I wanna roll a druid, could anyone give me the lowdown on them?

[Edwin Van Queef 0]

So I wanna roll druid, preferably to heal late game, was just curious on what they're like in PvE/PvP, do they get raid spots etc? levelling experience smooth? and any opinions you have on them, good or bad! Cheers!

[Xykaru 1]

Well, ALL class sets for druid aside from PvP gear is oriented towards restoration ONLY. PvP gear is not designed for balance nor healing, but it works nicely for feral as it has a broad range of stats (but it doesnt heavily focus on any one thing).

 

  If you do plan on going feral or balance, your only bet on gear is to grind for pvp gear, or collect non-set blues/purples which can literally turn into running a dungeon 100 times for a single item, then running another dungeon 100 times for another item, rinse repeat until you're fully geared. Even then you'll be under geared compared to, say a mage with class gear. But, if you do manage to collect all the best feral gear, you will certainly be a force to be reckoned with.

[apz 0]

Kinda depends tho, can use all cloth gear except the tier pieces as balance

[Undertanker 88]

Went to the extreme there.    Gear set wise, they have a really nice "solo" / world pvp set with T2.5.

 

 

Druids are fun and not hard to level.   Just get 5/5 Furor in the restro tree.   For fast grinding, moon fire something rejuv yourself and then go cat.      Repeat.   Having SOME spirit gear helps you while grinding cause 5 seconds after you shape shift to cap your mana regen kicks in.    Pretty much never having to drink once you are level 20+.

[taladril 43]

I can tell you that any premade only grudgingly brought me to AB. And then it was to sit on one of the flags. Oh so fun. But as a flag carrier you are loved. 

[Drain 19]

I fear Moonkins in BGs.

 

Yaooch, that Moonfire stings.

Edited December 1, 2016 by Drain

[Ellipsea 36]

Druids A1+ flag carriers.  Good druid flag carriers are gods.  Everyone on both sides focus on them.

[Xom 8]

Most mobile PvP healer, and someone who utilizes stuns/snares and kites like a madman will almost never die.

 

From the Druids I've known, they say their enjoyment in the game increases greatly the more "Off-Spec" sets they gather. Some people like just one role and they do Heal quite well, but Druids really shine if you are interested in at least one of the other roles they can fulfill. Being so diverse was one thing I enjoyed playing one years back. I could join a group and prettymuch just switch forms or switch gear and be good to go for any group. Once you get 60 - well those above have covered that well enough. Druids are pretty rare compared to other classes, so you'll never be want for a group. Good luck out there!

[Xykaru 1]

So I wanna roll druid, preferably to heal late game, was just curious on what they're like in PvE/PvP, do they get raid spots etc? levelling experience smooth? and any opinions you have on them, good or bad! Cheers!

I really love druids so I had to reply again.

 

   Resto druids are like any other pure healing class. They can't kill anything. They can't farm for gold. They're limited to being health dispensers for other people. You're not really going to have anything to do in the game unless you're in a BG or dungeon.

 

 From a rank 14 feral druid aspect,  hunters will usually kick your попа via kiting if they're equally geared. Warlocks will obliterate you even if you have significantly better gear than them (I'm not even kidding). Shadow priests can be a pain in the butt but you'll outtank and outheal their mana pool. Pretty much everything else is a cakewalk.

 

 If you're restoration in PvP, you'll literally just be running away and healing at the same time because let's face it, you're not killing anybody.

 

 Balance isn't even a viable spec and shouldn't even exist. People that play boomkins should seek psychiatric help immediately.

 

 Some of the things I like about healing as a druid is having Plenty of HoT's, great mana regeneration with innervate, stealth, some tankyness,  sprint, plenty of movement speed, ability to break snares, immunity to polymorph, overall you're pretty much guaranteed to get away from any 1v1 confrontation, and most 1v2+ confrontations if you play your cards right. Also, if you have tanking gear, you can still tank most blue 50-60 dungeons rather easily, which is even more fun when you regrowth/rejuv before every encounter, healing you for over 3000 damage while you tank. They're the best flag runners in WSG. They are awesome in AV when you're popping a powerful rejuv on everybody around you.

 

Some of the things I dislike about healing as a druid is that your forms become limited in usage. I.e. cat is only good for sprint and stealth while bear form is only useful for very light tanking, occasional stun, and feral charge if you spec for it. Also it seems that druid sets have rather low armor, making very little use of dire bears 360% armor scaling. It's very expensive mana wise to shape shift multiple times unless you're specced into natural talent (still costs mountains if you're shifting a lot, i.e. back to back bear form to break snares while flagrunning.) And generally not being able to deal any damage whatsoever.

 

 Just make sure you look into spell efficiency. There are lower levels of your healing spells that, after you've breached xx +healing, will do more HP per mana than max rank, ultimately making more efficient use of your mana and avoiding overhealing/letting your teammate get dangerous low before you bump him with a huge max rank heal.

Edited December 1, 2016 by Xykaru