WoW Druid Guide
Overview:
Druids are a very versatile character class. They are often healers, but they also have a number of other abilities that can make them useful in any situation they might encounter. They are shapeshifters, and can change to a variety of forms that are improve their abilities in various situations. They can also call on nature to bring down blasts of energy or otherwise use nature to help them fight their enemies.
Because these characters can do so many things it can be hard to focus. You will need to learn when to change forms. It is also necessary to carry more equipment since different forms require different gear, so you will need several complete sets.
The only races allowed to be druids are Night Elves and Taurens. This class is also restricted to using cloth or leather armor, and can only use daggers, maces, polearms, staves, and unarmed weapons.
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Special Abilities:
Spells
A druid has a number of different spells that they can use depending on the situation they find themselves in. They have spells for buffs, travel, and crowd control, poison and curse cleansing, single and multiple target damage and, of course, healing.
Shape Shifting
Druids can take a number of different forms, each with different special abilities. In humanoid form they can nuke and cast healing spells and spells for crowd control. The Bear form comes with an increase in armor so leather armor acts like mail, which makes the druid a capable tank or off tank. The Aquatic form allows you to breathe underwater and swim faster. Cat form has a stealth mode and allows you to do melee DPS. Other forms include Travel form, Dire Bear form, Moonkin form, Tree of Life form, flight form and swift flight form. These shape shifting abilities allow them to free themselves from crowd control.
Talents: Balance, Feral Combat, and Restoration
Balance Druid
Balance druids focus on their damage spells, working to increase the range and damage caused by these spells. They also use crowd control and off healing. They are great for nuking single targets. One of the main talents in this school is the Moonkin form, which gives you huge increases in armor strength as well as increasing raid spell crit.
Feral Combat Druid
Feral druids work on their melee skills, working to strengthen their armor and increase the damage that they do and limit the types and amount of damage that they take themselves. They get good at tanking and melee DPS. They can also heal themselves. This is one of the more popular talent trees since it provides for fast DPS as well as a good chance of surviving.
Restoration Druid
Restoration druids focus on their healing spells, working to increase their healing over time ability, making their healing more effective, incurring lower mana costs, and gaining a dedicated healing form. They can heal during combat as well as when they are incapacitated.
Leveling Tips:
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The best thing about leveling a druid is that you have a lot of options. Druids can be tanks, healers, and DPS damagers. Since the random dungeon generator has made getting low level groups together easy, these dungeons have become the best source of experience. Being a druid your wait time to pick up a random dungeon should be much shorter if you choose to level your druid as a tank or a healer.
Even if you plan on switching to DPS at a later date you should try leveling as a tank or healer. If you insist on leveling in the Feral spec (damage spec) you will need to combine quests and dungeons to make your time worthwhile. It will take you anywhere from 7-20 minutes to get a group as a damage dealing druid. This estimate is only during peak times. After hours you may find it even harder to get a group.
While leveling as a tank or a healer isn’t guaranteed to get you a group instantly, you will find that most of the time you start looking for a random dungeon you get one quickly. It really depends on how populated your server is during the times in which you play.
Later in your career as a druid you may want to start raiding. Many druids have a hard time finding a good raiding guild as feral druids. The best way to ensure that you get into a good raiding guild is to be a healer. Healers are sparse in World of Warcraft and a good healer has a permanent ticket into any raiding content they wish to explore, provided their gear is good enough. Healers also should have no problem gearing up for Icecrown Citadel. Running heroics should be enough to get you into the first quarter of this popular raiding dungeon.
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