Inspired by Bellwether’s remake of Feralicious, here is my own Fergie-licious song, this one about … my Trunk, my Trunk, my leafy Druid Trunk. You can see the original here or the hilarious remake by Alanis here.

What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
Imma Hot Hot Hot Hot you up
Get you healed up from my trunk
My trunk, my trunk, my trunk, my trunk,
My trunk, my trunk, my trunk, my leafy Druid Trunk (Check it out)

I drive these raiders crazy
I do it on the daily
They treat me really nicely,
They know my rez is pricey.
Warlock and Paladin,
Hunter and the Shaman,
Without them, we’ll be wipin’
All their whispers got me seein’ "rez" 
Ping your spot, leader says
You say you love my Lifebloom,
Swiftmend, Regrowth, Rejuv
I click "2" but they keep dyin’
So I keep on tryin’
And yes, I use Swiftmend
Every 15 seconds
I keep on Innervatin’

My leaves, my leaves, my leaves, my leaves (leaves)
You love my leafy trunk (leaves)
My trunk, my trunk, my trunk (leaves),
My trunk has got you

She’s got me sendin’
(Oh) Sendin’ all your whispers to me, "would you cast Rebirth on me?"
She’s got me sendin’
(Oh) Sendin’ all your whispers to me, plz rez me, rez me

What you gonna do with all that junk?
All that mana inside that trunk?
Imma HoT, HoT, HoT, HoT you up
Get you healed up from my trunk.
Whatcha gonna do with the GCD
The GCD in between
Imma Life, Life, Life, Life bloom
Lifebloom you, Lifebloom you
Cos of my trunk (ha), my trunk, my trunk, my trunk (what)
My trunk, my trunk (ha), my leafy Druid Trunk (Check it out)

I met a lil’ Tree down at the stone
She said hey, hey, hey yea let’s go
I could be your healer, you can be my tank bear
Let’s spend time, not repairs
I HoT you with my Rejuv,
Regrowth, and Lifebloom
Heal my heart with your HoTs, hot, hot Hots

They say I’m really useful
The healers want a bar full
They always sendin’ tells to me
Always sayin’ "Phaelia, please..
"I’m low on mana, help me
"My potions are on CD
You can ask but you can’t have it
If you ask me, I’ma start some drama
You don’t want no drama
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama
So don’t ask me in voice chat
You don’t wanna do that
I’m the one with Spirit
I don’t wanna hear it

My trunk, my trunk, my trunk, my trunk,
My trunk, my trunk, my trunk, my trunk, my trunk, my trunk.
My leafy Druid Trunk
My leafy Druid Trunk
My lovely leafy trunk
In the back and in the front
My healin’s got you

She’s got me sendin’
(Oh) Sendin’ all your whispers to me, "would you Innervate me?"
She’s got me sendin’
(Oh) Sendin’ all your whispers to me, plz ‘vate me, ‘vate me

What you gonna do with all that junk?
All that mana inside that trunk?
Imma HoT, HoT, HoT, HoT you up
Get you healed up from my trunk.
Whatcha gonna do with the GCD
The GCD in between
Imma Life, Life, Life, Life bloom
Lifebloom you, Lifebloom you
What you gonna do with all that Int?
All that Int inside those leaves?
Imma top, top, top, top you off
Top you off, off, top you off.
What you gon’ do with all that haste?
All that haste up on your gear
Imma spam, spam, spam, spam Lifebloom
Spam Lifebloom, bloom, Spam Lifebloom.

She’s got me sendin’
(Oh) Sendin’ all your whispers to me, "would you cast Lifebloom on me?"
She’s got me sendin’
(Oh) Sendin’ all your whispers to me, plz HoT me, HoT me

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Dear Drunken-Priest-who-was-Soulstoned,

Of all our fallen guildmates, thank you for rezzing me first. However, for future reference Druids still cannot cast out of combat resurrection. Therefore, you should rez someone else first. No, no … not the Warrior. How about that nice Paladin instead?

