Druid of the Claw - Wild power Surge - great idea bad implementation

Druid of the Claw by it’s very nature should lean heavily into the roots of how feral/guardian were once one tree. The hero talent Wild Power Surge is a fantastic talent to bring that theme to life; however, it falls short in practice.

The ursine/feline potential buff needs a couple things to make it work.

The fundamental problem with the ability is that it’s clunky. Its hard to justify jumping into bear/cat mid full DPS rotation (or tank rotation). The only way to make it worth it is if the tuning is very high. So alternatively, make it a single click button/ability. When you obtain the full stacks, your cat or bear form button will highlight and change to a new ability called “Wild Power”. When you click it, it instantly shape shifts you into bear/cat and you apply rip (for Guardian)/Mangle (for feral) and then transforms you back.

If bliz if feeling super spicy, don’t have it be a full shape shift. Using feral as an example- while building up stacks of ursine potential an outline of bear form forms around the druid and once reaching full stacks it is a full echo of bear form around you. This would allow for some more visual aspects to the ability hero talent overall.

Secondly, the damage of the ability needs to be tuned properly, but this buff should be occurring frequently to make it actually an engaging button to press.

Lastly, if this can’t be done or they want to retain the aspect of jumping into full bear/car form. Make it less clunky. Let ravage procs be used while in bearform. A terrible feeling as a feral is to use wild power Surge and a ravege proc happen mid use and now you’re wasting globals going back.

Special shout out to Ravage as a whole. Its way more satisfying to press than I anticipated. The audio for it is spot on. A cool visual flavor for it would be to add a bear animation coming out of your cat form when you press it and a cat animation coming out of bear form.

how about at max potential stacks, it lets you cast a ravage in your other form?

I don’t like the idea of it auto shapeshifting you back and forth, really defeats the purpose for me. But it needs to be worth it. Having it perform a ravage just ties the design together.

Ya gotta use the fluid form talent homie.

I posted it in another Forum

A QOL change to have Ravage Be Used in Cat form would be Fire, would tie into the whole, Auto-attack Based procs. Cause why is Raze able to be used in cat form but not Ravage???

Im a Oddball/Hippy w.e you wanna call it. i play the specs that aren’t showcased cause i find it enjoyable, Buuuut i wil agree going into cat form is a wittle scary, when I dont have the rage for the Iron fur stacks on me.

Why doesn’t guardian have the talent node Resto has where you get HOTW for for 10 secs every 1 min when we shift?

I also believe the All cat-weaving abilities should also contribute to Ursocs Fury shielding FB, Shred, Rake (Dot) Rip (Dot) For some reason Cat’s Thrash is entirely different spell from Bear thrash so if used it’ll completely overwrite the stacks u have when applied in bear, i don’t understand that