🐻 In Memory Of Ursoc: Make Guardian Druid Fun To Play

The First 14sec of Ardenweald cinematic is how people want to feel while they play Guardian druid but instead, we have this very audiovisually anemic gameplay of a bear whos best action is an imitation of a Mexican wave :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Guardian skills don’t feel impactful 99% of the time and the only fun ability to press is Stampeding Roar while other abilities are just paw swipes.
For example, Thrash is just a bit bigger Swipe so it’s clear how “creative” people were when designing the skill kit… they just copied skill because reasons :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Instead of Thrash, we could have e.g. ground shattering ability where the bear stands up and smashes the ground furiously roaring, and it wold deal AoE damage. Add juicy sounds to the ground smash and roar and there you go.
It’s really not hard to be a bit creative :upside_down_face:

C’mon Blizzard do it for Ursoc :bear:

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Claws on !

Hah good luck trying to convince Blizzard.

and idk, maybe update the models so they’re more inline with the updated graphic cards you’re trying to shove down people’s throats. Over 80% of WoW is like spending $2000 on a gaming computer to play tetris.
It’s like woah, those specs are quite big. This game must be amazing. You load into the Barrens where you see what resembles Nintendo 64 textures, and the druid forms are older than your grandmas spaghetti meatball recipe.

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They should really use recolored blackpaw model for default skins.Alliance one looks more like fat rat than bear.

Honestly they all look ridiculous, apart from the Kul Tiran/Zandalari ones of course. It’s not just the bear forms either. I think all of them could do with a touch up

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I just can’t get over how cute and cuddly Ursoc looks as a spirit ghost…

If I could look like that as a bear I might actually feel like I don’t swap gender when going guardian, hah.

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The pain of his loss is unbearable

Dont he died like 5 times ?

He will comeback, he wont leave Ursol alone, no ?.. :frowning:

Getting beaten and killed is exactly how it plays in game too, so mission accomplished.

Except he got beaten and killed in 15 sec :upside_down_face:

Yep, cuz unlike your jaina Ursoc did not have portals and iceblock to escape death. .:upside_down_face:

He had plenty of time since Grizzly Hills to learn those.

What do you mean, they don’t feel impactful. My Twilight Devastation hits for easily over a million. And it’s a giant laserbeam that comes from the sky! If that isn’t impactful…

Oh guardian abilities? Is Twilight Devastation a Guardian ability?

I’d love some visual updates for guardian druid, since I’ve been maining it throughout Nya’lotha. Really looking forward to SL allowing me to use mage tower cat form while in guardian spec, so that’s a good start.

A visual overhaul would be nice. Making guardian druid not bottom tier tank would also be nice. Since warrior took that spot for Shadowlands, Guardian is only 5/6 in rankings! We’re slowly climbing that ladder back to the top!

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Well they had to put us there after people whined so hard that we were amazing throughout Legion ,saying that i seen some do 20’s and do all mythic Nya no problem .
We could do with some tweaks but they have to look natural and not some gimmick to please the “twitch” generation .

Says the bubble-HS. :rofl:

What druid does not like being as fun as DH ?

:crazy_face:

Well every class can do every content, hell guardian druid is probably pretty high regarding survivability, because he’s great at phys mitigation. So for high keys, guardian can even be considered good. Still it feels pretty bad to play the worst anything in the game, be it dps, heal or tank.

I mean there’s almost 10 times as many Brewmaster Monk N’zoth kills logged than guardian druids (>4500 vs 496). It’s kinda hurtful.

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What hurts the most about Ursoc being gone forever is he his the type of bear who would want to sacrifice himself the good of the forest.

Oh god :cry: Ursoc. Aha :sweat_smile:

It is fun and it is good. Oh btw BLIZZARD nerfed it in SL.