Mists of Pandaria: All Specs
 

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I collected the Druid-information I found so far. Maybe to edit the first post or to delete it.

Interesting snippet from the GC Q+A last night, Mangle debuff on the chopping block for removal. I wonder where that leaves Cat Mangle in regards to the Feral Cat priority list. It may just be a filler move when you can't Shred now and completely absent from normal cat rotation, which is rather odd. They also had a question they answered saying they're pretty happy to have seperate effects in PVE to PVP for abilities which is kind of rubbing it in a bit with their constant reluctance to remove the Shred positional requirement, at least in PVE.

I guess it will be reported on several sites, but it currently hasn't been on MMO-Champion at least, so here are the most relevant quotes from the 9 Nov 2011 Class Q&A regarding druids.

I only added those bits that contain new information and don't repeat information included in the talent preview.

Feral

Resto

Cross-spec

Balance
The new talent "Incarnation" will transform a moonkin into "the Chosen of Elune form" increasing damage done and energy generated.

Restoration
Wild Mushrooms will heal friendly targets on detonate

Go you have a source for that? The Open Q&A from BlizzCon includes mention of one planned ability "like the wild mushroom to detonate to heal people", but that may either replace or be in addition to the Wild Mushroom spell.

From the MoP Talent Calculator on: Talent Calculator - Game - World of Warcraft!

Other interesting things to note

Lvl 60 tier talents flushed out more

I admit, the Wild Mushroom change looks interesting, especially considering how they seem to have rolled Efflorescence into Swiftmend. Cenarion Ward also seems interesting. Kinda like Earth Shield but perhaps not quite as good? But at least we'll finally have a friendly target damage reduction.

I'm still very much on the fence with MoP 'flavor talents' for resto druids. But change is still possible and probable.

And the worlds longest tooltip award goes to... Ferocious Bite!

Feral Changes:
- Ferocious Bite had Blood in the Water, Rend and Tear and Glyph of FB rolled into it.
- Swipe now deals 20% extra damage on bleeding targets.
- Thrash now works in cat,
- Savage Roar back to WotLK version, increases all Physical damage.
- King of the Jungle (TF) rolled into TF.
- Rend and Tear rolled into Shred.
- Glyph of Bloodletting/Shred rolled into Mangle/Shred.
- Shred still exists with it's positional requirement. :(
- NI changed to "Increases your nature spellpower by 100% of your agility". Should at least boost Wrath spam it would seem for time away from a boss.
- iLotP rolled into LotP.
- Ravage had Predatory Strikes rolled in, the ravage part.
- The other half of PS still exists as a trained passive.
- Skull Bash has the BI mana cost increase.
- New Might of Ursoc ability, a bit like Last Stand. Appears in the Feral part as well as Guardian so I guess this is some halfway ability to compensate for removal of SI from Feral.
- Infected Wounds now passive trainer ability for Feral but AS debuff removed.
- Symbiosis new class ability, lets you copy a targets spell and gives them one of yours. Lives or dies by what abilities we get to use.

Nothing too surprising except the SR change, I guess that's done with eyes on PVP/Arena.

Still not that impressed with the actual talent tree in that it doesn't really seem to force many decisions when I'm kitting it out for PVE Feral. Probably the only one that will be changed fight to fight is the level 60 tier depending on how good the Treants are and whether Charge is needed or not.

The Resto and Boomkin specializations have a new passive ability, Killer Instinct: "Grants 100% of your Intellect as Agility when you shapeshift into Bear Form or Cat Form". Nice for us resto druids to not have wrath spamming as our only choice when it comes to off-dpsing / questing.

EDIT: Another interesting thing is that Resto druids gain "Ironbark" instead of Barkskin at level 44. Ironbark is basically a targetable Barkskin. The CD is 2 minutes compared to 1 minute for normal Barkskin though.

The Nurturing Instinct change might make it worthwhile to use Predator's Swiftness procs on Wrath, especially with the Master Shapeshifter talent.

A quick browse through the spell details seems to show the following notable details (i.e. not just the result of a talent disappearing) for Resto/Moonkin:

• Revive is going Resto only? It's marked a spec specific spell now rather than class, which seems most likely a mistake.
• Regrowth is having the glyph baked in (refreshes duration whenever it heals someone under 50% HP). Also now Resto only, as is Nourish and Lifebloom.
• New base ability: Might of Ursoc. Increases HP by 30%, raises HP to 30% if below that for 20 seconds. 3 min CD.
• Lunar Shower is going baseline, meaning we won't have the option (other than not training it, I guess!) to avoid having Moonfire/Sunfire generate energy.
• Hurricane becomes Arcane Storm while in Lunar Eclipse.
• Wild Mushroom: Detonate appears to be Balance only now, similar to Bloom being Resto only.
• The cooldown on Starfall is reset when entering Lunar Eclipse.
• Moonkin Aura now provides 5% crit to the raid rather than Haste.
• Nature's Grace is now fired by entering an Eclipse state, rather than by triggering from a DOT.
• Skull Bash now only available if specced as Feral/Guardian.

Not comprehensive, just what I noticed from my first read.

A few changes that haven't been mentioned yet:

• Moonkin Aura provides 20% extra damage, up from the current 10%.
• Nature's Grasp now only has 1 charge.
• Stampeding Roar now also removes roots and snares from all targets that are in range of your roar.

I thought they might be removing healer interrupts but Holy gets to keep Rebuke and Resto keeps Wind Shear, albeit on a 15 second cooldown now. Not that it was the easiest thing to use but in some cases like Nef platforms it could still be handy for Resto/Moonkin.