Yeah this is my vision too. They also don’t have to make it overly expansive, they make druidic themed animals work (so no plaguehounds or whatever) and can be attached to quests.
That’s actually a good and fair point. If druid forms were as customizable as our characters and we have a few forms to switch between (similar to skin tones I suppose) that could work really well instead.
Fair enough, I’m not up to date on the lore at all but is it possible for druids to evolve and learn how to sort of mimic other animal forms over time?
Have you ever played druid? They’re in their form 95% of the time. This was literally the justification blizzard used when telling us druids were getting new forms as their artifact weapon.
Not that I’m aware of. Our forms were magic granted to us by Wild Gods. But I’ll do some more reading.
Even if it’s not I feel like that could be the natural evolution of the class.
To me that doesn’t make much sense, given their lore, because so much is based off of the Emerald Dream. But maybe they need to put more animal gods into the Dream and let us learn from them.
Of course… Shadowlands destroyed the lore of the Emerald Dream, so now I don’t even know where that stands. 
To be fair all lore seems to be thrown out the window. They sort of just do whatever they want at this point which is cool because they can justify making some interesting decisions but also frustrating because nothing really makes sense.
Yeah… 
I main a Druid. We don’t need the ability to transform into anything in the world. We need content to play with the forms we currently have. But I guess that would give us something to do while there’s nothing to do…
Also, the OP was stating this as if Druids are gimped, when in fact we get all our forms, which no other class can do, AND transmog.
the lore is: its a world full of transformation magic. its actually makes no lore sense as to why we cant just shapesift into anything. or drink a potion to grow a tail… 
So we’re just throwing any druid lore out the window eh?
Druid doesnt know druid lore lol.
All good points, including those not in support of the idea.
I don’t think existing druid lore is at all challenged by this idea. Cenarion druidism has traditionally pulled its druid forms from wild gods - druids of the claw venerating Ursoc, for example - but variations of druidism have since been added to the game that are not related to wild gods at all. For example, Zandalari transform into Ankylodons and Sabertusks, which do not seem to be linked to any existing loa - they are just wildlife roaming around Zandalar. Similarly with Kul’Tirans and their wicker forms - apart from Athair and Athienne the deer, there is no evidence of any wild gods on Kul’tiras. However, there are wicker bears and wolves roaming around the Crimson Forest. Those two races seem to just take the forms of the wildlife around them rather than emulating a certain wild god. These non-Cenarion druids, after interacting with druids of the Cenarion Circle, could perhaps teach their style of druidism (non-wild god-linked transformation) to other druids.
As far as transmog goes - druids absolutely do benefit from all the transmog other classes can have, as well as a set of animal forms. However, the meat of WoW gameplay is combat, and in all combat scenarios - questing, raiding, dungeons, pvp - druids have to be in a form to be viable. And those forms are very limited compared to the diversity of appearances that other classes can use in combat. That’s mostly what I was getting at.
Resto
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Fair point. Resto druids and balance druids using glyph of the stars would be the exceptions. I guess my points are more aimed at giving variety to Guardian and Feral spec.
While it would be interesting, I already have a ton of cats I never use, including those original MT glowing “Target Makers”. I use the black and pvp cats over all the other choices. Now, I’m not saying I would never use any of the “tamable” options out there, but my targets would be the rare spawns. Could I be a spectral porcupine instead of a cat? It would be interesting…
However, I would rather see development time spend on making the next expansion huge, like Wrath or Mop huge, with the long-lasting engaging story lines to go with it. 9.2 is just going to be another Koritha from the looks of it. I do hope I’m wrong, it’s the boredom that’s killing this game.
We already have Highmountain Tauren.
I want my travel form to be a little brutosaur 
Well, the Highmountain, and all Horde druids, supported Sylvanas after everything she did. Burned down a world tree and tried to kill the leader of the Cenarion Circle. You know the star pupil of the guy who blessed the Highmountain. Sadly Horde and Alliance lore will always come before that of the classes and races.
I want to shapeshift into a sloth and I expect everyone to wait for me to arrive :]