I am a lvl 70 Feral druid, and have been Feral throughout the entirety of my Druid career. I am getting bored of Feral, so I decided it's time to switch it to Restokin, after hearing great things about it. Now for the questions.
1. I have ****** feral gear, mostly blues with a like three greens. I also have a lot of green balance/healing gear that I've been saving in case I did want to start a new build. Where should I go to get good gear for my restokin? BGs? Instances?
2. What's a good Restokin build? The normal 34/0/27?
3. Would a Restokin/Feral druid Arena team work? My friend is still feral, and we thought we'd try it out.
4. How do you play a Restokin (PVE/PVP)? Do you stay in moonkin form a lot, or do you shapeshift? I've never been anything but Feral, so this is important.
5. Should I stay feral until I get some better Restokin gear? Or go right into Restokin so I can learn the build?
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I assume you want to PvP as a restokin and not PvE heal as a dreamstate build?
If yes, then:
1. Grind honor for S1 (soon S2, just grind to the honor cap of 75K honor and wait for S4 to start) gear. You can also buy Wyrmhide and Kodohide PvP items from various rep vendors if your rep is high enough.
2. Yes. 34 points into balance for dreamstate and moonkin form.
3. Well, you have the advantage of being virtually immune to a lot of CC.
You do lack a healing debuff and magic dispels though. But why not try ? As long as you're having fun with your friend :-)
4. In PvP you'll be shifting into moonkin when you have melee after you, to be a bit more durable than in caster form while you try to get them off of you. Most of the time though, you'll need to be in caster form so you can keep HoTs on your partner and quickly react to damage. In PvE (dreamstate build) you don't use moonkin form.
5. It's probably best to get a bit of gear first, it's quite a big change and being undergeared isn't fun.
I would just like to point out the difference between a restokin build, which is a damage/healing PvP hybrid that takes moonkin form for extra durability and high mana regen to outlast opponents, as well as on-the-fly burst DPS to pressure opponents, and a dreamstate build which is a high mana regen PvE healing build that tries to emulate the paladin style of healing (chaincasting Healing Touch)
If yes, then:
1. Grind honor for S1 (soon S2, just grind to the honor cap of 75K honor and wait for S4 to start) gear. You can also buy Wyrmhide and Kodohide PvP items from various rep vendors if your rep is high enough.
2. Yes. 34 points into balance for dreamstate and moonkin form.
3. Well, you have the advantage of being virtually immune to a lot of CC.
You do lack a healing debuff and magic dispels though. But why not try ? As long as you're having fun with your friend :-)
4. In PvP you'll be shifting into moonkin when you have melee after you, to be a bit more durable than in caster form while you try to get them off of you. Most of the time though, you'll need to be in caster form so you can keep HoTs on your partner and quickly react to damage. In PvE (dreamstate build) you don't use moonkin form.
5. It's probably best to get a bit of gear first, it's quite a big change and being undergeared isn't fun.
I would just like to point out the difference between a restokin build, which is a damage/healing PvP hybrid that takes moonkin form for extra durability and high mana regen to outlast opponents, as well as on-the-fly burst DPS to pressure opponents, and a dreamstate build which is a high mana regen PvE healing build that tries to emulate the paladin style of healing (chaincasting Healing Touch)
dotarian's info on restokin vs. dreamstate is incorrect. First, most people I know don't differentiate between dreamstate and restokin.. the builds are basically the same and the gearing is the same except for the usual pvp vs. pve distinctions.
Second, I know a lot of dreamstate healing druids (including myself, and we have 3 in my guild) and I don't know a single one that just spams HT. It would be a very stupid way to heal. Rather, we stack lifeblooms and and rejuvs like most druids, and instead of relying on swiftmend and regrowth to handle spikes in damage, we use HT to take care of those spikes.
Second, I know a lot of dreamstate healing druids (including myself, and we have 3 in my guild) and I don't know a single one that just spams HT. It would be a very stupid way to heal. Rather, we stack lifeblooms and and rejuvs like most druids, and instead of relying on swiftmend and regrowth to handle spikes in damage, we use HT to take care of those spikes.
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A good way to get geared up for PVP is to buy the new Vindicator PVP gear (the rep blues). As a Restokin you have the bonus of being able to get 2 of the +35 resilience set piece bonuses by buying 2 pieces of Kodohide gear and 2 pieces of Wyrmhide gear (and the 5th of your choosing). This gets you a nice mix of Intel, mana regen and healing/damage bonuses, plus an extra 70 resilience on top of the resil built into the pieces themselves.
It's a pretty sweet start, and should stop you from being destroyed in 2 seconds.
It's a pretty sweet start, and should stop you from being destroyed in 2 seconds.
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