What to do...balance or feralFollow

With feral spec you can do melee DPS in Cat form and tank in Dire Bear Form. Your casting DPS and healing will be relatively weak due to lack of relevant talents, but with good gear you can play those roles on TV in a pinch.

With balance spec you can do caster DPS in Moonkin form. Decent healing too thanks to mana regen talents and +spellpower gear. Again, your melee combat, in both cat and bear forms, will be pretty weak due to lack of relevant talents and probably gear.




In Cat form you're like a rogue...sneaky little ******* that's focused on dealing damage and not taking it.

Dire Bear Form is the opposite, like a plate-wearing warrior -- awesome survivability thanks to the huge armor boost and with feral talents significant boosts to HP and dodge, but not nearly the DPS of cat form. For instances you'll get more requests to tank than to DPS, but with no real instance experience you better practice in some instances below your level, as a bad tank = wipe city.


So if you like melee combat, and/or want the flexibility of being able to DPS or tank in instances, go Feral.
If you like caster-DPS, and/or want the flexibility of being able to DPS or heal in instances, go Balance.

I've always found this site Pretty handy. Breaks down druid gear by zone and says wether it's Healer, Caster or Feral, though it hasn't been updated since the spellpower change, so anything marked as a healer is likely a good dps piece now too.

I would go balance personally. At 70 in just self buffs, and my own consumables I'm pushing 1800 dps single target. 3-5k dps on aoe depending if I'm spec'd more for aoe than single target.