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2012-06-30, 09:42 PM #20The Lightbringer
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I think 3 is the magic middle number of too little vs too much. I mean 3 globals is the most you wanna invest in an attack and that's already pushing it.
Also it's a nice divider for stack buffs like 33% each stack or 50% giving each stack a reasonable amount of power each time, without much investment. Lunar Shower or FF stacking in the same rate as Will of Unbinding trinkets (up to 10) would have poor scaling and major time issues for a class spell.
As for the visuals like Barkskin etc, I believe number 3 gives nice geometrical patterns without being "too much" which would mash everything together looking crappy or too little to seem frail.
And by the way, Mushroom charges are still universally 3, not 5
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