How much does it cost to try Moonkin?Follow

First respec is 1 gold. I don't remember the rate progression but after many a respec you can look at something like 50g per respec. Also I remember after respec back to original spec you will have to relearn talents from the trainers but at a much reduced price.

Keep in mind you need to re equip yourself completely.

Keep in mind that if you don't have a mage friend giving you waters before a quest grind session you will be buying a lot of waters from vendors.

Try it, it will be fun, at least for a while.

Mattimer

1g, then 5, then 10. I believe it continues to go up by 5 after that, up to a max of 50.

Aye, if you don't respec for a month, the price will drop by either 5g or 10g, forgot which.

Reports of Oomkin are vastly overstated. Just use your melee weapon and you don't ever need to drink. Starfire, wrath, wrath, moonfire, insect swarm, swing til dead. Reapply dots to healers.

Small word of advice; decide what you want to be before you hit outland...

Some of the quests there make you choose between really good feral gear,and equally good balance gear.

I missed out on some very good feral gear,since I was balance at the time,and picked the "wrong" gear :D

otoh, when you get to Outlands you'll be making money at a much higher rate, so you will be able to buy mats for some really good crafted gear. And then there's arena and bg gear if you're into that.

I tried balance at 50 (I think) and didn't like it; took too long to kill things. I didn't really give it a chance, though, and didn't have gear. The local boomkins would know better, but I think balance comes into its own at higher lvls. I want to give it another shot, after I get epic flight and all the feral gear I have my eye on.

If you quest a lot in Outland, (like doing nearly ALL quests.) You'll be able to pick up great gear for one spec, and still get good gear for other specs.

I am feral spec, from quests alone, I not only have good mele DPS and Tank gear, I have caster gear too. (with some separation between balance and restoration)

As long as you have the money to get Balance gear, yes, it can be worth it if you think it will be fun.

If you don't have the gear, though, you will suck and proclaim it the worst spec, unjustifiably so.

Moonkins can probably top the DPS charts in BG if that's the only thing you're interested in, but you should realize that there are much more important things to worry about. Winning, for example.

You might have to shift out and heal a flag runner if you're the only healer nearby. Refusing to do so to continue DPSing people may net you more short-term satisfaction but in the end you will lose. (Or increase your chances of losing, at least)

But yah, it can dish out the pain just fine.

And yes, Balance Druids may still use their other forms. You can get off a quick stun by turning Bear and then out and your can stealth to places in Cat before shifting out and nuking the **** outta someone. Druids are Druids and should definitely make use of all they got.

Just by collecting quest rewards when the feral gear wasn't an upgrade and instance drops when they weren't needed by the group, I now have 1400 +heal gear and 400 +spelldamage gear. This was without collecting any cloth gear. If a piece of cloth gear is good, then definitely take it, but leather is the preference.

No matter what your spec, it is worth collecting off-spec gear. It leaves your options open. Even if it only for a week, I can try out Boomkin or Resto without having to put a big effort in to get the gear.