im having trouble with my down time in dark shore, it feels like im constantly manastarved, any tips?
I’m sorry. Hybrid Classes can sometimes suck to play for this reason.
Buy more drinks.
/shrug
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I’m assuming your using oomkin vs feral. Until you get an of the eagle set you are going to have to have down time.
What level are you? If less that 10, you should probably wrath, wrath, moonfire, melee.
10-20 is the roughest spot in Druid levelling imo. Need to juggle between your caster ability and your bear form to make it halfway bearable.
Example : Pull with Wrath then Starfire then switch to Bear, pop enrage and maul away, if you get low, bash the mob then throw an healing touch + rejuv combo on yourself and thwack the mob with your staff.
Drink, rinse, repeat.
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Wrath > Moonfire > bearform kill repeat. Druids aren’t easy until you get some spirit gear which means running DM several times and getting cat form at 20. 20 gives you the god tier Omen of Clarity which will massively improve your healing and damage capabilities while also improving melee damage by 10%. While leveling, spirit is BiS followed by a mix of spell damage and strength. You melee even as balance which is the failing of many balance druids going for endgame builds. Imp thorns is also god tier for tanks in instances. You only regret going balance if you don’t get OoC first thing.
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Just AoE everything with blizzard.
…what?
…you say you’re not a mage? Then what are you…?
Oh a Druid? Sorry man I don’t have any answers for you.
Yep. Druids are hybrid, so hybrid the heck out of 10-20. Start with wrath-moonfire and go bear, then once you’ve got some rage, bear things for a while till your health drops; pop out of bear to heal and your mana bar will be at a point where you can cast again for a bit. And if you’re over 20 and have cat form, hybrid that until you can get some spirit gear. Moonfire plus cat bleeds isn’t bad at all, especially if you’ve taken the rage-energy talent points.
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Yeah at 20+ you can keep an infinite value loop going by swapping between caster and cat abilities.
You shouldn’t ever sit at full mana even as a feral while questing/grinding. Highly suggest getting the addon Druidbar to help with that.
Once you have 2/2 Feline Swiftness in the Feral Tree and 5/5 Furor in the Resto Tree your levelling really takes off.
I understand some people just like to playing balance, but if you’re leveling as anything other than feral you’re REALLY gimping yourself. Feral is one of the best leveling specs while the other Druid alternatives are probably the very worst.
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You can also use a good chunk of your mana bar nuking then shift into bear/cat to finish mob off, while you regen mana. It’s basically like wanding but with more active damage.
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No Druid above level 10 should EVER be out of mana while leveling. If you’re running out of mana, then you’re doing it wrong. Bear form is your friend…
Since you’re not a mage or a warrior - you could wrath until you’re face with the mob - melee - and then wait 1 tick between next cast.
Mana regen only kicks in after 5 seconds of non-casting (including form casting) so you should only use it for an initial pull or healing yourself; otherwise your job is to stand around in Bear form and use auto attack and Maul.
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I like saving my mana for PvP encounters
OoC is really powerful. In fact it saves you more energy/rage than ferocity ever could. To top it off you get 10% extra damage and faster wrath casts. The only advantage feral gets by itself is the 30% outdoor only speed boost advantage for only 10 levels that you may or may not be spending indoors.
How often does OoC proc per minute you think?
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I’m dungeon leveling with my brother and he usually gets a proc by the time I need a heal, so around 12-15 seconds would be the average time I hear it go off. Obviously there is variance though. We’ve also noticed a pattern of getting blue upgrade weapons at level makes it feel like it procs more, but we have no definitive proof if that because we don’t use an addon that watches for procs.
You sure can!