02-28-2007, 12:55 AM
Quote:No, it doesn't happen often. Why on earth should it? The Arms/Fury warriors specced DPS, and they do it well. Feral druids specced melee, and they do it well, be it DPS or tanking. Let me reiterate: I specced to tank. Why should they bring me if I only do sporadious tanking and DPS and a bit of support healing? In your world, an Arms/Fury warrior can replace me in every aspect but healing, and so I'd be more useful as a Restoration druid.Sounds to me like you roll with the wrong guild that pigeonholes players into roles too much. Unless you're in one of the uber ultra min-max superguilds like Nihilum or Death and Taxes, there's just no reason for a guild to limit its hybrids to the healing role. Especially in the Burning Crusade, where the hybrids are starting to really shine. Yes, I'm aware the Druid nerf puts a fork in that. The Priest nerfs also seem to be an attempt to limit that. Shadow Priests *rule* in raiding now (before, they were good, but now they're raid-changing) and any guild shunning them is idiotic.
Yeah, being a Druid sucks like that. As someone who tends to manage/oversee healing in a large raiding conglomerate, I'm well aware of how much some of the Druids feel maligned. We're lucky to have all sorts - those Druids who live to heal, some who love to Moonkin, and some who love to feral. One of them in particular was "born to tank."
Even in tanking, the most gear-dependent role of them all, skill often shines. We have a feral Druid who's a hell of a tank and it would really become apparent on tough tanking encounters like the Bug Family of AQ40. Some tanks can handle the chaos, and some can't. When the feral Druid shows up some of our prot Warriors who feel they deserve to tank everything, well, too bad.
From my perspective, that being a dedicated Priest healer, having a feral Druid along *rocks*. Think about what they bring:
1) Solid DPS
2) Ability to tank
3) Combat ressing
4) INNERVATE. Two seconds to pop out of form and Innervating me is *enormous* when facing tough, long encounters. In this sense, the feral Druid becomes a healer simply by giving you the mana power of two Holy Priests instead of one.
5) Spot healing when things go bad/needed
What can Shalandrax, Tal's Warrior, provide me besides his damage/tanking?
1) Intervene, when that big mob is coming to one-shot me
Winnar = Druid.
-Bolty
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