Balance druid status

#1 - March 14, 2008, 3:31 p.m.

And why all 4 hybrid classes are forced to specc healing for Arena? Funny, resto druids, resto shamans, holly paladins and discipline-holly priests are most wanted in Pve and PvP.

Have you ever see DPS hybrid spec to be wanted, really wanted in Arena? (not counting wariors, which has no healing spec)

And why is so hard for full PvP epic Moonkin, to find a group for heroic? Don t mention raids. Ofc there are some Moonkins raiding BT and some are high arena rated. But they are rarity comparable with most other specs. Blizzard should really do something with Balance spec. Make it viable in PvP or pve; or even bettter, in both case, like healers. Small buffs with solve everything. Just add more crit on PvP gear and fix few talents for pve and pvp.

Tharfor

#3 - March 14, 2008, 4:17 p.m.

A balance druid is essentially a ranged DPS class.

There are other ranged DPS classes

People who are looking for groups for PvE or PvP will have preferences over which roles need filled and which classes they wish to fill those roles.

I think the fact that there are any balance druids filling any of these roles proves that they can be just as viable as other ranged DPS classes; the difference, I suspect, is that those balance druids in those roles have worked hard to prove their worth rather than simply expecting a slot "because it's not fair".

A restoration druid, on the other hand, has a unique type of healing which is regularly sought, and occasionally required, by many groups.

Feral druids can fill two different roles, so I would be interested to see which of those were chosen for their tanking abilities and which were chosen for their melee DPS abilities. Regardless of those numbers, there are less classes that can fill the role of melee DPS so logically speaking we would expect more druids to be chosen for those positions.