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[Polarthief]

My comments are based from a healing point of view as that's what I am and always have been. We have other cooldowns, Barkskin and Iron Bark however the fact that FR is also a hot so is scaled with mastery. So having a HoT that can be ticking up to your entire health pool each second is pretty insane if you happen to put yourself in a bad situation, or even just helping with things that other healers can't do an easily - Like solo soak on Mythic Avatar.

While most healers have less CDs defensively, Druids are still lacking in quite a few I'd argue. Paladins for example have DP and DS (I don't count any externals, they're intended to be external). They're also one of two non-tank specs to have bonus health (the other being Fury Warrior) because they use health as a resource.

Shamans are the only other class that I immediately can think of with lackluster defensives while all other classes have at least 2 self-healing/defensive capabilities. Barkskin is very lackluster (20% is weak as hell) and Bear Form/FR is being nerfed greatly in BfA. At the very least, Shamans have Reincarnate.

How does switching from Bear form to Moonkin form put them in grave danger? That's only 1 GCD and back into your normal form.

As in a Guardian Druid shifting out of form, sorry if I wasn't clear. No other tank has that insane handicap on their utility spells. Paladins/Monks have vulnerabilities if they're in the middle of casting a cast-time spell (Flash of Light/Effuse), but that only means all attacks will hit them. Guardians shifting out of form means they just get oneshot by a melee swing. Sure you normally shouldn't be shifting out of form but again, it cuts your utility down greatly while, again, no other tank has that consequence. Only Druids have this problem with forms/stances while all other classes have had their removed. Even Shadow Priest, still having a form, instead got Shadow/Disc versions of spells that would break their form.

No other class can do everything Druid does due to their shape shifting. Whether you enjoy or like the pros and cons of that utility/ability is irrelevant.

Also, if they're the only class that relies heavily on HoT's that, by definition, makes them unique.

Does that make HPal unique because they rely exclusively on non-HoTs and can sacrifice some health to do some things? Not really.

I'm just saying this doesn't make them unique. Both Shamans and Monks have a slew of HoTs.
Shamans for example: Riptide, Healing Rain, HST, HTT, Spirit Link (technically a HoT), I'm sure I'm missing a few. Monks I don't remember their spells but a majority of their spells are also HoTs. Again, don't see how Druids are unique to this. Just because they rely more on HoTs than other classes (while TBH I think Monk has them tied), doesn't make them unique.

As for the Shapeshifting, the only real benefit besides Travel Form is shifting to remove roots/snares, which yes is a great benefit, but the cost of it can be really shitty, especially in PvE. Again as I said above, name me one other class who loses around half their utility spells because they have to change stance/shift out of form (ON LIVE/BfA, not talking about expansions prior to Legion). Name me one other tank who is put in grave danger for any niche scenario because they had to use a specific spell/utility from their toolkit?

[Katchii]

Does that make HPal unique because they rely exclusively on non-HoTs and can sacrifice some health to do some things? Not really.
Again, by definition, if they're the only ones that do this that makes them unique within this game.

I'm just saying this doesn't make them unique. Both Shamans and Monks have a slew of HoTs.
Shamans for example: Riptide, Healing Rain, HST, HTT, Spirit Link (technically a HoT), I'm sure I'm missing a few. Monks I don't remember their spells but a majority of their spells are also HoTs. Again, don't see how Druids are unique to this. Just because they rely more on HoTs than other classes (while TBH I think Monk has them tied), doesn't make them unique.
Fair enough. Not arguing about uniqueness here, but all healers do FEEL differently when you play them. That to me makes them unique, otherwise they'd feel and play the same.

As for the Shapeshifting, the only real benefit besides Travel Form is shifting to remove roots/snares, which yes is a great benefit, but the cost of it can be really shitty, especially in PvE. Again as I said above, name me one other class who loses around half their utility spells because they have to change stance/shift out of form (ON LIVE/BfA, not talking about expansions prior to Legion). Name me one other tank who is put in grave danger for any niche scenario because they had to use a specific spell/utility from their toolkit?

