As the title says, which one do you prefer and why? I enjoy the druid forms of Kul Tiran and do just fine with them, but I find QoL a little bit better (SM to break aggro, stealth speed, etc.) with the Night Elves. 1st World problems for sure, but I am so torn between these two races and what they have to offer. What say you?
I have tried Kul Tiran so many times but I keep going back to my Night Elf. (Worgen is actually my favorite druid aesthetically).
If you play bear enough, you could argue the case for KT versatility and health regen. It’s not a great argument but it could be made. If you play any other spec more, you will miss Shadowmeld too much.
Also: don’t pick a race for the base forms. Once you find a custom barbershop look you like, you will end up using that anyway and once you have it you can apply it to all your druids now and forever.
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The druid forms for KT are very unique and specific to the KT race though. That’s my dilemma.
Play the Kul Tiran. You can always make another druid later. I think I had 6 or 7 of them across Dragonflight (and Remix). I only maxed one NE this xpac and i don’t play it. SM is so nice, situationally, but your appearance is something you look at every time you play.
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I am slowly starting to see this point. Thank you!
Obviously, I’m a Night Elf.
I love Shadowmeld, and with the threat shenanigans coming back for TWW, I have used it SO MANY TIMES. It has become indispensable again.
In the raid/Queen Ansurek fight, for example, there is a part in phase 2 where groups run up a web bridge to a new platform with a swarm of adds following. Healer aggro is a real thing again, and without Shadowmeld (because I have multiple HoTs rolling on every player in my group at this stage of the fight) those bug adds would ALL jump off the tank and roll straight to me on that bridge.
Having an aggro dump in SM is vital to my use of the druid, and that can’t be overstated.
I am a female player and I use female character models. While I personally think the KT druid forms are SICK and was one of those who did all the rep requirements early so I could have one the day they came out…I cannot hang out with the KT female models. The males look great, imo, but the female faces creep me out with the eyes that stare right through everything like something out of a horror movie.
Anyway, all of that aside, the only thing the KT brings to the table is the wicker form set. Their knockback racial is interesting but redundant in the druid kit. The underwater breathing and swimming buffs are also great but entirely useless to a druid. The rest of their abilities (versatility, passive health regen & resistances) are just not enough to make KT racials useful to the class.
It’s Night Elf all day (and night).
BUT…if you want to be a KT, be a KT. Roll the one you want to look at and hang out with. Everything else is negotiable. If being a wicker bear is what keeps you excited to play the class, roll that Kul Tiran and don’t look back. For real. Play what you LIKE and everything else will work itself out.
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Race changed from KT specifically for shadowmeld and i havent looked back once
I mean; imho, KT has the best forms lol
I’m into witches though and theirs are very witchy sooo
Theres plenty of forms that anyone can use though. Which is the one of points of the general ones from the race ones. However, the races one are obvi going to lean in the racial ties.
SM is nice, esp as a pvper. BUT Haymaker from stealth is even more fun.
I assure you, teehee.
of course mileage will vary if yall only PvE.