Feral Druid Review of Druid of the Claw Hero Talents - A Paw in the Right Direction
28.03.2024 - 12:23
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Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion.
Our Feral Druid guide writer, Guiltyas, offers an early review of the Druid of the Claw Hero Talents, a tree that attempts and somewhat succeeds on marrying the once single spec of Feral and Guardian. The Ferocious Bite-centri spec offers some improvement over its Wildstalker counterpoint, but may require baseline Feral changes to really shine.
Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. Blizzard has revealed an early preview of Hero Talents coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Hero Talent Trees revealed so far. Check out all of our released Hero Talent reviews in our new Editorial Section.
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Druid of the Claw Feral Druid Review
With this newest reveal containing a whopping TWELVE new hero talent tree’s, we’ve gotten our first look at the other tree that we’ll have access to as Feral for The War Within.
Hero talents are a new system coming in The War Within; think of them as an expansion pack for your talent tree. Each spec will have 2 hero talent trees connected to 2 of their other specs. Over the course of levelling, you’ll be able to fill out the entire tree, so the only choices you’ll make are between your 2 different hero talent trees and with any choice nodes in the tree, largely when you choose hero talents you will be choosing based on the entire package.
Druid trees will both be shared with tank and healer, so Balance druid will have a tree shared with Resto and Guardian just like Feral; Feral druid will have the choice between Wildstalker and Druid of the Claw. The tree we’re previewing today is the tree shared between Feral and Guardian, Druid of the Claw.
What Were We Expecting?
Feral and Guardian have always shared a bit of an identity; after all we were one spec for about half the game’s lifetime, so going into this preview I had a lot more positive expectations for what this tree could be. It was always going to include things like a benefit to shifting into Bear Form (and vice versa); I thought there was a pretty good chance there would be some kind of group buff roar to pay homage to WC3’s Druid of the Claw, it was fairly likely there was going to be some kind of Survival Instincts modifier, i was KIND of hopeful there would maybe be a Mangle style hook (look I just REALLY want to care more about bleeds). Just in general I think it was a lot easier to theorise about this tree both from a thematic perspective and from
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