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11-12-2008, 03:03 AM
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Every Tuesday/Wednesday/some sort of day occurring midweek, Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/shifting-perspectives/) explores issues affecting Druids and those who group with them. This week Allison Robert (http://www.wowinsider.com/bloggers/allison-robert/) yanks John Patricelli's (http://thebigbearbutt.com/) column again, hoping to make good on a threat previously made concerning her "dissatisfaction" with Tauren cat form. And by dissatisfaction she might mean something else.
I'll level with you; we have a huge Druid post in the pipeline that's going to round up the changes to the class in Wrath, new talents, new skills, new everything, and frankly I'm sick to death about reading or writing anything having to do with the expansion. So, just to buck the overwhelming trend that threatens to drive us all to the nuthouse, I'm going to turn to a topic that's plagued Druids for a while.
By this I mean the perennial form issue, something that my Druid colleagues on the blog have previously termed the Same Old Animal Posterior (http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/10/09/shifting-perspectives-the-same-old-animal-posterior/), or SOAP. But it's one that we've been given reason to believe will change in...Wrath. Well, that didn't last long. You'll note that David's article was written in October 2007, more than a year ago, but the same thing could have been posted in 2006 as well. Druid forms haven't changed since launch*, and while they were never really at the cutting edge of Blizzard's art direction as a result**, they look more and more shabby in relation to the higher-polygon models and landscapes. As everything around you gets better and better -- more evocative lighting, more intricate details, fantastic animation -- it's hard not to feel a strange sense of displacement as you shift into a 2004 form within a 2008 game.
But at long last we may see Druid form customization (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12065146837&sid=2000), an overhaul to the default forms themselves, or possibly (hopefully?) both.Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Let my kitties go! (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/12/shifting-perspectives-let-my-kitties-go/)
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Every Tuesday/Wednesday/some sort of day occurring midweek, Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wowinsider.com/category/shifting-perspectives/) explores issues affecting Druids and those who group with them. This week Allison Robert (http://www.wowinsider.com/bloggers/allison-robert/) yanks John Patricelli's (http://thebigbearbutt.com/) column again, hoping to make good on a threat previously made concerning her "dissatisfaction" with Tauren cat form. And by dissatisfaction she might mean something else.
I'll level with you; we have a huge Druid post in the pipeline that's going to round up the changes to the class in Wrath, new talents, new skills, new everything, and frankly I'm sick to death about reading or writing anything having to do with the expansion. So, just to buck the overwhelming trend that threatens to drive us all to the nuthouse, I'm going to turn to a topic that's plagued Druids for a while.
By this I mean the perennial form issue, something that my Druid colleagues on the blog have previously termed the Same Old Animal Posterior (http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/10/09/shifting-perspectives-the-same-old-animal-posterior/), or SOAP. But it's one that we've been given reason to believe will change in...Wrath. Well, that didn't last long. You'll note that David's article was written in October 2007, more than a year ago, but the same thing could have been posted in 2006 as well. Druid forms haven't changed since launch*, and while they were never really at the cutting edge of Blizzard's art direction as a result**, they look more and more shabby in relation to the higher-polygon models and landscapes. As everything around you gets better and better -- more evocative lighting, more intricate details, fantastic animation -- it's hard not to feel a strange sense of displacement as you shift into a 2004 form within a 2008 game.
But at long last we may see Druid form customization (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12065146837&sid=2000), an overhaul to the default forms themselves, or possibly (hopefully?) both.Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Let my kitties go! (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/12/shifting-perspectives-let-my-kitties-go/)
http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Shifting Perspectives: Let my kitties go! (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/12/shifting-perspectives-let-my-kitties-go/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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