I main a druid and have enjoyed the progress the class has been making in all the SoD phases so far. Always some improvements to one spec at least coming per phase. Have loved it because I like to play all the roles and that has been made very easy with druid and their runes.
The healer/caster hybrid style of play has been one of the biggest successes of SoD class/rune design so far, imo. However, the Tree of Life form is now going to effectively ruin that and pigeonhole druids into a more narrow set of playstyles than we have had in previous phases.
It is taking druids backwards.
I know some have been wanting this form because they probably have fond memories from later expansions of being a tree. However, I don’t think SoD should go back to that future, but move to the new areas where it already has been in earlier phases.
I know the genie might be out of the bottle already and the Tree form can’t be scrapped, meaning that we lose my favorite playstyle, but could you then at least consider making a visual option of my character still showing the actual humanoid form, even just for me. Please?
I still want to heal, but my other character is paladin and that one is obviously a lost cause at this stage. Just want to have one interesting healer character/playstyle without rerolling.
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Tree form is the biggest reason I was avoiding resto Druid through vanilla tbc although I enjoyed the class a lot.
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Why not remove Boomie as a talent so we can shift between boomie and tree form.
Wouldn’t be so hard for blizzard to manage.
Ye but game is not the same as in vanilla and tbc is different lol
U have extra bosses extra mehanics extra dmg that was not in classic content. St is one example how some fights was heavy on healings and mana eaters even with bis gear if people would play poorly u would be on edge with mana and having fury chest rune would help u to keep up with mana but with tree now… is different u r handikep in fights relay on people will play great well gl with that 
Give us tree form as buff when u get 3x stack of swiftmend reduce heals and duration if they really want balanced healers but this with full tree and no able to dps while u r in is just bad game design for sod. Because this is not pure classic people have already retail ability as rune and tuned fights for it so why resto druids needs to suffer because that.
Blizzard should flip the change and make Druids spawn as a tree level 1 and become a normal humanoid once completing a quest/rune. This form sucks so much, everybody hates it and I just hate that they force it.
I am also playing a Druid in P3 and considered flexing, if my guild needed it. Now that they have announced this form I just don’t feel like healing.