Saturday, September 15, 2007
Being a Druid
I have so far healed, dpsed (moonkin) and tanked in Kara. In other words, I lost all my monies respeccing and don't what I'm doing. No offense ret paladins, but druids are the only class that can effectively tank, heal or dps in raids. Ret paladins can dps, but so can tree druids. Since I can do those things I have had to do them. No one has asked me to repsec, but I'd rather respec than have a group fail. I hate filling a role that I'm not specced for. Tanking while not feral is like pulling teeth, dpsing when I was dreamstate was no good either. It doesn't really bother me to heal with balance spec now that gear is better and know what I'm doing, but I shouldn't be main healing anything. I'd like to settle on a spec, but the guild keeps needing different things. That's why I have 4 sets of gear that are good enough for kara. I don't care what spec with one exception. I can't stand pvp as a feral druid. It's like being a rogue who hasn't trained any skills in since level 36. No evasion, no vanish, no procs, no cloak of shadows. I can turn into a bear and die slower, sweet. Cat form range is horrid, you have to be on top of something to hit it. For pve I'm pretty sure I could kill a mob before a feral druid could get over to it. For instances and raiding feral is nice, but as long as I'm doing arenas I can't stay feral. What I am supposed to be rolling gear wise anyway? I might be tank next time should I roll on a tank trinket, but I'm dps today so I need that, and healing gear I need that too. Gearing me for a bunch of rolls doesn't help the guild, I can only be one thing at a time. My 4 kara drops I use for healing don't help anybody when I'm tanking, I got some epic dps pants almost 2 weeks ago I haven't used them in a group yet. Anyway, enough whining, it could be worse, I could be a resto druid trying to kill things in cat form:P
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"I can't stand pvp as a feral druid. It's like being a rogue who hasn't trained any skills in since level 36. No evasion, no vanish, no procs, no cloak of shadows. I can turn into a bear and die slower, sweet. Cat form range is horrid, you have to be on top of something to hit it."
PvP as a feral takes quite a bit of time and experience to get good at. Vanish would be nice to have, as would procs, pots, CloS, evasion, and cold blood but once you understand how to PvP as a feral, you don't miss them as much.
See, I had played a rogue to 60 in my pre-TBC, pre-AoS days so when I made Origami and levelled him up to 60 and started PvPing as a cat, I tried to play him like a rogue. With that mentality and playstyle, yes, you are a rogue who hasn't trained any skills since L36. But a feral druid isn't meant to be played like a rogue. In fact, the similarities stop at stealth.
It took me a while at L70 to get used to this idea. Arenas really helped me develop playing a feral druid as a... "hybrid with stealth" as well as reading posts on the Druid WoW forums about the attack sequences people used for various classes - and then experimenting for myself.
Druids who are newer to PvP tend to lock themselves into one form - typically cat form and do view bear form as just the form you go into to die slower. In fact, this view is enforced by the fact that if you shift a couple of times and throw a couple of heals, you'll run out of mana. However, once you start to really fill out your feral PvP gear, you'll find that all the item points "wasted" on int really pays off.
Once your PvP gear allows for a good mana pool while still maintaining good dps potential you can start leveraging the offensive and defensive skills of all 3 of your forms for a single fight. Being able to chain attacks from different forms is an advanced skill that once you're able to pull off you may find you're missing those rogue skills less and maybe even wishing you could pull off some of those moves on your rogue. :)
Your only real barrier then becomes the global cooldown and the catform range bug.
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