My Nelfdruid hits Entangling Roots, Wrath x2, Root, Wrath, Root, etc ’til dead. I can kill stuff pretty damn quickly that way and have been trying it on my new moodrood, too. Enjoy the moos! The boys are kinda awesome.
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My druid grew up balance, 1-60, long before the first expansion. Even main tanked up to UBRS (with a clown whispering me that I couldn’t possibly main tank, while I was doing it. The rest of the group whispered him back that I was doing fine, and to STFU and quit bothering their tank) as moonkin.

My favorite bit as moonkin; winning a duel with the dance. Outside Org, someone challenged me, and I blow at pvp in general so I was just going to have some fun with it… It counted down, and at 1 I started dancing.

He just stood there.

After a few seconds, I pounded him with starfire and such, and he lost, still having just stood there; I asked what happened and he said he was laughing so hard he couldn’t move.

One of us… One of us… come to the light side, BBB…

Welcome to the “good guys” /flame-suit on

:)

So I switched druid #1 to pure cat and love it. I have, like, no mana and no spell power, but heals = no downtime and unless I’m way in over my head, even my minimal mp5 is enough to keep up mana between heals.

So balance . . . I set aside balance entirely until I could dual spec and went resto/balance with Druid #2 since both specs can use the spellcasting gear I already had.

balance v feral pro:
Bigger numbers. My feral and resto/balance druids have never been the same level, so I don’t how dps compares straight across . . . but I have noticed feral dps comes mainly in many small hits and balance in fewer but bigger hits. And big numbers are fun. I know. Not a significant “pro” . . . but dangit, they are.

Range. Ranged dps is just easier. With a tank, there are a lot of fights where you just don’t have to move. You stand there and blast away, change targets will casting the final kill spell and queue up the first spell on the new target. No, “target is out of range” when they run or the tank moves, no wasted combo points while you switch targets . . . just bam, bam, bam.

balance v feral con:
Mana. Mana, mana, mana is a huge issue. It took exactly one instance run to realize where “oomkin” comes from. Holy Jeez I was out of mana so fast so often it slowed everyone down and I felt horribly guilty. Went straight to a trainer and respecced to include Dreamstate (10% INT mp5) in the build. And I’m still slower regenerating mana than I’d like (being accustomed to Resto’s 50% mp5 continuing while casting), but it’s better.

So now I’ve decided, for grins, that I want to level up a balance druid. Levels 1-20 tend to follow the pull, root, feral MO. Once I passed 20, though, just slamming down starfire and taking hits to the face generally kills things faster than changing to feral. Mana is still an issue. I can’t pick up Dreamstate until level 35, but believe me, I’m getting it then. Which is saying something when the other choices at that tier are Balance of Power(+4% hit) and Moonfury(+10% dmg). Just, going oom midcombat sucks that much. In the meantime, at level 26, I picked up a point of Moonglow(-3% mana costs), eat sagefish(2mp5) like a fiend (yay hillsbrad!), keep mana oil(4mp5) on my weapon instead of wizard oil(8 spell power) and keep 2 stacks of drink in my inventory.

Means I only have to mana up every 4-5 fights instead of every 2-3 while out solo questing. Man, I can’t wait for Innervate at level 40.

By the time Wrath came out, I had every kind of gear set for every spec, and I went cat form to level even though I hate melee dps. At 78 LWs can craft a very nice set of blues for every spec a druid could want.

Also I die a little inside when I contemplate that all my favorite bloggers are Alliance. So it gladdens my heart to see people taking the first step toward the dark side!