Hi,
I just started my first druid today. They seem to be really fun and cool. I made him cause my friend said they are good in pvp (we want to make a pvp team). I just had a few questions. Are druids easy or quick to lvl? Are they fun end game?. Any help or advice you can give me would really be appreciated. Thanks for your help :)
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Welcome to being Nature's Warrior. Druids are indeed very easy to level since they're a Warrior/Rogue/Priest all rolled into one. Need some DPS be a Cat, accidentally pull an add switch to Bear and take em both down, a little beat up after the fight? Its back to Night Elf/Tauren form and toss a heal on yourself.
After level 40 the Druid has his/her choice to become either a great tank through Dire Bear Form, a decent spell caster through their Moonkin form, or eventually a wonderful healer through their Tree of Life form.
In PvP a Druid is fully resistant to being Sheeped while in an animal form, and can easy slip out of snares by switching forms. Pre-40 almost nothing melee can hit a Druid Cat Flag Carrier using dash making Warsong Gulch a very BG for them.
If ya have anymore questions feel free to ask...There are some great people on this forum loaded with the knowledge of Encyclopedia Druidica :)
After level 40 the Druid has his/her choice to become either a great tank through Dire Bear Form, a decent spell caster through their Moonkin form, or eventually a wonderful healer through their Tree of Life form.
In PvP a Druid is fully resistant to being Sheeped while in an animal form, and can easy slip out of snares by switching forms. Pre-40 almost nothing melee can hit a Druid Cat Flag Carrier using dash making Warsong Gulch a very BG for them.
If ya have anymore questions feel free to ask...There are some great people on this forum loaded with the knowledge of Encyclopedia Druidica :)
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Druids are hard to level until 20. They're moderately annoying between 20 and 36. After that they become absolute unstoppable titans. Once you get that far, for leveling you couldn't ask for better: you have no down time (I seriously didn't even carry food or water when soloing until I leveled cooking/fishing and wanted buffed food), your survivability is excellent (but you have a number of panic buttons in case you do get in over your head), you can move around fast pre-mount with travel form, and you can stealth in and out fast for those quests that just require you to grab one thing. For me this has been by far the most fun class for solo leveling.
As for fun at end-game, that really depends on what you want to do when you get there. For raiding druids generally tank or heal. I understand they're great in arena but it's tough to play them well. This is all hearsay as mine is only level 65 though.
Edited, Jan 5th 2008 10:24pm by teacake
Druids are hard to level until 20. They're moderately annoying between 20 and 36. After that they become absolute unstoppable titans. Once you get that far, for leveling you couldn't ask for better: you have no down time (I seriously didn't even carry food or water when soloing until I leveled cooking/fishing and wanted buffed food), your survivability is excellent (but you have a number of panic buttons in case you do get in over your head), you can move around fast pre-mount with travel form, and you can stealth in and out fast for those quests that just require you to grab one thing. For me this has been by far the most fun class for solo leveling.
As for fun at end-game, that really depends on what you want to do when you get there. For raiding druids generally tank or heal. I understand they're great in arena but it's tough to play them well. This is all hearsay as mine is only level 65 though.
Edited, Jan 5th 2008 10:24pm by teacake
My druid is 34 at the moment, and the only other character I have played is a Hunter (which I got to 70 in a couple of periods of WoW playing intermingled with a few months here and there of FFXI - I tend to switch).
Between the two (Druid and Hunter), there are a lot of similarities when it comes to leveling I find. Both are extremely low maintenance classes to lvl in that for hunter, you can keep your pet alive and fight indefinately given the right targets, and for druid, if you are feral specced the only MP you need to spend is enough to switch out and HoT yourself every now and then, which is easily regenerated before the next time you need to do it. I am finding Druid a little more difficult (only in that if you ***** up on Druid it's you who dies, not your pet), but also in ways a lot easier and quicker (stealth and travel form to get where you need to go for quests are both absolute godsends). I am finding Druid a little more interesting, although before ~32 it was pretty damn boring - claw claw claw claw claw maybe rip repeat - but that is more than you do on hunter at that level.
