I played a druid until it got to the point where you have to crawl under a barricade and I couldn’t stop laughing enough imagining the druid as winnie the pooh to take the character seriously anymore.
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I’ve played D3 since the first day it came out.
Don’t like Wizard or his/her voice.
I feel like people don’t understand what obese actually looks like, because the Druid is definitely not obese lol.
I think the Druid would meet the medical definition of morbid obesity. They look like they have a BMI greater than 40. The devs should add “metformin tonic” for the Druid class.
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Google “BMI 30” if you want to talk about definitions.
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They’re well past meeting the qualifications for morbid obesity. If you look at the width to height ratio, you can pretty handily figure out these dudes belong on My 600-lb Life. I’d be willing to wager a not insignificant portion of the people defending the design of these walking Liberty Medical billboards also qualify.
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Maybe druids are obese because they are created in the vision and appearance of the developer/designer?
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The amount of shallowness and gullibility in this thread is truly amazing.
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Wanting to play something you find aesthetically pleasing is not being shallow. It’s a fantasy game, and most people don’t want to play Rosie O’Donnell’s body double in fantasy game.
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Obese is over 30% body fat. Druids have flat stomachs. No way they are over 30%. It shows that most of you have no clue about physical fitness…what a shocker! lol
Social media has rotted all of your minds.
Why is this thread even going still…they really need to get a mod in here. These forums are losing them money due to trolling.
But yet…
Sure thing man. thumbs up
That’s what he does. He gets off on it.
main does not look like a guy but I do agree about druids I don’t play ugly DEV!
This is part of why medical obesity is at epidemic proportions. Average people not even being able to visually identify it despite all the medical experts in the world having very common obvious examples.
If you’re past the level of medically overweight, you’re obese. Your doctor is obligated to bring this up as a risk factor and recommend ways to bring your weight down to a healthy level. People ignore that advice for years and it gets to the point they don’t consider themselves unhealthy despite all evidence to the contrary.
Personally, I don’t care if people want to neglect their health in pursuit of comfort. We live in the most well fed era that human civilization has ever experienced by a wide (haha) margin. But don’t make excuses for obesity, it’s hard enough to get people to care about themselves, let alone anyone else.
Normalizing obesity is part of the problem. Deaths attributable to obesity is the #2 cause of preventable health impacts, only behind smoking, as of a study as far back as 1999. This gap has only grown closer in the past 24 years as smoking rates have decreased, and obesity has stayed just as big a problem as it ever was.
There’s an endless river of health data and studies that reinforce this as a medical issue which isn’t going away. When you think about how we dealt with smoking over the past 20 years to limit it’s health impacts, you should probably expect obesity to be next on the list when it takes that #1 spot.
Anyway, I’d like a normal sized druid body option. That’s all I care about in the game. Keep the chubby ones if you want. Heck, make options for chubby necros and sorcs for all I care. Options are good.
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The Druid has a flat stomach. Have you even made one? Right there on the character screen you can see a flat stomach. It’s just a big dude. You people sure are weird about body shaming for the dumbest things. No way that character model has over 30% BMI. Being anorexic thin is also very bad.
At the end of the day…it’s a damn video game. Chill out.
Game after game have comes out with toons which either look like anorexic waifs or like roided out body builders. This game comes out with some thick models and nerds lose their minds.
Get over it people.
It would appear people are unable comprehend the prospect of not having a beer gut but still being obese. Kinda makes your point for you, doesn’t it?
For those somehow missing it: someone whose fat is spread fairly uniformly throughout their body may not have a severely protruding stomach, but they would indeed still be considered obese – potentially morbidly so if their BMI is poor enough, as is the case with the druid.
In fact, many professional strong man competitors are clinically obese. It’s a lot more common than people think. Building the kind of muscle that gives you power also requires fat. This doesn’t mean it’s healthy. A great many strong men do ultimately suffer cardiopulmonary issues later on. Many go into it knowing the risks and choose to accept them. The druid can once again provide our example, as it’s clear the body type used is meant to indicate a lot of raw physical strength. …But it’s still obesity.
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Also BMI isn’t that good a measurement either. The barbarian would likely qualify as obese due to BMI too since it’s just a measure of height vs weight.
That’s not how BMI is fully measured. Height vs weight is the quick method. Neither class is obese. Druid might be a little over weight but definitely not obese. Barb is cut so his body fat is very low. Druid looks like a barb that hasn’t cut for a couple months.
All of this info can be found on the CDC’s or multiple physical fitness websites. Pictures included. We have the facts at our finger tips. Not sure why people are even arguing this.
At the end of the day, the player can’t tell anyway cause they are shapeshifting into a werewolf or bear with 2837282 spell effects and monsters around them, so it doesn’t matter lol.
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