Hey, guys. Been mostly leveling through dungeons as a healer, but I wanted to stop and do Legion for the story. I ended up teleporting Dalaran, and did some artifact quests for the druid (which was freaking awesome, by the way), but now I have no idea where to go. Is there any way to find out where I need to go to pick up the next quest?
Thanks for any help that can be offered. Extremely confused and overwhelmed.
I ran several alts through legion recently and did khadgar quests and class hall until I got the quest to pick a zone. Not sure exactly which triggered it.
After you complete the quest to get your first artifact weapon, you’ll get a quest that leads you to the scouting map in your class order hall.
The scouting map lets you choose between any of the 4 leveling zones for Legion. When selected, it’ll give you a breadcrumb quest to start the zone. There is no set order to do them in, and each of the leveling zones has it’s own self contained storyline for that zone.
Here’s a map of the druid class hall, the scouting map is at the yellow number 8.
http://rialto.org/wow/dreamgrove_map.jpg
all new regions have a story line. start there, this will pull you along till new quest come to you most of wich start by , shortly after you will open up rep quest that leads you to a dead end but will open up world quest. always stay on track of the story line because you can find your self standing around looking were you left off.
top of quest log is the story line it will be in blue.
As a druid, I’d recommend starting with Val’sharah, as it’s a very druid themed zone.
Thank you guys so much for the info! I started the druid quest with the Highmountain Taurens, but I wasn’t sure if that was where I was supposed to go for the main story. I had this issue when I tried with WoD. There were so many branches that I didn’t know what was my main quest and what was dated quests to update my stronghold that I wouldn’t need. I did the G’Hanir druid questline, and it was honestly one of the coolest quests I have ever done in an MMO. I just didn’t know that all the druid quests were for the main story and not just upgrading another one of those dated progression mechanics.
I actually don’t see them as being in blue. Is there an addon for that? Or am I just dopey?
I would also do the unique questlines for balance and feral druid artifact weapons even if you don’t play them now…so you have the transmog appearances. See the icy veins guides if you haven’t played them. I would be questing in the open world as feral or balance it’s much faster than resto.
I actually have a really hard time bouncing between specs because when I heal after playing dps, I struggle getting back into “the zone.”
But I do plan on doing those questlines. I really love the Druid lore in this game.
Well, at 120 you will be doing a lot of world quests, emissaries, and zone dailies every day so I would get used to the dps specs. I play all 36 specs on my 12 level 120 classes. You’ll get used to switching back to heals for dungeons and raids. A few trash pulls and your back in the zone.
Okay, cool. That’s good to know. I do like the idea of giving Feral a shot. I love Shapeshifting in games, so I think that would be fun to mess with.
Are dailies a problem? In other MMOs, you have to worry about sharing objectives. I’ve always hated tagging a mob so I can get to an objective only to have another player come in snatch it away…
Most quest mobs in WoW are faction tagged, and the rares/elites are mostly free tag, so as long as you do damage, you get credit. You’ll be able to tell because when you select a mob, ones that you can damage and will count towards your objective will be red, and the ones that don’t will be gray.
I agree to get used to other specs. If you’re questing on your own, resto can get quite frustrating because of how slowly you’ll kill things. If you’re questing with someone, you can get away with it for the most part, but I find myself going boomkin on my druid for questing/herbing and resto for dungeons/raids.
I have played every class at max level at one expansion or another, and while I have preferred specs for each, I know at least how to pass as alternate specs for ease of questing or group composition. I have one exception: I will not play survival because *#^@& melee hunters.
I do have a few level 110 horde characters on your server. I’ll be leveling them soon with my husband. Their names are Pepprika (hunter) and Jaeltora (mage). Feel free to message me if you see them online.
My big concern with this is my lack of self healing. I assume there are ways around it? I played a little bit with my boosted Shaman and I had to eat food between each pull.
Will do! I don’t have BfA yet (funds are a little tight, atm), but I’ll be sure to keep an eye out. =)
Balance and feral druid have more self healing than any other dps specs/classes in the game. You can cast the rejuvenation HOT and spam regrowth in normal form, switch to mookin form, DPS, swiftmend on a short cd. If your worried it will be a tough pull, cast rejuvenation HOT first then switch to dps form.
I took the advice from this thread, and I’ve had tremendous success with Feral Druid for DPS. The proc that lets me cast Regrowth in cat form instantly with no cost is amazing for survivability. So tasty.
Feral is the hardest dps spec in the game to play at very high performance. I would definitely read the icy veins guide for rotation and talents. I’ll throw this info out there if you want to try it. This will significantly increase your performance on all druid specs. Excellent Dot and hot monitoring.
Google “weak auras 2 curseforge”. Download the addon, and Copy the weak aura 2 folders to your WoW/retail/interface/addon folder.
Relaunch the game. Type /WA in game to bring up the menu. Click new aura, from template, horizontal bar, debuffs, Rake.
Click bar color to change to preference, I set width to 225, height to 15.
Drag the bar below your characters feet.
Anytime you cast Rake on an enemy, you will see the bar draining down as it runs out. Make dot bars using the same procedure for rip, rake, and thrash. Also, make a horizontal bar for energy in the resource section. So on Feral you will have four bars of different colors that you can easily see draining down right under your character.
For Balance, you will want bars for moonfire and sunfire (debuff section) and astral power (resource section).
Ohhh, man! Nice! Any chance there’s a way to do that with Resto HOTs? I want to main Resto for raiding eventually. Keeping track of all my HOTs in dungeons can be cumbersome.
