Comments on: Rumored Hero Class: Arch Druid

By: Shon

Shon — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:54:31 +0000

@alan
sounds like a cool idea, maybe like the little pikmin things with a huge army of ants doing battle for you, too bad it would prolly be too much for others processing to have 5 people in a raid that had 100 pets each running around fighting.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:11:39 +0000

I think maybe they should break the mold. Go with something no one is expecting, like a class that can only use disease or summoned beasts/demons/anything to do damage, and is pretty much vulnerable to anything that gets to it. Maybe some one/thing that can control large groups of summoned things, or raises dead enemies to fight for them. It would be like lots of smaller weaker monster-like creatures killing stuff while you either watch and give commands, or provide buffs for them, or subtle heals and dps here and there. Break the mold again blizzard! The Death Knight was a good idea!

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:52:38 +0000

@Car7man: I would love if they would give us an updated, faster land form. They’d likely have to redo the animations for stags, though, as right now they’re quite limited. I’d personally love to shift into a Sister of Cenarius in Northrend. ^_^

By: Car7man

Car7man — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:43:47 +0000

I think that maybe they are gonna add a stag form like in the WoW comic, ass they said when explaining stuff about the Idle of Remulos.

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:46:59 +0000

@Autumnbear: That’s a great question! I can’t imagine an Undead Arch Druid, but I think Draenei would be pretty nice since they have cloven feet like the Sisters of Cenarius. I originally wanted to play Human, but they couldn’t be Hunters (the first class I considered) or Druids.

By: Autumnbear

Autumnbear — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:31:28 +0000

I’d imagine an Arch-Druid to be more of a caster-focused class, combining the best of the traditional WoW Druids Balance and Resto trees. A host of new spells and abilities (indoor roots/ teleport other to Moonglade/ OOC group-rez, similar to the Warlock spell for summoning others) could be available.

One thing to wonder though would be: If the Death Knight is actually available to all races, would an Arch Druid be available to non-Druid races, such as Trolls or Humans?

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:05:24 +0000

@Skarrde: Add my vote for bunny form!

@Leafshine: I think that Blizzard has traditional been very hesistant to make one specific class heavily “crowd control.” Priests CC Undead, Druids CC beasts and Dragonkin, Rogues CC Humanoids, and Warlocks CC Demons and Elementals. Even Mages are limited to Humanoids and beasts for Polymorph. I think they’re determined to avoid the foible of EverQuest 1 which made having a Enchanter virtually REQUIRED for endgame dungeon crawling and raiding.

@Aichon: I think you may be onto something with the “of the Talon” or “of the Claw.” Though I can’t imagine how an Arch Druid being MORE specialized than the Druid wouldn’t make them more desirable to the people playing Druids in that specific role. I.e., if a Druid of the Talon were capable of shapeshifting into different DPS forms affording different benefits to their groupmates or specific debuffs to mobs, why wouldn’t a formerly diehard kitty Druid make the switch?

@Urthona: It would be awesome if they added another leather-wearing caster. What a nice boost for Boomkin.

By: Anora

Anora — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:23:45 +0000

I want a Pandaren Brewmaster! No need for Arch Druids and Death Knights.

By: Slippir

Slippir — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:21:22 +0000

I’ll bet Archdruid will get ambient form before we do.

By: Urthona

Urthona — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:41:49 +0000

Well, as I’ve said elsewhere, I think Hero Classes don’t necessarily have to be those we are already familiar with, ie. Death Knight, Dark Ranger, Blademaster.

While I’m intrigued by what Death Knights bring to the game, I worry they’ll set a precedent for new classes to be more restrictive than the classes we’ve had for years. Just the debate over what races will get the Death Knight class is heated and somewhat hilarious.

Still, the fact that we’re all expecting the next Hero Class to be a caster of some sort with healing powers makes absolute sense. As the Death Knight is an amalgam of Fury Warrior DPS, Paladin-style tanking, and Warlock dots and minions, I’d expect the next Hero to be an amalgam of Shaman/Priest healing, and mage-like manipulation of spells, and elemental shatners’ storm of high speed dps. I’d even ask that they wear leather, so there’s more reason to make caster leather in the game.

I love imaginin’ stuff.