I have (basically because I haven't been able to help myself) been reading a bit on the blogsphere about the upcoming changes to resto druids in Cata.
Am I the only one who is getting a bit worried about them at the moment? I know I know its beta and nothing is set in stone (TM) but at the moment from reading up druids seem to be horribly behind other healers with regards to their usefulness with the current mastery's in raids.
Matticus has a good initial rundown on healing classes and how they are shaping up in Cata here
http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2010/09/13/your-beta-and-healing-questions-answered/
Some of the comments from him and also in the great breakdown of mastery for resto druids by Lissanna over at Restokin
http://www.restokin.com/2010/09/cata-resto-druids-need-a-new-mastery-bonus/
make me a bit nervous about the possible state of druid healing going into Cataclysm.
When we went into Wrath from my point of view no healing class really was at the bottom of the heap by a long way when it came to healing. We all had our niches in raids which allowed all classes to be wanted.
It does appear with the current state of druid healing at 85+ level that we are really suffering from Blizzards attempts to homogenise to an extent all healers so each class can capably do a bit of everything. While this is a laudable goal to prevent issues in 10 man raids due to guild make ups. I hope that all the feedback from those in the beta on druids make us viable healers for raids straight off the bat in Cataclysm as I really don't want to switch mains if I end up healing in Cataclysm to be effective till Blizzard gets it sorted out.
I know I am worrying probably over nothing but there is the smell in the air of release dates being put forward and there is activity on the test realms.
Zetter
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Saturday, 4 September 2010
You think you know it all......
As I posted recently my wife has got back on the WOW bandwagon and is thundering through content with her hunter and fuzzy bear know as Thread (still love that).
Now back in BC when I was looking at changing mains away from my pally as a healer to my druid and I wanted a DPS toon to farm for me so I ran a hunter up to level 68 and really got a feel for the class ( at this point I lost interest in the project then respecced my pally as dps). Hence I thought I knew a fair bit about hunters to help my beloved out with her toon.
WRONG
Due to my concentrating on my druid/ pally for Wrath and raiding my ass off I got a rather rude awakening that I don't have a bloody clue about hunters anymore.
Case in point my wife asked me about training her pet. No problem I think I remember this you learn the skills from the pet trainer and train your pet in the skills you want. So I proceed in a confident tone of voice to explain all this to her only to be stopped in my tracks by the comment "but the pet trainer doesn't teach anything".
I wander over and damn me she is right nothing now I am stumped and with rather less confidence fire up wowhead and do some digging for a bit. After a while I come across "pet Talents". Stop the press where the hell did those come from? Apparently hunters changed a lot more with Wrath than I thought, so tail between my legs I explain how pets now have talents apparently and off she trundles again with a parting shot "I thought you said you had played a hunter?"
God help me when Cataclysm launches at this rate if I don't keep my pally up to date all I will know about is Druids!
One advantage of my wife now getting in to WOW I have a great idea for a small anniversary gift for her. I think her hunter will look great on a celestial steed done you?
Zetter
Now back in BC when I was looking at changing mains away from my pally as a healer to my druid and I wanted a DPS toon to farm for me so I ran a hunter up to level 68 and really got a feel for the class ( at this point I lost interest in the project then respecced my pally as dps). Hence I thought I knew a fair bit about hunters to help my beloved out with her toon.
WRONG
Due to my concentrating on my druid/ pally for Wrath and raiding my ass off I got a rather rude awakening that I don't have a bloody clue about hunters anymore.
Case in point my wife asked me about training her pet. No problem I think I remember this you learn the skills from the pet trainer and train your pet in the skills you want. So I proceed in a confident tone of voice to explain all this to her only to be stopped in my tracks by the comment "but the pet trainer doesn't teach anything".
I wander over and damn me she is right nothing now I am stumped and with rather less confidence fire up wowhead and do some digging for a bit. After a while I come across "pet Talents". Stop the press where the hell did those come from? Apparently hunters changed a lot more with Wrath than I thought, so tail between my legs I explain how pets now have talents apparently and off she trundles again with a parting shot "I thought you said you had played a hunter?"
God help me when Cataclysm launches at this rate if I don't keep my pally up to date all I will know about is Druids!
One advantage of my wife now getting in to WOW I have a great idea for a small anniversary gift for her. I think her hunter will look great on a celestial steed done you?
Zetter
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