OK first off - yes I know I brought it on myself. I know that feral is the preferred leveling spec. I also know that I have a level 50 rogue who was my first toon that I haven't played in over a year because I loathe the playstyle.
Right now my druid is 31. I tried feral. 3 times, in fact and never played them past 25 or so because I found it a tad annoying and frankly difficult**. This toon the penny dropped, sort of, and I swapped out to Balance at 24 or so. A little slow but not that much different from the shaman I just leveled, honestly.
But the shaman had some decent spell hit stuff AND some fair melee - granted it was the preferred spec (painful as it was). Right now I'm sort of in a crappy spot. I'm not asking for help for right now though. I'm asking (similar to what I did on the shaman boards) does it get better?
And when does it get better? I'm not asking about PvP so much. This is a fun toon. I have many utility toons - tanks, DPS, CC, etc. I may PvP, I may do whatever but I've run with so many really neat Boomkin who had so much fun with their class - and I playing with them. I'm wondering when the fun starts. ***
Is it 40 when I get the form or is there more work to be done after that? Dreamstate? Should I respec for 9 levels?
Oh and maybe I'm just doin' it wrong. Usually (no instances - I assume when people ask me they want me to tank or heal and I'm tired of tanking and scared of druid MHing) I quest alone and it goes:
SF, SF, IS
Then melee or NG backup or Rejuv or MF or ... well depends on what I'm fighting.
** The reason why was that I was almost always low on health and mana. Fight a thing or 2, be really low on health, swap out, heal, switch back. Do that a few times and you just can't anymore. I realize the reasons why and agree with them but I still found it... irritating. And it's not the subject of my post. I do use all my forms when the need arises but for general play I like the balance style.
*** A little background: I rolled a commune of horde toons. Most of them the classes that I hated or never really played. After leveling a couple of alliance toons to 70 and a few to 50 or 60 I totally see the benefits of these classes and am rather enjoying them now. I'm just struggling a bit with the druid. I did with the shaman too but at 40, holy cow that's a new game. I'm hoping it may be the same at some point here.