What I understand of 5.0 is that generally most of the trees are pretty pvp-oriented.. or at least many people are making that claim. The way I see it is that speccing resto gives you a pre-made, optimized spec to heal; it’s going to have everything we need worked into it. The new talent trees, instead of defining our character’s abilities as they have in the past, will instead be neat little perks with which we can customize ourselves.

Blizzard is trying to do away with “cookie-cutter” specs, and I figure this is a decent way, by giving us stuff which is useful to choose from, though not class defining. What I’m saying is that a resto druid will be a resto druid, we won’t need those healy talents because they’re built in.. this is a new talent system, one which enriches our individual play experience without changing our role…. wanted to move faster as a cat but couldn’t spare taking points from resto? Now you don’t have to, now you can be full resto and pick up all those little things. That’s how I see it.

That said, yeah I agree with the PVE’ers here, myself as a PVE healer in that hybridization is detrimental to being a competitive healer. However, there’s been times I’ve had to break out of my role in a raid… I’m sure we all have. Back in 3.1, my guild was among the first on our server to down Mimiron in Ulduar; we had lost heals on the last phase (I was in shadow spec that fight), and it was my quick jump out of shadow to finish the healing that won us the fight. My point in that little story is that if this is working the way I figure, and everything we need for resto is built in, a little utility on the side can’t hurt.

The last thing I’ll say is this: We don’t yet know what kind of fight mechanics they have planned for us in Mists… We already have smiting Holy priests, we will have Monks healing while dealing ranged or melee damage as well – it sounds to me like they’re going for a more dynamic feel overall to the combat system. If you’ve looked at the other trees, none have the staple “+5% effectiveness to healing spells” talents of old. Speccing resto will make you resto, and your talents will make you unique.

Thanks guys, that’s my opinion.

Also, Displacer Beast is great – if you want to give up Feline Swiftness, which goes a long way toward countering the Cat range bug and Shred’s positional problems. Incarnation is awesome – if you don’t care about Feral Charge.

I said renewal is a bland filler, you think it is OP. That maybe, but my point still stands – however OP you think it is, especially when combined with other things, is fine, however, it is still not an “exciting” talent. It still feels like they needed something quickly to fill in a space.

You seem to like the overall feel of the talent tree, good on you I however don’t, I play resto PvE, not feral PvP and the two things are entirely different.

Blizzard though needs to give everyone something that is viable no matter what the player chooses to play as. This means making talents that are attractive to no less than 8 different types of player (guardian/balance/rest/feral x PvP/PvE). At the moment there is a lot for feral kitties (both PvE and PvP) and not so much that is looking good for resto.

One last point: I ok’ed this comment as it was your first and I don’t have a strict comments policy, but if you wish to comment in future please refrain from a few things:
1: many people don’t like the term “rape” in game, please don’t use it.
2: Don’t have a go at other specs, PvE vs PvP and so on. Stating you don’t think something will work is not QQ or crying.
3: I have no idea who you are or how old you are, but the excessive caps and !!!! makes you come across as a kid. Better grammar will make people take you more seriously

Cheers,

Kat

They finally gave feral kitties a vanish, EPIC!!!!!!!! I can hop in, rape face, and dip out. SO COOL AND THAT’S JUST OUR FIRST TALENT LINE!

Then you go off and say renewal is “a bland filler talent.” Seriously, I have a new ability that heals 30% OF MY HP TO ADD TO MY OHSH%@ Macro
Renewal (30%) + Might of Ursoc(30%) + Survival instincts + Barkskin + shapeshift heal(20%) = back to 70% hp while I dust myself off XD XD XD

Third tier, tough call but I’d say Mass Entanglement all the way. GREAT way to just go ahead and peel everybody real quick, awesome for certain bgs like strand, awesome addition to your feral charge in arenas when someone’s chasing your teamate and wont attack you, awesome addition to your cc rotation

4th tier… IM F#%ING SORRY BUT DID U JUST SAY I COULD SPAM RAVAGE AND POUNCE FOR 30 SECONDS OUT OF STEALTH????? OH. MY. GAWD. This is AMAZING, this is OP, this is RIDICULOUS. Imagine opening on healer and dps… POUNCE, POUNCE, RAVAGE, RAVAGE, RAVAGE, POUNCE, POUNCE, RIP, RAKE, RAVAGE RAVAGE, CYCLONE, RAVAGE, RAVAGE, BEAR HUG (we’ll get there soon), RAVAGE, CYCLONE… and that’s just MY damage… oh my gawd… so epic.

5th tier, I know the vortex thing might be kind of cool, demoralizing roar is boring and pointless… but bear hug… 30% of MY hp in BEAR FORM? (might not be bear form or w/e but imagine if it is). This is going to be my herp derp finisher when someone tries to get away before they die, AND my herp derp opener (after i pounce and ravage the crap out of them as I said before) So beautiful, so amazing

And last but not least… did I read this right??? They’re giving us back our ability to get out of all snares… AND AND AND, it heals us for 20% hp every 30 seconds? So hold up hold up hold up… u mean I can pop renewal, shapeshift, and then might of ursoc and just be hanging out with 70% hp? /drool. Oh, and if heart of the wild ends up being OP then I can pop then right before my teamate goes down and just resto druid him back to full real quick…. lol XD so kewl I can’t wait… can’t wait to read all the QQ’s and see all the nerfs the first week :p all u pvers can stop crying about not being able to do your whatever while I rape erybody constantly.

Sarcasm off.