Easier said than done. My druid is dual spec feral / resto. I have been feral the whole time and just added resto when the option to dual spec became available. Thus I didn't collect any healing gear while leveling to 70. I'm now at 75 and my question to those of you who are dual spec'd is:
Did you have a plan to acquire gear for both specs while leveling to 80? Or did you just pick up whatever was available from the quest rewards / instance drops?
Nithiel is currently using LW gear I made for her healing set, plus two drops i got from Nexxus and AN. I also just bought a staff with Mp5 and spirit on it for a healing weapon as the one I had is for feral.
Or should I not worry about it till 80?
Inquirying mind wants to know.
Thanks in advance for sharing.
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When I wanted to try out Resto (this was before 3.1 and dual spec), I already hit 80 and had literally zero gear for it. I blew about 2k gold on the AH gearing up for it, did some regular dungeons and realized that they were a joke because they were so easy (I healed regular HoL forgetting to even go into tree form), and this was with about 1.1k SP. Heroics were substantially more difficult, but I was able to get enough gear in those to push myself up to 1.2k SP, at which point my guild desperately needed a healer for 10 man Naxx and pretty much every peice of leather healing gear dropped while I was in there.
Your way of going about things is probably a lot better and will be helpful when you hit 80. Try to run the regular dungeons and get any blues that you can, I can't imagine that many people will refuse to let you roll on the the leather for offspec if no one else there can use it.
Your way of going about things is probably a lot better and will be helpful when you hit 80. Try to run the regular dungeons and get any blues that you can, I can't imagine that many people will refuse to let you roll on the the leather for offspec if no one else there can use it.
I'm leveling Feral/Resto as I write this.
Basically, I take the best of what I can get, with Feral as first priority.
Basically, I take the best of what I can get, with Feral as first priority.
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Whilst I was 80 before the actual dual spec option hit, I don't think it'd change how I'd approach this.
I leveled as feral, so whenever there was a choice of rewards, and one was an upgrade on the current feral piece I had, I'd take that, no questions asked.
If there wasn't an upgrade for feral, then I'd look at whether there were resto upgrades.
I leveled as feral, so whenever there was a choice of rewards, and one was an upgrade on the current feral piece I had, I'd take that, no questions asked.
If there wasn't an upgrade for feral, then I'd look at whether there were resto upgrades.
If I wanted to do a resto DS I would gear it at 80. Easier with a nice feral set to just put groups together and just not bring a leather caster class.
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I have never bothered with dual-spec while leveling, but on healer classed, I always keep a decent spellpower set up to date as I level. My enhance shammy has been able to heal a lot of group quests in Northrend which has made getting them done a lot easier.
Dual-Spec is only really necessary if you are healing instances.
Dual-Spec is only really necessary if you are healing instances.
I leveled resto 70-80 then picked up balance with ds. It is not the same as I can use much resto gear and still compete in dmg done meters, but I would gear at 80 if I were you. Pick up as much feral along the way and if you can't upgrade feral then see if there is a resto option.
At 80 there are so many epic crafted items you will replace a lot of it then. So find out mats for Earthgiving set (boots/legs I believe) LW, try to start accumulating stuff for a mooncloth set (chest/gloves) from a tailor, mats for a titansteel guardian. I didn't replace any of that until I got into Uld 10 and Naxx 25/T7.5 stuff. Either have a guildy make it if you can't yourself or look for someone leveling and give them 20G or so to make an item, saves the thousands you'll spend at the ah or buying it all in trade.
That is my 2 cents.
Edited, Jun 25th 2009 8:09am by SumDuud
At 80 there are so many epic crafted items you will replace a lot of it then. So find out mats for Earthgiving set (boots/legs I believe) LW, try to start accumulating stuff for a mooncloth set (chest/gloves) from a tailor, mats for a titansteel guardian. I didn't replace any of that until I got into Uld 10 and Naxx 25/T7.5 stuff. Either have a guildy make it if you can't yourself or look for someone leveling and give them 20G or so to make an item, saves the thousands you'll spend at the ah or buying it all in trade.
That is my 2 cents.
Edited, Jun 25th 2009 8:09am by SumDuud
Thanks for the replies. Healers are in such short supply on my realm right now, that I made all my hybrids healers, so can run the instances. My main is a raid healer, so healing isn't new to me, I'm just struggling a bit with not having the right gear on my druid. My disc priest never runs out of mana, but my druid does.
Haven't got the feel for her healing yet, but am working on it.
Haven't got the feel for her healing yet, but am working on it.
horses idea is best imo. just dont bring another druid along. its not like we're exactly a populous class or anything lol.
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horses idea is best imo. just dont bring another druid along. its not like we're exactly a populous class or anything lol.
Yeah, my guild raids are usually 4 to 6 druids. In 10 mans.
...at least we have lots of b-rez...
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Quor wrote:
horses idea is best imo. just dont bring another druid along. its not like we're exactly a populous class or anything lol.
Yeah, my guild raids are usually 4 to 6 druids. In 10 mans.
...at least we have lots of b-rez...
My guild has me as Moonkin, 2 ferals and 4 resto. Although the restos aren't always there (at least not at the same time) and one of the ferals just came from another guild.
The downside is, we have a lot of mages, so tier pieces and casters pieces are a pain to get a hold. I still dont have KT ring because of that =|
My hunter has LW, which is what I have been using to make some starter gear for both my druid and my shaman. I thought about making the PvP set and using that for healing.
I have always been terrible at gear aquisition, and being dual spec'd makes it worse. lol
I have always been terrible at gear aquisition, and being dual spec'd makes it worse. lol
Zomg my bags are chockas! I have Moonkin/Feral dual spec and pick up the best upgrade for whatever spec from the quests. I have only done half a level as Dual spec and haven't had a hassle getting gear. Being able to use cloth gear is also an advantage.
On a side note I frikken love Moonkin.
On a side note I frikken love Moonkin.
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