Shifting Perspectives: Restoration and the Tree Druid’s future

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Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting Druids and those who group with them. This week, rather than plagiarizing from Stephen Hawking , we plagiarize from ourselves, and for the second time in column history , we shelve our Previously Scheduled Guide in favor of an emergency summit concerning Tree conservation . A question for Druids from Ghostcrawler himself; is Tree of Life form fun ? I’d like to get the question a bit more exposure both here and on the forums, because it’s a thought-provoking issue. No other healer, as he observes, has to sacrifice anything in order to use a key talent in their healing tree/s, and from how Ghostcrawler’s worded his post, it seems pretty clear that the PvE and PvP healing output of the Restoration spec is explicitly balanced around the use of Tree of Life . That’s fine — it is our 41-point talent, and a good one at that. It’s not unreasonable for Blizzard to expect that we’ll use it. However, It does have implications for game balance when 3 of 4 healing classes retain all of their offensive capabilities, crowd-control, and interrupts while healing, and the Druid relinquishes all of the above in order to provide the same level of healing throughput. I took a look at the thread in question, and if you want my honest opinion, some of the issues being described are the logical evolution of problems from October 2005 when Tree of Life went live. The game has changed, and while the flagship Restoration talent has slowly changed alongside it, the inherent design of the form still reflects realities from the classic game rather than Wrath . Interestingly, many of these same problems affect moonkin as well. Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Restoration and the Tree Druid’s future Filed under: Druid , Analysis / Opinion , News items , Classes , (Druid) Shifting Perspectives , Forums Shifting Perspectives: Restoration and the Tree Druid’s future originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read