Originally Posted by Amera
It seems odd that one class has two additional CCs it has to worry about, one of which is on a completely different DR (sleep). Granted, feral is generally terrible in arena, so I doubt they particularly care about that, but it still seems odd. Yes, druids are "immune" to poly when in animal form, but you can still be sheeped in caster form (and there are sometimes good reasons to force the druid to use a GCD + mana to break it).
Anyway, I think the appropriate example would be if warriors, and only warriors, could be slept by class x and sheeped by class y. Despite being largely fear immune, they have vulnerabilities specific to two other classes on different DR timers. This seems incredibly silly.
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The druid class has always been one with strange disconnects from the rest of the classes. Feral is by and large the best leveling spec but can't use or interact with most quest items in forms? Can't pot in forms, doesn't get weapon procs, mind soothe(priest) instant cast but soothe beast has a cast time, etc. It's a very strange mixture that very often feels clunky and irritating.
That being said a 10second, 30 yard range, instant cast fear on a separate DR than all the other fears is amazingly rough. For ferals it basically makes them unable to do anything against a hunter and a hunter + warlock can now fear a druid for 27.5 out of every 32.5 seconds with the initial fear having no warning or counters. It just feels like a more powerful anti-druid death coil.
If they really want this change to go through and not want to completely shaft ferals, change
Tiger's Fury to be usable while feared and make the user immune to fear while it is up. Add in a 30second cooldown to mimic Berserker Rage and keep the scare beast changes. You boost ferals and nerf restos. The fear immunity will help ferals against a lot of teams and I doubt a resto druid is going to go into cat form to specifically wait for a fear to come, except if he sees them casting and even then it's probably a poor choice since cat form offers nothing else to the druid.