Why no Druid weapon upgrade in Ulduar?

#0 - May 16, 2009, 6:38 a.m.
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Why is there no weapon upgrade for tanking Druids in Ulduar? It seems there is no 10 man pregression for Druid tanks, and both of our tanks are Druids.

Does Blizz intend to force 10 man content Druids out of tanking?
#35 - May 17, 2009, 9:01 p.m.
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We want to get out of the business of needing to offer 2 types of weapon for a single tree of one class, given that we already have to itemize Balance and Resto druids somewhat differently. It is just not our design to make two-handed tanking weapons, and we have attempted to design DKs and druids so that they don't need them.

The classes and spec have grown so divergent that even with Ulduar offering something like 800 items (which to be fair, counts 10 vs. 25 and normal vs. hard) some players still feel like we aren't filling their niche. We don't want to have to offer 1000 or more PvE items in one patch, so we need to handle things at the class level so that there is less of a need for those items.

If you want to focus on tanking as a Feral instead of dps, you should do that mostly through talents, gems, enchants and the jewelry and cloak pieces. We have fit two fairly different roles into the Feral tree and you can even hybridize them to a degree, but we want to stop short of having to itemize the druid as four classes.