LAYING THE GROUND WORK
We all love druid forms. We all love having MORE druid forms. We all see heckin’ cool beast models in the wild and wish we could look like them. At the same time, Blizzard developers already have all-the-tasks; and new druid forms involve many-additional-tasks. BUT what if you could give us all the variety, while also leveraging the full potential of the work you’ve already done?!?
THE PREMISE
Take the hunter “tame pet” ability and tweak it to be a druid “study (emulate) beast” ability. Take the hunter stable master, and tweak it to be a druid form master. Take the hunter “summon pet” ability, and tweak it to be a “form swap” ability. Hunters have tomes that allow them to tame dragons? Boom, druids have tomes that allow them to study dragons.
Hunter, pets are already categorized into Tenacity, Ferocity and Cunning. Just map those to be our Bear, Cat, and Caster forms.
With small tweaks to existing systems, you enable massive amounts of customization and hours of joyous form farming! Druid “study beast” could leave the beast alive and tamable/farmable, so as not to tax hunters and rare farmers for our cool new thing; or not if you like the idea of having additional competition for those models.
YOUR MIND IS BLOWN, WHAT NOW?
This isn’t my idea, this is YOUR idea! Email this post around in your teams. Be sure to say, “I’ve had this idea for years, is it time to implement it?!” And when it inevitably gains traction and everybody loves it, send your buddy Dreamwaker a message saying, “We did it!”