In recent weeks, the devs have been so busy patching up wounds to make our damage somewhat competitive that they completely forgot to finally give Balance Druids a modern and revamped defensive toolkit.
Balance Druids have never felt so squishy in the arena. We’ve had the same toolkit since Cataclysm and every other class can currently outheal us. While every other ranged class has multiple defensive cooldowns, we can only press barkskin once every minute and then sit in Bear form forever and still, the healer has to pump all their cooldowns into us. Effectively cycloning against many classes has become incredibly difficult, as so much mitigation and micro CC from M+ class design has spilled over into PvP.
All the streaming R1 Balance Druids are getting more and more depressed day by day and some are already starting to reroll since everyone only move between 1.9k - 2k rating.
The rework for 11.05 is still absolutely not going in the right direction in many aspects and it’s solely focused on damage adjustments. Please finally take care of a modern and appropriate defensive toolkit!