Seasonal component of the druid was done by someone who saw the trash ass design of the WoW Druid's solar alignment and thought "THATS COOL!" without ever playing the class in any serious capacity. Or better yet, since its rose color glassing itself back to that expansion - they likely watched a youtube video of someone using honorbuddy to maximize the dps rotation, topping the meters. Not that a normal person couldnt do it, but I cant for the life of me think that anyone that has played a DPS role across several expansions and different classes wants that shit to come back. I do not want to play a fucking boomkin 24/7 on the fucking everquest-like druid with clunky ass spells, and fuck all movement effects.
Make the alignment of the seasons be a stance, or increase their power and make the druid go pray to a fucking tree or something for long term season buffs. Hell - make them go on a quest to unlock each seasons benefits and let them build those buffs into a single self buff onto their character as they level. But stance dancing is fucking awful on any class and you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to make it part of a class. Yes, aligning yourself and pregaming the alignment is, at its heart, fucking stance dancing.
This isnt a "Lets see where it goes!" kind of situation either. Because whoever designed the seasons has zero imagination. Never mind the impact of a DPS (Oh no. You're 10 fucking stacks into the season of suck because you're trying to maximize healing, so now you have to wait for all 10 stacks to drop and then go through another entire fucking season to help burn a mob. Yes, its a fucking exaggeration.) Or, the idea that the tank has to wait for your fucking season to turn into the season of suck just to pull a group of fucking mobs so he knows he can get 20% greater heals on a large pack. WHY? Because the fucking druid doesnt have Lull anymore.
I mean think this shit through for five fucking seconds. If you're so enamored with the fucking seasons and alignments and dont want that code to go to waste - change them to something that isnt a step above the baseline of mathematics for combat. Mana Spent vs Mana Gained vs Output amount of DPS/Heal. Never mind its a constant fucking nightmare to balance - Like Horee shit, this isnt Papa Johns. Better Healing, Better Damage, Better fucking pizza type of simplicity.
Change it to shit like Summer stance gives all healing spells a thorns effect. All Winter damage spells give a universal (melee/spell casting) slow effect. etc. etc. Yes - those are base line mathematics at their heart, too. But the entire group doesnt have to dance around the Druids "seasons" just so they can do shit. You're adding fucking tedium to the class just for the sake of flavor and all its going to do is make people not want to deal with the Druid if a fucking Cleric is LFG.
I personally like the idea of following the existing quest where there is some sickness in the world and you're going around, tracking down the fucking root cause of the sickness... and as you're doing that quest, the druids are teaching you the way of the seasons and you're gaining additional effects that stack on your AURA. You're a fucking druid - you have plane of growth type shit blooming behind you as you walk when you're an archon. Dive into the fucking theme of the Druid for fucks sake. More mana here, but not there, more damage here, but not there is just so fucking lazy.
