WoW Update

[jdotmi]

Last night was a momentous occaision for me. My druid finally hit level 43. Now, level 43 may sound like an odd level to rejoice over, but being a fully feral druid who is my guilds regular tank in our 40's instance runs, it's quite the power-up level.

Why is that?

Warden Staff.

Awww yeah! My fully self-buffed Dire Bear Form AC is 4005 now.

Now I just need to clean out her bags and bank. ~_~

Comments

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

The way I've been able to get as far as I have, honestly, is to go pure feral. Balance is nice, restoration is nice, blah blah, but Feral keeps you alive while you're levelling up. Once I realized that, I ditched almost all my caster-stat gear and started looking primarily for Agility, Stamina, and Strength in that order. And high AC gear as well. I can still do the root-n-nuke of a Balance druid, I just don't have the DPS in caster form for it to be reasonable. I can still heal fairly reliably, I just don't have the mana pool to make it efficient. Put me in Bear form or Cat form, however, and I will gleefully give a Warrior or Rogue a run for their money.

Soloing, Cat Form is your biggest strength. I have Feral Faerie Fire to pull with (couldn't live without it) if I need to, and if not I open with a Tiger's Fury/Ravage combo that, if it crits, will devestate anything close to my level that I'm fighting.

Aggro control as Bear Form while tanking is... well it's a pain in the ass, frankly. I've had to tell my groups to wait for me to get a good lock on what we're doing before engaging, or to let me pull with Feral Faerie Fire (it has a nice big Aggro bonus attached). Once that's done, I can pretty much own the control of the enemies. Challenging Roar is good to get things attention if you get a big pull, but you have to dish out some good Claw damage in order to keep the attention. DPSers need to learn to manage their own aggro or they'll get stomped in no time, but if they let me have a minute to establish my own aggro at the start, it takes a lucky crit streak to get things off of me. Sadly, our Fire Mage tends to do that alot. :-p So I have to break off and go unpeel her from the wall frequently. :-p

What has helped me a lot with my tanking is the group I play with is experienced. They all have 60's already, so they've all been there. They've all played a variety of classes to high levels as well, so they know what the rest of the group is capable of. Best of all, they listen when you tell them something. It's a great group of people and we have a lot of fun.

[winterlady.livejournal.com]

Sadly, our Fire Mage tends to do that alot. :-p So I have to break off and go unpeel her from the wall frequently. :-p

hahhahahaha poor fire mage. =) I'll tell her not to crit so much. ::snickers:: You should get a better warlock, too... I hear she causes all sorts of problems. This is a good discussion by the way - I ran into the same problem as celtcub. It may just take a special *kind* of person to level a druid.

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[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

We have to keep the warlock! Where else would I sit during down time?!?!?!?

^_^