So powershifting is just dead? It is a core mechanic of classic feral druid, feels lame to skip over to wrath instead of keeping it. Also please throw in feral attack power, don’t make me use crowd pummeler at 60.
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Lots of wins today but yeah it feels like druids got the short end of the stick. Literal most underrepresented spec in vanilla end game (balance) has the exact same talent tree.
Meanwhile esfand got them to put seal twisting as the ret capstone.
Druid seems like the biggest disappointment out of everything I’ve seen thus far.
EDIT:
Okay talent tree is not the exact same. Wowhead has forever talent calculators that are using era trees.
Still feels like druid didn’t get quite as much love as some of the others. I was hoping for snapshotting bleeds and full on eclipse.
Maybe they’ll fix MCP before release.
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Seems power shifting is gone thank god, was always an unnecessary step that needed to be trashed. I did see MCP was in game and that alone has made me lean away from druid and ive been a druid main since 2004 lol. So sick of MCP being a thing, it is dumb, the dev who made it is dumb, and the dev who thought keeping it in Forever is the dumbest of them all
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100%. Look how bad the reso tree is. No lifebloom or tree.. at least give nourish instead of healing touch
Resto still has the talent that gives energy when you shift into cat form
except it’s 10 energy per second you spend in caster form, so it kills both powershifting and bearweaving
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Good. Weaving has always been a dumb part of druid
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at least it was less boring than current iteration
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Classic feral druid, huh?
Pretty under-developed. Maybe I’m missing out, but druid within the Classic world seems like we could just do without it. And I state this as someone who has mained a druid in every version of WoW outside of Vanilla.
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You haven’t played the current iteration
It is not a “core mechanic” it was a workaround.
Thank god its gone and feral druids will stand on their own without a silly level 40 helmet.
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You got a rez and retained 4 different ways to heal, druid healers will be fine
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I hope blizzard strongly considers reverting furor and maybe even finding some way to put wolfshead’s effect into the feral talent tree (or at least keep the helm in, unaltered). Unfortunately as it stands with furor changes, energy tick changes, and possibly no wolfshead, feral dps just loses a fundamental part of its identity and rotation with nothing to replace it. If ret would have seal-twisting preserved and put in it’s talent tree, why shouldn’t feral? It’s just as essential and iconic in classic.
Even if we presume wolfshead is in the game as usual, we’re only looking at 20 energy for shift, which is quite useless without furor. If nothing changes from now to November, feral will just be a very boring and very energy starved rogue!! blizz pls 
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i hated powershifting. Out of all the things to push for as feral powershifting is the last thing we need.
I want swipe in catform and bleeds working on all targets.
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We’d still be horribly energy capped and sitting there staring until we can press a button again. We’d do more aoe damage though. Is that more fun? Why can’t you ask for both?
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I don’t think it was designed with the intention of power shifting being core. But instead power shifting became the norm when it was the highest dps at end game. 1000% with you on feral AP though, pummler farming is the worst aspect of feral druid in classic
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MCP is dead, not only is it unique equip but feral’s don’t need feral AP as on beta our weapon damage scales our damage in form just as if we were a normal melee. This is far better than 50% attack speed and by the time we hit max level the weapons on offer will be far superior so that’s all resolved
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Thats a balance issue thats better solved without going back to making some dumb macro and power shifting
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thats a good change
Druids got shortchanged?
Resto gets Heart of the wild at tier 1 of feral….AND an ooc rez…AND Wild growth.
Feral gets a bleed oriented damage boost, a complete Tiger’s Fury revamp and bear gets a ton of rage return?
Balance gets sustain?
Druids are fine.
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