I keep my main set as a PVP/PVE, mostly leather/cloth hodge-podge of purples and blues, but only because during a bad pull I never know when I may need to drop moonkin, switch to bear, and growl a heroic mob off a guildie that gained someones aggro. Since items don’t switch out (for the most part) while in combat, do you have any advice for the kara-raiding Moonie that wants to take full advantage of what their class has to offer? Are there any websites, or do you have any insight into what may be the best stats to keep aware of for total versatility.

That being said, I do have a full tanking set for when the raid needs me to OT, it just doesn’t easily get equipped while half way through the Curator and your main OT goes down. I also don’t have the points invested in that tree to get the full benefit of the spec. I’m a scrappy little bear and have made some amazing saves (<– trying to say that with as much modesty as possible) ( and can I mention, I LOVE BEING A DRUID!!) but I am not ready to hang up my owl-beast outfit just yet, because I feel that balance you get to play a lot more roles than if your a pure healer, or even pure tank. I feels like as a Moonkin you get to step back, watch your aggro, unleash some major DPS, combat rez a down squishy, innervate the healer, tranq., pop into bear to get those mana leaches off the squishies, and when everything seems to be under control you can step back start unleashing the DPS all over again. Theres just something about all that makes being a hybrid amazingly fun to play! (The treants are wicked cool too!) But what should I look for when it comes to a truly Balance/OT set that I can keep equipped and not worry if I have to drop from moonkin and pinch-OT??

I levelled my Druid as a Resto, all the way up to 68, when I went Feral. My rationale for doing so at the time was directly tied to the amount of quests that I had left and my ability to knock ‘em out at speed. Since I had been running a lot as an instance healer (and 10+ Blood Furnace runs *still* didn’t net me the healer pants off Broggok!), I was substantially father along in level progression than my Quest Log would indicate. In fact, I had barely scratched the surface of the Nagrand quests, and had not even touched anything beyond.

Since then, I’ve acquired a lot of gear. I gathered DPs stuff to solo out my quests, and tank stuff to run instances that worked for my spec. Since I had been Resto for so long, I already had a significant head start on that set too. It’s been a huge money sink to keep them all up to date and top-shelf, but I think that I’ve done a good job. Add to that the fact that a lot of Tank drops are easy to get if you’re the Tank on a run, and Druid healing stuff is rarely, if ever contested (outside of cloaks!) and that part has gone fairly well. It’s a point of pride for me that, as a 0/50/11 Feral spec, I can run any 5-man regular instance as a healer when called for and some instances (particularly old Hillsbrad) VERY effectively. It’s cushy as heck to type “/4 LF1M tank or healer for , pst please” and know, confidently, that I can handle either role effectively despite being off-spec for one.

As to taking it ALL with me, I usually don’t, but there are times that I do. I primarily run around while soloing with my full DPS and Tanking contingent in my bags, especially since there are times involving elite mobs that I need to go bear. As an Herbalist, though, I have one of *those* bags, too… so after taking up a ton of space with a second set of gear, it’s pretty prohibitive for me to take along 17 slots worth of Healer stuff. On some Heroic runs that may call for 2 healers at times (Shirrak the Dead-Watcher in Crypts comes to mind), I’ll bring it if I’m filling a DPS slot. If I’m the Tank, though, I never do as I don’t expect to trade that role off with anyone.

Going forward, I don’t know how long I’ll be able to maintain this kind of versatility without exhausting my DKP for months in advance so I’ll likely narrow my true top-flight stuff to one spec or other – but that’s the fun of playing a Druid. :)

I’m a resto, so my healing set is my main, and I have a couple of points in balance to help soloing and off-dpsing. I’ve always got at least my main set, my dps-caster set, and my tanking set with me; I can run as a dpser, throw on my healing set for damage-heavy encounters, and fill in for the tank if he goes afk in a fit of pique and leaves us meat-shield-less. No kitty-dps for me though, I found the balance set easier to build (I could start with my healing set, which was heaps better than my tanking set, and just replace bits and pieces).

I’m a pretty casual player – attuned for Kara but only been there once – and don’t have a RL schedule that is likely to let me raid on a regular basis…

And I too carry three sets of gear with me – Tank, Kitty and Heal. I’d been of the opinion that my spec is rubbish for healing, but recently have found that +750 healing and decent mana regen is fine for 5 man content, and even 4 manning some 5 man stuff, like the Ogrilla group quests to open up the dailies…

That surprised me, but has made me more aware that I’m a viable healer to help guildies at times…

Hopefully luck will be with me and I’ll be online when some casual Kara opportunities come up so I can gear up a bit more…

Garona’s Signet Ring
Binds when picked up
Unique
Finger
+20 Agility
+25 Stamina
Requires Level 70
Equip: Improves hit rating by 18.
Equip: Increases attack power by 40.

I am now up to 37% crit, 166 hit rating and yes, oh yes, I FINALLY broke the 3000 mark in Attack Power. So, I insisted that we go into arena and we tore through our first 8 matches with decisive wins… then the full S3 guys showed up for our last 2 and made them close matches. We lost both, but man did we put up a fight.

Now, I am a bad Bear and a BAD KITTY! :-)

Being a druid is being perpetually out of bag space. The bear set and the cat set are with me wherever I go, and I have a bag full of healing gear and stuff and another with pots and oils and foods for all specs. When I go farm or grind I usually put the healing bag and the picnic bag in the bank and switch them for a herb bag and another empty bag.

I dont actually have a full kitty set:( I swap in rings,trinket,idol,weapon, neck and hat for 2t4 and thats about it. If I am grouped 90% of the time i am tanking.

I also have a full set of feral gear which mainly collects dust in my bank but does see action every now and again. As an interesting side effect of this I’ve got a reputation as a great person to have in a group – just about every time I log on these days I’m asked to help out in some instance or another because people know that they can count on me to fill what ever group role they’re missing. I’m exited to focus deeper in my dps/off tank role as I get closer to endgame content but as I’m getting there it’s good to know I can keep the jack of all trades feel I had in the beginning of the game when I bother to collect good gear for each group-role.