New Spirit Regeneration = Combat Drinking

[Bun-Bun]

It depends on what happens to their mana regeneration in their shapeshifted forms. Druids are largely casters in humanoid form and are weak meleers. If they can cast a bunch of spells in humanoid form, shapeshift to some animal form to attack for a bit while they regen mana, and then shapeshift back and cast more spells, then this would be very powerful for them.

We're not weak, we're DPS-challenged. :)

As of the last patch, druid mana regenerates in shifted forms. The problem will be that it takes mana to shift, so no shifting while tapped out. I understand some of the new talents will reduce shifting cost. It'll also take some practice to know when your mana is topped off, since there's no mana display while shifted.