Druid Tactics and tricks.
. When fighting a mage, to prevent him from counterspelling my resto school, i often cast starfire so that he counterspells my balance tree insteed.
2. Fighting Rogues, use lacerate. Fariefire will be removed when he use Cloak of shadow and so do vanish, Lacerate will not.
3. Use abolish poison versus rogues, it helps a whole lot against Blind.
4. What also works is fake casting if they are a good mage start to cast cyclone then move and hope they cant burst you within those 4 seconds or get lucky stuns.
5. If you are dueling warrior, start with cat, get 2-3 CP and go bare. Then when you need heal and NG and bash is on CD wait for him to use MS, then go cat and maim him.
(If he is in zerker stance he can use zerker rage to nullify it. )
6. Fighting a warlock, killing his pet asap can often be a good idea. Same goes for frost mages. cyclone the mage and kill the pet.
7. It's often/sometimes possible to pull a Feral Charge -> Travel Form > Cyclone combo off versus melee (and everyone else)
8. You can cast Nature's Grasp while in Cat/Bear.
9. Dwarfs tend to remove your 5 CP rip, so.. well just keep that in mind, give it to 'em anyway!
10. Warstomp = free Regrowth
11. Bash -> Cat Form > Mangle/Shred can be devastating and suprise your opponent.
12. Pve tanking: Load yourself up with hots before each pull for some free healer aggro.
13. Pve tanking: Load yourself up with hots and have your teammates do the same before each pull. Any spell cast before the pull does not generate aggro, but letting the HoTs tick after the pull gives you time to get a good aggro lead over the main healer.
14. Always put Feary Fire on rogues ASAP (probably every dr00d knows this, but still).
15. Furor is better than iMotW if you PvP (and even has it's uses in PvE), regardless of spec. Instant bash is too good to pass.
16. Demoralizing Roar can be used to find nearby rogues in stealth.
17. The bloom effect of the lifebloom spell generates threat toward the person it's casted on. To give the tank some extra threat on the tank, put 1 lifebloom on it once tank got some snap aggro and let it run out. (May not work since patch)
18. We aren't rogues. Catform is a good opener and short-time nuker, but switch to bear a lot too.
19. Lacerate/Rake/Rip can do wonders, even on low armor targets, you just need to know when to use them.
20. Wait for others to attack first if you're in a group in pvp. If you attack first, you'll be targeted by everyone and die in a few seconds. If you wait, chances are they will focus on others first.
21. (obvious one, but still.) Using cloth as a moonkin isn't bad. Especially in PvE it can even be better then leather.
22. Don't try to convince others that druids are good PvE'ers by talking. They'll usually not believe you. You almost always have to show them first hand. >_<
23. Feral Charge + Mangle + Bash + Cat Form + Shred is a great way to get in some serious damage and CP's against hunters.
24. Use Rank 1 moonfires on grounding totem.
25. Barkskin is your friend, if in doubt, use barkskin.
26. In arena, cyclone a healer wait for him to trinket then cyclone his target (even if its the current target for burst damage).
27. The best way to deal with felguards/warlock pets/hunter pets in general if you need to heal is natures grasp.
28. As a moonkin, when fighting casters, use caster form, that way you can keep hots up and be a general pain in the ass.
29. Moonkins + Moonfire spam make GREAT battleground tanks. Its like instant pvp aggro.
30. When sitting in your base in WSG you can use track humanoids to watch people coming after you and keep out their way. Make sure you have the map fully zoomed out, so you can see stealthers.. stealth.
31. The ultimate pvp meleekin is a heavy balance spec with feral tanking gear (so 11K hp and 26-27K armour). Trees + dots + melee regen and you can own any melee class give or take (try it against your local epixxed arms warrior if you don't believe me).
32. Bind Cat + Bear form to mouse buttons and get a multi button mouse. That way you can shift forms really fast, without needing to focus on clicking buttons on the screen.
33. Timing cyclone correctly in the arena against an AP-Pyro mage can be immensely fun. Its kinda luck based though.
34. In group pvp/battlegrounds your better off cycloning healers than trying to kill them, unless they're obviously wearing primal mooncloth gear or something.
35. Tank Bestial wrath in bear form.
36. Fury warriors are a free HK, arms warriors are a royal pain.
37. Feral charge, roots, cyclone and maim ALL trigger second wind.
38. Use HS, it looks exactly like our healing and mages ALWAYS fall for it, as do rogues and warriors....
39. Soothe Animal does not put you in combat.
40. If a rogue vanish close to you use DEMO Roar and u can see him again.. he just wasted his vanish.
. When fighting a mage, to prevent him from counterspelling my resto school, i often cast starfire so that he counterspells my balance tree insteed.
