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Edited, Aug 26th 2008 9:35pm by kawainui
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I don't have enough experience with feral to be very helpful on the question.
But welcome to Alla. For future reference, you may want to be a little more specific in the thread title next time. People are more likely to open threads if they know what the question is related to.
Enjoy your stay :-)
But welcome to Alla. For future reference, you may want to be a little more specific in the thread title next time. People are more likely to open threads if they know what the question is related to.
Enjoy your stay :-)
Welcome!
Here's my feedback on the builds:
1. Make sure you respec at 50, going straight down the feral tree to get Mangle, then fill your current 11 Resto points back in between 51 and 61.
2. You need Shredding Attacks and Savage Fury in that final build. Drop Nurturing instinct and either Intensity or Natural Shapeshifter (probably the latter if you're mainly interested in tanking) to free up the points.
The way most people do this is by speccing feral and maintaining 2 sets of gear, then just swapping into that healing gear when they want to heal. That works fine until ~70, when you'll want to choose one or the other, unless you don't mind spending lots of $ on constant respecs. A hybrid build that lets you both tank and heal at endgame isn't generally thought to exist.
Here's my feedback on the builds:
1. Make sure you respec at 50, going straight down the feral tree to get Mangle, then fill your current 11 Resto points back in between 51 and 61.
2. You need Shredding Attacks and Savage Fury in that final build. Drop Nurturing instinct and either Intensity or Natural Shapeshifter (probably the latter if you're mainly interested in tanking) to free up the points.
kawainui wrote:
i want to mainly tank with some healing
The way most people do this is by speccing feral and maintaining 2 sets of gear, then just swapping into that healing gear when they want to heal. That works fine until ~70, when you'll want to choose one or the other, unless you don't mind spending lots of $ on constant respecs. A hybrid build that lets you both tank and heal at endgame isn't generally thought to exist.
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Edited, Aug 26th 2008 9:35pm by kawainui
Edited, Aug 26th 2008 9:35pm by kawainui
My 2 cents on your Savage Fury question: Unless you intend on leveling up exclusively through instances, in which no matter what happens and who else is in the group you will never ever not even once be called upon to do any DPS at all, ever, and never not once not ever doing a single quest solo, and never ever needing a single thing you need to grind for including money (ever), you will be using your cat form plenty, even if you've created your druid primarily to tank.
Savage Fury is a must, IMO. Mangle is your bread and butter and the cake you eat after.
Savage Fury is a must, IMO. Mangle is your bread and butter and the cake you eat after.
My answer would be quite the same as teacake. If you plan on doing any quest/grind/whatever without grouping, by all means, take Savage Fury.
Even if you don't plan on doing this, you will miss it while you are at a bg and not healing. Your burst damage will be lacking a lot.
That being said, I think this is a pretty good and well planned build for a hardcore tank raider, except for the absence of Shredding Atacks (you should really trade that for Nurturing instincts, wich is, IMO, useless for this build). I would say you take that build after your guild clear Kara. You should have plenty of gold/mats/etc and your grind should be take to a lesser extent.
Even if you don't plan on doing this, you will miss it while you are at a bg and not healing. Your burst damage will be lacking a lot.
That being said, I think this is a pretty good and well planned build for a hardcore tank raider, except for the absence of Shredding Atacks (you should really trade that for Nurturing instincts, wich is, IMO, useless for this build). I would say you take that build after your guild clear Kara. You should have plenty of gold/mats/etc and your grind should be take to a lesser extent.
I am one of the 2 best geared tanks in my guild (starting on TK & SSC at the moment). I still spend over half the time in raids DPSing. We are the best off-tanks in the game and that means DPSing in cat when not needed to tank.
I am guild leader & druid class leader for my guild and I make sure all my feral druids maximise their spec for both tanking & DPS no matter what their main role. We want everybody doing maximum DPS when not needed for other duties.
With regard to Nurturing Instinct, if you are healing an instance you will be in healing gear and have no strength in you gear anyway. If you are tanking and you have to heal yourself you are in trouble already and the extra +heal probably won't make a difference anyway. (seeing your tank gear will more than likely have zero +heal)
I am guild leader & druid class leader for my guild and I make sure all my feral druids maximise their spec for both tanking & DPS no matter what their main role. We want everybody doing maximum DPS when not needed for other duties.
With regard to Nurturing Instinct, if you are healing an instance you will be in healing gear and have no strength in you gear anyway. If you are tanking and you have to heal yourself you are in trouble already and the extra +heal probably won't make a difference anyway. (seeing your tank gear will more than likely have zero +heal)
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