So as many of you may know, Blizz is planning to get rid of Tree Form… (well… making it a temporary form with a 5min CD) which is horrifying to me cause I thought the tree form was pretty cool. I’m not sure what the whole hubbub is, but I like the Druid “a form for all occasions” theme. Having to be in (shudder) cow/nelf form to heal… I just don’t know about that. So here’s my take on the subject. >)
I thought it’d be kinda neat if they gave the trees special skins for your different hair colors… you know, change the leaves or something… but alas, my dream will never come true…
Now that little guy there is the Lorax from the Dr. Seuss story. Remember that one? Anyways, the Lorax didn’t like all the trees getting cut down to make thneeds (that how you spell it?) which was some type of clothing… (which btw was an actual product I swear I saw on an infomercial one night… or maybe I had one of those insomnia hallucinations… hmm)
So what do you think?
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I will say while I never really did much healing on my druid (was resto for like one day and healed all the way to HoR in my Moonkin gear before I had problems) but I always figured that they had a form for every occasion. I shed a tear when I learned that my fellow druids would be losing a big part of what makes a druid a druid. I sincerely hope they don’t ruin my beloved Moonkin form.
Personally I think that all the forms need one special update, and that is to make select parts of our gear show in our different forms. I think for Moonkin the shoulders, chest, cape, and head should show and same for Tree minus the head. For Cat, Travel, and Bear the shoulder, wrist, cape, and head should be good. And for all forms have tabbard as an option. I’d leave Seal form and Flight Form out of the gear, maybe the Travel form too, but at least two of the three travel type forms need an update bad.
I think this could work perfectly as part of the vanity glyph system, maybe make default without the gear showing, but add in a vanity glyph that activates the form gear. WTB a vanity glyph that makes a Tauren smaller too just so I don’t have to say WTB bigger doors too lol! There are so many possibilities!
“Evil Patch 3.3.7: Taurens had a small update, now permanently they are smaller than gnomes and pink.”
@Don
Yeah, I hear ya! And I like the idea of gear on the animal forms too… I mean, they have armored bears, boars, cats, etc in the game, why not have it more dynamic for druids? I mean, if they looked like THIS, everyone would roll drood!
Oh, and I do like the idea of druid vanity glyphs! Mages get them for polymorph, why not for druid forms? Like instead of a Dire Bear, you get Diseased Bear?
@Sky
heh, I believe it! now if they could only patch gnomes so their mounts weren’t bigger than taurens… that’d be great!
I’d respect from Boomkin to Feral if my bear looked as BA as the Golden Compass bears. I’m just sayin’.
I’m gonna miss tree form. Mostly because I love how we look so ridiculously terrified when we’re casting and moving at the same time. I always got a kick out of that and giggled when I had the camera turned to see my own face. I’m not sure I like some of the other changes that are occurring with Druids in general, let alone the hell they’re putting Restro Druids. Ugh. It’s gonna be interesting to relearn how to play after Cataclysm comes out.
yeah, I’m gonna miss their dance too… I mean, you’ll have it for like a few seconds every 5min? right? but still… not going to be the same…
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@Coffinshaker, The crappy thing is that I’m pretty sure the Treeform is going to look different too. It changes so much about how Resto Druids play. It’s most upsetting that the QQing of people wanting to see their armor got their way. Um, what about making it a choice?? /headdesk.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for a Beta invite and hopefully I’ll get to relearn being a Resto Druid there instead of fresh on install upon release.
>\ yeah, I don’t know what you guys are going to do now. I’m not sure how I’ll get used to not seeing trees everywhere dancing and cowering.
good luck getting in beta! leave them feedback and say the tree form is bugged! it keeps turning off after just a few seconds! XD
Wow, so perfect - a great parallel here.
I honestly can’t say that I care very much one way or the other. I never played a Resto Druid - or in fact any druid - so I never got used to the form or feel that it’s an innate part of me/my character/my class. However, I know that other people feel very strongly about this and the general consensus is that they want to keep it as it is, so I will back that. (Although, aesthetically, do I think that it could do with a new skin? Yes. How awesome would it be to heal as an Ancient? VERY.)