Druid Arena ProblemsFollow

I recently started playing 2v2 matches with a lock. So I thought it would be cake: I run around and heal him while I cyclone the other mob and keep it occupied until the lock downs the other person. I was wrong.

Granted, I only have about 150 resilience right now, but I was getting owned. Here's the general idea of what happened. We would enter the fight, I would usually stealth, when I popped out I might get one cyclone off and then the other players would focus in on me. I would usually have at bare minimum a pet on me or one of the other players. Then I would run around trying to keep the people off me and heal myself, usually dying soon.

How do I keep myself up longer? I was healing myself but that didn't always work...and I was always dying well before my lock partner. I'm going to check these boards for more tips, but I'm bent out of shape about it so I needed to post here right away! The only arena experience I have is with a shadow priest.

stay behind pillars and get out of line of sight.

This.

enjoy the druid/lock combo


That site has enough info for most teams.


EDIT: wrong team



Edited, May 14th 2008 2:58am by dragonscale

Thank you all for the advice. I know most of it is resilience and me getting used to playing a resto druid in arena. I started looking at more info and have 2 more questions. The first deals with talent builds, this is the build I found one of the best druids is using for pvp:


http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/druid/talents.html?tal=51130001000000000000050023010000000000000005023351031500301340

I like this build, it is more offensive than my current build...but here's my question. I really would like tree of life. So if I took 1 point out of Feral Charge and 1 point out of thick hide how bad will that hurt me in arena play? I'm also wondering why he took Starlight Wrath over Improved Nature's Grasp...is that .5 really worth it?

My third question is can I still be a viable raid healer (right now I'd be referring to Kara specifically) without tree of life?

Thanks again for your help!




Edited, May 14th 2008 1:35pm by Jedius

Edited, May 14th 2008 1:37pm by Jedius

1) BAD! feral charge is amazing both offensively and defensively. Helps you get into and out of los/range, which is what you should be doing at all times in addition to the 4 second root it provides.

2) More offense versus more defense. It probably depends on who his arena partner is and if his gear outweighs his partners. Otherwise 5/5 Natures Grasp is ideal.

3) If you outgear the raid, then maybe. Otherwise you should be spending the gold to respec twice a week. sorry :(

Edited, May 14th 2008 10:03pm by DukyFrodo

tree is actually decent in situations where there isnt a warlock. mage/rogue in 2's is a good example, as being in tree renders you immune to poly, makes your HoT's REAL strong (and cost effective) and reduces the cost of those HoT's by a lot. now that you can depoison in tree form, keeping wound poison off isnt a problem. just make sure you shift into bear if expose armor pops up, cause without armor youll be hard pressed to outlast the rogue.

ive fought a few druids in 2's that go tree in a war/druid mirror match, and its REALLY hard to kill them unless i get a full 5 sunders on them. i just cant outdamage the HoT's.

but dont go tree vs locks. ever. youll be banished and feared so much youll be a non-factor.

the trick is to keep the HoT's ticking at all times and not be afraid to use regrowth pre-emptively (or even if you may not need it, just dont let it tick off completely). triple stacked bloom + rejuv (add in swiftmend) with regrowth on you and abolish poison makes it very hard to take down a pvp-geared druid.

key point in that is "pvp-geared". if you dont have 400 resilience and at least full s2 + s3 off-pieces, then dont try this at home.