Asmongold’s wipeless Deadmines run with 105k viewers had a Night Elf Resto Druid for healer, and it vastly outperformed the Priest they had in the next VC run.
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Feral druid was my first WoW character (this one in fact), I’ve mained it since vanilla, and I’ll be playing one again in Classic. Most of my alts are ferals. I just love that particular class/spec. I prefer it the way it was designed in earlier years and am looking forward to playing a vanilla-style feral again.
I always thought druids were underrated in party play at that time. It was like pulling teeth sometimes to get into group content, but honestly, I can’t tell you how many times my druid flexibility came into play at the last minute to save the party from a wipe or take down a difficult boss. It was about understanding that flexibility and knowing when to use it. If the main tank went down, I could switch to bear and smack the boss in the face, and with a good healer behind me, no worries. If the healer went down, I could brez him and throw a few heals onto the tank and any dying party members while he got back on his feet, and we’d just go on with the fight. I really enjoyed being able to step into the gap when needed in this way.
Sometimes, a specific encounter would require an unusual combo of players in which I might be a third off-tank, or a secondary or backup healer, even as a feral. Because of this variety, dungeons and raiding never really got boring. I didn’t do a lot of group content at the time, but when I made the effort to find a party or raid group that would take me, I enjoyed the adrenaline rush of the roles I was capable of filling.
Never mind all the naysayers. Vanilla druid, feral in particular, is fun, flexible, and definitely viable and advantageous in many in-game encounters and situations. If you’re curious, or if you just want to play one, give it a go.
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Sure, but was the Druid streaming? I don’t want to listen to whiny trash talking and moaning from Asmongold.
Get me in beta, I’ll stream it for sure. ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
I already downloaded the Streamlabs client and set it up. Soo… Me too!
How can you not. Druid > all. I’m seriously debating making druid my first toon in classic instead of Rogue.
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First character was also a druid. Sadly fell out of love with the class through no fault of its own. The switch hitter playstyle/design worked better in PvP and 5mans than raiding. It still worked on a fight-to-fight basis, where I might be cat for most of BWL then heal/cleansebot for Chromaggus, and the state of the game meant that you could still heal well enough as feral so long as you had a set for it, but trying to fill multiple roles in the same boss fight didn’t work super well. You’re absolutely right though, the classes core versatility was a huge boon back when spec toggling was years from reality.
You shut your mouth peasant.
And here the “Master of none” Myth is continually perpetuated. Guess we just have to wait till classic when people will fully realize druids can smash healing meters, have the best o-shlt buttons for saving people while healing, and are the strongest Magic Damage + TPS tanks out there, which makes them ideal for both progression and farm.
The dream. I hope more guilds understand the use cases of Druids to that extent. Many are quite lazy in thought and just want you to be a healer.
Yeah, I accept that fact that it’ll be a lot of work getting raid ready though.
I just want to actually find some druids for my guild lol, and all of this uniformed talk about their viability isnt helping people want to play them
Op, its not druids. It’s DUDU
Druids in classic are called as "DUDU"
Is that just an EU server thing?
I used to see it alot in vanilla when looking for druids in dungeon run.
LF a dudu for BFD dungeon /w for inv
xD
I appreciate the reply. I never did the raid or much dungeon stuff as a Druid in Vanilla, and was simply relating the experience as they happened to me personally. I did enjoy the few times I did get to run some things greatly, but ,for me the overall game play was and still is the best thing about the class. A Druid is going to be my main in Classic as well.
But are they not susceptible to crushing blows? I can’t remember what the issue was with them compared to warriors in classic.
Druid are versatile and fun, but druids are not the “best” at anything. Because this content is all already known and planned around with meta compositions, druids are suboptimal. There’s better damage dealers, a better tank, and better healing specs for almost all content. This is because a lot of druid skills are derived from how Everquest was setup(I can assure you that in Everquest’s version of classic servers, druids are not highly desired there, either).
Still, you CAN do anything. I(think?) I was the first druid to 30 on the beta and I’ve been able to do most things I’d want to so far, heal relevant dungeons, solo mobs 5-6 levels higher, and have fun doing it.
All the specs can be “viable”…just not “optimal”. A tryhard boomkin can pull his weight…sort of. It just then becomes a question of how you get him gear, reasonably, due to much better specs needing the same gear.
Feral tanking is just fine in all dungeon content-maybe an offtank bear in raids for the occasional fight.
Restore is of course your best spec in any given situation.
Feral dps? Gunna require you to be a powershifter with a specific helmet, and grinding out manual crowd pummelers, but it’s been shown to be effective.
Druids get hit HARD by crushing blows. That’s the biggest threat to their tanking, as the damage they take will be significantly spikier. It’s especially noticable against dual wielding mobs.
Oh hey, there’s the one I was talking about. 