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So I've been rather bitter about the latest round of nerfs to the Druid class. After two years of playing the red-headed stepchild class of WoW, we finally got some serious love with the expansion pack - and finally we weren't the suckiest class in the game.
As I figured, this was too good to last. And now, due to a bunch of whiners, we've been hit with the nerf bat after only a month and a half of being fixed. Some had legitimate gripes (warriors did need a buff - but I fail to see why a Druid needs a nerf), but most are a bunch of 14 year old rogue noobs who figure if they can't wtfpwn another class in under five seconds - you must be overpowered.
I realize that nerfs come and go. Classes get new powers and nerfed all the time - but this time it truly blows. We were broken for two freaking years until they finally got around to making us useful and only a month and a half later we're back to our pre expansion uselessness for feral druids. I suspect that the resto and balance trees are next. I guess if they do that, I'm goint to throw in the towel and just level up my lock to 70 because I'm getting really tired of playing the most disrespected, fucked up and misunderstood class in the game.
Honestly, I think this whole thing is driven more by market economics rather than any desire to balance the game. Druids are by far the least played class in the game. Warriors and rogues are two of the most played (warriors alone outnumber us at least four to one). And let's face it, Blizzard is a company and the thing they are most concerned with is their bottom line.
But this video made by the dudes that did the illegal danish stuff, almost makes the nerf worth it.
As I figured, this was too good to last. And now, due to a bunch of whiners, we've been hit with the nerf bat after only a month and a half of being fixed. Some had legitimate gripes (warriors did need a buff - but I fail to see why a Druid needs a nerf), but most are a bunch of 14 year old rogue noobs who figure if they can't wtfpwn another class in under five seconds - you must be overpowered.
I realize that nerfs come and go. Classes get new powers and nerfed all the time - but this time it truly blows. We were broken for two freaking years until they finally got around to making us useful and only a month and a half later we're back to our pre expansion uselessness for feral druids. I suspect that the resto and balance trees are next. I guess if they do that, I'm goint to throw in the towel and just level up my lock to 70 because I'm getting really tired of playing the most disrespected, fucked up and misunderstood class in the game.
Honestly, I think this whole thing is driven more by market economics rather than any desire to balance the game. Druids are by far the least played class in the game. Warriors and rogues are two of the most played (warriors alone outnumber us at least four to one). And let's face it, Blizzard is a company and the thing they are most concerned with is their bottom line.
But this video made by the dudes that did the illegal danish stuff, almost makes the nerf worth it.
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Not really. Feral druid gear right now scales for shit-all, and as far as I've heard the higher tiers aren't that great in term of armor. There're people who are going to still use quest rewards in TBC endgames and pre-expansion blues.
I don't think belonging to a rare class is an asset. Remember when I bitched about the days where warlocks weren't that great and only one was brought along to crap out SS and HS? Yeah. Ask a warlock how much he enjoys that. Not that I think the situation'll be half so awful for a druids. If nothing else, go resto. I don't know what the situation's like with balance right now, but strangely I've not seen a single oomkin in high-level dungeons and raids.
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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.