Filed under: Druid, Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King

Paladins weren’t the only ones to get some attention from the crab last night. The Balance Druid post wasn’t an especially information-filled post, but mostly served as a reminder that even though the devs may not respond to your threads, they are paying attention. Ghostcrawler explains that whlie she may be focusing more heavily on Feral Druids, that doesn’t mean she isn’t aware of Balance’s needs. She clarifies their role in a raid (caster, duh), and states a Moonkin’s needs to meet that role. She lists the following:

• Competitive dps. Mages and warlocks just tend to get a lot of attention, maybe because there are more of them, or more races of them, or they are more archetypal classes (in the familiarity sense).
• Good AoE utility. Encounters and dungeons tend to get designed with the assumption that the ranged DPS can do AoE. Hurricane is phenomenal now. I healed a run today and did really competitive dps with Hurricane on the ranged pulls. And I wasn’t even Balance! I love Starfall. It’s a rare spell because it feels new — it isn’t single target and it isn’t classical Hurricane-style AoE either.

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