Reminiscing

Buttercup: I do! I remember I was worried when they made it a trained spell that the number of resto druids being taken to raids would decline, since Innervate and Rebirth were two of the main reasons we were taken along – and now the ferals (not that there were many of those at the time, I suppose..) could do that for us.

Kae: I wasn’t around early enough for that one.

Keldara: we used to be able to be skeletons but kitty, for example, so run around as a skeleton but fight things in cat form. Apparently that was too OP for PvP (because people couldn’t tell if it was a cat/bear/humanoid etc, so they nerfed it. Unfortunately it also means that we lose out with other things like Halloween costumes, Orb of the Sindorei, and any other fun costumes – as soon as we shapeshift, poof. It makes me sad. Surely they would be able to attach a condition to the costumes that makes them unable to be used in BGs etc? If it’s world PvP – well, I think anything goes – and people should be able to use costumes to their advantage. It also makes it very difficult for ferals to get the Xmas PvP achievement where you have to get 50HKs as an elf.

Lissanna: I used to love playing feral while I was resto! Sure it was slow, but since I had never actually specced feral, I didn’t know any better. I loved my “feral set”. I distinctly remember farming yetis in Winterspring – I think I was still a skinner back then. And I had almost forgotten that our group buffs were from books originally.

Sound: I’m 4 in 2 days! Yep, I was a bit upset about Innervate too – I was just worried about being displaced. I saw Swiftmend as being pretty yummy from the beginning – but I was worried about every druid getting Innervate. And the non-stacking HoTs thing was so horrible, I hated it. It probably wouldn’t have been so bad if we had 10/25 man raids back then, because there aren’t so many druids, but at times we would have 4 or 5 druids, and only one of them got to use HoTs. Everyone else was on HT cast/cancel duty!

Aerivore: how quickly I forget things! Seems like so long ago. I remember picking and choosing which fights I would do in or out of tree because of the snare. Oh, and because of decursing! I usually healed Archimonde in caster form because tree was slow, and decursing would pop me out constantly anyway. That seems like a lifetime ago!

Moonsinnah: you don’t like the new Innervate? I love it! I get to use it much more proactively now instead of saving it “in case” I might need it later (or someone else might). And the short cooldown means I can throw it around like candy on trash and in groups. I get such a kick out of hearing someone say “hey.. why am I at full mana?” or “thanks whoever Innervated me!” I can afford to do that more, now that I know it will be up again quickly. It’s also awesome for my ferals – it gives me a tonne of mana instead of a woeful amount. I had my doubts at first – but I definitely like this version of Innervate more.

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Anyone remember on Shade of Aran (pre-nerf!) how when he did his poly, we were immune? So as soon as he started doing his pyros, we could Tranquility and save the day – because we weren’t stuck like everyone else? Mmmm glory moments.

Remember when Barkskin was all about the interrupts, then they made it 20% damage reduction? It went from something I used before Tranquility/Hurricane to an awesome ‘uh oh’ button. I love it.

Remember when ferals couldn’t use potions, health stones, and food in forms? (at one stage, although brief, we couldn’t even use mana pots in tree form!) Remember the crazy macro to let you use a health pot and get back into bear form without being hit?

Remember when we could herb in flight form, and then we couldn’t, and then we could again?

Remember when we couldn’t use roots indoors?

Remember when Shadowmeld wasn’t an aggro dump?

Remember when we couldn’t go straight from one form to another – we had to go to caster form first, and then to the next form?

Remember when Hurricane had a cooldown?

Isn’t it weird – some of these seem like they happened so long ago.. it’s hard to remember some of them.
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I remember non-cookie-cutter specs that were just as viable as “full” resto.

I remember speccing part feral in vanilla, without missing any key resto talents. What was it – 0/21/30 or something? Or 20/31.. I can’t remember – so long ago!

I remember speccing down to Insect Swarm in TBC, for that little extra damage boost (got a real kick out of doing Leo for the first time and being told by the raid leader not to be upset when I inevitably couldn’t kill my demons because resto druids “always” failed. I didn’t fail.) Even those 11 points seemed a little naughty at the time.

And best of all, I remember Dreamstate being viable and fun, and not something that would get you lynched. I’m not sure I would go back to it now – but it was nice to be able to have a choice.

I love the idea that priests can complement each other in a raid by being different specs – I wish we had that, instead of every druid doing pretty much the same thing.

Perhaps the Balance tree could move towards being a little disc-y? I would certainly jump at the chance to have mitigation abilities, and to be able to work with other druids as a complementary team, rather than just a second copy of the same thing.

(Of course, I don’t want to step on the priests’ toes – but I really wish druids had more in the way of damage mitigation.)

Two, that I know of! One when you port in, and one down near the trainer!