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Anyone here play a Druid? i have played on since release imo the most fun class i have ever played in any game i really love the fact that i can shapeshift it adds alot more fun to the game imo.

The problem i always have is the same old ''can you heal'' thing really bugs me even when i tell them i am feral and can add noticable DPS to the group they want me to heal.

Currently been guildless for about 1 year because i refuse to respec to resto (done it before and wow farming anything solo was slow).

Anyone here wish guilds would take Feral Druids more seriously? our DPS is not that bad if you have decent equipment.

On another note i am really looking forward to our flight form in BC
 

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Me! Tauren Feral druid and I'm thankfully in a reasonably open minded guild that allows me to spec feral. That said, I find myself healing about 80% of the time, but I dont mind as I do get to tank occasionally. I regularly off-tank in AQ40 and BWL and love the all round role.
I think it helps I've got excellent kit as I'm the only raiding feral in the guild, so I always got first dibs on most of the decent stuff. Got good +healing gear too so I've been able to heal well, but I've relied on down ranking and I'm not sure how TBC is going to be for someone with only 48mp5 and crap downranking.

I have to say, the guild doesnt allow druids in cat form as their DPS just doesnt cut it and I have to agree with the stance. I've got a 60 Rogue too, thats in blues and greens, and it does a little more dps than my druid cat thats got all epics. Cat has too many problems pre-tbc but I wouldnt be surprised to see cats in groups in the coming months.
 

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a druid who wants to dps is the same as a priest who wants to go shadow imo.

there's plenty of better dps classes but none of them can heal.
 

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mank said:
a druid who wants to dps is the same as a priest who wants to go shadow imo.

there's plenty of better dps classes but none of them can heal.

Except a geared up shadow priest obliterates most classes in a DPS contest, while having the bonus of increasing 'lock damage (and can now regen huge amounts of mana aswell as HP for their party).

Agree on the druid - get over it. There are better, more useful DPS classes.
 

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Well i got a lvl60 feral druid, i tend to heal when needed and off tank when needed. Saying you cant heal cause you are ferals is just plain BS, 6 manned drakki with 2 warriors, 1 hunter, 2 rogues and me, innervate and 1 large manapot. You just have a few +heal gear in bag.
 

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Except a geared up shadow priest obliterates most classes in a DPS contest, while having the bonus of increasing 'lock damage (and can now regen huge amounts of mana aswell as HP for their party).

Agree on the druid - get over it. There are better, more useful DPS classes.

Well when i have been playing BC Feral druids are wanted more then Warriors/rogues for 5 man instances.
 

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i have a lvl 60 druid, they're pretty fun to play, but heal wise they are really boring to play, the heals too slow. Havnt played since they got buffed though, so not sure about dps
 

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yeah I've been playing BC beta - people like feral druids because they were crazy 5-man tanks, luckily blizz just nerfed that a bit
 

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mank said:
a druid who wants to dps is the same as a priest who wants to go shadow imo.


nothing wrong with either of them. my guild got a few shadow priests thats fighting the rogues for the top dps places when were raiding.

having 2 or 3 shadow priests in a raid insted of the odd mage/hunter is acually working great as they can do both DPS and backup heal if needed. mage and hunter can "only" do dps.
 

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Have a shadow priest in our guild that gets into the top 3 in dps and also gens the equivalent of 150mp5 for those in his group. You just cant argue with that really.

And cat in TBC will be different, completely different. With the right kit they'll defo have a chance of a place, we can really compete now. I thik the main issue is, cat has been so underplayed for such a long time few druids will have really good cat kit, and I dont think the pvp kit counts frankly. I'm unimpressed by it, its all about hybrid playing and not specialising in a role. Yes, hybrids will be powerful but you've got to be able to shine at something and, for me, there isnt enough of anything in the pvp kit.
Still, given a bit of time I'm sure some kit will be gathered by cat druids and they'll really make their mark.
 

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I have 35% chance to crit and believe me it crits insanely from day one when i made my druid even before they got that huge buff i was feral and concentrated on getting Feral gear which has took me a while but now i am reaping the rewards.

Druids = fun imo

And the Flight form is gonna be the ultimate get away form
 

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Flight form isn't usable in combat from what i've read/been told though, which is a shame :p


Decided to spec Balance for the time being, always been more of a fan of spellcasting than melee combat. Probably not the wisest of choices since balance Druids really aren't that valuable when you can get far better suited classes in Mages and Warlocks, but who really cares, it's hella fun to play ^^
 

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not denying that shadow priests can deal shitloads of damage or that feral druids can dps with the best of them at all.

it's more a case of the fact it's hard enough finding a resto druid or holy priest anyway, it drives me bonkers when you're in a group and the priest refuses to heal because they want to play at being a damage dealer.
 

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mank said:
not denying that shadow priests can deal shitloads of damage or that feral druids can dps with the best of them at all.

it's more a case of the fact it's hard enough finding a resto druid or holy priest anyway, it drives me bonkers when you're in a group and the priest refuses to heal because they want to play at being a damage dealer.

lol, k

If your party leader is too stupid to make sure you have enough healers and assumes he knows everyones spec without asking, well.. don't blame shadow priests :p
 

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i'm referring to pugs where it's not quite such a simple task to construct a decent group.
 

