Stealth = FTWFollow

The ability to use prowl is the real reason I can't stop playing druid! It's just so bloody useful!

Aside from being able to walk past a pile of trash mobs to quickly get to and kill the boss, stealth is a great OMG-I-have-to-leave-the-computer-now! button.

I was gathering stingers in the Slithering scar in Ungoro Crater when the Fedex guy showed up. I smacked the prowl button as I jumped up and ran to the door (I was scared he'd leave and I really need this parcel out today).

There were a couple hang ups with the pick up and it took me about 10 minutes to get back to the computer. And there was my kitty, unharmed and intact, sitting serenely in the middle of a crowd of wandering mobs, patiently waiting for me to get back. Sure, if one had walked over him, he'd have been discovered and killed but (oddly enough) it's never happened.

So, in addition to stealthing like a rogue (and stealth-walking even faster than a rogue), we also have the non rogue ability to tank multiple mobs. Plus we can heal!

Frankly, I can't understand why more people don't play druids!

there was a time when you'd see a metric ton of druids around. and a lot of em were noobs (the bad variety).

do you want that all over again? :)

My main is 70 ;D Understandable comment though, as I didn't mention I was leveling one of my druid alts in the above post.

.. That's how bad I am.. I have a druid main as well as druid alts .. XD

Flying is wicked.. I certainly still use prowl constantly, but an instant csat flight form is insanely handy. My favorite trick is to throw myself off the edge of the world in outlands (and shift once I'm out of combat) as a sure way to save myself from getting beat to a bloody stump by a bunch of mobs.

My biggest goal on my main right now is to get enough money to start going for my epic flyer.

Yes! I played an undead rogue for a while (hubby is always trying to lure me over Horde-side) and I kept getting so annoyed - I couldn't stealth by ANYTHING. I walk right in front of mobs higher level than me all the time with my druid. But even stuff my own level would just reach out and punch my rogue. I know as a rogue I should try to be all sneaky and stuff but geez. If I wanted to take the trouble to walk 12 feet behind everything I wouldn't really need stealth at all.

Anyway I couldn't figure out why this was for the longest time and chalked it up to the night elf bonus since my druid is night elf, but I forgot about Feral Instinct. It's realllllly nice to have all your melee talents in the same tree. I wouldn't feel I could spare points in the Sub tree as a rogue, especially not 5.

I never got my undead rogue past 20, but I do remember how I seemed to get spotted a *lot*. I had always assumed that druid stealth was worse (rogue being the parent class) but trying to actually *play* a rogue shut me up good.

I'm really bold on my (horde) druid. Mobs just don't seem to ever see me unless they walk over me. And if they do, who cares? Just turn into bear and tank! And if that goes bad, bash/warstomp, rejuve, travel form and AWAY!

I'm already beginning to wonder how I survived before form-to-form, one button, shape-shifting XD

I can't wait for distract on my rogue alt (2 levels to go). Roving mobs are always turning around and seeing me - I may as well just range pull them with my throwing weapon. With distract I can at least set up my saps & openers (I currently have a nice dagger) - should speed things up nicely.

I never remember my Tauren Druid having as much trouble stealthing past mobs though (maybe it is just selective memory)

You know its not the rogues or druids that have better/worse stealth.

Its your lack of skill with it. As a rogue and on my horde druid on another server, i never got noticed unless the creature turned around directly or was facing me. Or had a big difference in level to spot me form distance. Iam careful when in stealth and can figure out just how to get past patrols and mobs for both my stealthies.

Plus you underestimate the usefulness of a rogues distract [stop those damn pats and turn those mobs around] and vanish. Sap has its uses but is limited.

Though mind you, no "oh sh*t!" ability can compare to changing into something else to whoop the *** of whatever noticed you.

You can make this comparison to almost every class. Why would people choose mages and warlocks when moonkin caster has the armor of a bear and switch to other forms?

compared to warrios you have the added ability to heal and have a stealth form.

same for healers, your not as squishy as most healers.

Mind you, not many can argue the solo viability and sheer awesomeness of a druid. But other classes do have their specialised uses and unique abilities that people prefer to have them along for, just as they would with for druids.

I often hear of instances being done only with druids [different specs] in the group. THe other class i hear about doing this are the shamans. Heard of pally attempts at this but they didnt go as well.

Edited, Jan 11th 2008 2:49pm by Tenjen

For druids: each point in Feral Instinct (3 total) improves your effective stealth level by 1. So, a lvl 20 NE druid with 3/3 FI will stealth as if he were lvl 24 (3 from FI and 1 from NE racial).

For rogues: each point in Master of Deception (5 total) is 3/5ths of a stealth level, so 5/5 in MoD also improves your stealth level by 3. If you are a NE, you get your racial too.

The difference is, FI is a must for any feral druid so you will not find any without it (unless they don't know what they are doing), whereas most rogues will not be putting points in the subtlety tree at all and hence won't have MoD.

Prowl (druid) and Stealth (rogue) as skills are otherwise completely equivalent.

Edited, Jan 11th 2008 1:04pm by villiansv