My main is a mage. It took me 2 months to decide that this was the perfect caster for dps only. I have also decided that I’d love a rogue. Although that goes on the back burner. My horde main is a mage. My alliance main will be a hybrid class. My main focus is world pvp, and then secondarily pve. My main determining factors will be ability to pvp in an off-spec and have utility and survivability, followed secondly by the ability to heal as a primary spec for late game gearing.
Help me choose. This is alliance as to level with a group and some old old friends.
I originally settled on a priest. And then Druid. And now considering Paladin. I decided early that I wanted the ability to heal and dps as a caster, and therefore it was only between Druid and priest. But then the utility of Ret began to entice me and I’m now back to square one. I am well versed in their abilities and have some of my own pros and cons, but having never played them max level I am looking for some expert opinions.
Being a hybrid is one of the most selfish things one can do in vanilla not the most selfless.
If you wanna heal and are solo healer for the gruop…Be paladin.
If you wanna pretend do dmg sometimes pick druid.
If you want a real hybrid style of play pick priest cuz with offensive dispel even as a pure support u still gotta wipe buffs sometimes.
Paladin can’t raid as hybrid. No1 can in a real guild. Druid most likely to get away with it u just there for buff anyway.
I don’t think I will be raiding as hybrid. I’ll raid as a healer.
I’m saying for pvp I’m considering based on the dps build first and foremost, and then secondly as a pure healer.
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I might be biased but I think Druid is the best hybrid for wpvp.
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None of those classes have viable hybrid builds for group pvp.
Druid is a specialist in organized pvp doing odd jobs involving their mobility/stealth. Resto is teh standard spec for that natures swiftness too gud
Priest is pure support in the meta. Shadow priest too mana intensive. Same for ret paladin but has even larger mana constraints.
If you wanna do damage I suggest you do damage…Only time healing is fun is in PvP anyway…The better your guild is the more boring PvE healing will be.
You’re setting urself up for a bad time
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Kinda sounds like you want priest. I guess the only thing would be if you don’t want to have two spellcasters as your primary characters, but I think they would probably play differently enough.
I feel like you might be disappointed with paladin if you’re looking to be a versatile dps/heal hybrid.
I’ve got a friend who is rank 10 as feral druid. Don’t let these guys push this idea that theres some wrong with hybrids. Druid has stealth, stealth is an amazing perk that cannot be overlooked. Do you want to sneak around? Pick druid. Do u want to bubble and have powerful support CDs for your friends pick paladin.
Druid also has a very easy time getting gear in raids, right now we have so much wasted druid gear cause we cant find anyone that can even use it. We clear rag in our raid 1 in around an hr and raid 2 in under two hours. We clear with 25 man groups sometimes, then we started taking whoever but they can only take loot the mains dont need. The raids are joke to think that 1 person playing a supposedly subpar spec even matters is ridiculous
Play what ever you want.
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no1 cares about your av ranking druid friend dude
he would be nothing if he had to actually play the game
literal bots dominating brackets on horde lol
You care or you wouldn’t even comment.No actually he can do great dps in raids and very effective tactics in pvp. Your eagerness to mock the other hybrid classes is nothing more than a testament to your ignorance of the true potential they possess.
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Wut I came to respond to OP not to talk about your pleb feral druid friend who doesn’t understand teh game he’s playing
What is with zoomers thinking they’re gonna fix feral? No you’re not stop lol
You responded to me first silly silly dwarf, absolutely pathetic.
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No i responded to OP first
THen you came with your ridiculous anecdote about your AFK ranking feral druid lol
Pointing out to OP, you’re delusional and should be ignored.
I’ve seen hybrids be very effective, it becomes my duty to fight against the ignorant biased against them.
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Why in a million years would i take a feral druid over a rogue or a warrior?
That’s the comparison lol
And no he didn’t do enough with his terrible off spec heals to make up for his terrible talent choices.
edit - I can play ret pala like a god, still not as good as a warrior trust me. and playing ret pala at ceiling as hard as any class if not more so at a high level edit - in pvp obviously. PvE ret pala very easy
Do enough? What else needs to be done?
My armor is full BiS and i’ve been KOed in 1 hoj by a ret more than once. Different options, different play styles, different tactics and most importantly different potential. To even think that paladins and warriors are comparable in any way is unimaginable? Okay so paladins can wear plate and use 2 hands that doesn’t mean they are warriors lol.
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Yea he burned reckoning then his mana 30 seconds later.
Then he’s usless without burning dark rune/major mana. Burning important CD’s very early
Unless he was alone he woudla done way more and allowed his team to engage a much larger force had he been the best solo support spec in teh game. lol
It’s terrible dude. Just leave this to people who actually play. STop
You’re setting him up to fail. Get in WSG and tell me about how feral is gud, otherwise stop this nonsense Grobbulus
If you lack warriors and rogues for dps then yea, bringing a feral druid won’t be as good. If you have sufficient dps to clear current content (which is easy to do) then having a feral is great. On this char i can do 300 dps, pop out throw some heals on other dps/healers, innervate a priest, battle rez someone then go back to middle of the pack dpsing.
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Okay and I rekt every warrior in the game that isn’t very very geared? Feral can open up in stealth, do a trick brez in the beginning of the match? Faire fire??? Get the poison sting off me so I can re-stealth?
Now your criticizing my server as if it has any relevance? Your getting more and more pathetic the conversation goes on?
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I get that hybrids are worse right now. And they get buffed in later patches. I can’t help the idea that I want to throw some heals now and again, just like I love making food and water and sheeping people.
Priest or Druid seems more primed for me. and I have considered the same armor class as a negative aspect of priest for me.
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Ok so replace the warrior mortal strike in your group? Good luck lol
You don’t seem to get how this works.
WSG is the obvious place to look to see what is really good. Because you’re limited on numbers. It’s not as simple as wpvp and “the more the merrier”
You bring a feral to a proper WSG game you’re gonna get slapped down
GL without mortal strike