Your friend,
The Tree

Seriously, though. Those of you with the Resurrection spell, please take a moment to consider the order in which you help resurrect the raid. An efficient cycle can greatly help speed your raid’s recovery efforts and, when learning new content, can earn you an extra attempt over the course of the evening. If I were ever given an out of combat resurrection spell, this is the order I would prefer:

1. Other people who can help you rez. This includes Priests, Paladins, and Shamans. Yes, even the Retribution Paladin. He might be rezzing from his spellbook, but he can still rez.
2. Druids. We have to rebuff Mark of the Wild (only because people complain if we don’t). Our HoTs are cheap and can help raidmates get topped off, allowing you to focus on rezzing rather than healing. Plus, depending upon how soon she expects to need it, you might even get her Innervate.
3. Mages. These guys need to drink so they can rebuff Arcane Intellect.
4. Warlocks. Despite not having a group buff, Warlocks have a lot of preliminary maintenance to perform before they can click "ready." Pet summoning, Sacrifice or Soul Link, Fel Armor, a round or two of Healthstones, and sometimes even a fresh Soulstone.
5. Hunters. Not only do they have mana and health to regenerate, but they have to resurrect and feed their pet companion.
6. Warriors. These guys just swap stance and are ready to go. You may have to yell out over voice chat at any Fury Warriors as they tend to have the attention span of a gnat.  Whatever you do, don’t rez them first. If you do, they’ll probably be dead again by the time you’re done.
7. Rogues. Slightly higher priority than Warriors because they have to reapply poisons. Thanks to Aurik, I now know that poisons last through death. Rez these guys last. They’re just going to stealth up and wonder why they didn’t get group buffs.

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Hi. I’m Currant, of druidtank.blogspot.com obscurity. Like this site, it’s a Druid-focused blog. It was originally intended to serve as a way for me to get to my guildmates what I knew and what I needed them to know about Druid tanks. It was a way for me to put up something and point to it and go, “That’s what I mean when I say I have X issue, or when I talk about why I value Y over Z.”

See, playing a particular Druid spec is a lot like playing a different class. Those of you that play Druids know exactly what I’m talking about, but for those that don’t, there’ll be a quiz later*.

Thing is, it’s really niche and was never really intended for truly public consumption (insert comment here about the internet being the most public place in the universe), but the readership it was intended for was abysmally small. Color me shocked when I realized just how many people were stopping in. Still, I didn’t post regularly, and I seriously doubt any regular readership developed, least of all within my own guild.

Fast-forward to now. Phaelia, a real life friend and guildmate, approached me about writing my tidbits for her site, to add a feral contributor to a primarily Resto site. Given the readership she has, it stands to reason that more than just Resto Druids swing by. As Druids are nothing if not a diverse bunch, we both felt this would be an outstanding method of dealing with my intermittent posting behavior and with some of the issues she touches on that are more accurately feral issues.

Rest assured, there will be no site name-change or a derailment of Resto4Life’s focus. I’ll be doing Ursine-Interest stories, tales from the Feral side so to speak. Phae’s site will still be Phae’s site and I’m just a sanctioned interloper.

So let me finish introducing myself:

Continue reading ‘Hi, From the Bear in the Woods’…

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A not-so-brave Druid brother recently posted an entreatment that Druids logically be given the ability to pick locks in Cat Form:

Druids should be able to lockpick in Cat Form. The reason?

Well, Priests steal our heal ability.
Warriors steal our tanking ability.
Shaman steal our casting attacks.
Warlocks steal our damage over times.
And Rogues steal our stealth ability.

So, we should at least be able to steal ONE ability from another class…. so I think that should be lockpicking in Cat Form.

Give Druids some love Blizz… stop letting other classes steal all our abilities. Thanks.

Typically not treating this subject with the sobriety it deserves, Community Manager Bornakk responds:

Is it not seen as love when it takes a list of five classes to talk about everything you can do?

So it seems that we will continue to suffer beneath this unnecessary and unfair handicap. Just as we cannot fulfill the task of resurrecting our fallen comrades, so too can we not perform this simplest of tasks: opening treasure chests.

P.S. I can’t tell you how much cat poo I’ve give Valenna about this same “issue”!

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Okay, this is a little ridiculous.

