Shifting Perspectives: What balance druid design can take from SWTOR

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Balance news comes at you every Friday — learn how to master the forces of nature, and know what it means to be a giant laser turkey! Send questions, comments, or requests to tyler@wowinsider.com or @murmursofadruid . Welcome to a new year, balance druids. It’s been a flurry of a holiday season for many folks, although things have been rather quiet on the Blizzard front. In terms of any new information being released, all that we’ve seen thus far is a minor patch announcement that does hold some good news: Our four-piece tier bonus is getting 10% Starsurge damage tacked on. While this isn’t monumental in the sense that it suddenly turns the bonus into a must-have, it’s a good boost that was sorely needed. Instead, the major release of the holiday season was the highly anticipated release of Star Wars: The Old Republic , which I myself have been glad to officially have my hands on. WoW -killer, front-runner MMO of the new year, or potential flop, it’s far too soon to tell — but what is telling is how new game designers approach the MMO genre and what Blizzard can learn as other companies look to emulate its success stories. What then could SWTOR possibly have for balance druids? Quite a bit. Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: What balance druid design can take from SWTOR Filed under: Druid , (Druid) Shifting Perspectives Shifting Perspectives: What balance druid design can take from SWTOR originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink