I am currently a feral druid with all dps gear and it does alot of damage and all but i was wondering what the ups and downs about each spec were because i kinda wanna try out something different then close up combat all the time. Plz post your thoughts.
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Feral gives you more versatility because you can very capably melee DPS or tank. I've never been moonkin myself but hear good things about how much fun it can be to deal wicked casting DPS from behind plate-level armor.
I recommend that you spend your next 5 levels finding/taking/buying gear with +int and any spelldamage you can find (including any level 40+ gear in the AH) and then respec Balance at 40 when you will be able to grab moonkin form.
Edit: Oh yeah, check out http://www.wowwiki.com/Druid_builds
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I recommend that you spend your next 5 levels finding/taking/buying gear with +int and any spelldamage you can find (including any level 40+ gear in the AH) and then respec Balance at 40 when you will be able to grab moonkin form.
Edit: Oh yeah, check out http://www.wowwiki.com/Druid_builds
Edited, Dec 31st 2007 10:41am by JeeBar
Feral offers flexibility between tanking and dps.
Balance offers flexibility between healing and dps (such that dreamstate builds are popular for healing, though IMO not as good as resto. They do different things).
If you're going to be dps-only, please go balance. Every time a druid says he's just cat-specced God kills a kitten. Sadly it's not the kitten who was just talking.
Balance offers flexibility between healing and dps (such that dreamstate builds are popular for healing, though IMO not as good as resto. They do different things).
If you're going to be dps-only, please go balance. Every time a druid says he's just cat-specced God kills a kitten. Sadly it's not the kitten who was just talking.
What's wrong with cat dps only? Our damage is on par with any other dps classes, and we may not have CC but we have many other skills useful for oh-sh*t situations. I have tanked and healed to save a wipe so many times I can't count.
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selebrin of the Seven Seas wrote:
Every time a druid says he's just cat-specced God kills a kitten. Sadly it's not the kitten who was just talking.
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What's wrong with cat dps only? Our damage is on par with any other dps classes, and we may not have CC but we have many other skills useful for oh-sh*t situations. I have tanked and healed to save a wipe so many times I can't count.
Nobody's sayin druids aren't kickass in DPS role, but in my experience there's druids that claim to be "cat spec" and aren't willing to ever heal or tank. They're wannabe rogues, and don't use all the tools or forms at their/our disposal.
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even if you are speced moonkin, make sure to build up all your sets
when we do kara i will moonkin some fights, off tank some mobs in bear and off heal others in caster.
While both feral and balance are fun i find that feral is in more demand to tank rather than dps, and balance isnt in as much demand to heal due to our one rez, and people not as comfortable with balance specs yet.
That being said, i would just try them both out and pick the one you like the most- i was feral until 48 and switched to balance and havent switched back
dps as balance is nice and the ability to pop a battle rez or emergency heal is very nice where as if your tanking you cant, and your heals arent as effective in your kitty dps gear as it would be in balance gear.
Just my 2 cents, mac
Edited, Dec 31st 2007 3:46pm by macrand
when we do kara i will moonkin some fights, off tank some mobs in bear and off heal others in caster.
While both feral and balance are fun i find that feral is in more demand to tank rather than dps, and balance isnt in as much demand to heal due to our one rez, and people not as comfortable with balance specs yet.
That being said, i would just try them both out and pick the one you like the most- i was feral until 48 and switched to balance and havent switched back
dps as balance is nice and the ability to pop a battle rez or emergency heal is very nice where as if your tanking you cant, and your heals arent as effective in your kitty dps gear as it would be in balance gear.
Just my 2 cents, mac
Edited, Dec 31st 2007 3:46pm by macrand
Geez, rate-down for asking a question o_O
I know tanks are more in demand and that refusing to do anything else but dps is limitative. I don't. I think rogues are wannabe kitties :P
Seriously though, I guess I'm just in a very good guild. We had 3 kitties dpsing in Kara the other day. Pwned, as they say! :)
I know tanks are more in demand and that refusing to do anything else but dps is limitative. I don't. I think rogues are wannabe kitties :P
Seriously though, I guess I'm just in a very good guild. We had 3 kitties dpsing in Kara the other day. Pwned, as they say! :)
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Nuit the Insane! - Retired Druid on Sentinels.
