Topic: Tag alias: druid_(feral) -> feral_druid

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

for context's sake, this tag seems to be used for Warcraft druids in their cat form and bear form (not all will look like felines or ursids, though). a tag or tags for them should exist, there are usually enough visual differences between regular animals and druids masquerading as one, that you could tag 'em once you recognize them... however i IDK what we'd actually name it. druid_(feral) could work since it's neutral terminology for their species, but people would need to know what "feral" means in Warcraft in order to know why it's suffixed to the tag. vice versa, druids in Warcraft don't only assume a cat or bear form, so just using "feral" and only tagging it for cats and bears is not correct (unless you take Classic talent trees, which didn't split them at the time).

in any case, we should probably avoid feral_druid for a neutral form name, it could cause people to think "feral animal". for reference's sake, there's cat form (feral), bear form (guardian), moonkin form (balance), kindling tree of life form (restoration), travel form, flight form, and aquatic form, along with "wolf form" (lorewise it's forbidden, and caused at least a generation of worgen...). i believe having one "shapeshifted druid" tag and making the rest imply it would be a good idea, just not tacking "feral" to it.

(several edits since my blacklist caught an obvious bear, which ones i saw didn't look like one at a quick glance).

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