While preparing for an upcoming article on an exciting new addon, I decided I’d go ahead and run WoWAceUpdater since it’s been a few weeks since I last did so. “Updating 74 addons … ” Wait, what? How many addons do I have, anyway? I double click on the shortcut to my addons folder (this shortcut is probably one of the early warning signs of addon addition). Excluding the Blizzard_* addons that come with the game, I have 115 addons installed.

…

Maybe this has something to do with the fact that it takes me a minute or more to log into the game or recognize a disconnection. But what can I do? I need all my beautiful, shiny bells and whistles! Don’t I? Well let’s see …

DeadlyBossMods: Yeah, I have to have that. My guild says so. Otherwise I might explode on top of someone in Gruul’s Lair and laugh because they don’t have Barkskin to keep them alive… er… I mean, apologize profusely and promise to be more careful in the future. So DBM stays. But do I really need DBM_Hyjal? DBM_TheEye? I know I’m not going to be needing DBM_BlackTemple. /sigh /delete Unfortunately, I think the author of DBM was smart enough to make these addons not actually take up memory if you aren’t in the relevant zones so I probably haven’t really helped my cause. I do feel a little better about the number of addons in my folder, though.

Atlasloot: The addon for those of us who like to look at items we can only see otherwise by hanging around in Shattrath. I don’t think I need the addons for “Old Instances”, “World Loot”, or “Outdoor Raids.” /delete

ArkInventory: It’s a memory hog, to be sure. But once you’ve actually played with ArkInventory, you’d rather play without your right arm than having to manage your inventory using the default interface. (Gah, individual BAGS?!) It stays.

Minimalist: Tell me I’m not the only who sees the irony here. I don’t actually remember what this addon does (always a good sign). A little GoogleFu and I discover … that there are a lot of pages on the Interwebs with the words “Warcraft”, “addon”, and “Minimalist.” So I give in and go find the page on WoWAce.com. Ah, this is the addon that automatically declines duels for me, automatically repairs my gear. It does a few other things, but I discover that these are functions that are handled by other addons. /delete

Proximo: I haven’t PvPed this season. I can always download this again later. Ditto for StinkyQueue (helps to queue you and your groupmates for Battlegrounds simultaneously). /delete and /delete

InFlight: This estimates the total time it’s going to take you to reach your final destination. I probably can live without this. /delete

So I’m down to 97 non-Blizzard addons. That’s a little better, but I’m feeling like Spring Cleaning so let’s see what else I can lose:

• Aloft: Makes nameplates pretty. It’s painful since I’m such a fan of aesthetics tweaks, but /delete.
• Autobar: Love it. Can’t do without it. Mr. Phae actually keeps a pair of vertical bars with all his consumables on it (you should see his Windows desktop). I sneakily installed Autobar once, and he either decided not to say anything or didn’t notice. I feel better, though. It stays.
• Bartender3: Best. Buttons. Ever. Makes using and tweaking my Nostromo a breeze.
• !BugGrabber and BugSack: For someone who runs as many addons as I do, these two are practically essential since they hide the errors that pop up when a particular addon is using outdated code.
• Bulkmail: This addon used to allow you to send 20 or so items to people through the mail system. With Patch 2.3, it’s superfluous so /delete.
• Cartographer: Lets me stalk Valenna (and other guildmates who have it installed), even when we aren’t grouped. Also records the locations of mining nodes, fishing pools, and herbs. I couldn’t play either of my gathering alts without it.
• Omnibus: An in-game notepad of sorts, I originally intended to use this to help me record ideas — or whole text excerpts — for my blog while raiding. But I generally just have my laptop open and write there, so this addon isn’t really needed. /delete
• ClosetGnome: I switched over to Outfitter a while ago so I can get rid of this. /delete
• DontBugMe: Hides AFK and DND messages after the first time you receive them. Nice idea, but nonessential. /delete
• FishingBuddy OutfitFrame: I don’t use FB anymore, so this can go. /delete

So after about an hour of work, I’m down to just 79 non-Blizzard addons. Not minimalist by any means, and I couldn’t really bring myself to delete any of the real memory hogs: Pitbull (unitframes), ArkInventory, or Recount (damage/healing meters), but I am loading into the game at least a little bit faster. Might it be time for you to do some Spring cleaning?

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