I just got Ferocious Bite and.. whatever it is called, the 32 from stealth opener, and it has changed the job quite a lot - I frequently take off 30 or 40% of a lower defense mob's life from stealth now which is great fun. At 36 I am given to understand it will change again and become a powerhouse, and I can't wait!
Between the two (Druid and Hunter), there are a lot of similarities when it comes to leveling I find. Both are extremely low maintenance classes to lvl in that for hunter, you can keep your pet alive and fight indefinately given the right targets, and for druid, if you are feral specced the only MP you need to spend is enough to switch out and HoT yourself every now and then, which is easily regenerated before the next time you need to do it. I am finding Druid a little more difficult (only in that if you ***** up on Druid it's you who dies, not your pet), but also in ways a lot easier and quicker (stealth and travel form to get where you need to go for quests are both absolute godsends). I am finding Druid a little more interesting, although before ~32 it was pretty damn boring - claw claw claw claw claw maybe rip repeat - but that is more than you do on hunter at that level.
I just got Ferocious Bite and.. whatever it is called, the 32 from stealth opener, and it has changed the job quite a lot - I frequently take off 30 or 40% of a lower defense mob's life from stealth now which is great fun. At 36 I am given to understand it will change again and become a powerhouse, and I can't wait!
Druids are the definition of versatile.
Hell yeah, Druid is by far the fastest leveler I have used. They can go on about 10 fights nonstop in Cat Form, then our "downtime" is the 2-3 seconds it takes to heal ourselves and shift back into Cat Form. Also, Druids can take on adds quite easily, if you go in Bear Form, use Frenied Regeneration when needed, then Barksin --> Heal, then Tauren Stomp --> Heal. If all else fails, you can easily run away in cheetah form.
That statement makes us equivalent to Rogues, but we're not. The main reason why Druid is the Flag Carrier with the highest potential is the use of Cheetah Form, which will leave the enemy team in your dust. Also, the ability to shift out of snares also helps A LOT.
Feral Druids are the essential offtanks for raids. The Feral tree grants us both amazing DPS and tanking, so we can DPS in Cat Form when an offtank isn't needed, and when you do need one you can just shift into Bear Form and do the job. This is better than Warriors and Paladins because each spec only grants them 1 specific thing, like a Protection Warrior that is brought into the raid to offtank is useless when an offtank isn't needed for a fight. But a Feral Druid is useful in that situation due to the fact they can DPS and tank.
Pounce =]
Good luck and hopefully you'll become a great PvPer as you intend to be
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Are druids easy or quick to lvl?
Hell yeah, Druid is by far the fastest leveler I have used. They can go on about 10 fights nonstop in Cat Form, then our "downtime" is the 2-3 seconds it takes to heal ourselves and shift back into Cat Form. Also, Druids can take on adds quite easily, if you go in Bear Form, use Frenied Regeneration when needed, then Barksin --> Heal, then Tauren Stomp --> Heal. If all else fails, you can easily run away in cheetah form.
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Pre-40 almost nothing melee can hit a Druid Cat Flag Carrier using dash making Warsong Gulch a very BG for them.
That statement makes us equivalent to Rogues, but we're not. The main reason why Druid is the Flag Carrier with the highest potential is the use of Cheetah Form, which will leave the enemy team in your dust. Also, the ability to shift out of snares also helps A LOT.
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As for fun at end-game, that really depends on what you want to do when you get there. For raiding druids generally tank or heal.
Feral Druids are the essential offtanks for raids. The Feral tree grants us both amazing DPS and tanking, so we can DPS in Cat Form when an offtank isn't needed, and when you do need one you can just shift into Bear Form and do the job. This is better than Warriors and Paladins because each spec only grants them 1 specific thing, like a Protection Warrior that is brought into the raid to offtank is useless when an offtank isn't needed for a fight. But a Feral Druid is useful in that situation due to the fact they can DPS and tank.
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whatever it is called, the 32 from stealth opener,
Pounce =]
Good luck and hopefully you'll become a great PvPer as you intend to be
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