2. Fighting Rogues, use lacerate. Fariefire will be removed when he use Cloak of shadow and so do vanish, Lacerate will not.
3. Use abolish poison versus rogues, it helps a whole lot against Blind.
4. What also works is fake casting if they are a good mage start to cast cyclone then move and hope they cant burst you within those 4 seconds or get lucky stuns.
5. If you are dueling warrior, start with cat, get 2-3 CP and go bare. Then when you need heal and NG and bash is on CD wait for him to use MS, then go cat and maim him.
(If he is in zerker stance he can use zerker rage to nullify it. )
6. Fighting a warlock, killing his pet asap can often be a good idea. Same goes for frost mages. cyclone the mage and kill the pet.
7. It's often/sometimes possible to pull a Feral Charge -> Travel Form > Cyclone combo off versus melee (and everyone else)
8. You can cast Nature's Grasp while in Cat/Bear.
9. Dwarfs tend to remove your 5 CP rip, so.. well just keep that in mind, give it to 'em anyway!
10. Warstomp = free Regrowth
11. Bash -> Cat Form > Mangle/Shred can be devastating and suprise your opponent.
12. Pve tanking: Load yourself up with hots before each pull for some free healer aggro.
13. Pve tanking: Load yourself up with hots and have your teammates do the same before each pull. Any spell cast before the pull does not generate aggro, but letting the HoTs tick after the pull gives you time to get a good aggro lead over the main healer.
14. Always put Feary Fire on rogues ASAP (probably every dr00d knows this, but still).
15. Furor is better than iMotW if you PvP (and even has it's uses in PvE), regardless of spec. Instant bash is too good to pass.
16. Demoralizing Roar can be used to find nearby rogues in stealth.
17. The bloom effect of the lifebloom spell generates threat toward the person it's casted on. To give the tank some extra threat on the tank, put 1 lifebloom on it once tank got some snap aggro and let it run out. (May not work since patch)
18. We aren't rogues. Catform is a good opener and short-time nuker, but switch to bear a lot too.
19. Lacerate/Rake/Rip can do wonders, even on low armor targets, you just need to know when to use them.
20. Wait for others to attack first if you're in a group in pvp. If you attack first, you'll be targeted by everyone and die in a few seconds. If you wait, chances are they will focus on others first.
21. (obvious one, but still.) Using cloth as a moonkin isn't bad. Especially in PvE it can even be better then leather.
22. Don't try to convince others that druids are good PvE'ers by talking. They'll usually not believe you. You almost always have to show them first hand. >_<
23. Feral Charge + Mangle + Bash + Cat Form + Shred is a great way to get in some serious damage and CP's against hunters.
24. Use Rank 1 moonfires on grounding totem.
25. Barkskin is your friend, if in doubt, use barkskin.
26. In arena, cyclone a healer wait for him to trinket then cyclone his target (even if its the current target for burst damage).
27. The best way to deal with felguards/warlock pets/hunter pets in general if you need to heal is natures grasp.
28. As a moonkin, when fighting casters, use caster form, that way you can keep hots up and be a general pain in the ass.
29. Moonkins + Moonfire spam make GREAT battleground tanks. Its like instant pvp aggro.
30. When sitting in your base in WSG you can use track humanoids to watch people coming after you and keep out their way. Make sure you have the map fully zoomed out, so you can see stealthers.. stealth.
31. The ultimate pvp meleekin is a heavy balance spec with feral tanking gear (so 11K hp and 26-27K armour). Trees + dots + melee regen and you can own any melee class give or take (try it against your local epixxed arms warrior if you don't believe me).
32. Bind Cat + Bear form to mouse buttons and get a multi button mouse. That way you can shift forms really fast, without needing to focus on clicking buttons on the screen.
33. Timing cyclone correctly in the arena against an AP-Pyro mage can be immensely fun. Its kinda luck based though.
34. In group pvp/battlegrounds your better off cycloning healers than trying to kill them, unless they're obviously wearing primal mooncloth gear or something.
35. Tank Bestial wrath in bear form.
36. Fury warriors are a free HK, arms warriors are a royal pain.
37. Feral charge, roots, cyclone and maim ALL trigger second wind.
38. Use HS, it looks exactly like our healing and mages ALWAYS fall for it, as do rogues and warriors....
39. Soothe Animal does not put you in combat.
40. If a rogue vanish close to you use DEMO Roar and u can see him again.. he just wasted his vanish.