Give Catform "Play Dead"?Follow

I like the sound of it, but it might be too imba.

It would be a fun ability, for sure. Useful in PvE, for the reasons you said.

Deadly in PvP too. I assume you know the utility of Feign Death, right? It isn't to trick the enemy usually; it's to distract them, and lay a trap while out of combat. The most annoying thing about Feign Death is when the enemy falls down faking, you lose him/her as your target. You target the nearest "living" enemy instead. It takes a valuable second to get back to the feigner, which is bad news.

It might be a little too overpowered though. I mean, Hunters would complain about it a lot. But yeah, it would be fun :)

It all depends on the cooldown on which they would put it. Hunter's FD is on a 30 seconds CD. So put ours on a 2 minutes cooldown or something. They can do it 4 times for every once we do it. Sounds fair? Or heck, even on a 5 minutes CD.

Sure, the whole restealth -> Pounce -> Mangle -> Shred -> Shred would be quite the bad news for many, but meh. If it was on a 5 minutes CD, it'd be the same as a Rogue's Vanish.

However then it would just become too powerful anyway and make Rogues QQ some, and justifiably so, because they'd lose another class-specific tool. What's next, give us Druids a sap? Heh...

I can't think of a way to make it work and not create an imbalance right now.

EDIT: Yeah, this is the main reason why it'd be broken: Sure, Hunters can drop out of combat with FD, which is useless anymore anyway since traps can be laid in combat, but they cannot stealth. *That*, IMO, would make them very deadly. And we, Druids, can do just that. Drop out of combat and stealth. Come back at full energy to redefine the word "Pain".

So yeah, bad idea after all. :( We can already do something similar with a 5-points Maim and a bit of skills. And I'd most definitely prefer it if Druids remained the class that required the most player skill over in-game abilities to kick major asses. (That just might be my point of view, though)

Edited, Apr 24th 2007 12:13pm by Selverein

That would be ideal indeed, but then it'd become kinda useless. We don't need to drop from combat for any other reason than stealth. (We're not pre-2.0 Hunters) So if we have to wait to stealth... it's just semi useful. You'd have to be pretty lucky for no one to hit you before 10 seconds passed.

tbh use soulstone for that and save ur combat ress for an more suitable moment

i like Capitolgs idea

its kitty form not doggy form.

It might be interesting to put it as a talent. I know I'd rather put a point in that than Primal Tenacity which is nice but not exactly reliable.

I think it'd be a good idea if it only removed target like SirJac mentioned. Getting out of combat would be, like you said, quite OP and indeed essentially an "I win" button. I mean, I'd love to get back at those Locks and their cheesiness or those BM Huntards... but then the skill would be nerfed to Hell and back.

So, yeah, breaking targets would be pretty nice. Heck, even show as "dead" like Feign Death. I wonder if it would be possible to make the "drop out of combat" thing work only in PvE... Like, players will lose target and if they re-target you you'll appear as dead (like Hunter FD) but you'd still have to wait through the normal OoC cooldown before being able to re-stealth. If used well it could be pretty good.

Some Hunters almost fooled me a few times when using FD with a great timing... but then my DoT's would keep ticking which kinda gave them away. =/