Originally Posted by Rej
Well, I worry that Druids under pressure will not be able to do much except bear up - which kills a large bulk of their utility. We can't have him become little more than a large fuzzy punching bag, and our group does not boast any CC outside of what the Druid provides. Does this become a major problem in 5v5, or do Druids perform admirably by constantly staying on the move and shifting out to toss heals.
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I play in a ele shaman/frost mage/ms warrior/holy paladin/resto druid 5on5 team (or used to, our ele shaman quit) and we tried subbing out the ele or the mage for a rogue which didn't work at all. The big strongpoint of a resto druid is his (or her for that matter) cc with the added abbility to always keep lifeblooms/reju running on players who're taking damage. Together with the mage we were able to shut down 2 targets nearly indefinently (if the opposing team went for our ele shaman, if they didn't he was able to really open up
), and I think if we'd add a warlock instead of that shaman in s3 we'd be able to cc up to 3 people, effectivly making 1 warrior teams losing their MS letting us win the mana war by default. When I had to play without a second CCler we had really big problems because the enemy warrior was open at least 50% of the time and I was pressured and often couldn't really be an asset at all (normally the mage and I would help each other out).
I think the only real options as a druid in 5on5 would be 4 dps as a healer or a 2-3 CC team as cyclone then really begins to shine.