Infraction for gnoop: Useless Post

LodeRunner · 08/20/08, 12:09 AM

Post: [Druid] Feral talents/abilities - WotLK preview / discussion
User: gnoop
Infraction: Useless Post
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Keep your shirt on; it's a beta.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Centarion

Druids get 2 new demo-roars on their way to 80, making up the gap - i think warrior-shout has an advantage of 6 more reduced ap at the end before talents, which is quite balanced. IW is supposed to be druid-tc, if no warrior/pala/dk is available...

And please stop crying over current beta-tank- status - they said they are about to look into the different tanks and their way to tank, so don't go on complaining until there's another big change made.

They want every of the 4 classes to be viable MT's in raids, they won't leave ferals behind.

I have to disagree on this somewhat. While we know tanks aren't at 80 and we aren't able to see what the real issues are, we've at least got some blue comments that have created alarm - the comment about how it was nice to see high armor on Druids in TBC with a suggestion that such a thing is in the past, the comments about how a Druid's main mitigation is via a high health pool.

Many might be overstepping on the level of panic and paranoia, but it's probably safer to show some concern up front with the chance of getting better face time than to sit back and wait with the assumption that the devs will get to it and everything will be fine. Meanwhile, every other class is throwing out complaints about X, Y, and Z and getting looked at while we're getting a quick glance-over because no one's really complaining.

For right now, I'm showing concern and asking that Blizzard set aside the time they claim they will go give us a good review, get our itemization down, and go through the talents. Right now, we've got a Rogue itemization and we aren't sure if that's all we're looking at, if we'll get talents to compensate for a lack of high armor, or if we'll end up with bear leather vs. cat/rogue leather again. So far, the suggestion is that we get Rogue leather and they'll fix things up via talents. I'm waiting to see that as one of the talents that would have helped in this arena was wiped out in Alpha.