My Gaming World: My Opinion on Druid Armor forms

My Opinion on Druid Armor forms

01:08

MMO-Champion.com released new pictures of an armored version of the Druid cat, bear and moonkin form. These armored forms will be available through the talent 'incarnation', which: "Grants a superior shapeshifting form appropriate to your specialization for 30 sec. You may freely shapeshift in and out of this form for the duration of Incarnation."

Three versions of the Tauren druid incarnation forms are following:

source: www.mmo-champion.com

My opinion on the talent

I love the incarnation talent, because it basically buffs your normal attacks and makes you look.. more interesting. I could see the use of this talent for PvP, when for example burning your enemies or a boss in Alterac Valley and such.

The Moonkin bonus?

When an eclipse occurs, you do extra arcane/nature damage while in incarnation form. It's a lovely bonus, which will mostly be used in solar eclipse because of the wrath/starfire bonus.

The Feral (pre-mop: Cat) bonus?

The kitty incarnation bonus is comparable with the subtlety rogue talent (pre-MoP) Shadow Dance, because a kitty will be able to use all the abilities which normally require stealth. This will be mainly useful in PvP.

The Guardian (pre-mop: Bear) bonus?

A reduced cooldown for all melee attacks (1.5 sec.). Useful for burn phases on bosses.

The Restoration bonus?

I'm disappointed that we didn't receive anything extra as restoration, because we're stuck with the tree-form as being an incarnation bonus. Don't get me wrong here, I love the tree form (especially for bursthealing in PvP), but we're the only spec that don't receive anything fancy with this talent. If you didn't took the treeform in Cataclysm (and believe me, some people didn't), this talent will be yours to skip.

My opinion on the armored version

Looking at all the pictures MMO-Champion posted, I kinda like the armored version of the troll moonkin. I find the cat form rather .. meh for trolls, but it suits the night elf kitties very well. The bear form looks extensive, guardian druids must use a lot of deoderant.

Will I pick the talent?

Other choices in the level 60 Druid tier are 'Soul of the Forest' and 'Force of Nature'. I could see FoN being used in several raid fights, where these will be a lot of help. However, in FoN vs Incarnation, I think Incarnation will always win because incarnation has the same CD as FoN but gives in my opinion more DPS output.

Now, Soul of the Forest vs Incarnation will be a very hard choice, because I love the bonusses SotF give. I think for restoration I'll go with Soul of the Forest in PvE and Incarnation in PvP. With balance, I'll go with incarnation, because it seems more useful to me than the bonus SotF gives to moonkins. I'd rather have an extra button to click for f.e. burst phases.