I don't literally mean sacred when I talk about druids, but it seems they are going down hill. From what I see, they're mostly elves in cat form meowing at strangers in a tavern. What happened to being protectors of nature and watching Azeroth and the Emerald Dream? Anyone with potential can become a druid, but wouldn't the Circle only teach the serious ones?
I'm just wondering why the druid has been reduced to simple cats running around.
Well the truth is that there's many of druids and they're very different. As for my Dragonisa, she likes to drink and has a loud personality but is a proud Druid who protects nature...
So when I see druids acting like a pokemon-cats I sometimes laugh, and sometimes ignore them...
It depends of how they act when I try to RP with them... :) Some of them have interesting characters and after talkin with them I don't mind they cat-act.. but not everyone... ^.^'
I love Wenna's take on druidism. She prefers her bearform, after all, and nothing's better than bear hugs! Ask Thane, she's awfully insistent on getting her hugs.
I've never played Wen as treating her druidism to be sacred. To her, it's certainly a religious thing, but since she never had the proper training (from a proper druid) she made do with the Harvest Witch teachings, which is more 'be respectful of the earth and thank her for her bounty' than anything else.
She's never been in the Dream, she's only been to Moonglade a handful of times, so her story with the whole druidism thing is different. She's fond of reminding people, "I'm a Harvest Witch. Wot's a druid, again? Refresh my memory, love."
Ash'araina Starwind said:
On a related note, the hell is up with all the druids in Cat form speaking Common? You are a cat. Cat tongues/vocal cords are not suited to spoken language.
Shooting myself in the foot here, but they..sorta. SORTA can.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-dogs-can-talk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_animal#Cats
A /tg/ thread regarding a guy's rogue turned into a cat resulted in a variety of thinking on how to be a cat with a human's brain.
I point all players to this D.E.H.T.A-sponsored promotional video produced in Howling Fjord if they have any questions about the sacred perception of druids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHNXk0Px7Nc
I would note numerous druids destroyed the four Forsaken in the video.
It happened right about the time night elves became friendly hippies instead of genocidal, savage amazonians.
Edit: And about the time Tyrande started putting up with crap from anyone, let alone Fandral Staghelm.
I have a druid. I adhere to an old, outdated game mechanic from back in the day: when in animal forms, you could not communicate with NPCs. No vendors, innkeepers or auctioneers. To speak with them, you needed to revert to humanoid form.
That said, I built upon that concept and communicate sparingly in Darnassian when in an animal form. I emote changes in her voice, and difficulties speaking certain words when using a different tongue, lips or beak. My druid is additionally mischevious, and enjoys communicating to non-Darnassian speakers with gestures or pantomime. For example: when someone once playfully insulted her while she was perched atop a lamp post in Stormwind, she dramatically feigned an injured wing in reply. It's fun to roleplay, and stretches your creativity a bit when you contemplate non-verbal, animal-like responses.
Still, others take a different approach, and that's fine. I have yet to find a conclusive Blizzard source about whether druids can communicate in their animal forms or not. I don't hold others to the standard that I set for myself out of preference.
