I also find myself thinking there should be some inherent benefit to the cost paid for slow movement speed and loss of offensive ability. Perhaps a passive AOE heal? Given we can’t move very fast it would limit the risk of OP.

Fun can come in different forms (augh didnt mean that!)… whether it’s the aesthetics or gameplay. I think it’s a valid concern for players if they dont enjoy looking at themselves, but they are kind of forced to by the game. whatever happened to those druid glyphs, for instance? They disappeared and we’re still left with “forms are being worked on”. Even the temporary fix was taken out of druid’s paws… errr.

Anyhow, I’m quite curious to what they may have in store. <3

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Even if they made the tree look a bit more alive and a bit less dead brocalli.

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It’s hard to answer is healing fun when the graphic is active… because it’s the same as healing without the graphic (more or less).

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When I mention Centaur and Dryad, I know it’s a pipe dream, but I’m pointing out to GC that there are better models available already in game. No art design needed! And I’m pretty sure there’s next to no budget for druid forms, or they would have been redone with the outset of Wrath, when all the other art was being worked on. If you let druids choose among many different models in game, we would be totally happy.

It would of course require a bit of re-design, but I think if improved tree of life was changed to ‘grow roots’ with a 2-3 sec cast or something similar, which gave somewhere around 200-300% armor, and 40-50% increased spell power from spirit, a lower cooldown on WG and possibly lower the cooldown on Tranquillity BUT also rooted the tree in place then it would make life as a tree much more interesting.

It is of course a huge boost to healing whilst giving us a little protection to avoid some aoe damage or whatever, but the rooting in my opinion is what the tree form should be all about, sacrificing mobility for a huge boost to healing. The druid class after all is about utility at a cost, but I go into tree and as I’m specifically healing, I don’t think I lose anything really because I’m not in a rush to use FF or roots etc. with a moonkin in the raid.

I think druids should start heading in the direction of true utility where we’re changing roles constantly throughout a raid, if my healing was only good while rooted I might use it on fights where there’s not much movement but then go dps for another, the benefits and sacrifices of each form need to be balanced so well that we’re almost forced to adapt to a particular fight in my opinion, then good druids who can play their class well and not just their form would start to be more beneficial to raids.

As for the aesthetics well I would again like to see some big changes right through the game. I think there should be various starting points throughout the game, not just 1 for each race. Each of these starting zones would allow different features or skin tones and give some basic background to each character. Also for druids depending on where you start, your forms are different, for example if you start in a place like winterspring, you get a polar bear form, snow leopard cat form, and a fir tree form etc. If you start somewhere like stranglethorn then you get palm tree form, tiger cat form, and maybe even go with gorilla tanking form?

Just some of the things I’d love to see implemented in future expansions really, I wouldn’t expect anything like this in a patch but I think they’d be fun changes to the overall game as I think characters lack a lot of depth for an mmoRPG.

*And no i’m not into roleplaying and I’m not on a roleplaying server*

Each to their own But really, he asked if tree form was fun, not if you liked the look of it.

I’m not a druid. I’m very jealous of the capability of resto druids but I do believe one of the reasons why I’ve never leveled one is that I love my character and I love looking at her.

But I do think tree form is poor looking and could use a redesign. I think it would be more appealing to look like the ancients of Darnassus. The current one looks like a silly cartoon, not a powerful nature spirit.