Xaknar's Druid Talent Tree Guide
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Submitted by Xaknar on Mon, 2008-01-07 19:15.
This guide will take you through the three talent trees of a Druid, helping you to decide which one to take.
Balance:
The Balance Talents are intended to make a Druid into a more capable caster. It becomes easier to root enemies, while more damage/more efficient damage is dealt due to improvements to Wrath, Moonfire and Starfire. The end point of the Balance Talents is the ability to shapeshift into Moonkin Form. This allows casting Druids to use their Balance attack abilities from a form that is much more survivable.
Feral Combat:
Feral Combat Talents allow your Bear Forms to survive longer, mitigate more damage, and disrupt enemies more easily. They also allow your cat form to deal more damage and and act with greater stealth. The line culminates in an aura that raises physical critical rates in your nearby group by 3%. This is the fastest Talent line for leveling your character because of the reduced down time. Solo Druids benefit tremendously from the Feral Combat line.
Restoration:
Though lowest on damage and survivability, the Restoration Druid line turns characters into healers. Greater mana efficiency, faster healing times, reduced interruption chances and threat from heals, and other such Talents are in this line. Druids that work with dungeon groups get the most use of the Restoration line, while solo druids have perhaps the least to gain from it.
Thanks for reading this guide, keep a look out for guides explaining all the other classes Talent Tree's and hopefully helping you to decide which one to choose!
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Hmmm
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Restoration:
Though lowest on damage and survivability.
I guess you never tried to kill a resto druid with some ½ good gear (it's realy hard for casters especialy) since they got all theese Hots =P just wanted to say
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Gear
Can you give some examples of the different types of gear? Please?
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I applaud the work you put
I applaud the work you put into this, but some parts of it are flawed.
Balance: Moonkin used to be the end talent, but since TBC that's no longer the case, Force of Nature (summoning Treants) now is. You also forgot to mention that a Moonkin is a great addition to a raid, the Moonkin Aura will get you a lot of love from the casters in your party.
Feral: Again the end talent isn't the same as it was pre-TBC. Now it's Mangle, a talent that every feral Druid who raids should have. The fact that you mentoin in the Restoration part that Resto is most usefull in instance groups is also far from truth. For example: as a feral tank I tank every heroic instance and Karazhan, SSC and The Eye. I'm not saying resto's are bad; but saying only resto's do good in groups was a bit untrue.
Restoration: It's also worth mentioning that Restoration is pretty powerfull in Arena PvP (even 2v2)
Extra's to draw people to playing a Druid:
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- a 'new' class is only a respec away (provided you have the gear)
- you can fly at level 68 and don't need to buy a mount or training costs
- You have magic DPS, melee DPS, tanking and healing abilities in 1 class (pre TBC 34 Druids raided Onyxia without help from other classes
- the list goes on and on, but to keep it short, all I can do is advise you to play a Druid to around lvl 20 (so you can experience Bear and Cat form)
Greetz J
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Excellent remarks, Jurimax.
Excellent remarks, Jurimax. I'd have to agree with everything you said. The only downside I've had with playing a druid is the huge amount of bank space filled with gear. The only way to offset this is to try to limit yourself to 2 or 3 sets of gear and explain to your guild that you will be playing "this spec" and will not be sacrificing the time and bag space to get gear for another one. Personally, I don't mind the extra space required for gear. I love the versatility.
As far as talents go, if you've chosen a Druid, level up with either Balance or Feral, but as you get close to 70, try accumulating gear for other specs and try them out as your gold/gear allows. It's fun finding out how you enjoy playing your Druid the most.