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Ultima.Bahamut

PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:32 am


I might be imagining it, but I've noticed that the number of Druids had sky-rocketed since BC. It really bugs me. I rolled my druid in 2005, and there were never many around. Seeing them all filling up bg raids and stuff really grinds my gears. I'm betting a lot of people rolled druids for flight form, so it just seems stupid. I love my druid to bits, but having so many around makes him feel worthless....yeah, my druid rant.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:36 am


the utility value of druids has skyrocketed since BC, as all talent trees and set-ups (balance dps, feral dps, feral tank, and resto healer) have become decent for raids, even with moderate gear.

suicidal_marmot


Ultima.Bahamut

PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:40 am


suicidal_marmot
the utility value of druids has skyrocketed since BC, as all talent trees and set-ups (balance dps, feral dps, feral tank, and resto healer) have become decent for raids, even with moderate gear.

I agree fully, it's just nuts that they seem to be the most played class these days.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:01 am


You really think so? Maybe it's just your server?

My guild has like one feral druid who raids and like two or three resto druids. We had a balance applicant but I think they withdrew or something.

Druids never really interested me, though . . . I made one 'cause I thought I'd like to try healing as her, but got bored around level 15. ^^;

Halrenna


LorienLlewellyn

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:37 am


BishoujoMagic
You really think so? Maybe it's just your server?

My guild has like one feral druid who raids and like two or three resto druids. We had a balance applicant but I think they withdrew or something.

Very possible.

My guild only has two level 70 druids in it. One is a main (resto), one is an alt (feral). So that means in raids, we usually only have one druid.



I highly doubt most of the people with druids created them for flight form though. Many people think druids are one of the more difficult classes to level, so creating and leveling a character just to turn into a bird seems a little silly.... I think it's far more likely that people would create druids for their versatility. Not every class can tank, be melee DPS, be caster DPS, or be a healer, you know. So of course that versatility will appeal to many people and it will come in handy for smaller guilds who might have to ask people to respec often to fill in certain roles in raids.

Also keep in mind that there are only so many classes available for us to play, so it stands to reason that you're going to see lots of people of each class. You walk around Stormwind, and yeah, you might see tons of druids, but you'll probably also see tons of warlocks, tons of rogues, tons of paladins, etc. It's not a big deal, and it's nothing to feel weird about.

You can't feel offended every time you see someone the same class as you, and it's not fair to assume they created the character for stupid reasons. Druids are a really handy class, which is why you and some other people play them. 3nodding
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:09 am


My boyfriend and I started playing about the same time. He has a feral druid and I have a resto druid. We didn't know each other back then, but the story was the same: nearly impossible to level a druid because of crappy talents.
I actually have never changed specs (resto alllll the way!) except for once when they introduced Moonkins. (Best two days EVER, and all in healing gear!) After BC, I did notice that it was easier to play a druid, but I didn't notice a boom.

Perhaps it's all based on your server. My server, Perenolde, has an overabundance of DPS, hunters more than any other class, and an underwhelming amount of healers and tanks. That causes problems: people leave because they can't start another character, people get left out because of the overabundance, people get overworked because of the shortened number... and so on. Are druids leaving your server as fast as they're getting created? Or is it just becoming more apparent because more and more people are capping? There's a lot of factors that can lead to this seeming effect~

Lady Borderline


Karnokoto

PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:39 pm



ITT: Butthurt OP whines about better players rolling 'his' class and doing it better than him (ie he is not a special unique snowflake anymore) therefore making him undesireable for raids/arena teams/instances.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:04 pm


I don't know if you've noticed, but druids are the best pvp healing class. It's more than just flight form, buddy.

teranoid

Shadowy Gaian


Scarele

PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:37 pm


Kimberly Ferris
I don't know if you've noticed, but druids are the best pvp healing class. It's more than just flight form, buddy.

Yeah, I nearly wanted to spec resto for my arena runs. I really love druid healing, but we need tanks.

For our guild, we have one boomkin main, one feral druid main and one resto druid main in our raid. The rest of the druids on our guild are all alts, including my own. They are a very versatile class.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:31 pm


I rolled my druid a couple of years ago when I first started playing and its still my main and he's been level 70 for ages now and has swift flightform and... before pretty much my entire guild abandoned me for AoC... everyone was rolling druids in it.
I think our GMOTD is still "druids rule, the rest drool" or something equally pathetic that it's funny.
When I rolled onto a PVE server that I thought we were moving to... before pretty much my entire guild abandoned me for AoC... I rolled a druid.
And I'm running into druids everywhere.

One thing I have noticed, it must be something about druids, people are nicer when they're on a druid... if they have a warrior main, say, they will be nasty little pricks that you wish had died in the exodar crash... but make 'em roll a druid and suddenly they're all peaches and cream. lol
But maybe that's just this server. lol

FenrisVollmond

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Morbrid

PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:05 pm


Druid was my first character...when I started out I rolled a bunch of characters though and I deleted my druids several times before finally lvling one to 60...unfortunately, not my first toon to 70. : P

I played WoW before BC came out...but I wasn't with it from the start. Flight form had nothing to do with me lvling one. They've always been an interesting class to me. The reason I never got around to lvling one until after BC came out was because...for a majority of the time before then I spent playing around with the other classes, trying to figure out which class was for meeee. rofl
PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:24 pm


How does that grind your gears so much? So there's more druids, who cares? It's not like a rogue or a warlock where there's only one role the class can play--druids can be anything.

It's like when you're playing go fish and 5's are wild, and you just drew a 5. Druids are wild like that.

Kiloran


SKJC

PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:09 am


I like the wild card analogy. Earlier I did Mana-Tombs with 3 druids and a rogue. (My main's a mage in case my sig's not showing for whatever reason.) We had a bear, a tree, and a giant chicken. It was awesome.

(I have a level 13 druid alt who's going to be resto if I ever level her up, but I have alts of every single class in the game, all below level 20, so that's really just because I have alt-itis.)
PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:15 am


I played a resto druid Pre-Bc and still play her. I was the only druid in a naxx guild... So now it's BC and there's four druids in the guild. One resto, two feral and one boomkin. Zomg druid population explosion!

Numbers have increased with all classes. The WoW player base has grown a lot since the old days in WoW. If you really want to feel worthless try a rogue where there's 20 billion of them. You go "LF Rogue SW 4/6 guild" I get 4-6 whispers that day asking where our rogue class leader is. BC brought druids to be worth something, instead of a damn buff/innervate bots. Of course there's going to be more.

As mentioned before being the best 2v2 and 3v3 healer has a lot to do with the population increase of druids.

Kateroo


Callibretto

PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:45 am


Lady Borderline
My boyfriend and I started playing about the same time. He has a feral druid and I have a resto druid. We didn't know each other back then, but the story was the same: nearly impossible to level a druid because of crappy talents.
I actually have never changed specs (resto alllll the way!) except for once when they introduced Moonkins. (Best two days EVER, and all in healing gear!) After BC, I did notice that it was easier to play a druid, but I didn't notice a boom.

Perhaps it's all based on your server. My server, Perenolde, has an overabundance of DPS, hunters more than any other class, and an underwhelming amount of healers and tanks. That causes problems: people leave because they can't start another character, people get left out because of the overabundance, people get overworked because of the shortened number... and so on. Are druids leaving your server as fast as they're getting created? Or is it just becoming more apparent because more and more people are capping? There's a lot of factors that can lead to this seeming effect~


Hey your on perenolde? Are you alliance? *looks hopeful*
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