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Trust the sticky at the top of this forum. It's fantastic. You'll give yourself a headache if you try to rationalize all the various sources of info out there into "one truth."

On this subject, the sticky recommends for cat gear: Str, Agi, AP, Crit, ToHit. You won't see +AP, +crit or +hit for a long time, so just worry about strength and agility. Strength increases your attack power (at a ratio of 2:1) which dictates your base hit amount, and agility increases your crit % which is how often you "critically strike" for double damage.

I think most druids call it a wash and grab strength and agility in equal parts for their primary melee gear set. And HP never hurts, so take stamina where you can get it. So for general purpose melee and especially DPS, Strength = Agility > Stamina > Other Stuff. For tanking in particular, Armor = Stamina > Agility > Strength > Other Stuff.



Good job doing your homework. You won't find consensus on the issue of going straight to mangle or grabbing the handy resto talents after you get Feral Swiftness, though. It's my vague impression that opinion is split 50/50 on that. I'm a straight-to-mangle guy myself.

Also, FYI, it's generally agreed that the "gotta have 'em" resto talents are Furor, Naturalist, and Omen of Clarity. Natural Shapeshifter is considered by most a PvP talent because you have to shift a lot more in PvP,


IMHO you can do without Nature's Focus (and free up those 5 valuable talent points) by taking interruptions into account when deciding when to start your self-heals. Unless it's a true "interrupt" your casting progress bar just gets knocked down a bit, so it'll take longer but not require you to start the cast over. And if you're getting pummeled, run away run away!!!



Edited, Nov 9th 2007 2:40pm by JeeBar

how you choose to talent is ultimately up to you. just remember that you can respec at any time, and the cost for the first respec is a paltry one gold.

generally, for pve servers, id recommend going straight to mangle. for pvp servers, id fill out resto with furor/natures focus before going past 13 points in the feral tree.

I think that's a good idea since I play on a pvp server. It contradicts this, though.



That rings true to me as well, because since I've read it I've been more prudent as to when to self-heal, taking into account the number of mobs, how fast they hit, etc. And while both Naturalist and NF are both nice and I want them both, I don't want to be level 162 by the time I get Mangle. I think what I'm going to do is go ahead and get 5 in Naturalist and one in ooc and head down to Mangle thereafter. If it doesn't work out...



We'll see how it works out. Thanks again for the advice.

I have neither the desire for that personal challenge, nor do I have the skills or practice yet even if I wanted to, so to save myself (and friends) from dying more often than needed, I'm gonna waffle from my last post and go ahead and dump the points into NF. However, would you recommend putting the 5 in Naturalist as well? And if so, which first? Keeping in mind I have a couple more quiet levels before the real ganking begins, I think I could pull off not having it at least until there's 5 in naturalist assuming I even need that one anymore. What say you?

Yeah, sorry, you're right as always. I should have qualified my statement. Somehow I'm long-winded and STILL leave key stuff out. : / First, I play on a PvE server, and exclusively do PvE. Funny enough, I actually have 3/5 Nature's Focus myself from a respec I did when I thought I was gonna start PvPing at 70, because you and others had said it was valuable there, and in the little PvP I did do it definitely came in handy. I didn't like PvP enough to stick to it, though, and haven't respec'd out of NF even though I don't think I get much value out of it in my PvE experience on a non-PvP server.