Oh yeah, I hear ya. I think what they did to the affliction tree was total crap (and it sucked even more for me, because I love the affliction tree).
Right now I'm moonkin. I've told my guild that if we need healers that I'll volunteer to go back to resto, but actually they've told me to stick with my spec for now. They like having one moonkin around because 1) I can tank the shaman in gruul's lair (so much fun) and 2) they can put me in a group with warlocks and mages and everyone gets that 5% crit bonus. Plus, unlike a feral/resto build, with my balance/resto build I have now, I can actually swap gear and be a decently effective main healer (I was shocked to discover I could main heal 5 man's with minimal backup with this spec - something that was much, much harder with a feral/resto build). I've actually had the amazing experience of people bickering over who gets to be in the group with the moonkin because they love that bonus.
Like I told kos, the problem is that now all the feral druids are talking about going moonkin, and while I can see them taking one of us on a raid, they're not going to take three or four of us. Which mean that the feral druids have to become healers again, which is not really what they want to do.
So I don't really think we'll lose raid spots, rather, I'm more annoyed that once again we're told that we're healing bitches or nothing. And Christ, I kind of wish Blizzard would just give up trying, delete the druid class and say okay if you had a druid we'll replace it with one of the parent classes.
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Date: 2007-03-01 10:36 pm (UTC)Right now I'm moonkin. I've told my guild that if we need healers that I'll volunteer to go back to resto, but actually they've told me to stick with my spec for now. They like having one moonkin around because 1) I can tank the shaman in gruul's lair (so much fun) and 2) they can put me in a group with warlocks and mages and everyone gets that 5% crit bonus. Plus, unlike a feral/resto build, with my balance/resto build I have now, I can actually swap gear and be a decently effective main healer (I was shocked to discover I could main heal 5 man's with minimal backup with this spec - something that was much, much harder with a feral/resto build). I've actually had the amazing experience of people bickering over who gets to be in the group with the moonkin because they love that bonus.
Like I told kos, the problem is that now all the feral druids are talking about going moonkin, and while I can see them taking one of us on a raid, they're not going to take three or four of us. Which mean that the feral druids have to become healers again, which is not really what they want to do.
So I don't really think we'll lose raid spots, rather, I'm more annoyed that once again we're told that we're healing bitches or nothing. And Christ, I kind of wish Blizzard would just give up trying, delete the druid class and say okay if you had a druid we'll replace it with one of the parent classes.