11-18-2006, 07:06 AM
Quote:I believe Healthstones in forms were the item people were complaining about, though I'd have to do some digging to find exactly what the supposed problem was.
If you can find it, please do - I haven't been able to locate anything.
I can't see why Cat/Bear using a healthstone is game breaking but a Rogue/Warrior using one isn't. Classes should have the same relative power in arena that they do in the rest of the game - I very much doubt that balanced-for-no-pots Druids are going to suddenly stomp all over needs-pots-to-be-balanced everyone else in Arenas where pots aren't available.
The Nurturing Instinct change doesnt worry me much. I can see why cat/shifting specialists are concerned but as the tank it's pretty rare for me to shift and start healing mid fight - emergencies call for a battle res and/or innervate, not trying to spam HT with five mobs beating on me. So I wasn't going to take the talent even at 100%. I-LOTP I'm still pretty happy with at 4%, especially with the larger health pool it'l work on now.
But I would like procs and consumables. I want the flashy enchants to be as useful to me as they are to other classes (especially since like every tanking Druid I'm an enchanter myself), just as the raw stat enchants are. I want to look at Sulfuras and consider the proc better than +1 Spirit. I want to be able to benefit from having the warlock pass out healthstones just as any other class can. I want Alchemy to mean more than a transmute.