WoW: Cataclysm Druid Info Released

[trol]

Information on the upcoming changes to Druids was posted up on the World of Warcraft forums:

New Druid Abilities

Thrash (Level 81): Thrash deals damage and causes all targets within 10 yards to bleed every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. The intent here is to give bears another button to hit while tanking. Talents will affect the bleed, such as causing Swipe to deal more damage to bleeding targets. 5-second cooldown. 25 Rage.

Stampeding Roar (Level 83): The druid roars, increasing the movement of all allies within 10 yards by 40% for 8 seconds. Stampeding Roar can be used in cat or bear form, but bears might have a talent to drop the cooldown. The goal of this ability is to give both bears and cats a little more situational group utility. 3-minute cooldown. No cost.

Wild Mushroom (Level 85): Grows a magical mushroom at the target location. After 4 seconds the mushroom becomes invisible. Enemies who cross the mushroom detonate it, causing it to deal area-of-effect damage, though its damage component will remain very effective against single targets. The druid can also choose to detonate the mushroom ahead of time. This is primarily a tool for the Balance druid, and there will be talents that play off of it. No cooldown. 40-yard range. Instant cast.

Read the rest of the Druid information on the Official WoW Forums

[Onib]

Does anyone else think a no cooldown instant cast mushroom sounds like a bad idea?

[Pyrrhus]

I think it is an AWESOME idea, but I play a balance druid.

[Gwoden]

Turrets!!!

[Zoobi]

Don't know why they didn't just make a talent to make moonfire aoe. Essentially the same thing.

[Pyrrhus]

They seem to be trying to add "tactical" gameplay to PvP. Setting up choke points and etc, so an AoE moonfire while nice wouldn't really fit the mold.

[Zoobi]

Natural chokepoints are set up regardless of whether or not there are mushrooms there though.

[Pyrrhus]

Yea, but now we can actually utilize them(not just druids) as an intuitive part of the game, rather than having every non-instant AoE spell being usless in PvP. Though arguably they still will be.