Whether they lose utility or whatnot when they use it wasn't part of the discussion. You brought that up as a negative/con for the class ability to shape shift, which is a fair criticism. You liking it or not is irrelevant though, their ability to shapeshift makes them unique.
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[Yunaqt]

While most healers have less CDs defensively, Druids are still lacking in quite a few I'd argue. Paladins for example have DP and DS (I don't count any externals, they're intended to be external). They're also one of two non-tank specs to have bonus health (the other being Fury Warrior) because they use health as a resource.

Shamans are the only other class that I immediately can think of with lackluster defensives while all other classes have at least 2 self-healing/defensive capabilities. Barkskin is very lackluster (20% is weak as hell) and Bear Form/FR is being nerfed greatly in BfA. At the very least, Shamans have Reincarnate.

Their Cooldowns are pretty standard, Barkskin is on a pretty short CD, they have access to Ironskin (because lets face it, tanks rarely use it anyway) and they still have access to bear form, being able to increase your health & armor to gain some time to recover, FR is still a hot so it scales with mastery and will increase the effectiveness on a rejuv & cultivation proc on you.

Now the other healers, while Paladin has some of the best defensive cooldowns that doesn't mean druid is lacking. Shaman has Astral Shift, Monk Fort Brew and talenting into either Diffuse magic or Dampen Harm and Priest which has their tank CDs only (Fade doesn't count lol).

So we have access to 2 short CDs and unlimited access to bear form, allowing us to do soaks that most other healers are not able to which is fantastic utility allowing DPS to focus more on damage.

As in a Guardian Druid shifting out of form, sorry if I wasn't clear. No other tank has that insane handicap on their utility spells. Paladins/Monks have vulnerabilities if they're in the middle of casting a cast-time spell (Flash of Light/Effuse), but that only means all attacks will hit them. Guardians shifting out of form means they just get oneshot by a melee swing. Sure you normally shouldn't be shifting out of form but again, it cuts your utility down greatly while, again, no other tank has that consequence. Only Druids have this problem with forms/stances while all other classes have had their removed. Even Shadow Priest, still having a form, instead got Shadow/Disc versions of spells that would break their form.

I don't think a guardian should be shifting out of form while tanking a boss, that's on them. When would they ever need healing so bad they feel the need to rejuv themselves mid fight, that's what healers are for. The tank challenge shows they have multiple other means to cover self healing without the need to hard cast any healing spells ever.
They can utilize their abilities from other perspectives, like switching cat when Off tanking to DPS while not tanking, high mobility to soak through travel form/dash/kitty speed/ stamp roar.

Does that make HPal unique because they rely exclusively on non-HoTs and can sacrifice some health to do some things? Not really.

I'm just saying this doesn't make them unique. Both Shamans and Monks have a slew of HoTs.
Shamans for example: Riptide, Healing Rain, HST, HTT, Spirit Link (technically a HoT), I'm sure I'm missing a few. Monks I don't remember their spells but a majority of their spells are also HoTs. Again, don't see how Druids are unique to this. Just because they rely more on HoTs than other classes (while TBH I think Monk has them tied), doesn't make them unique.

Yes, a Holy Pally is kinda unique, and is a staple in any raid team for this reason. Their beacon alone is the stand out, the fact they can heal anyone in the raid and still be constantly trickling healing to the tank at all times effortlessly. And yes, other classes have HoTs but nothing in comparison to Druids which it is everything they're about. No one thinks of Shaman as a HoT class, the majority of their healing is made up from the like of Chain Heal.
Monk far from has them tied, a Monk has ReM and EF as core spells.

Druid has Rejuv, Lifebloom, Wild Growth, Regrowth as well as Tranq depending on talent choices Cultivation, Spring Blossom. Which all synergize with each other to further increase their effectiveness.

The minor CDs are purely hot focused; Essence of G'hanir doubling the tick rate and Flourish extending the duration of all active hots.

But Resto druid is the stand out, it's the only healer that relies almost exclusively on HoTs to heal with direct heals taking very much the back seat. Which is the very definition of unique, "being the only one of its kind".

[jazen]

Of course druid is the most unique class, that's the whole thing about a druid

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Good thing this isn't 2008 and no one cares about grammar nazis anymore

You do realize I was poking fun at grammar Nazis, right? Uniquest isn't a word, but hey thanks for being easily triggered.