Hellz yeahFollow

I like how I'm following topics in the Druid forum that are discussing stat thresholds and such (which I have little knowledge of, or reason to know). And it's for no other reason than that I'm often bored and the Druid forum is super active. XD

Maybe I'll make a Worgen one. :P

I still think I'd find the boomkin hard to look at for long periods of time though...

/agree

I haven't had a chance to use my "/e grows an apple" macro for a while. That used to be a good way to kill time while waiting for groups to assemble.

Alchemy one gives me 440 stamina. That alone is enough for me to not give it up. I don't care what agility gives me in terms of dodge, RNG and I have unfinished business, and baby, I ain't kidding (bonus points for reference).

The mystery trinket I was talking about, but not linking, is Za'brox's Lucky Tooth. I know Mastery isn't all that hot for Druids compared to dodge and stuff (which is why I reforged the mastery on my alchemy trinket to dodge), but it's better than 3k armor just before dying. Macroing the tooth into my Barkskin, I can toss in some extra mitigation every other pull.

Yes, avoidance > health in raids once you have enough health to not die in the time it takes for a healer to cast a heal, but in heroics and such, health is king. Increased Vengeance cap (and thus size of SD procs) and a bigger buffer for when the healer has an aneurysm.

Armor, in my opinion, comes after health in sexiness. Again, this is partly due to RNG hating me. Armor provides constant mitigation whereas dodge is hit or miss. Armor, however, doesn't mitigate magical damage. Neither does health, of course, but it gives the healer more wiggling room to hit panic buttons and such.

I just imagined my Druid with his gear visible in Bear Form.

Wasn't pretty.

I'm still waiting for the Travel Form model to be released. Placeholder model for seven years is fail.

Boomkin should be the first priority. But I'd very much like updated travel/aquatic forms, too.

Even if they keep the cheetah, I'd like one that's more in keeping with current graphics. I would very much like for the sea lion to disappear and never come back. Give me a dolphin or something. Anything less stupid.

Of course, before they address Druid forms, I would really, really like them to update the old race models. Compare Goblins and Humans. The latter looks TERRIBLE next to them. They can keep the same hair styles and such, if they want, but at least do to the old races what they did to Jaina.

The lack of Worgen male options really surprised me. Females have a TON of options.

I think my issue is three-part:

1. We can't choose hair color. I get why--it's the same reason Tauren can't. But there are only 4 color options, and the mane barely changes between them. I would have liked the option to choose your mane color (and I'm not demanding the ability to have a pink one, but it would nice to be able to choose to be a white Worgen with a light gray mane, or black/brown/gray, etc. Or a black worgen with a light mane. etc.

2. There's a lot of fur in our manes. It would be nice to have some options for it. I'm not demanding styles, per se. But maybe the ability to make it sleeker, or spikier. MAYBE add in a few ponytails down the sides of it, for the hair styles with them or something.

3. Our ears are chosen based on our beard. My model viewer tells me that there are 22 variations and I'd estimate a third of them are beardless (and I think all can be ears can be chosen with a beard, but not all ears with a beard can be chosen without). My issue is the lack of beard variety in terms of color. I HATE the white tuft there. I don't understand why every beard (save one) is white. I wish your beard color was chosen by mane color.

Some stats (via model viewer, so note that they may not be perfect):
Option...Male #...Female #
Fur color...4...12
Face options...9...27 (I imagine this is wrong--I think it may be doubling it by treating DKs as separate)
Hair color...0...4
Hair style...11...20
Ears(/beard)...22...0 (comination of ears and beard/no-beard)

It just seems ridiculous how much more customizable the females are. Especially considering allowing males to choose mane colors would be easy and add a lot of variety.

[EDIT]

The whole "adding hair styles to other races" thing really, really irritated me. Not because they were recycling artwork or because it was like putting actual updates on hold. It irritated me because they clearly made pretty much no attempt to readjust them for the other races. Seriously, all human males with the new options look RIDICULOUS. The hair lines are god awful for all of them. For example, humans got blood elf styles. Blood elf heads are quite a bit thinner than human heads, and smaller. So, the hair style that looks like Varian's hair creates a V at their hair line. On human males, however, it's a straight line, which is super awkward. Furthermore, the hair still has BE proportions, so their heads seem to be flat on top, and the hair often levitates in mid air, or plumetts inside them even when they are idle.

Grrr, it drives me insane when I see them. And now NPCs are getting those hair cuts. >:(

Edited, Feb 16th 2011 12:05am by idiggory

Since gearswap addons (at least Outfitter) still equip/unequip one slot at a time, I've found that you have to have the alchemist's stones in the same gear slot across specs in order not to break your automation.

This.

Stags can apparently bound at up to 40 mph for long periods. O.o;; Aerobic bastards...

Oh, some other random facts. Using WoW's yards as a guide, 310% mounts move at around 58 mph.

That means our normal running speed is around 14 mph (which is tremendous when you consider that would be our long-term running speed. The current best mph for marathons is something like 12.8 mph for men.

So the travel form runs at just under 18 mph.

I don't see why it even has to be a cheetah at such a low point.

They should change Travel Form to a mount form, like Flight Form.

Paladins, Warlocks and Death Knights get special mounts (Worgen too), so I don't see why not. Just remove the castable in combat functionality and make it our mount.

40% movement speed just doesn't feel like a lot when you're moving at 30% in Cat Form as a Feral anyway, and Flight Form moves at 310% (plus perks?) speed. Switching from Cat Form to Travel Form, I barely noticed a difference. And you get the form at level, what, 16? Way after most Ferals have picked up Feral Swiftness anyway.

Roll the 30% movement speed into Cat Form since Ferals pick up the speed talent anyway and Restos/Boomies would be without a mobility form if not. That way we still have Cat Form which moves us around at 30% speed, plus we have an instant cast land mount that isn't useless for Ferals.

I'd give a lot to be able to instantly transform into a stag and run around at mount speed through Ashenvale...