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One thing I'm wondering is, if they're going to homogenize our stats, health, and mitigation to the point where we're no better than warriors on those issues, where's my feral parry, paw block, talent to make frenzied regen swiftmend (instantly consume all rage and convert it to 25 health/rage), and make it a dual 41 point talent for all I care, but give me improved bear form that reduces all damage taken by 10%. Then you can cut my armor multiplier so that I have no more armor than comparably geared warriors, because I'll be able to parry, I'll be able to block, I'll have shield wall and last stand.
But they don't appear to want to do that, they like the fact that bears are different, they just seem determined to ensure they're inferior. The truism though is that outside of 5-man pugs and stupid soloing tricks, being an inferior tank generally means you won't be tanking.
The other problem is a lot of druids don't seem to care about tanking; they're happy as resto or think that doing sub-rogue dps with all the downsides of being in melee range as a cat and being able to pop and innervate someone makes them a unique snowflake. These folks are inferior dps, will soon be inferior tanks, and can't heal for beans because they're not resto. Yes, I love sucking at all my roles.
I know I'm not the only one pondering what to do with my druid if this hail of nerfs goes through - my warrior is almost 64 and I'm thinking if I can't beat em, I'll join em. Why play hard mode when Blizzard clearly isn't going to support it with itemization?
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