Treeform: The Cry Heard Round The Blogosphere

I can’t help but notice that, pretty much everywhere, all I’m hearing about is the loss of Druid treeform, which is now a used cooldown for Restoration and no longer a permanent form.

Honestly, I don’t understand what the big deal over this is. I played a Druid a number of months in Wrath, during which I was Restoration for a good chunk of. While I enjoyed the treeform animation, I was never too attached to it, and more than a few times found myself wishing I could heal in caster form without nerfing myself. I was generally surprised to see what my caster form looked like half the time. The problem I have with this situation is that a large number of people are reporting that they’re shelving their Druid because they can no longer sit in treeform all day long.

Now, this is just opinion, but you do not play a class specifically because you like the way they look when they’re healing. That kind of logic is just plain silly. The reason you should play a class is because you like the job that class is designed to fill and the tools that are given to you in order to do that job. To simply shelve a character over such an insignificant change is, quite frankly, extremely vain and just plain wrong.

I play this game to have fun, and while I can certainly see some people having fun ONLY because they’re a tree, it’s just the wrong state of mind to be in. I know I would much rather have a Druid in my group because he enjoyed being a Druid, not because he could turn into a fricken tree.

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