Druid is by far my favorite class in retail because of class fantasy. I’m trying to decide on a class for classic.
I’m not looking to be #1 by any means in dps, tanking, or healing but I’d like to be able to compete.
I enjoy casual PvE (dungeons and raids) but my focus has always been open world pvp, battlegrounds, and some rated/premade pvp.
What can i expect from druid in classic?
It can do everything you need it to do.
You can expect a completely different class, with some of the same window dressings. I’m not sure what you know, and want to know. But that’s it in a nutshell.
You don’t get bear until 10, cat at 20, boomkin at 40 (from talent only). Bear and cat use strength, with some agility. Boomie is WoW’s most notorious mana hog.
If you want a class with which to raid, you could go druid, I guess. In open world pvp, from the druid videos I’ve seen on youtube, balance is awesome. I suggest you check out those videos.
You can expect to be pigeon holed into only healing at end game. Those who say differently are attempting to use deception to increase the number of healers available to them.
Bear Druids will be desired as both 5 man tanks, and off tanks in raids. Resto Druids are decent in PVE and PVP.
You probably won’t see many Feral Cats or Moonkins raiding. Feral Cat is notoriously hard to play to get all the DPS out of them they can do and still well below other melee at that. Moonkins nuke hard, but will be OOM before the end of every boss fight.
Druid is a great PvP class. Played well they are a tough matchup against most. They don’t do big burst damage or anything so the fights tend to be long with several resets.
Debatable. Balance Druid is bottom of the totem pole, and Feral druid isn’t far behind it. Resto Druid is pretty sought after though. End-game, like others have said, are Rdruids. Balance and Feral just can’t keep up damage wise. Bears will be much sought after as tanks, but mostly because of the lack of warriors who will be willing.
The first time around I played a raiding resto Druid. I spent a lot of time casting rejuvs.
So many rejuvs.
I legitimately want to see more Druid tanks and dps. I like some class/spec diversity xD
Both can do all content… even main tank raids(Besides bosses with fear)
If you’re talking about “solo” content, or open-world content, druid has the advantage in options, which are its strength. You can move more quickly, escape more easily, and there are solutions in the druid toolkit for the vast majority of situations it encounters.
If you’re talking about group content, your viability lies primarily in the perceptions of others. Druid can actually do just fine in, oh, about 95% of group content that will be available in the game over time. The other 5% is still debated. Some will exclude druids no matter what. Some will see them as valuable for A, B, or C reason and bring them along.
I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s Classic; play what you like. I don’t understand the tryhard perspective of “druids can’t do max damage they’ll slow us down we won’t kill the boss 10 seconds earlier waaaaaaahh.” This is Classic… a snapshot of what many see as the easiest iteration of vanilla. I’m going to laugh when ragtag teams of hybrids and casuals bumble their way through end-game content and happen to clear it just fine. Sure, go ahead, elitists… min-max if you want. I honestly think Classic is going to bore you in short order. Vanilla just wasn’t designed to cater to that play style.
Warrior in trade chat:. “Looking for healer for strat dead run then gtg.”
You:. " I’ll heal it"
Warrior: " Sorry man, we need a healer that can rezz"
Please don’t.
This is an issue, and worth being aware of. I think Druid is best when played as the support class it is. They should be an extra healer for the group, an extra tank, and then their battle res is icing on the cake.
My raid had 2 ferals in it last night. Sometimes you take what you can get. Not every raid is going to be hardcore.
It’s not that they can do fine. Any class can do fine. If vanilla is popular and you have a mage wants to tag along and a boomkin that wants to tag alone, you’re picking the mage. Boomkin can only pump out 60% of the DPS a mage can. One big thing to remember is, Vanilla WoW was incredibly imbalanced, even more than it is today.
If we are talking about PvE tier list we have
S - Tier ---- Prot Warrior, Holy Paladin Obviously
A Tier ---- Aff Lock, Fire Mage, Frost Mage, Holy Pal, RShaman, RDruid, Spriest, Ele shaman.
B Tier ---- Demo Lock, Shunter, Prot Paladin, Enhance Shaman, Arcane Mage, Disc PRiest, Destro Lock
C Tier ---- Sub Rogue, Fury Warrior, Feral Druid, MM Hunter, BM Hunter, Balance Druid, Arms Warrior
D Tier ---- Ret Paladin, Combat Rogue, Assassin Rogue
Even in PvP Feral Druids and Balance Druids are c and d tier.
Druids can do all of that just fine. I would plan out gear ahead of time, as itemization for Druids, other than heal sets, can be a little wonky until AQ and beyond.
“Sorry man, I suck so people are going to die.”
Just as well you don’t get invited to that PUG.
“Sorry man, I’ve got two hunters in this group so we are gonna need some rezzing”
These forums are so confusing. You say that, and the guy above you wrote this:
Some people say that they’ll take Ferals on raids, others say they won’t. Is it just hardcore min/max vs. reality? Or is is reality vs. casuals? What is the reality? How relative or subjective are we talking?
Dunno what that’s a reference to, if anything.
He speaks the truth. I was a Druid in vanilla and endgame for all hybrids is healing.