I go heal with my shaman, who looks almost the same as my druid will look then… sad but true, the flavor is gone and I’m really sad about this.

I waited for something that would make me buy the next expansion, but all I read makes me want to just leave it alone before they take away more and more and more until we all look the same — they know they just have to sugar coat it with a new buff and that people will swallow it…

I guess I will be taking a lot of screenshots and make some ingame movie of my tree, so that I can remember how cool it looked to /bow in it or /wave in it. Or well, the dance of course.

*twisting off*

Moonkin can’t cast anything that isn’t already available in caster form. I haven’t asked much, but not one has been able to explain that to me. Also worth noting that Moonkin are balanced around having that increase in spell power by shifting into their form, as well as their 5% crit buff to the raid.

Just saying – it would be dumb for me to threaten to quit in favour of a humanoid healer, since I started out without tree form in the first place. How far I’ve come since then!

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Typical Blizzard, they want us to have more “offensive utility” so they force us out of Tree Form to cast disgusting balance abilities instead of buffing the tree punch.

They’re always killing off unique play styles. What about all of the Tree-DPS specs? It seems they’re going the way of Blood DK DPS, melee locks (the old firestone proc’ed extra fire damage upon melee), melee boomkin, etc.

I’ll miss my tree.

I’m still not as accepting as you on the loss of a functional tree form. For me, being a druid is a matter of choosing your form. With this design, choosing Resto means “sorry, you don’t get to be a form. You look like everyone else.” It takes away the defining feature of being a druid.

I’m still not a happy camper about this. Despite the overtones of QQ, it does make me feel like I should respec or play alts. Discouraging healers is perhaps not a goal that Bliz should pursue.

Overall, I do like the goals they’re pursuing with the healing design. In terms of gameplay I am OK with not gaining any new spells, as we do have quite an arsenal already. However, there’s a part of me that looks at Healing Rain or the new Paladin cooldown and thinks “isn’t there something they could give us?” Very low on teh sexxxy for druids — especially when our cooldown will just highlight our big loss.

I love healing, and I love the healing direction for Cata. But overall, I’m rather depressed about the direction for my druid, and that’s disconcerting.

Honestly, for Cataclysm I was hoping to see news of updated Tree and Moonkin forms. It was quite disheartening to see that trees were getting axed (no pun intended).

I picked a Druid as my first healing toon because it was so different from the other healing classes. Tree form is part of that. The animations are awesome, who doesn’t get a chuckle out of the tree form dance or tree slapping mobs around?

One thing that boggles me is their concern about restos not being able to dps in form. What healer expects to be dpsing in a healing spec? As others have said here and on other blogs: if they need my lolresto dps there is likely a bigger issue.

I don’t mind loosing the polymorph immunity, given the way that they are redoing the dispel mechanics. In PvPland it wouldn’t be very fair to have one healer type immune to polymorph and able to dispel it off others; in PvE on the other hand it would be quite handy to still be immune.

I enjoy my bark and roots, its just part of who Whisteria is to me. While the idea of a cooldown is kind of neat, I don’t like the idea of loosing my beloved form. I hope that they put that minor glyph in with a toggle or something. That way I can still be the tree I want to be and be a “competitive” healer by Blizzard’s standards.

The developers should have waited until they had decided what the cooldown was going to be before announcing it rather than just going: “Oh, by the way we’re axing tree form, but we’re going to give you a cooldown in its place instead.”

On a final thought: I’d like some less tacky looking druid tier. If your going to make me look at it at least make it pretty. =)

Jen – I can’t say “I would have rolled a priest” – I started my druids back in vanilla when there was no tree form. Being indignant and saying I’d rather have rolled a priest would make me look a bit loopy