Where Did All The Ferals Go?
No, really, is being like an atom-bomb with feathers or getting your wood on so much more fun or ‘cool’ at the moment that everyone is abandoning feral? Now, I know that, in theory, feral druids do, in fact, still exist but in game I’m hardly seeing any at all. We currently have no 1 feral druid raiding with us and almost all of the alts I see are levelling as boomkins.
I haven’t noticed the complete absence of any other class’ spec (though I am completely oblivious to the difference between most warlock specs) with the exception of arcane mages (whom I’m told may make a comeback after the next patch), and have, in fact, noticed more diversity amongst other classes than less – more discipline priests, retribution paladins (duh), frost mages, elemental shamans, prot warriors, and marksmanship hunters.
Feral seems more exciting to me than ever so why so few ferals?
Has there never been a time before where the feathered and fluffy laser-beam boomkins have had it so good? According to Fim, doomkins now have more boom than ever!
WTB more ferlols, pst.
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I’m ferlol now! Loving the no-down time while I’m questing around, and taking on like 6-8 mobs at a time when doing dailies :D
I think a lot of people are preferring boomkin/resto at the moment is that they can (almost) use the same sort of gear for both specs? Plus, moonkin has had a hell of a boost to it’s tree now hasn’t it? ;)
I’ll stick to feral as main spec all the way through this addon, just as I read once…
Once feral, always feral.
My beloved Jadenrose is Feral! She’ll be tanking UK/Nexus on weekends when I get around to it…she’s only 71 atm…I have too many alts! I can never focus though. Either way I still love questing as feral. I never did get a high level rogue, so I love the zero down time and never drinking!
I suspect a number of people may have gone Resto or Boomkin for the same reasons that I did: a) to take a break from the pure awesome that is feral and b) to help fill in for the recent healing shortages. With DKs coming along as yet another class that can tank, there is suddenly much more demand for glowing leaves than tanking fangs.
I hope it doesn’t last too long. I intend to go back to tanking ASAP. :)
Long live the Droods!
~Rhoelyn (Rhese)
Well my main is Moonkin due to awesome AoE questing together with my personal Hunter bodyguard.
I find Moonkin solo pure boredom and prefer stealthing my second druid around as a cat. Can’t do without a feral.
The good thing about being a Moonkin is that I can jump in as healer when the ominous 5th slot in an instance group remains empty for too long. There seem to be more tanks around than healers currently with all those new DKs …
In the begging, there was Vanilla WoW. People leveled and explored, and Blizzard saw this and it was good. Then came raiding. In Vanilla raiding druids had their place. A druid’s place was to go resto or go home. Hell, even tier pieces demanded it.
When BC dropped ferals found, often to their glee, that they could tank and actually do a really good job at it! Lazor Chikins were often laughed at with some few exceptions (my guild leader being one of them). So we mostly saw trees and bears. (I imagine a lot of old-woods traded in their bark for fur at this point).
Now, in Wrath, Moonkins are the new kids on the block so-to-speak. Feathers are exotic, new, and exciting. The feeling a druid might get as she trades in her coat of bark for a pelt of feathers could be quite alluring. To switch from caressing her guildmates with gentle rolling hots to calling down the furious wrath of nature and making things EXPLODE is probably rather addictive.
Ferals got some very VERY nice love in Wrath, but we didn’t really get any new and shiney tricks (kitty charge being the exception). It’s hard to look at the legions of restos, now cavorting as lazor chikins, and seeing how much fun they’re having and NOT wanting to join in.
It’s a phase, it’ll pass I think ;)
“Ferals got some very VERY nice love in Wrath, but we didn’t really get any new and shiney tricks (kitty charge being the exception).”
Well we got more than kitty charge; we have Savage Roar, Imp. Mangle and Berserk all of which used properly in a rotation result in nice dps numbers, and also we’re gettng Swipe in cat form though I havent checked/read how good it is on the PTR. This comes from a longtime bear druid, am having lots of fun running as a cat right now =)
It’s funny you saying this, because I have gone from 1-80 as Feral, and I totally love it. But the guild hasn’t got any level 80 healers, and only a few on their way up the levels, so I put my hand up to go Resto. Haven’t yet taken the plunge, need abit more Resto-gear to be effective, but it was funny saying I’d be up for the change then seeing you lament the lack of furlols.
What’s even more depressing is how few feral tanks there are, at least on my server. There are very few other ferals, but the dearth of feral tanks is depressing.
But I agree, Feral is on the decline from BC.
I think the thing is that while Ferals received quite a few nice abilities, they were all abilities to cover up holes that were already filled by the other classes, whereas the other classes got actual new things. Berserk is probably the only “new” ability we got. And even for kitties, it’s just a version of Adrenaline Rush.