Cataclysm Class Preview: Druid

[lanceb]

FIRST!!!!

fail

[Deleted]

and i hope for the love of god that they fix tranqulity i mean every class has a improved version of this or so it seems

[treston323]

Resto not needing to be in that tree form 24/7 is the best change in the game.

[Odayaka]

I severely dislike that tree of life form is going away and becoming like metamorphosis. I HATE DRUID ARMOR. I want to be a tree, dammit. I like being a tree. I didn't roll a druid to look at the damn armor, I rolled a druid because I hate looking at the other races. I like looking at a cat, owlkin, bear, and a goddamn tree. I specifically rolled a druid to have when cata came out because I like the tree... and now it's going away AND we don't get any new spells?

...I'm going back to my hunter.

[Mortifie]

I love the fact that the feral masteries change based on what form your in, rather than something like a talent where you have to permanantly choose between one or the other. Overall I really like the sound of all the changes.

[Deleted]

Oh, so an on-use self boost to healing, letting you decide as an individual when you require more throughput instead of the boss being at 30% isn't good enough?

To finally rid the restoration druid of that horrific tree model as well is quite blissful.

i liked being a tree... just wanted updated models nothing more

[NefariousNinja]

The resto tree will have the armor hanging from it's branches like a Christmas tree

[Zebraz]

Awww tree of life is going to become a cooldown Q_Q me no likey.
PS. new eclipse sounds great, gonna love playing my boomkin in cata.

[Asgard]

Happy overall !

[ErwinFX]

The new Balance mechanic seems quite interesting!

[FireBorne]

With the exception to the Shaman class, all of the other previews have been utterly dissapointing. So is wow going to be a pvp game with pve content in Cataclysm?

[adennak]

same

except change unimpressed to fairly pissed

Fair, as not, what would you have liked? Druid Resto already has:

A big heal
A HoT
A smaller heal that ends in a HoT
A HoT that ends in a smaller heal
A medium sized heal that is buffed by a HoT
A big AoE heal with a long cooldown
A small to medium AoE heal with a short cooldown
A HoT triggered by critical heals

That's a LOT of spells to work with. Hell, that's about as many as any Priest has, and WAY more than Shaman and Pallies have. It sounds like they're going to try to add buffs to those heals rather than just give you yet another button you might push but won't. They're only going to add so much to each healing spec. So wouldn't you rather they make those heals do interesting things, rather than giving you yet another heal to fill a niche that doesn't really exist?

[Geckomayhem]

To all restos that are crying, go back and read it again. You get:

An updated Tree of Life form, which is being changed itself, to be a cooldown skill (like Metamorphosis), meaning you won't have to be a tree to heal effectively. Efflorescence, which will work similar to the shaman's healing rain. HoTs able to crit and benefit from haste. HoTs will do increased healing on more wounded targets. There will be a greater distinction between direct heals and HoTs.

Where's the problem?

Whiners will be whiners. But try to be a winner! Druids are looking great!

[Hokuto]

No more lame ToL

No more lame Eclipse.

Moonkins are now bombermans with remote & invisible bomb power ups.

I came. Many times.

[Faltemer]

Looks like its time to start brushing off the dust and start to PvP on my cat again =D

[braxx]

We plan on giving Feral cats and bears a Kick/Pummel equivalent

Would it have a cost?

and where are my bleeds haste scaling?

question: will pve cats will have to use the shroom into the rotation??

would have prefered the Misdirection thing from rogues...

[wildz]

blizz you just pissed off alot of trees that play it because of the tree

[Kyul]

So. Mad. Right. Now.

[Freakwave]

As a dualspec tank/dps Feral I have to say, this is just so awesome! Best class update yet, by far!

[Herecius]

I am suddenly possessed with the insane desire to not only create a druid, but LEVEL as Balance....