It means you have a 15% damage reduction all game long with like SP, just with less uptime. It’s what we have now just a bit better and you don’t need to press clunky regrowth. Boomy feels clunky enough. If you hold all your Surges between incarns, you might aswell just stay bear. You would tank your dps/pressure completely.
I think you overestimate how strong Incarn is atm. It might be still one of the best CDs but it’s not really that scary anymore. They even nerfed the incarn burst by 12% and buffed dots instead, which doesn’t do much besides bloat your overall with more passive dmg that doesn’t apply real pressure.
Also you seem to overestimate bear form. I’ve been killed through bearform+HotW+FR countless times. It’s really not that strong.
If they want to nerf bear form for that kind of baked in damage red. please. Sitting AFK in Bear is something nobody wants. Heck, I already said that they can nerf dmg for giving us more survivability. It’s not like I want boomy to be immortal. With the 15% DR mechanic I’d say it would be average.
Your playing a Druid mate the whole point of it is to use your shapeshift forms spriest does not have the mobility of Druid or a spammable cc which can’t be dispelled
You don’t have it currently at all as it’s almost double the damage reduction that you are asking for and for it to save a global and rotating 5 star surges every 30 seconds to counter goes might stop your damage some but in 3s it’s your cds that matter and surviving the enemy’s using it to survive a full go with barkskin and your healer having to press nothing can completely change how a game is played when you have control of the game.
Okay, we getting to the point where this discussion serves no real purpose anymore. You just block anything with really speculative arguments, which are not even sounding reasonable, cause you cleary haven’t touched boomy this xpac. You’re saying a 7% increase in damage reduction is making boomy immortal, when in reality boomys dying left and right through their def cds because they are so squishy. They buffed starsurge by like +80% since the beginning of the addon and unnerfed FR 3 times. If they did that in 1 tuning instead of 10, you would have gone also “omg they making boomy op” but guess what? The spec is still miles behind Ele shamans, frost mages, SPs, Feral druids etc. And here you are arguing that some small helps for paperboomy would totally break the game. We haven’t even talkd about how no class has to sit rootbeam anymore. How about nerfing all the specs that currently are breaking the game cause they are basically immortal and have an insane toolkit. Sure, let’s not buff boomy but then let’s tone down the 5-6 specs everyone plays.
I’m just making these topics so at least somebody does. Most of the community already gave up asking for needed buffs, moved to another class or is playing MoP because of the situation.
But I think I’m doing it again, because arguing with ppl who don’t even play boomy is really tiresome. I think I’ll just unsub or move to raid/m+ only, since spending 30 minutes in solo ques for content blizzard cleary doesn’t care about anymore seems to be a bad way to spend lifetime.
Some of the classes i main are also weak mainly dk im just unbiased you should try it some time and look at the bigger picture if boomy was on par with elemental currently there would be no reason to play elemental outside of trying to dampen people in awc as cyclone just brings a lot better gameplay boomy needs some love but its not to every spec in the game your weakness as boomy is been caught out of form and run down by meele dps especially rogue/feral if you add what you suggested then its a very good counter towards that yes but its also a massive counter to casters.
I dont have to play or main boomy to see what the problems are the class role is always the same each expansion when its strong its broken because its too easy to do damage on it either 1 shots people or does insane spread pressure which makes it good in RBG when its strong with defensives its a clone bot that completely makes the game a misery as boomys can stack haste unlike feral its a very hard class to balance and not many people play it because its very niche for them reasons and it always has been.
15% damage reduction is not much on paper no but when you add it with bear form you will survive a rmp go if you do said starsurge before the go and sit bear you can survive ret/warr goes by simply doing it on every hoj and barkskin on cds with bear we then get to shuffle where if you manage to actually make it into dampening your as you say mediocre cd is all instant cast and lasts 15 seconds which can 1 shot healers by stun beaming the healer and deleting them in stun or rootbeam solo a dps.
Your class does not always have to be S tier it will be soon it always ends up been in atleast 1 season of an expansion and its always from how forgiving it is to play defensive while having the one of the most easiest damage rotations from range.
And ye a lot of classes need toning down but its not as simple as just % numbers for a lot of them feral/rogue need a redesign so they can be balanced same goes for mage the toolkit is just so well designed for pvp that when you get good enough on them its not really fair unless the other class has something broken going for it numbers wise.
na they just need to do something with the Moonkin form/ Barkskin Matted fur it absorbs only 200k Dmg (what a joke xD)
or give Boomkin more Kite Abilitys, when u think about mop-Legion Druid had Displacer Beast, now u have only a “leap back/to mates” left while every class got buffed in Mobility xD
either buff defensive cd´s or the Ability to Kite, but the current Kite ability on Boomkin is outdated
also not a single good way talent to reduce the magic dmg income, while close to every class is doing magic dmg now