It would act just like cat/bear/moonkin in which you will need to be in it to use abilities (or enhance your abilities in the case of moonkin). Then a glyph could be added for people who want to use their normal form again similar to glyph of stars.
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It used to be. Well, not incarn version but, you can still turn into a tree.
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I know you can, but I feel like it should be the default option instead.
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It would make a cool new mage tower-esk form
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No thanks, I quite despise the ToL form. Looks like a walking head of cauliflower
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nvm this is 100% better. The new mage tower is just you as a walking cauliflower
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I agree with this. I almost always spend the extra action if I have to, to pop back into tree form.
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The /dance is entertaining though
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Imagine original Tree of Life form…
Gives a buff increasing your healing done by 25% of your spirit, movement speed reduced by 20%, can only cast restoration specific spells (plus barkskin), and mana cost reduced by 20%.
It was fun, and I miss tree punching Supremus in the big toe and then running for my life in cheetah form.
-signed a BC tree
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I’m up for having new tree forms, besides that you’d be able go back to normal form with a glyph.
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You’re forgetting the bit where you couldn’t cast direct heals in tree form. You always knew you were in for a bad time if you had a Druid who refused to ever shift out of tree form. Still, at least there was some gameplay to it back then.
Personally, I was really happy to be rid of the old, low-res vanilla treant model and be able to see my character again in Cataclysm.
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Why would you wish that on us?
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I do honestly think it’s wierd blizzard doesn’t give an actual perma form for resto druids but I suppose too many of them didn’t want that. Actually, I could see how this could become detrimental to PVP or dying in raids.
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Their reasoning was because they wanted one of the druid specs to be able to “show off their armor” and then changed Incarnation into a cooldown. Kinda feels like they just started over and made a cooldown instead of actually trying to make the form work with dps spells. It was a good feeling getting to 60 and getting that talent. :3
Quote below: I cant link the site but if you just copy/paste the quote youll find it’s a blue post about cata changes.
" * Tree of Life is changing from a passive talent to a cooldown-based talent, similar to Metamorphosis. Mechanically, it feels unfair for a druid to have to give up so much offense and utility in order to be just as good at healing as the other classes who are not asked to make that trade. We are exploring the exact benefit the druid gets from Tree of Life. It could strictly be better healing, or it could be that each heal behaves slightly different. You also will not be able to be banished in Tree of Life form (this will probably be true of Metamorphosis as well). Additionally, we would like to update the Tree of Life model so that it feels more exciting when you do decide to go into that form. Our feeling is that druids rarely actually get to show off their armor, so it would be nice to have at least one spec that looked like a night elf or tauren (and soon troll or worgen) for most of the time."
Honestly with the affinity talents now they wouldnt even need to change/rework tree of life form to be able to use dps spells, youd just take cat or balance affinity and swap forms/shapeshift like a real druid, or guardian for the defensives in M+.
I also despised the new “cartoon-ey” cooldown models to the old model that suited wow’s aesthetics somewhat better and wasnt huge and weird looking.
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Anyone say Gumbi
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This would be too powerful though because in PvP if they were just always in tree form then they would never have to pre shapeshift polymorph/repentance.
In practice, that wasn’t so much a buff as a nerf if you were out of tree form (like to dps). That meant they were balanced with other healers in tree form, and weak out of it. PVPers who didn’t want to stand out as a healer would heal in normal form and just have weak heals.
If they instituted those buffs on current rdruids, they would be extremely overpowered. They would get a big nerf to put them back in line. Then druid in tree would be balanced, druid out of tree would be weak. It’s a nerf. But if you really want it so that when you cast a Sunfire in a dungeon, you have to waste a global to get back to healing, as a priest I’m not going to complain. 
I LOVED old tree form, but I loved it for the aesthetics, so the glyph is good enough for me.
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Here’s the fix, especially now that class fantasy and logic are somewhat important. Like an actual tree, tree of life would make you immobile but significantly increase your armor and healing. Something like auto barkskin for the duration. The drawback is you can’t move which is one of the biggest strengths of the resto druid. It would make for an interesting decision to plant yourself and get some good heals or stay mobile with other utility with slightly weaker heals.
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Cool. I always thought a Monk should be a Crane and have a glyph to be in Green Humanoid Form.
It’s the only Druid spec where you can see your xmog all the time. Not a huge fan of another forced shapeshift form.
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