Update Druid Forms - Travel and Moonkin

I’d like to see more optionality here:

  • Allow a re-split of Travel Form back into Travel, Aquatic, Flight (Cruise), Swift Flight, and Mount Forms – optional via glyphs.
  • A New Translucent Celestial Form – allowing Balance Druids to show armor, but with a shifting indication that Moonkin Form was activated. Shadow Priests have received a new minimized Shadow Form effect, and it’s time for Balance Druids to be able to show off their earned rewards as clearly as other players can.
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What would this prove to serve? We already have travel form and mount form in case you want to use the deer form in flying zones.

This would just add unnecessary button bloat to a very nice streamlined system.

Next you’re going to want our mounts put back into our bags abs have them scale down to 60%.

You can change your flight form in the barber shop if you want the other versions. And you can use the mount form if you don’t want to be a bird or enter aquatic form in the water.

I’m sure it’s coming eventually. They have bigger priorities right now like getting cool new forms out for the people who actually like the shapeshifter fantasy of the class.

Making a glyph for the small minority that don’t like Druid shapeshifting is probably pretty low on their priority list.

You can. Any time you’re not in combat. And besides, nobody is looking at your transmog during the middle of a fight. Who are you trying to impress?

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Thank you for the, well, somewhat… angry… response.

No one asked for a merged travel form. It’s convenient, but sometimes streamlining for its own sake (as much as I’ve principally supported it as opposed to bloat) removes player agency in customization. Earning the forms back in the day and them having separate buttons can be kept as a relic, and the modern version can be the default.

As for showing the armor, it’s already a thing for Shadow Priests.
Not everyone likes Moonkin forms, and not everyone likes being all Blue either. Glyph of Stars used to be more translucent in MoP. There was no reason to change it other than to “visually scream to the other players that you’re looking at a Moonkin”… Wouldn’t spell visuals and an orange name plate be enough to do that though?
As replacement, dropping stars, a moon overhead or even partial glow effects could be put in if need be.
We already have Red or Fel fires for Destruction Warlocks. Going by armor type, weapon, plates, names, and spell animations should suffice. I’m not arguing for the removal of Moonkin Form as in the other recent thread, since that would imply changing how Druids function mechanically, rotationally, and situationally in PvP as well…

We’re talking about visuals here. Cosmetics is one of the biggest endgame motivators, it might as well be considered a core pillar of how MMOs operate. WoW seems to be the only game that has forgotten this, whereas other games COPIED WoW’s past reward systems to be successful.

I’m not trying to “impress” anyone… though, yes, being able to see my own transmog, and sometimes just see myself in combat would be nice for both environmental consistency (which can mean the difference in a fight), and costumization acknowledgement by the game systems (the lack of which is ironically outdated).

That last little comment honestly makes me think you don’t like Balance Druids out of some weird, petty spite…

There’s no barring to improving WoW immersion, besides pure stubbornness I don’t understand.

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I guess I can show you how to hide moonkin form if you’d like.

No clue what you mean by that,
but I posted this as an extension of an in-game suggestion, just to see if it gains traction.
Apparently not, but it’s hard to judge because the forums are very empty nowadays.

Thanks for reading and replying, though! :slight_smile:

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Your posts suggests that you would enjoy hiding moonkin form, so I offerred to show you this sacred boomkin knowedge on how to do so. Not sure what part of that is unclear.

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Totally agree, my entire mog and theme is based around red, which celestial blue nonsense ruins.

I also have no interest in being an unfortunate looking owl creature. Having more options, especially such an easy fix is never a problem.

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Meet me in game at 7 pm PST. I’ll invite you to a party at that time.

Yea I personally love Glyph of Stars and Moonkin Form doesn’t really appeal to me in the slightest. It would be cool if there was a “Glyph of Suns” or something where you could glow gold(yes I know sun is a star). And to iterate on that, maybe another Glyph that would swap between you glowing blue or gold depending on what eclipse you were in. Just some ideas!

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Bump. The new shadowpriest glyph for void form is more transparent, can we please have that for glyph of stars, rather than being a blue smurf.

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I’d like to see a glyph to use the treant form for resto’s Incarnation, or be able to pick which tree my character appears as. I think that’d be a nice touch.

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Personally I’d like both shadow form and moonkin form to have a form barely perceptible. We all love customizing our characters and would like to see them clearly.

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