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Druid Profs and Tips
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guy in my guild is a resto druid - morphs into a tree for instances etc - damn best healing tree ive ever played with... uber heals all the time...
diabolus
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Well not sure about the "Best" proffs for druid, but Herb + Alc goes well together . Just a few things i've picked up on my current druid:
a] Druid can travelform/waterform + stealth to easily go on "Gathering" sessions. So especially herbing and i guess mining works well for this.
b] Alchemy basically uses the herb you gathered...so you kill 2 flies with one hit. I could easily raise my Alc and Herb together .
However the income gained from those 2 proffs is a bit tricky [esp after the 2.3 patch, certain herbs suddenly became much less valuable]...it is very useful to be able to make your own mana/health/booster potions though.
For leveling i'd suggest go Feral all the way. I'd only go resto when i'm done leveling and only doing raids/instancing [if it's needed that is]. This implies living in catform [where all your damage power is] .
My build is mainly feral with a few points in resto...there are [for some weird reason] very good feral-aiding talents in the resto tree . Furor for example gives you an instant 40 energy / 10 rage the moment you shift into a specific form....what that has to do with resto hell knows, but it rocks. Luckily it's right at the beginning of the tree.
I also went on to get Omen of Clarity in the resto tree [basically gives you a "no energy on next action" at random times while meleeing] . So it means you can do a free claw/swipe/rip/healing spell at a random moment .
I'd say if you go feral to get Heart of the Wild ASAP, that's the talent that will basically make you 20% better in everything.
At this stage i must say i'm leveling quite easily. I can solo most situations with a combination of stealth/catform dps and tanking in bearform [when i have to fight 3 mobs at the same time] and shifting into caster form to heal like a maniac
My talent spread is [i'm lvl 56 ] :
BAL/FERAL/RESTO : 1/33/11
The 1 point in bal is "Nature's Grasp" , which basically roots anyone hitting you...for one point and on a PvP server it's pretty darn useful [easy getaway].
In Feral i skipped a few skills that i either felt wasn't useful for my style of leveling [i.e. spending alot of points on a specific skill that only works when you're behind your enemy [whilst you're mostly soloing] or skills that are very specific to bearform-tanking [while you only go bearform in boss/elites fights]...not worth it] .
Obviously i will reconsider certain talents once i get to primarily doing group related activities [raiding/instancing] , but to spec your druid for the odd instance run while you're 80% of time leveling/grinding is kinda silly.
Anyway just my opinion i guess. For leveling you need to do damage quickly with as little downtime [recovering mana etc] as possible. Only build doing that is feral. Healing won't make you kill something faster and the damage spells on a druid are imho relatively weak AND slow compared to catform damage [so balance druid looks very frustrating to play to me..i much rather then play Mage] .
a] Druid can travelform/waterform + stealth to easily go on "Gathering" sessions. So especially herbing and i guess mining works well for this.
b] Alchemy basically uses the herb you gathered...so you kill 2 flies with one hit. I could easily raise my Alc and Herb together .
However the income gained from those 2 proffs is a bit tricky [esp after the 2.3 patch, certain herbs suddenly became much less valuable]...it is very useful to be able to make your own mana/health/booster potions though.
For leveling i'd suggest go Feral all the way. I'd only go resto when i'm done leveling and only doing raids/instancing [if it's needed that is]. This implies living in catform [where all your damage power is] .
My build is mainly feral with a few points in resto...there are [for some weird reason] very good feral-aiding talents in the resto tree . Furor for example gives you an instant 40 energy / 10 rage the moment you shift into a specific form....what that has to do with resto hell knows, but it rocks. Luckily it's right at the beginning of the tree.
I also went on to get Omen of Clarity in the resto tree [basically gives you a "no energy on next action" at random times while meleeing] . So it means you can do a free claw/swipe/rip/healing spell at a random moment .
I'd say if you go feral to get Heart of the Wild ASAP, that's the talent that will basically make you 20% better in everything.
At this stage i must say i'm leveling quite easily. I can solo most situations with a combination of stealth/catform dps and tanking in bearform [when i have to fight 3 mobs at the same time] and shifting into caster form to heal like a maniac
My talent spread is [i'm lvl 56 ] :
BAL/FERAL/RESTO : 1/33/11
The 1 point in bal is "Nature's Grasp" , which basically roots anyone hitting you...for one point and on a PvP server it's pretty darn useful [easy getaway].
In Feral i skipped a few skills that i either felt wasn't useful for my style of leveling [i.e. spending alot of points on a specific skill that only works when you're behind your enemy [whilst you're mostly soloing] or skills that are very specific to bearform-tanking [while you only go bearform in boss/elites fights]...not worth it] .
Obviously i will reconsider certain talents once i get to primarily doing group related activities [raiding/instancing] , but to spec your druid for the odd instance run while you're 80% of time leveling/grinding is kinda silly.
Anyway just my opinion i guess. For leveling you need to do damage quickly with as little downtime [recovering mana etc] as possible. Only build doing that is feral. Healing won't make you kill something faster and the damage spells on a druid are imho relatively weak AND slow compared to catform damage [so balance druid looks very frustrating to play to me..i much rather then play Mage] .
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Jase
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Going to keep it short.
Feral all the way! At 64 I can solo through quests with ease, have little downtime (switch, quick heal and back to kitty).
Kitty for fast dps, Bear for those 'uh oh' pulls when your mob brought a buddy (or 2).
My current build is 0/47/6 (I think) and it will be 0/47/14. I did not take the 1 pt in natures grasp as I do not really PvP much (I do get ganked now and again).
Professions:
As this is my main, I took leatherworking so that I could make my own gear and sell the rest for some cash. I also took skinning to make that easier.
I found that although the leatherworking helped me earlier on, the quest rewards currently are way better. I must admit that I am behind on leatherworking atm.
Skinning is great as a majority of mobs you kill can be skinned (also gets rid of the evidence incase a ganker is in the area) and folks leave lots of dead mobs for you to skin too!
Feral all the way! At 64 I can solo through quests with ease, have little downtime (switch, quick heal and back to kitty).
Kitty for fast dps, Bear for those 'uh oh' pulls when your mob brought a buddy (or 2).
My current build is 0/47/6 (I think) and it will be 0/47/14. I did not take the 1 pt in natures grasp as I do not really PvP much (I do get ganked now and again).
Professions:
As this is my main, I took leatherworking so that I could make my own gear and sell the rest for some cash. I also took skinning to make that easier.
I found that although the leatherworking helped me earlier on, the quest rewards currently are way better. I must admit that I am behind on leatherworking atm.
Skinning is great as a majority of mobs you kill can be skinned (also gets rid of the evidence incase a ganker is in the area) and folks leave lots of dead mobs for you to skin too!
Go for enchanting for and take a gather skill with it.
Enchanting
help boost stats something ferals rely on.
I am hybrid spec resto feral resto cause i hate to get interupted when healing.Paladins and shamies hate me in duels lol they go oom and die lol.
Druid can outlive most classes cause you use rage in bearform energy in carform while your mana is charging if i exit bearform to heal most classes are oom already or low on health but put a few points in resto even if you go full feral otherwise they interupt your healing and you die.