I just finished tanking Gnomregon on my druid tank, and i have to say the season of discovery team has seriously dropped the ball. Some encounters are tuned to be difficult, tank damage is high and bears cant run the crit immunity rune because it shares a rune slot with windfury. So in order to be competitive with other tanks you are required to bring a SECOND FERAL to a 10 man as alliance What are you thinking?? Hello?
There are other obvious tuning issues, like berserk only being usable with a terrible rune for bear (mangle) that’s exclusive with their main ability, Lacerate. Blizzard should just combine survival of the fittest with lacerate and make it a leg rune. That would solve all the issues with bear and make them competitive without being OP. As it stands, bears are by FAR the worst tank for this phase (and last) to a comical degree. Please, blizzard, balance your game or just clearly state that you don’t want bears tanking as a committed role.
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This is a great idea. Wouldn’t solve all the issues though, they still need some help with aoe threat, but it would be a great change.
Never thought I’d see the day the Alliance would COMPLAIN about being given Windfury while the Horde got… checks notes Nothing to compensate that the Alliance doesn’t already have?
But here we are.
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They can’t even put Dual specialization in the game what makes you think they can make druid tanks not suck…Like always feral sucks, boomkin got gutted with starsurge nerf, resto druid is not comparable to priest’s whatsoever. Soooo…what’s the point of playing druids
Didnt shaman just get Freedom on a totem and inverse Salvation ? Most shaman/paladin utility has found its way cross-faction now, not really sure why you’re being such a sourpuss about it in a thread thats more about Druid rune issues than faction balance.
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If youre a tank then your raid doesnt get windfury. Why are you trying to tank a new raid with wild strikes?
Kings ??? That the horde didnt have you know just 10 percent all stats no big
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Windfury is near mandatory for the group, and Survival of the fittest is near mandatory for a tank. This is just a poor design. Wild Strikes should have been a book for a learned spell or something. If you’re the only druid in the group it’s the expectation that you run wild strikes.
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Its not. I dont have a feral in my raid. You dont need it.
We’re complaining that tanks are forced to run windfury because it shares a slot with the tanking rune.
Shoo, troll.
I could run a group with all mages and one paladin. That doesn’t mean it’s ideal. Ideally, if I’m in a group and we are stuck at Managerie then the next lockout we are going to take every advantage that we can get.
How you feel is irrelevant in the face of how the majority feels. How you stack your groups doesn’t matter, I’m not in your group.
Our bear druid ran Wild Strikes the entire raid last night and we had zero issues. The only wipes we had were to dumb things like someone afk accidentally pulling the 4th boss and also to learning mechanics.
We had no problems with our bear druid being able to hold threat or survive outside of learning mechanics tbh.
No bears should have to choose between WF or SotF… i agree with moving lacerate. If they had access to all three… .there would be zero reason to bring a cat…
Who am I going to pet while the healer drinks? Bears fur is too rough.
Actually how the majority feels is irrelevant to how the devs feel. But people can keep crying about not being able to raid tank while not using the tank rune. The majority is dumb if they think they need wild strikes to complete the raid. I already did without it.