Also, Gurubashi was fun… and not camped by twinks.

I miss HT4.

> # Gift of the Wild was cast group-by-group?

Gift of the Wild didn’t exist in the beginning!

It was fun buffing a 40 man Onyxia raid as a single druid.

> # Omen of Clarity was cast, and lots of new druids didn’t know it? (so they couldn’t work out why they never got any procs!)

OoC did only proc from melee hits and not from spells.

> # there was no mailbox in Nighthaven?

There was only a single AH in IF.

> # we could wear costumes and use Noggenfogger?

Yes, was removed because of double-shrink IIRC because you could get to places which were not intended to be reached.

You could also use Noggenfogger and be in a form as druid! This used to stack back in the old days.

> # ToL aura used to affect healing done, not received? (mmm stacking healers)

The old group wide auras were very strange in many ways.

> Your turn!
> How long have you been a druid? What are some of the things that you remember and look back on, and find amusing?

- You needed to do a quest for bear and aquatic form.
- There is a cat ghost in Moonglade but the quest was never implemented.
- Cat/Bear form used the weapon skill of the used weapon but you could not get weapon skill ups while in form. You had to level your weapon in caster form.
- Innervate was a 31pt talent.
- Hurricane had a 1 minute cooldown.
- … and was a 31 pt talent.
- … and was casted above you, without this target circle.
- feral charge was only bear and only 11 pt deep in the feral tree.
- you would put all your points in the resto tree if you skilled resto.
- brezz had a 30 min cd
- … and wasn’t really required because you had “out of combat rezzers” in every raid
- druids didn’t have a normal rezz which sucked while healing a 5 man
- … which had a lot of fast respawning trash
- the t0 head piece is a dead bird (or looks like one
- there was no non-healing set for druids
- running a raid (MC) probably meant that you removed more curses then you casted healing spells
- no one liked druids
- the 50s you paid for a battle rezz was really expensive

There is a mailbox in Nighthaven?

NO WAY!

Remember when we put points into heart of the wild at the end of classic, that we get more mana for healing touch spam, at least I do so for some months;)

2. You heard rumors of Druid tanks but could never find one first hand (I spent months trying to find one that tanked Nefarian).

3. PvP consisted of spamming Moonfire on as many targets as possible.

4. When Arathi Basin came out you could kitty form and glitch under terrain to capture flags.

5. There was no Bear/Kitty dance.

6. LB was changed to increase the HoT portion and before it was even implemented live Druids warned of it being game breaking (BC)… I’ve always loved how well informed the Druid community is.

7. Bear Form + Hammer of Ragnaros + Essence of Fire + Thorns = Un-killable Druid (at least by melee).
Droodjerky´s last blog ..Updates!

The worst I have is: Remember when there was no such thing as Wild Growth, lol.

/blush
Littlebark´s last blog ..Tale Forty Two: I honestly don’t why I put up with it.

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.)