Playing with a druid...advice?Follow

Just looking for a bit of advice from the seasoned druids here. I'm going to be playing a chracter with my lady, because we wanted to have something to level up together when we're bored. I have my warrior, and she has her hunter, but those get boring from time to time. I'm playing a rogue, and she's going to be playing a druid. My question is, what would the spec of choice be for her? I looked over the sticky, and thought that feral would probably be the most effective. 2 stun locks, 2 bursts of damage. It seems like with that combo we would rip through things fairly quickly. I'll be speccing combat as I level, for what it's worth. Am I thinking correctly, or would you guys have any other suggestions for her?

I think Feral would be your best bet as like you said, you would just rip things apart. What makes a druid an excellent soloer will work to your benifit also. You both DPS the living snot out of mobs, and while running to the next one your druid pops some HoT's on you both before switching back down to all fours to commence with the DPSing.

Also, I don't know if you plan on only duoing, or if some grouping is in your future. It is always handy to have a main party role in such cases. Being that Feral really has no problem main healing up until outland, (and even there with the right skills) It will be much easier to put a group together if you already have a Tank/healer. I lvled Feral 1-70 so I am not too sure about the other side of the table but I would assume a resto spec would have a tougher time tanking, than a Feral spec has healing. Just make sure she accumulates a spare set of gear for whichever if her offspec.


Edit: I wrote this quick, and the typo fairy pounced on me.

Edited, Dec 24th 2007 4:45pm by XAtherianX

I think questing with a rogue and a feral druid would be really fun. Fights are over in under 2 seconds. For the very occasional fight that isn't, she can pop out and heal you. It's all win.

But as others have mentioned, any spec that sounds fun to her would work. And you can both sneak up on everybody, which is a nice bonus.

I am now lv 50 druid and i found that feral was the best choice up until about lv 40. after that it just started to get boring so i respecd to boomkin and i can tell you it was a major improvement. (more dmg and all around fun) but i plan to respec to resto at 60 just because thats what we druids are commonly expected to be endgame.

Don't say that like it's consensus or common knowledge that moonkin deal more DPS than level 40+ ferals, nor that it's more fun. If you like and are specifically talking about doing ranged/magic damage, then sure. Since I myself greatly prefer melee action, feral never got boring, and if I was still level 50 I'd gladly enter into a damage output competition.

We druids are also commonly expected and recruited to be tanks, and are acknowledged as perfectly viable for melee DPS especially where an off-tank might be needed. From what I've read Moonkin that want to do high-end PVE have to overcome some reputation and itemization issues, but some claim to have success in that role. Respec resto if ya wanna, but don't blame it on "common expectations."

the days of druids expecting to heal are dead and gone. druids are very viable tanks, great melee dps, and very good nukers, while also being top healers.....when specced and geared accordingly. anyone who says otherwise needs to pull their heads out of their asses and start breaking down some stereotypes.

that my friend, is why i dont pug.

alternatively, you can build the party. if you invite everyone else, then you can set your own agenda.

My own Druid is only lvl 54 and Feral but I wanted to make a comment to the person who said Druids are just expected to heal at end-game. The best healer in my raid guild is a Resto-Druid, one of our best tanks is a Feral Druid, and one of our best DPS is a Balance Druid. In fact the Balance Druid ranked 2nd in damage against Gruul.

If you have the gear to fit your spec there is no limits to what a Druid can do. They can tank, heal, or DPS. The only other class that can do that is a Paladin. So do whatever ya want with your Druid...They are truly the jack-of-all-trades