I was surfing some other druid blogs and getting a feel on how they appreciate playing the druid. The past few years I have seen myself mostly in tree form healing my raiding pals. But with WoTLK, I've picked up a balance set (granted it needs to be improved) and DPS'ed some when we're healer heavy. As was the case Monday night when our resto shaman came back from his hiatus.
Playing a druid is quite a bit of fun in that you can fill various roles of healing (raid or tank), caster DPS, melee DPS, or even tank. Playing a resto druid was pretty fun for a time there before WoTLK came out. I mean you could spec such a way in PVP that allowed you to use the feral forms. Feral charge was awesome. Pounce and stunning an opposing player in arenas was a great way to add another interrupt to your arsenal. Plus it gave you the opportunity to break out of tree form and actually be the bear or cat for a change. But WoTLK rolled out and eliminated these possibilities from PVP. Resto play in PVE is pretty fun even though tree form is pretty bland and you can't see the cool design on your tier gear. The same could be said for Moonkins and the other forms. However, the last patch allowed ferals to change their feral form hair colors (something I have yet to do). Unfortunately, moonkin and tree forms got the shaft on this feature.
But out of all the forms (minus the swim form) I think the tree is the worst. It's pretty bland and you don't even see your weapon like you do in Moonkin form. And I'm not alone in this. Even Ghostcrawler earlier this year made a post about it titled Is tree form fun?
Since spending about 80% of the time in tree form, I'd have to say no. Tree form isn't fun. But I love the healing mechanics and theory behind druid healing. Of course I got nothing to add that would spice up the form. Some people have asked me, "Why doesn't Blizzard at least allow your leaves to change colors with the seasons?" I have even a better question, "Why not let us pick what type of tree we want to be?" Fir? Elm? Oak? Maple? Palm? Yeah a palm tree would be cool.
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