Welcome to the real world. I’ll make a shocking statement, forum’s not ready for it: druid always has been the best healer and will always be. The problem is with players’ perception; people think that you do big numbers - you are strong, you do small number - you are not. Funny how those same people get smashed by sub rogues and then cry about them on forums. What’s the matter, the rogue is only 35k dps, while his opponents are 80k+ and losing the game?
Druid’s toolkit is absolutely busted and let me explain my thoughts why it’s never getting nerfed. First of all, rdruid has no weaknesses. Like name 1 weakness of a druid, I dare you.
He has best mobility out of all healers, it’s obvious.
Rdruid heals are crazy strong, he can heal both slowly incoming damage or high damage spikes easily. If you cc a druid, his partner is still getting heals. If you cc any other healer - healing stops. Back in the day druids were claiming to suffer from purge, but nowadays - I wish you huge good luck breaking through 123 rows of hots (3 stacks of adaptive - person responsible for this being purge BY stack has to be buried alive, just no words). It’s not manaefficient, and remember: while I’m purging, I give no healing, while remaining hots KEEP healing. Feel this difference?
Rdruid’s CC is best in the game, undisputed. Cyclone is the craziest ability in the game ever added. Druid has two stuns, spammable roots, spammable clone, roar if he wants to etc. etc. What do let’s say I have? 1 melee fear on the MOST immobile class in the game with THIRTY seconds cooldown. That’s it, I’m not exaggerating or joking. That. Is. It. Imagine priest having spammable banish for players.
And my favourite part: imagine giving the class above a permanent poly/hex immunity. Just for a second imagine priest being completely forever immune to stuns for example. Does that sound balanced to you? BuT yOu HaVe SWD. Yes, even if a mage lands poly into SWD, he just repolies instant (if the game is above 1500). Who even designed this and why? So let me get this straight: druid is the only class that has to get a entry-cc to be MAYBE put into poly (because for people with brains, a stun into druid is a signal poly is coming and it has to be interrupted). While every other healer is instantly punished for being poor positioned. Incarnation tree is 30 seconds of invulnerability for whole team. THIRTY seconds. If you summ up all my cooldowns, it’s about the same time total. What the?
On top of that, Blizzard felt that apparently players complain about druid being “too difficult to play”, so they gave them AI pets, which heal while you’re in cc or just slacking eating your snacks during arena.
Druid can play with ANY SPEC in the game due to his crazy toolkit. Who else can do this?
Do you think nerfing hots by 3% will change something? Bash-clone-clone-clone is still overpowered and will always be no matter the numbers. It’s just too much.