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A restokin specs mainly in balance to get moonkin form then puts the rest of the points into the resto tree so they can heal decently as well - a very good spec for PvP but not so good for raids as you will not do as much damage (or healing) as a pure DPS/healer.

I would lean towards just speccing full Balance (following one of the specs in the FAQ). If I could heal pretty much any non-heroic instance as a feral spec in healing gear, then you should have no problems healing as balance when needed. It also means you can do more damage, which makes questing quicker as well.

I see.. I think I'm understanding so pretty much I get to heal when asked and when not simply dish damage on things.
Question though Do I need to get a different set of gears for my healing rolls or will the same damage gear work for that.

So Restokins are pretty much a PVP build and some sort of Hybrid on PvE. And with the full balance build/little on resto I will be able to do both better?
Also you guys say that one of the builds from the FAQs, care to point me on which one of those I should follow or take as an example? I would appreciated~

And will this build also be useful in pvp or will I have to change into restokin later on if I want to pvp?
Thanks for all the help so far

1) Roll as moonkins
Moonkin form can be acquired after "spending" 31 points in the Balance Tree. If you want to heal you can go 31 points in to Restoration and get Tree of life form. You can never have more than one talented Form (Moonkin, Feral [no extra form as feral specializes in the bear and cat forms we already have] or tree of life) and you should choose the talent tree of your preferred play style.

So for the Balance/Moonkin you can either max out the Balance tree (based on your preferred skills/Role) and become a Boomkin which mainly focuses on DPS and support or you can spend 30'ish points in Balance and spend the rest in Resto to become a Restokin with average DPS, some good healing and support.

Boomkin=DPS and mostly all Balance
Restokin=Balance druid with Moonkin form and some points in Resto. Usually builds are like (34/0/27) (33/0/28) or (31/0/30)

I am currently a 59 Restokin and although I have yet to test myself in heroics or anything, I love the play style.
2) Gear - See "Micros" comments as he is spot on.
3) Types of Moonkins explained above. Basically only two "cookie cutter" builds but these can differ depending on what you are wanting to do in game.
4) Kind of a confusing question and I suggest looking forward at all talent trees before moving on. No matter what talents you choose you will always have your main form (known as caster form) bear, cat, cheetah (Known as travel form) and Sea Lion as long as you do all the Druid quests to get them. I think you should have all of these by level 30, but it has been a while since I did them so I may be off a bit.
You can talent to get either Moonkin (through Balance) or Tree of life (through Resto)
You will always be able to heal, cast spells, and attack as animals but the different talent tree's will allow you to specialize on one more specifically. Restokins are mostly Balance with a bit of buffed healing so they mainly specialize in Balance but have some points invested in Resto.

If you want to see all the different "Cookie Cutters" check out this page
http://www.wowwiki.com/Druid_builds

I am going to follow the 30/0/27 HOT (Heal over time) based build as I like to be off healer/DPS and fill in for any emergency situation that may arise. This build is not a great main healer but works awesome with other healers and I love to be able to bail out groups if need be. Although as mentioned before I have yet to be really tested.

Gear - I roll with two gear sets but it is not especially necessary for Moonkins. I know lots of Ferals who keep a healing set just in case they have to heal etc. but not many Moonkins. I keep a feral set on me just to mix it up a bit, and occasionally will use my Cat form just for a change of pace.

Hopefully I cleared a few things up for you.

Definitely spend some time checking out the Wiki page I listed as it is insurmountably helpful. And as usual so are the other Druids around here!

Happy Hunting!

Edited cause I forgot you can talent Tree of Life and Moonkin at 31 not 41 like I had originally commented.

Edited, Aug 13th 2008 1:25pm by Duedain

I am mainly balance with only a few points in resto, and leaning toward Boomkin (though I'm still trying to put more Boom in the Boomkin.) I don't do PvP so I can't help you there. I do instances including heroics and my main role is DPS, but I do off-heal when necessary. I carry only a few pieces of +healing gear with me to change into before I fight where I know I will have to heal, otherwise, I keep what I have on. I can main heal when I put my mind to it. Hubby's going with more of a Restokin build (just got Moonkin) on his druid but he mainly solo's or duo's with my rogue, so being able to heal effectively is important, but in my opinion, he does just fine. I'd say play with it and see what works best for you.

Moonkin's role in Raids is Support DPS, meaning you will probablly not be No.1 DPS (some do, but that's an exception) but you will boost others' DPS by a large margin, and contribute to the overall DPS yourself. That's threw your +Crit aura and IMP Fairy Fire that can really help tanks, duel wielders, and other Melee DPS in general, if they are aware of the fact they can switch gear for less +hit and more "pure" DPS stats.

restokin is only good for PVP, as it lacks Burst healing needed in raids, but has a very good mana regeneration. Best coupled with a rogue that can survive reletevly well threw bursts.

As DPS moonkin in raids the most important stat is +Spell Hit rating. If you have balance of power talent (and you should as a raiding balance druid) you will need 152 +Spell hit rating to be hit capped.

After that stack on +spell damage and +spell crit.

I've never tried stacking on Spell haste, but I understood it's still secondary to the stats mentioned above, at least until very late stages of endgame raiding.

Actually, if you can get the spell hit cap, spell haste can become useful. Personally what I've done as boomkin is use the Quaq's eye trinket that procs spell haste, it will cut your spell cast time down by 20% for 6 seconds when it procs. So if it procs off and follows with a crit, you can push out wrath about 4 times in the span of 2 seconds.

Of course, learning the right balance is crazy and having an overall high spell haste rating is tough to do w/o limiting yourself to a lot of cloth drops.