And thanks! I love Icy Veins. That’s currently my favorite resource for the game.
https://wago.io/weakauras/classes/druid/restoration
… has weak aura strings for resto druids
Oh, nice! Thanks!
The most important thing for any healer is the ability to heal/dispel without clicking on party/raid frames I consider it mandatory. Any average to great healer has this capability through macros or addons. I use this mouseover macro for all skills that target a player. You can heal/dispel by hovering mouse over the player/raid frame or the actual player, without clicking them. This allows you to keep boss/mobs hard targeted to easily dps. The mouseover macros also make healing much faster you will require half the normal amount of mouse clicks. So much faster healing, and ability to dps.
For each skill, copy and paste this text into a new macro, and change the name/icon. Then drag them to your hot bar.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, help, nodead][] Regrowth
I use feral afiinity talent to dps as a resto healer. I make the different color weak aura horizontal DOT bars under my chars feet like i showed you in the other post. However, I don’t manually make HOT bars. For dungeons, pre-pull cast your hots on tank, sunfire trash, go into feral and dot up the mobs/boss, then switch back to normal form and heal.
I posted this about ELVUI for someone else a few weeks ago. ELUVI by default (no customization) shows your hots directly on party/raid frames. a small circle of different colors in each corner representing the resto dots and you can see them wearing off. Also, the party/raid frames change color anytime they need a dispell, different colors represent different debuffs. ELUVI also shows by default horizontal dot and hot bars directly above the player and target frames.
I think the popular Elvui is the best UI addon and I couldn’t live without it… completely replaces the standard WoW UI. Icy veins pro players all use it. Check you tube/google if you wanna to see how it looks. The default is so much better than the standard WoW UI. If you have Elvui, you won’t need bartender or other supplemental UI addons.
It’s easy to customize with so many options. To name a few, drag anything anywhere, resize, add new action bars with various size and shapes, automatically sell greys to npc’s, change nameplates, unit frames, Fonts, chat windows, colors, increase the size of your mini map, etc.
Google “ELVUI download” and it’s in the first link called Elvui - Tukui. I can’t post the link here. Elvui puts its own button on your WoW main menu.
The consensus is the twitch app is the best way to download and update addons, but I’ve never tried it…will try later. If you want to do it manually without the app simply download the addon, copy the folders, and paste them to your WoW/retail/interface/addons folder. Takes like 20 seconds
I would also get details from curseforge, which is the most popular dps/hps addon. Weak Auras 2 for buffs, debuffs, dots, resource bars, cool downs, etc. lastly, “world quest lists” is a must have. It shows lots of extra world quest info and also gives you a clickable list attached to the map. I get all addons from curseforge with the exception of elvui
For healing, your party/raid frames are critical. There are several different options you can use here.
Any of the options will require some playing around to set up. For this, I recommend using the proving grounds. Talk to a class trainer to enter, and it will put you in a scenario. You can use this scenario to safely mess with your UI and test it out with a group of NPCs. (Just talk to the NPC in the scenario to start the healing trial.)
Default UI
First, enter the proving grounds as mentioned above. (This way you can actually see and mess with the settings without needed to find a group.)
You will want to turn on raid-style party frames. In the interface menu, go to the “Raid Profiles” section. In the top right, make sure that “Use raid-style party frames” is checked. If you are in the proving grounds, you’ll now see the raid frames pop up. (Right now it will only have one frame — yours.)
You can get some basic options to adjust how these look in the Raid Profiles Interface screen. You can adjust the high and width of the frame, if you want to show mana bars, and such. A lot of this comes down to personal preference.
On the left side of your screen, you’ll see a grey bar, you can click it to expand it. The stuff we care about are the two bottom buttons, which affect the raid frames.
The “Hide/Show” button does what you would expect and hides the raid frames. Obviously, if you’re using the default frames, you want to show them. If you end up using 3rd party frames, you’ll want to hide these. (The 3rd party addon will probably do this for you, but it’s good to know where the option is.)
The “Unlock/Lock” can be used to adjust where the frames are. So, when you unlock the frames you’ll see a silver border around them. There’s a little tab at the top you can use to move them around your screen. The tab at the bottom can be used to resize the height (which will control when it starts a new column.)
The advantage of the default UI is that it’s easy to setup and maintain. If Blizzard adds some weird mechanic to a raid fight, the default frames will handle it on day one. The downside is that the simplicity means your options are limited for tracking stuff. So, the more stuff like hots healer has to track, the less useful the frames are. That means that resto druids are probably the worst off for using the default frames. Still, even if you go with an addon, I’d mess around a bit with the default frames to get a feel for them just in case you find yourself without addons at some point.
Addon Frames
There are lots of raid frame addons out there, and people tend to have their favorites. I’d probably recommend one that’s geared towards healers. The main ones would be Healbot, Grid, Grid2, and VuhDo. (Grid2 is not a new version of Grid, but a completely seperate addon with a different design philosophy. Grid is designed as modular, so you get extra addons to do more stuff with it, where Grid2 is designed as an all-in-one solution. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.) VuhDo and Healbot also use the more All-In-One approach. VuhDo (and I think Healbot) also have “click casting” build in, as an alternative to mouseover macros.
I’m not sure where the ElvUI raid frames fall on the spectrum of customization. (I’m sure it’s way ahead of the default frames, but not how it compares to the more traditionally healer focused options.)
Generally speaking, the more control they give you, the steeper the learning curve. If you’re planning to heal seriously at end game as a resto druid, it’s worth the time to learn one of them.