The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
[WOW] Druid thread - l2tree!
Fodder
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
Druids are pretty sweet, we can tank, do melee dps, heal really well, do spell dps, and we bring some awesome buffs. Plus we get to turn into huge chickens or trees. However, turning into things causes certain problems, such as not being able to cast all of our spells.
Some druids are tree, and if you're a tree you can't cast healing touch, the huge direct heal. Don't worry though, just follow this advice and you'll be fine!
Spoilered for huegeness
Some druids are tree, and if you're a tree you can't cast healing touch, the huge direct heal. Don't worry though, just follow this advice and you'll be fine!
Spoilered for huegeness
Fodder on
0
This discussion has been closed.
Posts
On that note...DOOMKIN!!! I needs a list of gear that will help me hit the spell hit cap. Twould be glad to link you to my armory, but evil internet blocks teh site /sob.
For those of you with way too much time on your hands and a helping spirit, my drood is Treelicker on Korgath.
Grinding sucks a fat knob, though. Only gotten two characters to 70, and they were both the only chars I had that were 60 when TBC released. And the second one took me forever and only got played when his rest exp was full. On the bright side it's getting faster the higher level I get.
I have no idea who made it, or I would have said something
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Currently mired at 35, myself. Least it'll get faster on tuesday.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Anyway, thinking of rolling another druid to try out moonkin space lazors, I'm not about to respec my main as he is my guild's main tank. However, even with the lowered leveling requirements would I still be better off slamming my wang in a sliding glass door over and over than leveling up all the way pure balance?
I tried to level as balance once I got to level 40, and found it unacceptably slow. So I switched back to feral, and then re-switched at 60, once I got access to the sweet, sweet outlands gear. Made things much better.
Of course, my gear was particular sub-par at the level 40 stage... mostly "of the eagle". If you could get some of the new and upgraded cloth gear, perhaps things would be better.
You say you're a main tank? I was thinking of respeccing my tree into a tank. There's a shortage of tanks these days, and having 2 healing chars is a bit overkill. What sort of numbers would I need to shoot for to be able to tank heroics? (Kara being reserved for my priest these days).
My brother's druid is a feral. His girl friend's is a tree healer, mine is a tree as well.
Mine is level 54 and has been since March so I will think about playing it in the patch again.
Get the full Clefthoof set and Earthwarden. You're aiming for 416 defense skill. Past that, just max your armor and sta, without neglecting agi too badly. 20K+ armor and 15K+ HP is a good target. (In bear-form, of course)
Other people have better ideas of stats, just get the heavy clefthoof set, maybe some +def trinkets, manimal's sinch, umbrahowl's thingie maybe the purple hat and you should be good for the start of kara
Now, I've been tempted to switch to Restoration (currently Balance). Prior to 2.0, healing as a druid was mind-numbing and less fun than a paladin (one druid for HoTs, EVERYONE ELSE SPAM HT). It's more interesting to heal now, and who can resist the twist?
I can... i respecced from balance to resto tree a few weeks ago, and found it... lacking... perhaps it was crappy gear, perhaps I was just too used to healing as a priest, with huge direct heals being the mainstay... Any rate, I respecced to feral last night. Gonna try to get my tank on. Spent like 300g on gear and stuff, but I now have 406 defense, without stepping foot into an instance! Hurrah for crafted gear!
Still not good enough. I've tried out lvl 70 balance twice, with my green/blue balance set of 450 +damage. I didn't even find that to be quick enough, and a resto spec would have crap for damage talents(priests can at least have surge of light and pallies get boosted spell damage and holy shock), and I'd have about 350 +damage in healing gear.
Word. The only "healing" I did pre-BC was stuff like "spam decursive on Chromaggus/Bug Trio" or spam low-rank HT on a tank occasionally. Not exactly fun or any real idea of what healing is like. Resto is amazingly fun now though. It's sort of a game to manage things without having to shift out of tree form. Who needs direct heals!
Oh and resto PVP is hilarious.
I listened to some random jackass guide on the intertron when I started my druid and got Furor.. and promptly respecced back into full feral.
By the time you hit your mid 30s you'll rarely need to shift while grinding anyway, and now at 43 I only need to shift and heal after 3+ mobs at a time.
All it means being full feral is you have to wait an extra 4 seconds before attacking a mob when you shift into cat.. meanwhile you get all the good feral talents as soon as they're available. Don't bother with the resto stuff.
I remember hearing about a add-on that shows your mana bar when your in forms as well, anyone remember what it's called (if it exists
[edit] also not having to level weapon skills = awesome [/edit]
On the 1/3rd healing as dmg front, I tried killing mobs today without any +dmg while in my +healing gear so I could have a frame of reference for the difference tomorrow. It was about as slow as dpsing in my cat gear while resto-specced (Claw sucks so hard), only difference is I had to deal with drinking. So definitely after the patch I'll be in my healing gear (+1.5k heal, thus +500 dmg) to farm from now on...when I'm resto specced, that is.
This requires further testing...
That's an excellent trinket still since it has both a large armor boost and a little bit of dodge, I used it for a very long time at 70, probably the last level 60 item I upgraded if I remember right.
Monster AI will no longer prioritize non-feared players over feared players?
I have heard that before somewhere...