Hey everyone.
I'm currently leveling myself a druid and am enjoying it immensely (lvl 30 atm). However I have a few questions as to how I will end up playing the druid in the future.
Obviously feral is the best way to level the druid, and that is how I am going at the moment. However I also have a lvl 70 prot warrior, and I don't think I want to spend all this time leveling myself another tank. So I was either thinking of going resto or some sort of dps for my end-game experience with it.
I would rather do dps honestly, but I don't know how viable a druid is in end-game raiding for dps, so it looks like I might have to end up healing (which I don't mind and it could be kinda fun I have just never done it before). I am also assuming that feral dps isn't a viable spec for raiding, rather a bonus when you are tanking/OTing and don't need tank gear (correct me if I am wrong).
What I am wondering is sort of 2-fold.
1. During the outlands stage what spec should I go? If I am not going to stay feral to tank at 70, do I stay feral through 60-70 for the faster leveling? Or should I go resto or boomkin or some mix through that period for the practice and a break from tanking? I am guessing all feral druids tank in that lvl bracket?
2. For end-game what should I spec? Resto or Dps? And at what stage should I make the switch from feral?
And any other advice as to what I should do while leveling would be greatly appreciated.
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Feral for leveling, picking up resto gear then going resto at 70. Besides.. resto pvp is the win.
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But what spec for doing instances in outlands? Do I just stay feral and tank it out?
I'm not a feral druid but I can easily say if you want to dps you could stay feral and just use cat form. I've seen some pretty crazy dps from feral druids.
IE: Last night I ran Blood Furnace to pick up the 2 bars I needed for 66 and a feral druid was doing about 3000 damage in the first 5 seconds of the fight and keeping a constant high dps.
Or.... You could be like myself and go with a balance build. Like this here. This build leaves you with one point to place where you feel it necessary. You could go with treants but 12% of your mana and the inefficiency and recklessness of them in raids and instances is kind of out of the way. Or you could throw it into Subtley its really your choice.
The reasoning behind Furor and Natural Shapeshifter is if you find yourself in a situation with yourself pulling aggro whether you're dps or healing you can set up a macro like so.
/cancelaura
/castsequence reset=10 Dire Bear Form, Bash
This allows you to come out of moonkin to bash your opponent and get yourself 3 seconds of time to get away or have your tank pull the aggro. Plus with all the shapeshifting you may find yourself doing if you go balance seeing as you'll more than likely start with SF, MF and wrath on trash mobs you'll find yourself pulling aggro, so having the ability to bash and CC a mob w/o getting hit is nice.
But if you feel you don't want the Furor, Nature's Focus and Natural Shapeshifter you can always put it into ImpMotW and go into Naturalist. If you do that you'll have to add Enrage between Dire Bear and Bash to work up the rage to bash.
As a 66 Boomkin with about 19% crit and around 400 Bonus Damage I can generally dish out about 600 per wrath, 1200-1300 crits, a 350ish Moonfire, 650-700 crit, and Starfire comes out around 1100 and crits between 2000-2300.
IE: Last night I ran Blood Furnace to pick up the 2 bars I needed for 66 and a feral druid was doing about 3000 damage in the first 5 seconds of the fight and keeping a constant high dps.
Or.... You could be like myself and go with a balance build. Like this here. This build leaves you with one point to place where you feel it necessary. You could go with treants but 12% of your mana and the inefficiency and recklessness of them in raids and instances is kind of out of the way. Or you could throw it into Subtley its really your choice.
The reasoning behind Furor and Natural Shapeshifter is if you find yourself in a situation with yourself pulling aggro whether you're dps or healing you can set up a macro like so.
/cancelaura
/castsequence reset=10 Dire Bear Form, Bash
This allows you to come out of moonkin to bash your opponent and get yourself 3 seconds of time to get away or have your tank pull the aggro. Plus with all the shapeshifting you may find yourself doing if you go balance seeing as you'll more than likely start with SF, MF and wrath on trash mobs you'll find yourself pulling aggro, so having the ability to bash and CC a mob w/o getting hit is nice.
But if you feel you don't want the Furor, Nature's Focus and Natural Shapeshifter you can always put it into ImpMotW and go into Naturalist. If you do that you'll have to add Enrage between Dire Bear and Bash to work up the rage to bash.
As a 66 Boomkin with about 19% crit and around 400 Bonus Damage I can generally dish out about 600 per wrath, 1200-1300 crits, a 350ish Moonfire, 650-700 crit, and Starfire comes out around 1100 and crits between 2000-2300.
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