As written on the patch notes they wouldn’t but I feel like that’s a typo since giving only Ferals a 2 GCD penalty on top of the 2s cast time to use rebirth would be laughably ridiculous. I find it easier to believe that it’s included in the passive and that they simply forgot to write it in the notes than they actually just want Ferals to stop using Rebirth.
For my part I’m still trying to figure out why it’s not instant cast for Ferals anymore but is for Guardian. And it doesn’t benefit from Predatory Swiftness anymore. I have no idea why it works the way it does now.
Speaking of, did Blizzard ever post a reasoning for why some specs get an instant bres and some don’t? The way it is now it feels very arbitrary. Especially since Rebirth in particular functions differently from spec to spec. And it’s not a tank vs DPS thing since DPS DKs get instant cast.
Since the deliberately made Rebirth instant cast for Feral in Legion and called it out as a QoL change that they wanted to make, it seems odd that they walk it back without so much as a how-do-you-do. It’s one of the greatest puzzles of the modern age.
To be totally honest, I’d much rather have it the way it used to be back in the day. Pop out of cat form for a clutch rebirth, or tranquility. Jump into bear form to save a raid when both tanks die with a boss at 5%.
Everything now is so watered down for the most simple of WoW player. So I don’t play Druid anymore. Almost every other class has more utility than THE utility class. It makes no sense.
You made out better than I did then. About a week ago I signed up for an Atal’Dazar. We still needed to get a tank and 1 DPS so I waited around with the leader at the summoning stone. About 10 minutes later the group was full, we were starting to file in, and the leader whispers me asking if I was Balance or Feral. I tell him Feral and he replies, “Dude I’m so sorry.” And then he kicked me.
Yeah. I can’t even begin to tell you how salty it made me at the time. I’ve been rejected from groups before for being Feral. But that was the first time I’ve been kicked from the group after the fact for it.
Nowadays what I’ve gone and done is I’ve picked up a 400 Balance weapon and whenever the question gets asked I just say Balance. I’ve learned what the right answer is. Their loss. Despite being lower down in the FotM ladder my Feral play is significantly better than my Balance play. I go down from like, 25k DPS on bosses and 70k on Reaping down to 19k/40k.
But hey their loss. I don’t care if they play themselves.
Some ferals lie that they’re balance and stay in humanoid form or if they have balance affinity to go moonkin form and when the key starts they go kitty
As ashamed as I am of it, before my IO spoke for itself, this is exactly what I would do for the +2-5s when I first started getting serious about feral. It was really pathetic, but I got me into groups
Just tested this today on PTR. Feral druids have to break cat form to cast Rebirth now. Was this an oversight by Blizzard?
@Blizzard - If you read this, can Rebirth be added to the new “Feline Adept” passive? I didn’t see any dev notes on why ferals are having this taken away. This makes me nervous for Mythic+. We lose a GCD to reshift and get back in the fight if a tank or healer goes down. It’s a clunky nerf to our battle flow and utility.
Edit: PTR is out and feral druids are the only druid spec that gets kicked out of their unique spec form to cast rebirth. Please add in concerns at this PTR forum link:
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