It’s been 2 decades Barskin is not enough anymore, this feels like the squishiest spec in the entire game you die to rot damage, to caster damage, to melees, to everything.
Almost all Balance Druid players are tired of this. Please stop creating PvE - ONLY related tunings to Balance Druid. Even in PvE players have noted dying way too easily.
Provide some kinds of alternatives. Frenzied Regen is just a heal, it won’t stop mechanics or players from deleting you. Dying through Barkskin is a regular occurence as well.
Give Balance Druids a new button to press to avoid getting deleted by damage. It doesn’t have to be an immunity, but some sort of buff. Or rework / improve existing ones.
Example:
Give the Hunter treatment. Combine Renewal + Barkskin into 1 button and add 1 extra stack to it. Add 5% more reduction to Barkskin. Make Defensive buttons meaningful for Balance Druid.
Getting ran down by melees and dying guaranteed if your healer takes any kind of CC is not fun, and gradual small damage buffs will not remedy this problem.
Here’s a reminder that boomy needs to put 2 talent points in Instinct of the Claw (a passive that increases Shred, Brutal Slash, Rake, Mangle, and Thrash damage by 10%) in order to get +10% buff to barkskin, well honed instincts, and bash.
For a spec that already is struggling defensively(complained about nauseam in PVE even more so than PVP), it’s hilarious that the above design still exists.
Okay, boomy does need defensive buffs in pve and IMO in pvp as well, but it can’t be something tied to bear form.
Ideally theres some passive dr or an active component attached to starsurge.
The buffs to rejuvenation are insanely laughable and out of touch, i cannot believe that blizzard thought that was a remotely feasible solution.
Oh. And fix the druid class tree. More dead end nodes than every other spec in the game put together and more forced/dead talents that are literally useless for one spec or another.
Boomy honestly needs a 10.0.7 ret paladin level rework (NOT POWER BUFF, REWORK)