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Oh, wow...

Level 100 Druid talent makes Savage Roar passive. That's... that's huge. And Demonology Warlocks can get a talent that enables them to have Metamorphosis up permanently* by sacrificing 30% of its damage bonus. Pretty sweet if this goes live.

*Technically not permanent, since Metamorphosis still burn Demonic Fury while active, but it'll be up for the entire fight.

http://wowpedia.org/World_of_Warcraft:_Warlords_of_Draenor_class_changes#Classes

What's Wildstar anyway?



Also, level a druid. Duh.

Play resto of course, you'll have the HoTs for everyone.

I wasn't aware Kao took an apprentice...

To be honest, I've never been interested in bear tanking. I never quite understood what bears were bringing to the table that Warriors couldn't. They managed to make the rest of the specs solid and unique, but I always felt like bear remained so... boring.

Bear was a giant stack of unmitigated hit points, who's versatility was rendered useless by the fact they had to stay in bear form the whole time. If there were instances they didn't have something beating on them they could squeeze some use out of overpowered abilities from the other forms (Innervate, Tranquility, small instant cast heal with whatever that was stacked, pretend to be kitty DPS/dash, stealth had its moments), but for the most part that was a very rare thing in PvE and fairly underpowered in PvP, if it wasn't quickly nerfed.

The whole hybrid thing seems like it's never worked out right for them.

Also, relevant though.

Edited, Dec 3rd 2013 10:47am by someproteinguy

That was pretty cool too.

I remember in late wrath bears were a joy to heal, with just the armor and the higher hit points. Some of the other tanks felt downright spiky with the damage (hello paladin), but the druid was a little more resilient. Well at least you didn't feel like you were constantly on the edge of your seat when healing them. Like you could take a GCD and toss a bubble on someone else or something at least.

Looks like Blizzard is going back to making Bears armor tanks again.



If you pick the talent (and if it goes live), of course.

Bear tanking right now is MIND-NUMBINGLY boring. I have a level 90 Bear and a level 90 Prot Warrior. Tanking on my Warrior is easily ten times more fun than tanking on my Bear. You have way more mobility, way more utility, and the Warrior rotation, while similar to the Bear rotation, is much more dynamic. Druid rotation can be castsequence macro'd, for crying out loud. Maul is still underwhelming as a rage dump, and your big cost active mitigation is RNG based (wooh!). You do get a heal, but it's only efficient once you've stacked enough Vengeance on you, and only if you're low on health and one of the six healers in your LFR raid isn't going to overheal you in X seconds.

And while fur and claws count as a plus, being stuck in the same anatomically incorrect bear model (looks like a giant, tailless rat), regardless of your gear, sucks. Part of what made Druids interesting back in the day was their ability to WEAVE IN shapeshifting to do a multitude of roles. Now you're stuck in the same form 24/7 depending on your spec. That's not fun at all.

I'll take "How PvP ruined the game" for $200, Alex.

They took the single greatest thing about the game and turned it into something bland.

I will never forgive them for that.

Agreed, where's my tree form?

Paladins are fine, but you need to roll a female dwarf to make them work right.