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I always make it clear as day if i get invited to a group that i am not resto if they don't like it i leave because tbh i'm not a group player solo ftw
 

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Well, now TBC has been out for a couple of weeks or so, what do you think of Druid now?
I'm completely feral and dont carry my healing kit with me at all anymore. I use cat for solo and bear for 5 man instances.

Cat is superb for solo stuff upto 2 mobs or so. I can kill 4 same level mobs but it gets a bit frantic. If I'm going to get more than 3 I usually change to bear form but stay in my cat gear.
Before TBC i was unconvinced by cat but now I'm overjoyed with it. I've now got more than 2k attack power and can dps stuff down nearly (but not quite) as fast as a very good and well equipped rogue. I dont have the tools they have to manage mobs but I do have hitting power.

Bear has gone from strength to strength and I constantly get invites to tank 5mans and I've been doing several every day. I know we're not prot warriors and my group has to let me build aggro first, but 13k health and 23k armor and the ability to tank 3 mobs at a time just makes the difference.

Loving Druid, its just so versatile and now its very good at whatever path you decide to take it down. Hit 70 last week, go me!
 

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TedTheDog said:
Well, now TBC has been out for a couple of weeks or so, what do you think of Druid now?
I'm completely feral and dont carry my healing kit with me at all anymore. I use cat for solo and bear for 5 man instances.

Cat is superb for solo stuff upto 2 mobs or so. I can kill 4 same level mobs but it gets a bit frantic. If I'm going to get more than 3 I usually change to bear form but stay in my cat gear.
Before TBC i was unconvinced by cat but now I'm overjoyed with it. I've now got more than 2k attack power and can dps stuff down nearly (but not quite) as fast as a very good and well equipped rogue. I dont have the tools they have to manage mobs but I do have hitting power.

Bear has gone from strength to strength and I constantly get invites to tank 5mans and I've been doing several every day. I know we're not prot warriors and my group has to let me build aggro first, but 13k health and 23k armor and the ability to tank 3 mobs at a time just makes the difference.

Loving Druid, its just so versatile and now its very good at whatever path you decide to take it down. Hit 70 last week, go me!

Awsome class isn't it? easily one of the most feared in pvp however i do think the nerf bat will be hitting us very soon.

I have 23k armor also and it's just overpowered tbh the fact we are better then Warriors now at tanking speaks for itself.

Loving it though!

I'm at 66 not played my Druid for around 2 weeks! too busy playing my Belf Pally!
 

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That's bollocks because I still get asked to tank in 5 man instances.

Glad I've respecced fury, no fucking point trying to actually play as warrior is intended if druids can have about three times as much armour.
 

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mank said:
That's bollocks because I still get asked to tank in 5 man instances.

Glad I've respecced fury, no fucking point trying to actually play as warrior is intended if druids can have about three times as much armour.

Mihi, I loved the time I was in an instance and the group wanted me to tank instead of the protection warrior since I had more armor/hp than he did ^^

It all went well without death, but we were not 5 men, we were 4 cause the warrior got so pissed he left :p
 

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people who ignore the value of being able to parry and block are retards
 

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And dont forget magic resistances. Warriors get far more than druids. You try finding high armor leather kit with great chunks of fire res, for instance.
They also get reactive measures like shield wall, pots, last stand and, dare i say it, fear.
No, druids are superb but warriors are more rounded for the role and will dominate the 25 mans and we'll be back to healing again I guess (I wont, I'll be back to leveling an alt or something despite having 1000 +healing).

We can spank n tank, they can cover the lot in protection spec. That said, an arms/fury warrior cant tank shit, but its not supposed to be able to, its a dps role build.

Whilst in the old days warriors have far higher avoidance with dodge, parry and block, since druids can easily get 30% dodge the gap has narrowed considerably. They still avoid more damage than us, but its less spectacular (I used to have 19% dodge, I've now got 31%).

Druids are in demand for the 5 mans but I cant see it lasting into the 25's or to anything that chucks out a lot of magical damage.

Oh, and with pots and inspiration (priest armor proc) I did one boss fight in Arcatraz with 31k armor all the way through (priest had a high crit %) 14k health and 31% dodge with that made it pretty straight forward. But next boss did high fire damage and a fat lot of good armor does then. I only have 91 fr fgs!
 

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I used to play a full resto druid, it was great fun in pve.. but in pvp i dont like playing druids ;(
 

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I lvl'd my rogue on stormscale to 65 but it got kinda boring, rarely got instance invites, was fun in pvp just ganking whoever but kind of a one trick poney, so i decided to play my old lvl 58 druid and all i can say is wow :p overpowered ftw, i'm lvl 61 now and feral spec, really good dps and i with my healing set ive healed ramparts and bf without any losses the whole run, really enjoying it ;D
 

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