boomkin gearFollow

I will make this simple. Most of the best druid caster leather is either a leatherworking recipe or badge of justice reward. This is if you are limiting yourself to staying in leather gear. I am rather proud to say that as a balance druid before I stopped playing I was in almost all leather for raiding. In this gear I was managing +934 to spell damage and a 18.5% crit chance before moonkin form and any buffs. So it is possible to reach high levels of spell damage in leather but your main source of this gear is not from raids. The raids will get a moonkin his tier sets which are very good in thier own right. If you fell like seeing the gear I was using take a look at Mandragal on the Kirin Tor server. His gear is still showing right now and I may soon be rejoining WoW. Sometimes one just needs a break.

The cloth items that one picks up are to make up until leather can be found. I see no issue with a moonkin druid going after cloth items either. They are very good for spell damage and spell hit. That is a point which most spell damage leather does not get is the spell hit. All casters need this to be successful in raiding.

I will say that your raid leader seems a bit insane with his opinions of what a druid should do. He has obviously never played such a flexible class and does not wish to realize the true potential of what they can do if properly geared and used in the boss killing strategies. But that is neither here nor there. I do somewhat agree that the clothies should have access to those items first only in the sense that that is the only gear they can use for armor. Every guild I have been in has had the "rule" that depending on armor type, the class that uses that type as the best it can use gets first dibs. If none of those classes wants it then the other classes get fair game access to it.

I will also include one final bit, There are a limited number of players on these raids. Given enough time you will eventually get the gear you are seeking. Give it time, be patient and things will eventually work out.

That's funny, all evidence is pointing towards the usage of cloth. Fancy that.

[] i toped the damage on the casters. only two people would have betten me was the mage tank who was tanking so not doing max dps and the lock who was beating me till he loged his main in to tank gruul. but even toping damage doing my b-rezz 2 times spot healing where looked like someone may need it. i still couldnt roll on a cloth item if it was an upgrade cause i can wear leather. tell me that and bull sh*t and i'll show you a lier. [/]


Am I confused or did you say used your B-rezz 2 times lol. Thats one long fight. I must say when I have to Heal B-rezz and DPS my Damage takes a major hit you must show me how you do all that and still remain top caster DPS. Especially when moonkin heals suck *** and your useing mana that oomkins have a lake of as far as regen. I find even when asked to rez it bites into my ever so small pool of mana I norm have to go and beat on the boss for some mana back.

yes 2 battle rezzes 1 on highking and one on gruul.

lol if your looking at my tankadin pally thats pretty sad thats the healing gear i picked up. my pally is semi retired cause 1. my work changed times i work so i dont get to progress with the raid. 2. we have pretty many tanks who want to go and who can use the gear more so i lvled my boomkin up to fill in dps seeing we have like 2-3 prot pallies 2 feral druids(think only 1 really has tanking gear) like 2-3 prot warriors with some fury ones that have tanking gear i belive. all who want in the raid so yeah i backed off and lvled a boomkin.

my guild is progressing through ssc and tk still so no we aint t6 yet and i dont get to run stuff so im even gearing the druid slow due to lack of badges. just got belt of blasting so now over hit rateing. all this talk of your boomkin i see no armory and doubt you would post a real one of your toon anyways. never trust a 5 post person who only post in one thread....... notice spot healing meaning tossing a insta hot here and there after shatters and such didnt mean hey i'll keep rotating life blooms up on these two guys and dps.

lol full arena gear boomkin woot that says alot. hmm highly lacking feral druid hmm yeah great links click my boomkin and you may find some upgrades for your feral since i just went back to feral due to lack of tanks at night when i can play and pick up groups.

Kinda funny, but did you know some of the cloth pieces are actually better than the leather? For example, the chestpiece you've got vs this one.

lol please tell me your jokeing on your gear being better not counting the healing set you sported the first time but now your not hit cap have less spell damage than i do only thing you have is more crit and armor. 73 spell hit rateing verse my over hit cap 929 spell damage verse my slightly higher 950+. sad quote but a good one you cant crit or damage if you cant hit. get hit capted then talk to me about your gear being better than mine lol oh well good luck bro and hope you really look at your "raid gear" before saying it's better than someone elses.

Wow you sound like a chick I know. 1. when did I say I was ever in Sunwell? 2. Yes I made a mistake and didn't put 2 into Balance of power. I was in a hurry cause I was asked to put 3 into Farrie ( FOR the Melee and Ranged ) which the GM of LI ( # 2 guild on my server ) offered to pay my respec to do. So you must tell him why it's useless. Oh and cry because he also wanted me to come to MH with them and some others from my guild but couldn't because of family plans. But will be asked again I hope this weekend. I always spec Treants so when I'm doing my dailies and some caster tries to gank me, I find them very helpfull. 4. Why do you keep acting like 1900 to heals is really something to brag about especially in cloth. We don't even let our healers go past mags unless they have 1800 to heals.

Edited, Sep 2nd 2008 7:49pm by wutdoino