First Post Jidders - Testing the Waters

Welcome to Shoop's ranting. It doesn't all make sense and it may not all be completely thought out, and if you don't like it, I don't care.

Now for some tree talk.

In the past couple months I have noticed that I have had an abundance of people asking me what I thought about the tree form in cataclysm and how they are handling our precious druid healing icon. Despite the chatter about the model makeover, I hear a lot about the 50% movement speed decrease. I played a druid back when tree form was slower, so the idea that they added the movement speed decrease doesn't surprise me a bit. I believe they were thinking more along the lines of a penalty for using it so that we don't pop it whenever it is off cooldown. This makes a lot of sense! The idea around changing tree form was not only to give druids the ability to display their purples, but to give us a strategical cooldown as compensation. Though they may change it, and I believe they will, I think the reason you are seeing it in beta is because it was an idea, and adding it right away and then removing it later is a smoother transition then adding it later down the road when the talent has been explored, just to see what happens.



Along with the tree form druids are going from being a 2-3 button healer to a healing class with a multitude of tools. A lot of the people hating on blizzards idea to expand our horizons are those druids who ENJOY our spec/rotation being simple. I can definitely sympathize. Being able to blanket a raid with rejuves and wild growth when its off cooldown and be secure that I have done my job does appeal to me. I enjoy the play style, though simple, because it feels right to me. I will admit that I am a little concerned how much I will enjoy playing a resto druid with the revived spells, but I am optimistic. I think at the moment I wish I could do more. I with I had a choice. Do I wild growth the melee because three of them are taking damage, or can I regrowth the worst of it and rejuve the others. It will help the good druids, and players in general, pull away into their own class. The ones that can make the right choices will be the ones that will shine.