Ombre - Retired Dragoon/bard on Phoenix.
PhoenixOmbre wrote:
Geez, rate-down for asking a question o_O
I know tanks are more in demand and that refusing to do anything else but dps is limitative. I don't. I think rogues are wannabe kitties :P
Seriously though, I guess I'm just in a very good guild. We had 3 kitties dpsing in Kara the other day. Pwned, as they say! :)
I know tanks are more in demand and that refusing to do anything else but dps is limitative. I don't. I think rogues are wannabe kitties :P
Seriously though, I guess I'm just in a very good guild. We had 3 kitties dpsing in Kara the other day. Pwned, as they say! :)
A druid's strength is their flexibility. By all means kitty away, I sure do! But when the guild DOES need a tank have some gear and experience, because you're specced for that too. You don't need to dedicate yourself to being a main tank, but sometimes you need more than you have dedicated folks.
Or you can go back to the pre-TBC days of having 8 prot warriors for one fight and booting them all for other guys afterwards because they're not good for anything but tanking.
The strength in feral druids is that you can pick up all the PvE DPS and Tanking talents and still have a couple points to spare. With a simple gear change, you can go from tanking on one pull to DPSing on the next. Or, for Kara, you can bring one dedicated tank (Prot War/Prot Pally) and 1 feral druid, and you won't have to switch anybody in or out the whole run. Plus, melee classes and hunters love the +5% crit from having a feral druid around.
Balance druids have the advantage of being ranged DPS. There are a lot of bosses where melee is a liability... I can't think of any where being ranged DPS is bad. If all you want to do is DPS, I would suggest Boomkin. Ferals need 2 sets of armor, and have to compete with rogues for a lot of the same leather. Boomkins have pretty much exclusive access to leather casting gear.
Balance druids have the advantage of being ranged DPS. There are a lot of bosses where melee is a liability... I can't think of any where being ranged DPS is bad. If all you want to do is DPS, I would suggest Boomkin. Ferals need 2 sets of armor, and have to compete with rogues for a lot of the same leather. Boomkins have pretty much exclusive access to leather casting gear.
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LOL we werent ganging up on ya, its just that while you can focus on dps, you should be prepared to fill another role if needed.
on most raids now (ssc/tk) i dps 90% of the time and cast a battle rez or a heal the rest so you will be dpsing alot more than healing.
I have to agree that if you just want to do dps go boomkin its fun (for me anyways) and as astarin said, you can escape the nasty cleaves that the melees got to watch for.
as for leather caster gear...well you have the glad sets, tier sets, badge of honor stuff and the rest is pretty much cloth. So you'll be rolling against the clothies on some most drops unless you have those. I think im about 1/2 and 1/2 right now.
on most raids now (ssc/tk) i dps 90% of the time and cast a battle rez or a heal the rest so you will be dpsing alot more than healing.
I have to agree that if you just want to do dps go boomkin its fun (for me anyways) and as astarin said, you can escape the nasty cleaves that the melees got to watch for.
as for leather caster gear...well you have the glad sets, tier sets, badge of honor stuff and the rest is pretty much cloth. So you'll be rolling against the clothies on some most drops unless you have those. I think im about 1/2 and 1/2 right now.
Yeah, Selebrin's original comment was not saying ferals can't DPS. We all know they can extremely well. He is just having a go at those ferals who say only DPS and don't even have tanking gear.
I think we can all agree that this type of feral is not one we want representing the rest of us in-game.
I think we can all agree that this type of feral is not one we want representing the rest of us in-game.
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Posted: Jan 08 2008 at 9:43 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Yo....i think u should stick to feral becuz feral has alot of dps and very good for Bg and pvp.......in balance u can pvp but u can mostly die alot also its fun but i dont think balance druid r better than feral druid cuz i dueled one and he was no chance for me lol and i was actually messin wit him haha so yea and restoration is very good if ur a really good healer its like ur MANA can never go away becuz of the tree form hehe well tat all peace
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