I also prefer MMO-Champion; they seem more professional. But I’m not shy about checking both for information! I can’t wait to see the ready-for-writing product (they’re never “finished”) for your blog.

I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m certainly not the best resto PvP druid, but I can’t imagine that the loss of the 15% movement speed will be critical. As the veritable swing-man of my guild (feral gone resto gone feral gone resto), I never actually had the four piece bonus–I’m stuck with 3 Merciless Dragonhide pieces and three Vengeful Kodohide pieces. The bad situations I’ve gotten myself into during arena matches hardly would have been fixed with a quick LOL and a hop into travel form. Regardless though, I see this as less of a “nerf” and more of adding insult to injury. We lose something that was, at least, occasionally useful, and gain a healing “bonus” instead–one that we never use. While I was initially perplexed as to why any half-way intelligent designer at Blizzard would make that change, the message is more than clear: we don’t want this class to have any more advantages and, more importantly, we don’t care what they think about it.

I’d rather have the Gladiator bonus, to be honest. Playing a druid in arena isn’t just binding every key to Lifebloom and rolling your face on the keyboard–there are so many tips, tricks, and oh shits! that I’d argue it’s hard to play a druid “well”. Harder than say an MS Warrior (I speak from experience; it’s two macros, spamstring, and keeping mortal strike on anything that moves). I’d also argue that anymore druid “nerfs” to PvP viability will, eventually, create a new breed of arena druids who are incredibly creative and resilient. Blizzard made us Swiss Army Knives; now they’ve got to deal with it.

@Phaelia
This is sort of a reply to your comment in the other thread, but yeah, I honestly rely more on MMO Champion rather than World of Raids–my boyfriend (an avid WoW theorycrafter) actually pointed it out to me first. And yes, I see that you’ve seen the skeleton outline of my blog, and it’s coming along slowly (as I plod through help pages and pick my friends’ brains for help). My goal was to have it content ready by the end of the weekend, but now I think I’m shooting more toward the end of next week >_>.

@Twalkins: I think we’ll probably see more Druids who already dip into Feral picking up Feline Swiftness after this change. I still don’t understand why OUR speed increase doesn’t work indoors but Rogues’ do! I swear if I ever play another MMO, I will at all costs avoid a class with ANY environmentally-specific abilities. >.< @Nicksti: Good point. But if a Feral is using Travel Form to break a snare, wouldn’t she just shift right back to her combat form?

@Crythia: Yeah yeah yeah. It was edited before you posted. Go raid ZA or something! And get Auryann to come, too!

It’s been changed.

And yes, BIG nerf to resto arena set. I’m a unhappy arena healer now.