Choosing a druidFollow

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Edited, Aug 26th 2008 9:44pm by kawainui

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Edited, Aug 26th 2008 9:44pm by kawainui

This is one of my favorite hydrid classes.

3 things make druids so fun for me (emphasis on the for me part since everyone is different).

1. Steatlth! I can't emphasize this enough. For regualr questing, it's just great to be able to scout around or sneak past mobs you don;t want to fight. In battlegrounds it's even more fun :)

2. Healing. Another huge bonus to the druid. The ability to be a self or group healer is huge for questing.

3. The different forms. You can be pretty much anything for any situation. Love the flexibility of this class. Tons of fun with very little downtime.

To answer your question though. 1-10 was a pain. Just spamming the spells was a bummer.

10-20 was marginally better. With bear form you are able to take on more mobs and move a bit quicker. The class quests are a bit of a pain too from a hassle standpoint.

20-39 (where I am now) have been a blast. Once I got cat form, the levels just fly by. You just keep going and going with just heal pop every once in a while.

I know you've asked a few "what should I roll" questions. But the druid offers you a ton of flexibility and great opportunities to explore many facets of the game and still provide a great experience.

Roll with it, enjoy it and kick some boot :)

Druid is not that slow to level and given the right balance of gear you can take on an elite about the same level as you are and win , so not a bad class , however it is one of the classes you need to be able to at least have a good idea of its 3 ways of killing as it can get complicated knowing how to handle fights , so not the best class for a beginner .


When i first started the game i tried a druid and had nothing but trouble and soon gave up but recently i started again and believe me a druid is great fun once you understand the game , at 30 sneak in behind target and bang , mob easily dead , if its a hard to kill mob then a little spell or two and bear wins , so much fun as it is like playing three classes at the same time.

Bad points are you are never the master of any of the 3 styles , Dps; rogues are better , tank; well warriors are still the best ,spells/healing; well other classes are better , but add the three together and you can be almost unstoppable.

My tip on any class as quests give the best exp now is do quests in more than one starter area , the reasoning is you can do green quests faster so equals faster levelling .

I also do not think druids are slow to level 1-10 they are no slower than any other class , getting the forms does slow down levelling though as it involves travel , 10-20 i think hunters are faster but as far as i can remember no other class is faster for me , so no problems to level , just remember the more you level the easier they become with the forms and spells and extra attacks .

Level 1-70 in 11 days played on my drood, feral all the way

1-10 eh look ma, I'm a caster!
10-20 eh look ma, I'm a tank!
20-70 eh look ma, I'm a sneaky rogue!

druids have pretty insane survivability from level 10 ( bear ) until infinity.

They are pretty forgiving as far as that accidental pulling of an extra mob(s) unlike squishy classes because you can just rejuv + shapeshift to bear and run if need be.

At level 70, all 3 specs are valuable in raids.

resto = king of arena healers (imo) Also great for MT healing and topping off random ranged dps with great mana per heal efficiency (mmmm lifebloom)

Feral kitty = great group buff for dps (5% crit) good dps which will hopefully only get better with end game scaling in WotLK

Feral Bear = great group buff for dps (5% crit) highest personal dps of any tank, great single target threat generation, huge damage mitigation. Ability to hold large crowds when controlled by a skilled individual and stay alive due to that mitigation.(ewwww Shattered Halls)

Balance = great group buff (5% spell crit) good dps and ability to throw in backup heals

Battle Rez is a huge lifesaver (Once battle rez'd tank on Maiden, brought him back to full with a Nature's Swiftness+Healing touch/Rejuv+Swiftmend and proceeded to down her lulz. Silly tank didn't want to back her up to knock me out of repentance)

We are also getting our own rez in WotLK which will make us more wanted for 5 man's than we are now.

Stealth is awesome. How often have you wanted to just sneak to the back of the cave and kill the guy you're looking for without spending an hour to clear and then having some idiot come tag him as you're fighting the last mob. Plus it's funny to stunlock rogues hehe.

Overall I started with a rogue, then a hunter, then a shammy and finally my druid.

My druid is now my main and has full sets for resto (1700 + heals) Feral kitty (2.6k attack power 34% crit 96 hit) and Feral Tank ( 15k hp, 27.5k armor, 32% dodge)

My opinion.... Roll a drood :-)

P.S. Did I mention Mangle is an everlasting ******?

Both races are fun , Tauren get their boost +15 to picking herbs which can be very useful if you like the boost from pots and other very useful items , plus the stomp which gives you a nice "ohh Sugar" chance to either get away or get the mobs attention , personally i love their stomp . ohh and a +5% to health

Elves get Shadowmeld Dodge chance increased by 1% , wisp (25% faster than normal ghost travel)Elves get +10 Nature Resistance which can be useful


I have both races as yet not to 70 but they will get there.

Druid is teh sexorz. I love my druid, far beyond the fact my bank is full of an endless supply of epic items I have for my 4 off sets. Feral tank, Feral DPS, Caster DPS, Resto and PVP Resto.

I leveled 1-70 as balance and loved every minute of it, I spec'd resto a few months ago and it has been an absolute blast. I really missed boomkin but when I started to pvp and arena as resto I found out that I stay alive so much longer as a resto druid than boomkin and I found out I really do enjoy being a healer.

Druids r much fun...
Agree that 0-10 is hell. But when u get higher u got so many options. I was feral to 44 then change between feral and resto till i hiit 58 then stayed resto. I really like to do instances, kept a feral and a resto set on me all the time, and had no problems tanking or healing any instance before outlands as feralspec, havent tried tanking there. But its awesom just to need a tank or healer to get a grp going, the 3 dps is always easy to get.

Havent hit 70 yet, farming hk and marks in bg's, im 64 atm and always tophealer in wsg ab eots. So much fun running arround spamming hots, keeping urself and 5 m8s alive while alliances go down.

I got 70 lock, 66 sha, used to have 60 hunter before bc, druids is imo the most fun class ive played.

I was tanking Heroic MgT the other night and decided I didn't like the squirrels. I started killing them all with moonfire, but then I realized...pounce is so cool.

So any that I could get to without aggroing the next pull I would go into kitty, stealth and pounce.

It's kinda twisted, but I think the animation from pounce caused more blood to come out of the squirrel than is physically possible lol.

But I digress....

Drood FTW!!!

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Edited, Aug 26th 2008 9:34pm by kawainui

The reason i play druid:
I can tank/dps/heal with a switch of gear. I have healed heroic as feral without problems.
I can solo 4ppl group quest elite mob/mobs, such *** Ruul the darkener.
No other class can do that, example - Pally can tank/heal or dps/heal with gear switch, but if they want to heal/tank/dps with one spec, they can't.

Try using tab to target enemies.

funny, you have problem seeing small targets, i have problem seeing middle toenail of nightbane as tank, the whole screen is filled with one toe. I think blizzard is saying if you want to tank nightbane as bear then here's a middle finger for you.