I just recently came across the term in reference to druids (restoration specifically).
Is it a reference to shapeshifting as a combat tactic?
What a cringe term, is like someone in real life is doing PoE2 Weaving after playing 5 mins of D4 xD
BAAAAM Blizz, uuups 
Likely a contribution in DPS while your HoTâs do the work of healing since you donât really need to cast much.
As a result you get to do something while in raid assuming youâre smart and donât die.
This is very common place in PVP, and some druids already have been doing so for decades.
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Cat-weaving is a good way to go oom as a Healer.
Imagine wiping the group because you needed your healer to pick up the DPSâ slack
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Yo guys, dontâ forget.
Warlocks do: Curse weaving
Mages do : Food weaving
Shamans do: Totem weaving
Rogues do: Expose Armor weaving
Warriors do: Sunder armor weaving
Paladins do: Blessing weaving
Priests do: Power Word: Shield weaving
Hunters do: Serpent sting weaving
The term is so cringe fo real 
Nothing in vanilla.
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they melee weave
When multi and stuff on cd, you can run in between autos and get a big raptor. It is a decent dps increase with quite high skillcap
yea this is not something you will see in vanilla, you see it in later expacs when druids have the mana to do-so. It is just shifting to cat form to dps during downtime in dungeons.
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Never really had a problem with running out of mana when I was a healer except maybe in an epic BG and that would be from spamming AOE heals . I would often shift to bear form if I needed to self-heal as well as break focus. Tell you what though, if the healer doesnât through in a little damage, he wastes a lot of time over-healing while the DPS take their time chipping away at a NPC in a dungeon or raid
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Cringe, and shouldnât be called weaving anyways. Youâre just pressing buttons and doing your job period.
its a retail term for resto druids maximizing group dps by spending as much time as possible dpsing in cat form. Its not really a thing in classic since theres no int scaling on cat abilities
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I thought weaving was more timing and preloading other abilities between CDâs
Not simply âstance dancingâ which sucks for any class I remember in classic.
Not a thing in classic, costs too much mana. Thereâs like insect swarm weaving tho, -2% chance to hit for 45 mana not bad.
Not a thing in classic. Shapeshifting costs too much mana. Theres no debuff limit anyways so you can just put up moonfire and insect swarm and call it a day.
This is the classic wow forum, so we are all OOM here.
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Yeah its dumb just like in Retail arena we call every single comp excluding a few âName-Goes-Here Cleaveâ as more or less a reference to a comp that requires zero skill you just Zug hard AF.
Any time you hear any term with âweaveâ in it regarding druids itâs likely an inside joke referring to the long history of âunderground tacticsâ Druids have often had to come up with in order to maximize their DPS, coming from the handicap they have always sat. The first major one being Wolfshead usage through out lvl 60-70 content, then MCP usage, for the surface level of the iceberg, and then as you venture down you come in to things like trollweaving (trollblood elixir spam) and weapon weaving (if you didnât want to spam trollbloods) and bearweaving (to get tiny extra DPS from mauls while doing Cat DPS).
Itâs honestly just a meme tbh, donât pay it much mind.
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As far as I know, itâs a reference to a retail strategy for resto druids with kitty specialization. Load things up with hots and then switch to kitty to stack up some bleeds. Alternate as needed. I think? I used to be a resto druid on retail but I havenât played in almost two years?
If this is something that applies to Classic, Iâm not familiar with it.
My bad for putting this in the wrong forum, apologies to all. I play retail and forgot the mana drain druids suffer in classic.