Originally Posted by
Whitepaw
No, I don't want to have us shift constantly into Moonkin form - but having a talent with a proclaimed aim at giving us hybridity and then have it trivialised so much that we only use the passive effect is simply bad design. And remember, that hybridity and versatility has given us a lot of raid spots in past expansions, so it's not class flavour we're discussing here. Being a Feral druid has, until this expansion, also been about delivering utility to the raid.
We don't have that utility now, because our affinities fail at delivering what was intended.
Oh, btw: The suggestion that we would shift in and out of Moonkin form is incorrect. First of all, we wouldn't do that during CD usage or if a CD would be coming up within the next few seconds. Secondly, shifting out of cat form risks wasting the chance to fire a cat ability with OoC - so if MoC became the best dps talent, shifting into moonkin form would risk capping energy.
So when you guys speak about using Moonkin form to dps while regaining energy, you do it from the assumption that the current cookie cutter build of SR/JW/BT stays top dog - and that it's not possible at all to remove the CD, buff the dps in balance affinity significantly and avoid moonkin form to be a part of our rotation, all at the same time.
But I digress. My point is that while Feral dps abilities and talents will hopefully be fixed so we regain competitive AoE and get a better rotation, I would also like Blizzard to give us competitive utility by actually make the affinities deliver what was intended. And since the Resto and Balance affinity only deliver trivial effect, they need to be buffed.