I know they only teased us with a couple of class runes, but even the 2 that were shown for druids seem mehh, or maybe not even that? I could care less for AOE dps (hurricane rune). If they teased the best 2 runes, then I’m at a loss here. Anyone else concerned? Aside from that, Phase 3 is looking amazing.
I’m not particularly excited about them as they don’t seem to add the punchiness that many other classes are getting. Plus, with the datamined Hurricane helmet rune it seems we already know half the Druid runes for P3. Guess we’ll see.
Just looked at the datamined runes, so for Boomies we’re looking at… Barkskin on one item and Gale Winds on another… I’m sorry but that is absolutely TRASH
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I think they’re both helmet runes, but don’t quote me on that. I also can’t remember if another Boomkin rune was datamined in the last patch for the bracer slot.
God, I hope so, in comparison to what I’m looking at for every other class, rune wise… druids are getting shafted! Oh and gladiator stance looks real meme like as well.
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All are fairly boring, but that has been par for the course for Druid.
My favourite joke is the Gore rune that resets Mangle from Lacerate.
Mangle and Lacerate being on the same slot has been something druids have been complaining about since release and then they troll us with this interaction 
Also if Balance doesn’t get a passive threat reduction in P3/4 it’s just GG.
Maybe it’s different on Horde with OP Shaman tank threat with Spirit of the Alpha, but for Alliance even with Salv Balance threat is too high despite doing average dps.
What are we supposed to do, stand around for 20s every 30s and provide even more average damage than we already do.
Don’t you get the implication? We are going to be able to have both lacerate AND Mangle at the same time come phase 3.
Druids tried to warn the devs about Gore back when it was initially datamined in the phase 2 PTR. The fact that these warning were completely ignored is rather disheartening.
Barskin is good, tanky af
In comparison to the other classes, the runes that were data mined are laughable at best
I definitely agree that Improved Barkskin is really useful, but I was hoping for a non-passive Rune that would up our PvE Balance damage game instead.
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Hopefully they change Natural Weapons/Omen to work with spelldmg/spellcasts and/or Furor to give bonuses to Moonkin/caster form… there’s very little else for Balance to spend talent points in next phase. Not enough to get Insect Swarm, Resto druids already bring Imp MotW, at best we get some mana relief with Moonglow.
Will we though? One can dream though, but the current record of the dev crew I’m not super optimistic.
Lacerate should be baseline Bear imo.
I think datamined talent changes has Omen effect spell casts. Sadly I didn’t notice anything on Natural Weapons though so it’ll cost us 5 wasted points to grab it.
But like you mentioned, not much to spend points on anyway since we can’t get deep enough in Resto.
Pick up the last dps talent we had to forgo this patch (Moonfury/Imp Starfire), 6 points to get Omen, and last 3 on Moonglow maybe?
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Not to excited about the druid Runes…especially being a Resto. I continue to Press the same 2 buttons with an oh no HT ever so often again =(…But hey…atleast i have a pain suppression?
Another phase of feral stat stick…im good, maining the hunter this phase to enjoy p3 day 1 release hunter nerfs and day 2 shaman buffs.