Belf Druids

This race/class option has been discussed now and then every since the release of Burning Crusade, now about three years back down the road is it? There is at least one in existence, as a boss NPC in the Botanica instance, High Botanist Freywinn. Most would agree the dude looks kind of cool in that Tier 1 Druid set. I would say so anyway, and I always agreed that if druids became a playable option for blood elves I would consider rolling one.

That was then, and today nothing's really changed. I still wouldn't mind rolling one. Though I do think it would just sit their and collect dust as I played my goblin mage. ;)

Well here we are with Cataclysm on the fringes, and Blizzard has opened up with brand new race and class combinations. Holy Cows, human and undead hunters, dwarf shamans, orc and nelf mages, and troll druids.

And some people blinked, when they went down that list of green checkmarks, looking in the row for blood elves and the column for druids. Lo and behold, there was no green checkmark there! People blinked, and they began to freak out.

"Wait! You let trolls be druids, but not blood elves! OMG!"

Honestly, as much of a fan I am of belf druids, I think trolls do make more sense. They're a bit more tuned with nature than the arcane addicted blood elves at this point, who care more about magic than the natural world. That's all there is to it. Sure, Kael'Thas employed a few of his followers as druids, which I did find a little odd. If not there, why not here?

Good question. Hopefully Blizzard might give this some thought, but if they do give in then they also have to give one of the alliance races access to druids. Who would that be? Dwarves? Humans? Gnomes even? Possibly draenei? No. Not one of them is really in tune with nature at all. If it's not machine, magic, or in someway connected with archeology or the light, it's not worth paying attention to.

Personally I think Blizzard made the right choice in this.

PS: Night elves are getting mages, the supposed favored class of blood elves. This is also an arguement for blood elf druids, the supposed favored class of night elves. Honest trade!

For the Love of Sigh

Ok, no one likes getting their classes nerfed. We have cool abilities, we like using cool abilities, we like to win. We don't like it these cool abilities become lessened, and we don't like it that it's harder for us to win now. That's basic human nature. I get it.

Bitching and moaning is also basic human nature, as it seems. At least that's the way it is for most WoW players.

Today's new patch brought a nerf to Death Knights. Frost Presence had the armor bonus dropped from 80% down to 60%.

And people are throwing a fit. Just go to the Death Knight forums and you'll see what I mean. All day today, threats to quit WoW, accusations of favoritism, etc. Honestly, there were some fucking idiots on the forums were saying "Why nerf hero classes?" because they believe that hero classes meant they should be better than everything. I even heard that someone got booted from a raiding guild because they disagreed with the raid leader who thought such a thing.

Sadly, I have to say that the QQ that was generated from this nerf was worse than the QQ caused by the nerf to ret paladins after the 3.0 cluster. It makes me feel ashamed.

Honestly though, I'm glad. If people can't cope with this armor reduction and feel the need to reroll to another class or quit WoW, I say let them. We need less noob knights in the game anyway.