“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dash It All
Today’s date is: April 7, 2018
Hi! I’ll betcha that if you are a Shaman, you are pissed! Don’t blame me that Blizzard can’t be creative enough to give different names to the healing classes. This is about Resto-DRUID! So sorry!
I got the Alpha today and decided to take a peek. We’ve known for a while that Tiger Dash would replace Displacer Beast. We won’t be able to blink over mechanics in raids anymore, which is a shame.
Notable to me is the switching of Germination and Stonebark. Since our Mastery will NOT change and we will continue to click-like-fiends to spread our HoTs over way too many players to be competitive — this will be a welcome change. I’d run with Spring Blossoms and Germination happily.
Like playing a game of Three Card Monte, I was distracted by Hibernate. What I almost didn’t notice is that Dash is gone from the Resto-Druid spell book.
Balance has it.
Feral has it.
Guardian has it.
But it has been nerfed. Who cares, we won’t have it.
Healer Penalty
Taking away Dash from the Healer will be rough on us. Do you know how far it is to run back to some of these bosses after a wipe? Healers are the only ones with Mass Rez, it is our job to run back while everyone pores over their meters and discusses the faults.
I can already feel the humiliation as a Hunter runs past me with Aspect of the Cheetah.
Coffee Cakes and Crits 
Neat quote 🙂
Uuh, I’ll look forward to that combo of spells too!
But, gosh, both Dash AND Displacer Beast gone from us? I guess I’ll cope, even though I hate it when things gets taken away. But I do wonder, how the PvP scene will look. Granted, I am no pro PvP player anymore, but I find those two escape skills to be nessesary to survive all the burst damage.
I wonder, how other classes look in terms of speed? This goes well along the “Slow down” mentality, Blizzard is trying to encourage us to follow.
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I’m hoping that the removal of Dash for Resto is a mistake here early in the alpha. I hope, I hope!
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Hope, hope, hope – me too!
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I’m having a hard time with Dash being a non-healer druid ability. REAAAAAAALLLY hoping it’s a mistake.
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