Mastering the druid is incredibly fun, but it takes a lot of effort relative to other classes. Like rouge for instance, you’ll find vanilla era videos of 1v4, you will never do that as a druid. You will never kill fast enough. A rouge is also has a much lower skill floor.
Overall, you can have a ton of fun, but it takes effort and running the flag can get boring really quick.
I’m still bitter that I never got High Warlord but just about everyone else in my group did. The reason being honor was not instance wide and they camped under the graveyard often while I was running the flag not getting honor.
Oh I completely agree - as do many others. The discussion begins because many people believe that as a hybrid class there is potential to be a DPS in the raid. It’s still possible, but your chances are rare.
Play what you want, but it’s to be transparent of what you want to play.
(Being “nice” and having proper attendance are cop-outs for saying you will hold a spot - most people will bring those traits.)
I had a friend that played a Paladin from Vanilla through LK. He played all 3 specs and played them well (in guilds that typically took server firsts).
During Vanilla, he was only allowed to be a healer… period. I don’t imagine that this kind of thinking will change a lot in Classic.
Too many people here are mistaking viability for optimal. Those specs are viable, but not optimal.
This shouldn’t have to be explained. It’s the same thing over and over, people saying it won’t happen. Yeah I’ve said that teams can pick and choose as they please and will play the players they think best for their situation. More hardcore teams will value optimal play and raid comp, therefore will restrict specs. More casual and relaxed guilds/teams are likely to accept a wider range of viable, but not optimal classes/specs.
They will still be the least played class but that doesn’t mean they are bad.
Resto Druid is the best flag carrier and while not an amazing PVE healer on the meters they are still alright while also bringing MOTW, Brez, Thorns, and Innervate.
Bear is a much better tank than they get credit for.
Feral can be good but you REALLY have to go tryhard with your preparations (farm MCP for literally every second of a boss fight)
It’s not exactly that, as the main reason rogues, warriors, and mages are the most popular is their raw power in both PvE and PvP. And all the PvP movies people saw back in the day.
Rogues and Mages are also effective at controlling threat and had fantastic dmg output. HArd to wonder why they would top things. Warriors being the go-to tanks would explain their numbers as well.
I don’t know about in vanilla but my guild got its first druid main tank during Wrath. I can’t say that I was thrilled being on the healing team.
The bear seemed to be just a big sponge if memory serves . It was like the bear never mitigated any damage. But, he did become one of my best friends that I met in game.
Since we last played, he died from cancer. Him, my wife and I ran a heck of a lot of content together outside of the guild raid nights.
Pretty much. Be prepared to be a mana battery for the priests or don’t raid.
And with gear so much harder to come by and ML, it will be hard to find a guild that will let you feral and give you a fair shot at DPS leather until the raid is on farm mode.
For dungeons, does leather gear drop as common as cloth/plate gear regardless of class popularity? Druids should have the least competition for gear hence the easiest time to get gear upgrades, right?
Druids were bad to level in late vanilla if you weren’t in a group. Sorry but those Youtube videos showing ferals with huge dps numbers didn’t happen for most druids because why? GEAR. You were in direct competition with rogues (and even hunters!) rolling need for good leather agi gear. Unless you got gear funneled to you, forget about those big numbers.
For regular players questing in regular gear, cats took big damage and you’d have to shift to bear for the bash then back to regular form to toss some hots on yourself then back to cat to start dps’ing again. When I was on the dragonkin in Burning Steppes I have bad memories having to do the shapeshift routine that on almost every effing mob and it was slow. If you fight npcs much lower than your own level, of course it’ll be different. But for me, leveling a druid was so much harder than a hunter and a mage (or a rogue!). I loved playing my druid in vanilla but I’m not sure I’m going to be leveling one in classic.
Every class sucks without gear and every class competes for gear. This is not unique to Feral Druids. Yes you will have a hard time convincing people to let you play Feral in raids but it is possible if you are very dedicated.
Leveling doesn’t really matter. Look at Warrior, worst leveler by far but they are the most played class and the best DPS from MC through Naxx.
I leveled a priest as my first char in Vanilla. I needed a group all the time. I could barely do anything solo. Until I was high enough level to raid, then I would be asked a lot.
Mages don’t control threat, they hope they don’t go over, the tank out threats their ignite, or they just start wanding to increase the threat gap. Rogues get a threat dump, Hunters get a threat dump, no one else has a dump except on the warlock/druid’s permission. I guess shaman do have one also…