I will say my side, and I’d like to hear what others have to say.
Guardians, Ferals and Moonkins sped 99% of the time in their shapeshifting forms, hence transmog becomes fully irrelevant.
We got
Original form
Ursoc
Stonepaw
Fallen (PvP)
Avatar (Balance of Power)
Guardian of the Glade (Is it still in the game?)
Mage Tower appearance.
Given that MT barely anyone has it, and who actually has it had got it quite easily, as it is no secret you could simply outgear it by next patch and clear it with ease. Let alone not everyone who played had druid back then.
So that’s 4 (5?) forms + original that was “remastered” in Wrath.
I’ve been killing Ursoc for past many months to get the drop and nada. Not even listed on the loot table, so for I know it was removed.
What’s the fair argument to justify not adding anything new for 4+ expansions. whilst every other class gets dozen of xmog sets every patch?
Argument of “a lot of work” does not work, as they add 100’s new mob designs and animations every patch. So making it 101 is not a lot of work (relatively speaking), as attack animation on all bears is the same as a normal mob (maybe extra one for swipe), and spell animations are simply layered over it.
Travel form? We got 3. Cheetah / Stag / Deer. Not even any color variations.
Flight form? We got 3 as well. I don’t even know if you get big black owl any more.
But fine, we aren’t restricted on mount’s usage. We are free to use mounts. Altho color variants are a joke to add, given how every single set in WoW has 2-4 color variants now.
So, what is it?
Negligence?
Laziness?
Ion hates druids?
I have. No one has ever presented a single argument as to why Blizz has not added anything new to Druid class, whilst every other class gets new sets every patch.
This was a few years back and I’ve tried searching for the post multiple times since, but I’ll paraphrase it the best I can from memory as I do in most of these threads that I care to respond to:
It’s not that they can’t add more. It’s that they don’t want to. And not out of laziness or disconnect from their player base.
They want Druids to remain unique, whilst remaining identifiable. They want you to see a Druid and know exactly what it is at first glimpse. Yup that’s a MF’ing Bear coming to maul my face off.
We went years without new models, and it’s only been 1 expansion since we got new forms and everyone is freaking out claiming we need more. We got a taste and now everyone is demanding more.
We literally just got a crap ton of choices. One single expansion ago. How about we give them another 1 or 2 before throwing them on the chopping block?
Forms in legion
BfA
Now it’s Shadowlands. There’s literally only 1 expansion between when we got them and now. Sure after a patch or two we can count SL and bump it to two
We went 12 years without getting anything shiny and new. And it’s been only 2-4 (depending on how you look at it) since we got our other options?
Per spec. Plus glyphs, toys, and variations between races (minor and not worth mentioning). Again, see previous comment.
You asked for a valid reason as to why we don’t get some every expansion. You got one, and now you’re just complaining to complain without any actual argument to be made.
You did read the post right? It’s the same thing for when people want it to be like Hunters Tame Pet ability with any proper corresponding wild animal to be able to take the form of
Actually I don’t think that would be how it would work but very similar. You know with this expansion our druid form “glyphs” changed to “marks”. Like you buy the mark, do the “use” command in your inventory and boom its in your barbershop options? Yeah all they need to do is make new druid form “marks / glyphs” and have them drop from pvp, raid boss, rare npc etc. Kinda like how the fire cat was in Firelands. The new barbershop is basically the druid form transmog station now.
It is crazy that Hunter’s get customization options each patch will other classes have to wait expansions for something new. Like priest shadowform, druid skins, shaman totems, warlock pets etc.
I wish for the day we could color customize our spells, now that would be cool… ie warlock green fire
I don’t get what the “small workload” is when they can just give us reused skins? Ill take mage tower werebear form that’s blue, grey, pink. I don’t think moving a slider to change the color of a model takes more than an hour. I know blizzard likes to reskin weapons as different colors all the time, cant they do more of that for druids?