:waddles away quickly:

I mean… In warcraft (strategic game) the trees looked so impressive, and In WOW they look so… fragile…

They were just too lazy to come up with a separate model from the already in game treants (just like they did with balance druid summon talent).

Which BTW, I really hoped for something less fragile and more intimidating there as well, but…

Oh well…

Blizz never were that good in handling druid forms models…

@Sydera: YES! There are actually some green and brown dryads just south of Fort Wildervar that would be 100% perfect, especially if they somehow took on my face and hairstyle. Who needs branches when you can have hooves? As for the men, I think they created a revamped form of the centaur model in the same zone (the Blacksouled Keeper). Of course, this could work for Elves, but I’m not what they’d do for Taurens.

@Hokuto: Great catch with Cenarius. Total justification.

@Greysmoke: I was initially horrified, went through a phase of “well I guess I’m kind of cute”, but now I feel ridiculous looking next to the high quality models of everyone else around me. I look like a high school mascot.

@Alamein: I’m a big fan of playing how you enjoy, too. Maybe with dual specs we can have a “pretty Elf healer” build and a “stupid but efficient Tree healer” build…

@Riverrun: It kind of stinks that we have to use such a dinky-looking form to match the output of other healers (we certainly aren’t any stronger than they are), but then again Holy Form is something Priests have wanted for a long time. Of course, they might change their tunes if the form looked similarly elementary.

@Onedruid: Nice description.

@Shopshopshop: HA! I can’t recall the last male Night Elf I’ve seen in game. I wonder if that’s ever something that’s looked at…

@Arraunum: Thank you for the kind words. I’m glad I was able to brighten your day with Druidic Light (is that like Priest light but green?).

@Tunguska: Wild Growth is pretty amazing for 5-mans, especially for those encounters where you have to move a lot. It makes places like Heroic Nexus trivial (but still fun).

@Tessy: I’d say it’s definitely time to get back to your “roots”!

@Xoria: I love, love, love the idea of going to the Herbalist trainer to get my hair cut. Also, that looks like a very balanced build to use until dual specs are implemented.

@Corgi: Thank you so much for reading and posting. And some way to retain our base form while in ToL would be welcome, especially given what a target it makes us in battlegrounds. Of course, that seems very counter to Blizzard’s design (which seems to be to advertise “KILLMEKILLMENOWI’MAHEALER.”

@Fobbers: Awwww. I’m glad you like it, at least.

@Conifer: When the form was first announced, I was hoping to look more like an ancient (of course, they’re pretty masculine looking). When the form was actually released, I assumed they couldn’t use an ancient model because of height restrictions. Of course, Hunters can now train GARGANTUAN pets like Devilsaurs and Rhinos, so there’s no reason we couldn’t at least be taller/more majestic. Then again, we’d just be an even BIGGER target in PvP so maybe that wouldn’t be a good thing.

:waddles away quickly:

Like the others I lol’d at the ’still stupid looking’ comment. I also really wish there was some kind of glyph where we could activate our aura, but stay in caster form (I recently switched to a male tauren after being a female tauren for 2 years.. the animations are much better!).

We should be able to get ‘haircuts’ in the hunter pet shop and herbalist trainer to change our skins.

(And a big hug to the sniffling tree in the picture – beauty is in the eye of the beholder and after a long run where the shimmering green tree spells have kept you alive you think all trees are beautiful!)

My druid has been feral forever, maybe it’s about time I tried out a more leafy form…

Tessys last blog post..Another Guild Blogger

I pug a lot now at 80, and raid heal, and frankly I can’t imagine healing a heroic without wild growth to keep the silly dps’ers topped off. Raid healing is actually easier and hey maybe you could get away with some hybrid build if you had enough really solid healers along, but as I stated before, I’m lazy…healing as a tree with WG is just so easy. But I remember when we had to spec for innervate so there’s that…