It's somewhat unfortunate but I think that with every expansion druids will be forced to become more and more specialised simply because every expansion adds 10-15 points to each talent tree, but there's only 10 talent points to pick up.

Back in vanilla WoW I used to off-tank in Zul'Gurub with a 30feral/21resto spec, with some nice healing talents to let me heal well. Now in TBC tanking is based around Mangle, without it you can't tank at any decent level. So that's 41 points you have to have, but the hybrid talents in the resto tree are nice - we get reduced casting time on HT and mana regen from our +dmg and enrage talents.
But if the expansion brings in 15-16 brilliant new points at the end of the feral tree, they may well be the first things to go. Which is sad.

I like the fact I can heal anything up to non-heroic level. I like that in Kara we can take a Warrior MT and I can dps untill a second tank is needed, and even heal on the Maiden fight. But if every expansion brings in 51-point, then 61-point, then 71-point talents, increased specialisation will really be the only option.

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