Have you thought about your new build?Follow

I'm thinking something like this : Galenmoon Spec

That will allow me to still be strong as a tank as I run instances, I can get OoC when I ding 71, and then I can fill in the talents that are more "nice to have" than "required" for either tanking or dps.

With t4 two piece bonus to feral I should still have no problems with energy and that should allow me to dps effectively enough to be brought in as dps on instances as well.

What do you guys/gals think?

I logged out in DPS gear : Galenmoon

My tank gear is unbuffed at 30k armor, 16k hp and 34% dodge. I doubt I'll have any problems tanking or dpsing those initial instances, even supposedly up to level 75-76 for the gear I have now.

Something like this, from another thread about Resto PvP specs. 8/11/42 is dead, since the talents from Balance aren't in balance any more, and Feral Charge is 10 pts deeper in Feral, along with CD reduction on Bash. Plus, Bash is now a spell interrupt. This locks you out of getting ToL until 73, and you can't ever get Wild Growth. Up side, ToL doesn't have a 20% snare, and does have +100% armor from gear.

I missed that part of the OP. Yes, there will be a free talent respec.

This would be my suggested build.

Since you are lvl 61 i assume you mean feral dps build for leveling. A raiding build would not look like this. If you are on a pve server and never do any pvp or never have problems with runners, then i would consider dropping infected wounds and getting the last point in improved mangle and the 2/3 predatory instincts.

From here your main priority should be getting to omen of clarity as soon as possible

link broken for me...

Edited, Oct 14th 2008 8:23am by SumDuud

I haven't done enough research, I fear. However, based on what I've read, I'd start with this build. I tend to do a lot of off-healing, and this seems to suit a restokin playstyle. However, I'm open to criticism and/or suggestions.

Survival Of The Fittest gives 3 points available for 2/4/6% def. As everything I have read about being crit immune says you need to have your def rating around 5.something%(as I recall) the 6% makes you immune via a talent - or rather 3 talent points. Probably introduced because they are taking the "green armor" bonuses away from gear.

Having read through many guides lately trying to figure out gear and such as I determine my place in my guild and grind, I have seen it say that all crit immunity math is based on a level 73 boss. So as we grow in skill and get up to 73 and higher the bosses we will face will certainly be higher ranked than 73 so then will our def rating come into play to make us crit immune at that point? I like the way the instances stack up through the 70-80 levels, seems well balanced. But I am very curious how the crit immunity will work with higher level bosses... Or did I read something wrong?

From what I understand, your chance to be crit is a flat 5% for a mob of your own level and then rises based on the level difference between you and the enemy. IE: Since raid bosses are level 73, your chance to be crit by them is a little higher than 5%. Assuming the raid bosses for Wrath are level 83, the chance for them to crit you will be the same.

What normally changes here (I could be wrong on this) is Defense Rating. As levels scales up, you would need more defense rating to remain uncrittable. However, as we achieve this with talents alone and thus no longer need Defense Rating, this is a moot point.

Edit: Someone beat me to it, darn.

Edited, Oct 14th 2008 11:44am by Riftaru

ok crit immune is based off mob weapon skill verse your deff. meaning each 1 lvl the boss moves up you need like 5 more deff rateing. It's why you dont need as much deff on heroics to be uncritable as you do on raids. lvl 72 mobs vs lvl 73 mobs. all mobs of the same lvl need the same amount of deff weather it's caster or melee. i belive the magic number was 6.6% to uncrit we did have 4% from tallents now we have 6% so you only have to get another .6% wich you can get from like 1 piece of S2 armor unless they changed it around i belive you may need 2 but i doubt it.

i know for pally/warrior need 490 deff to be uncritable lvl 73 raid bosses and 485 for heroics.

RareBeast is correct. But before assigning it any talent points I will make up my tank set. I think I will only need 1 or 2 points depending on how the gear looks. Will give me more points to play with which I like.

Will respec to 3/3 SotF when I need to as it rocks.

thanks rarebeast i thought i was off some but was on work break and didnt have time to look it up hehe. well if it's .2% for every lvl above us means we can tank up to lvl 74 or is it 75 mobs not sure if we have to be over or exactly at it. (as a lvl 70)

I respec'd last night because I just wasn't too happy with how I placed my points.
I was originally 100% resto when I did the respec last week but after reading everyones opinion here in the last week, I decided to go with a build like this for now..
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/druid/talents.html?tal=05320001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000023033331203150053105031300
it's a 11/0/50 build

I don't see using HT all that much and even before the 3.02 patch I only used it with pally's if ever..
I'm thinking the extra seconds on my HOT's would be more helpful and the mana reduction has to be helpful some. In BG's the extra little oomph from wrath/moonfire is very nice.
I thought I saw someone else post this spec somewhere but couldn't remember where I saw it at.
This is probably a new cookie cutter build so no credit here.
I'm curious though if other resto's are using this and how you like it so far..

Edited, Oct 20th 2008 9:55am by jackoroses