Disclaimer: If you can't be bothered to read my drivel but are prepared to anser a short question then please skip to the section entitled Question ^^
Hi there everyone, i'm new to WoW. I've been a hardcore FFXI player for a few years now but my Xbox360 recently died and while i'm waiting for it to be repaired i picked up a trial key for WoW to keep me entertained, and to let me get a look at what the other %50 of the MMO world is enjoying.
My trial key ran out this morning and i'd liked the game enough to wander down town and buy a full copy of the game and a subscription card. Anyways while i wait for the game to install and download the update/s im here to indulge my tendency to ramble textually.
From the start, Druid was the class that appealed to me, maybe it's my English heritage or maybe i'm just an animal at heart but a night elf druid is where it's at for me. I'm about to make a new character and before i start i wanna make sure im taking the right route.
I've read a large amount of the stickys and some random posts but theres a few things i still need clarifying and some advice that i'd like to receive. Inevitably im gonna cover ground that you guys have discussed to death but im not quite up on all your abbreviations and such yet so please forgive me if i do.
I'm specifically going to try to make a "solo PVE druid" with maybe some small scale partying later on, my reason for this is simple. I dont have very much RAM on this crappy laptop, the game runs nice when running around single player but as soon as i go anywhere with a high volume of players it starts to chop graphically and lag like a syphilitic asthmatic camel trying to service an elephant.
So...
Bear and Moonkin are things im not going to use, basically because they look gay. When i change to bear form and that huge clumsy grey hairy *** pops up on my screen it makes me want to go play another class/game, and when i've fought Moonkin's they look like deranged fat voodoo turkeys on crack, which is not the look i normally try to roll. Cat form i havent seen yet and im hoping that is something which ill enjoy more.
Now ya may be thinking at this point, "why the fark is this guy playing druid if he hates it?" but i dont hate it ya see, i love all the buffs and spells just not the above mentioned obese bestial gayness.
Question:
I want a druid thats stays in "human" form and uses dual wield daggers/swords, all the magics and possibly cat form.
Is this possible or are bear and moonkin forms so integral to a druids play style that to do away with them renders him pointless ?
Can a druid even dual wield ?
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I do intend to participate in large scale raiding etc once i upgrade my RAM to cope with it so i need this build to be viable later on.
Ugh ! Update still at %88 downloaded.