The Naked Fear

so, I'm wanting to get back on my druid in the next few days and try to continue forth in lvling her. I'm spec'd at feral, any tips as far as tanking goes ... I just wanna hear what other have to say about being a feral druid ..

i luv having a feral tanking druid. focus on agility as a main stat for tanking/kitty dps.

keep different gear, if you find leather with alot of armor that's your tankking stuff, and gear with alot of ap is your feral kitty stuff. look for staff's on he ah that have ap for your forms.

i don't think they have any staffs at that level with plus ap that would be BoE. though if you like, I could run you through about anything you help you get gear. I know i can do up to and including ST and probably most if not all of BRD but after that I would need help.

I haven't been on much, but I check the forums daily (with a few exceptions) so I'll see it fairly soon.

Anyone have advice for resto spec druids like me?

What would you like to know?

Resto Druids are great right now. I have a basic resto spec. I use rejuv/lifebloomx3/regrowth most of the time while raiding. I also throw out Wildgrowth when it is off CD. Is there anything specific you want to know?

One alteration to that rotation. Only use regrowth when your hot ticks don't overheal. If you just need a "right now" heal that is when you use swiftmend or nourish.

Mana efficiency is very important.

There are different specs to resto. Though two base ones that I know of that are popularly used. One of the I think was created because it is simple.

Spec 1- Throw everything into the resto tree. Logical thinking for that is: "What I'm resto? Shouldn't all my talents be resto?"

Spec 2 - Requires a bit of fore thought imo.
It requires you to put 11 in Balance for Nature's Splendor then you have 60 points to play with in the resto tree.

My spec is: Prazer's Spec

There are some things that are arguably better, and I've considered playing with my spec. Though, it has worked well for me.

If anyone questions my reasons I will explain them as I see it, but for now I have things to do and time to spend else where.

thanks guys. that was what i was looking for. (talent tree advice)

in addition, what stats should i focus on and what kind of gear? i know that's really general and you could probably write me a novel. anything helps.

well, stats are something I still am not completely sure on.

Int, Spirit, Mp5, and SP are all big things. Spirit is probably the biggest, but you have to find a nice balance.

That is the difficulty I have ran into. I personally stack spirit over straight spell power. Spirit gives us healing and mana regen. Not as much if we went straight for SP or mp5 but it basically splits it.

I guess for me this is how the break down is. Spirit > Mp5 >= SP > Int

Though, I look at the overall upgrade value. If I lose spirit but gain what I deem necessary then I'll do that.

It really is personal preference, imo. I like stacking Mp5 (through spirit or directly) because it gives me the ability to last through long fights. Until you can get to the point where you have so much SP that you don't have to watch the raid because you just laid down a spread of HoTs. Mana is going to be an issue for longer fights. I could be better in short fights if I had more SP. But when I can last an entire raid and not use a single water, potion, or innervate. I see that it balances quite nicely.

{deleted post} Prazer wrote:

One alteration to that rotation. Only use regrowth when your hot ticks don't overheal. If you just need a "right now" heal that is when you use swiftmend or nourish.

I Agree, but most of them time I raid heal, so I just stack the MT and concentrate healing groups/OT. A lot of times the MT stay's over healed anyway, only using Regrowth if he dips down lower than 40%. (swiftmend+regrowth).

It def is a lot different from the holy priest i played Pre-bc, I miss the big direct heals that come from mostly pally/priest's right now. That probably why I am leveling a dwarf pally right now =)

You can still get those large heals if you want to be a HT druid.

I was under the impression that a HT build is not as mana-efficient as a simple Rejuv/Regrowth Build. Is this wrong or is there some truth in that?

It is very true, you can spec it a bit and make it better. But I hate the amount of mana it uses. I only use it with a "oh shit" combo. Nature's Swiftness and HT is pretty good.

I'm personally a huge fan of Nature's Grace.

That being said, this is all up to play style and I find that the .5 seconds off of a cast time like Nourish or Regrowth is unbelievably useful. I think personally think that its a much better investment of 2-5 talent points in Imp HT or Replenish.

Since Regrowth has a 60% chance to crit through talents and moderate crit rating on gear, throwing up a regrowth on an OT with low health or the MT after 3x lifebloom will give you a lightning fast Nourish or Regrowth effect.

As many druids do I use the heroic badge trinket Egg of Mortal Essence which procs what seems like 4 times a boss fight. This bumps haste rating up by 505 for 10 seconds. When that pops, and a crit heal goes off, nourish is a 0.8 second cast time and Regrowth is 1.2 seconds. Thats ridiculous.

Im a big fan of haste and have 314 base haste rating...but for my style of play, the rapidity of those heals is just unmatched by anything else I've tried. The casts are so quick that I'm almost always last on the overheal charts...its hard to waste mana by casting nourish if its only a 0.8 second cast.

You have a strong point there, there is a raiding spec that goes into balance for Nature's Grace and I admit it made me interested in the possibility. But I still think that Restos depend on the HoTs and imo the amount of direct healing (minus the occasionally Regrowth) needs to be kept at a minimum.

In 10 man raids I have rarely ever had to cast direct healing spells (minus regrowth). The times I do are the NS + HT combo or a Nourish on rare occasions. I don't consider druids a MT or OT healer really. I normally leave those big heals to the other direct healing only classes or my swiftmend. At this time druids are the only ones that can supply a steady stream of HoTs, and imo that is what we are built to do.

With that said I will probably continue working on spirit and SP.

I WANT 2k REJUV TICKS DAMNIT!

Why do droods turn into trees?

Because since we are supposed to be as one with all of nature; we can not only be attuned to the animal life, we must also understand and be at one with the plant life too.

Poobot will tell you its for wipe safety... Pimp hand of the strong tree ftw!

{deleted post} Berrash wrote:

Poobot will tell you its for wipe safety... Pimp hand of the strong tree ftw!

qft.

9k backhand crits with my backhand gear on.

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