Okay so one of the biggest issues a lot of players, me included have, is that Druids aren’t able to shift into a wolf DPS form.
Now before those that this applies for goes “MUH IMMERSION”. No. Our player characters achieved far greater feats and are capable of doing far stranger things than turning into a epic wolf form for DPS. There is no such thing as “Its rage inducing and our chars will lose control, that’s why Worgens exist.” Except we got ahold of the Scythe of Elune in legion and even evolved it into “GOLDRINN’S ENVOY” a never before seen form and took it even further beyond…AHHHH…joking aside but hey still can’t turn into a wolf. We also get to change our aspect of ursoc and ashmane forms at will like changing a costume, essentially embodying not one but TWO Wild Gods, but still can’t turn into a wolf.
A real example btw is that:
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Druids can turn into basic treants that can heal, yet they were dps fodder troops initially in their earliest stages. They even added a glyph when so many people asked for it back.(kuddos btw)
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Kul tiran wicker cats forms with the exact same model is called a wolf in a quest in ardenweald where you just slay one that’s purple. The quest description literally calls it a Wolf. Now if kul tirans can turn into cat wolves why can’t worgens turn into actual wolves, this is what I mean when “MUH IMMERSION” andies start popping up.
Forward to shadowlands where we go into Ardenweald and meet all these primal spirits and ancient beings whom we connect or draw power from as druids but still at no point do we somehow learn to control that rage, we’ve been in Ardenweald and parts of the Emerald dream, you’d think at some point Goldrinn will teach us how to effectively control it. It’s even stated he helps those whom believes in him and sees the ‘curse’ of the worgens as a gift, could it be that we can’t control it effectively YET ?
And if Worgens really have THAT huge of an issue according to lore then how in the world does a fury warrior operate along with worgen forms, they use RAGE as a resource.
There’s a multitude of ways to actually handle this believe it or not.
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The short and lazy way: Make it a glyph. Done.
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Change it so that Worgens have a wolf DPS form as their own adding an actual unique reason to go worgen, just like zandalari, kul tiran etc etc whom each have a unique form.
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The more creative route: Make a seperate DPS form so you have to choose 1 or the other, 1 relies on agile movements and bleeds (cat) the other focuses more on head on bruiser fighting tactics and a form of pack fighting for instance summons to call other wolves.
Hopefully Blizz sees this because its bugging me and a ton of other players at this point. It’s cool, it’s the main reason I play the game and got into it because of werewolves. This is 2022 not 2013 it’s not impossible not game breaking.