So I’m feeling like I just wasted my gold getting my leather heirlooms to go from 110-120. It had kind of crossed my mind before buying the upgrades that the chest shoulders and helm would be weaker than actual azerite armor because they wouldnt have traits on them. I cant tell if the lac of traits is the reason or if it’s the base stats are lower that Azerite pieces or something, but I’m dieing a lot trying to level my druid.
I should state that I’ve never been a druid main, this character has been the last one that I level each expansion and it’s usually changed quite a bit sense the last time I’ve played it, so it certainly could be something that I’m doing wrong, I’ll admit that.
In previous expansions, not just legion, I felt much stronger leveling. the time it took to kill things was rather short, I could comfortable pull 1-3 things at a time, or more in some cases, but in BfA I’m having to try and heal myself A LOT when I’m just fighting 2 mobs. I’m fairly certain that I’ve died more times on this one character while leveling through Drustvar than all my other 120s put together as they leveled. Even excluding the bad pulls that have happened where I unintentionally just got to many mobs at once with starfall. I’m not able to handle just one extra mob it seems if I’m already fighting 2 and another pats into me, it’s taking me a good while to kill each mob.
I’m using moonfire, sunfire, stellar flare, Starsurge when I have the astral power, wrath and lunar strike when they’re empowered. it’s like sometimes I can do huge amounts of damage and sometime I don’t and they run up to me and start hitting me. I can typhoon them away but if there’s more than one it’s really just delaying the damage while I finish up the first one I’m DPSing.
TLDR: So again I’m by no means a experienced druid player, just a little bit of playtime each expansion to get to max level. Willing to admit it might be something I’m doing wrong. I thought the new upgrade to heirlooms might let me level faster while questing without spamming island expeditions and dungeons, but it doesn’t feel like it because I keep dieing. Would I be better off droping my heirlooms for azerite pieces and normal gear?