faust
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First off let me just share this great list someone on the Druid forums pointed out to me: Feral Druid Gear
I dinged level 70 today, and I have been thinking for a while now what role I will play end game.
Leveling up I was hoping to tank, but as I approach level 70 I see a lengthy list of protection warriors and other feral (bear) specced druids. Not to worry though, I rolled a Druid so that I could be flexible... so flexible I will be.
As of late I spend a lot of my time as a cat form druid. I am learning that role (as I mentioned most of the time I leveled up using bear form), and I am sure I still have much to learn about when how to maximize my dps and utility as a cat form druid. One thing that does concern me is that I have not seen a lot of cat form druids who were outstanding sources of dps.
I have lead many a run on the dps charts, but after an unsucessful run in Black Morass the other night I question just how good my dps truly is (I currently have just under 1.8k AP in cat form, and about 27.5% crit rate).
I just got ahold of this gear chart, which I will study to see how I can go about improving my cat form dps. So right now I will try to remain optimistic.
Other options are of coarse going moonkin or restoration specced. Both would require a lot of regearing, which is a bit more difficult once you have already reached level 70 and have acquired a lot of the feral gear from quests that give blue quality gear. This is certainly doable if I went back and ran a lot of outland instances after respeccing and acquiring some solid gear from the AH.
To be frank, I am not particularly interested in speccing moonkin at this time. Who knows, maybe later I will feel differently... but for now it's a toss up between Restoration or Feral.
One other issue is the group I currently have been gearing up with and playing most with as of late:
Rhys (DPS warrior)
Matt (Prot warrior)
Allen (Holy/Disc Priest)
Myself
Others (this tends to change a fair amount, though we commonly play with Shane and Nick on their rogue and warlock respectively).
If I tried to respec as restoration, this would leave me often times competing for gear from Allen, not to mention that having two healing specced players in 5-man heroics may not be the best choice (in fact it may be disasterous).
Also respeccing as restoration would require that I buy a lot of greens, and perhaps a few blues from the AH and then run a lot of instances over again so that I could catch up gear wise with the rest of this group.
To sum up, I am left with a somewhat complicated situation. I doubt I will get many opportunities (nor should I over protection specced warriors) to tank in Kara. I question whether or not I can gear up well enough as a feral cat form druid to provide the kind of sustained dps that would be expected from someone filling a melee dps slot. I don't see how I can respec to restoration without me breaking up the group I currently play with, and enjoy playing with. As I mentioned before I am not particularly interested in playing a ranged dps role as a druid.
/sigh
Now that I have stated things as I see them, I was wondering if anyone could offer any thoughts or suggestions?
Maybe I am making some assumptions I shouldn't make?
Perhaps I am not seeing things clearly and I have made some mistakes somewhere?
Perhaps some ways I could gear up as a feral cat form druid to contribute to our guild's attempts to get through Kara?
Perhaps some suggestions as to how I could retool myself for restoration without breaking with the group I currently play with (Allen has no interest in playing a shadow priest)?
Perhaps some insight as to how I could contribute as a teddy tank?
Thanks in advance!
-Mike
I dinged level 70 today, and I have been thinking for a while now what role I will play end game.
Leveling up I was hoping to tank, but as I approach level 70 I see a lengthy list of protection warriors and other feral (bear) specced druids. Not to worry though, I rolled a Druid so that I could be flexible... so flexible I will be.
As of late I spend a lot of my time as a cat form druid. I am learning that role (as I mentioned most of the time I leveled up using bear form), and I am sure I still have much to learn about when how to maximize my dps and utility as a cat form druid. One thing that does concern me is that I have not seen a lot of cat form druids who were outstanding sources of dps.
I have lead many a run on the dps charts, but after an unsucessful run in Black Morass the other night I question just how good my dps truly is (I currently have just under 1.8k AP in cat form, and about 27.5% crit rate).
I just got ahold of this gear chart, which I will study to see how I can go about improving my cat form dps. So right now I will try to remain optimistic.
Other options are of coarse going moonkin or restoration specced. Both would require a lot of regearing, which is a bit more difficult once you have already reached level 70 and have acquired a lot of the feral gear from quests that give blue quality gear. This is certainly doable if I went back and ran a lot of outland instances after respeccing and acquiring some solid gear from the AH.
To be frank, I am not particularly interested in speccing moonkin at this time. Who knows, maybe later I will feel differently... but for now it's a toss up between Restoration or Feral.
One other issue is the group I currently have been gearing up with and playing most with as of late:
Rhys (DPS warrior)
Matt (Prot warrior)
Allen (Holy/Disc Priest)
Myself
Others (this tends to change a fair amount, though we commonly play with Shane and Nick on their rogue and warlock respectively).
If I tried to respec as restoration, this would leave me often times competing for gear from Allen, not to mention that having two healing specced players in 5-man heroics may not be the best choice (in fact it may be disasterous).
Also respeccing as restoration would require that I buy a lot of greens, and perhaps a few blues from the AH and then run a lot of instances over again so that I could catch up gear wise with the rest of this group.
To sum up, I am left with a somewhat complicated situation. I doubt I will get many opportunities (nor should I over protection specced warriors) to tank in Kara. I question whether or not I can gear up well enough as a feral cat form druid to provide the kind of sustained dps that would be expected from someone filling a melee dps slot. I don't see how I can respec to restoration without me breaking up the group I currently play with, and enjoy playing with. As I mentioned before I am not particularly interested in playing a ranged dps role as a druid.
/sigh
Now that I have stated things as I see them, I was wondering if anyone could offer any thoughts or suggestions?
Maybe I am making some assumptions I shouldn't make?
Perhaps I am not seeing things clearly and I have made some mistakes somewhere?
Perhaps some ways I could gear up as a feral cat form druid to contribute to our guild's attempts to get through Kara?
Perhaps some suggestions as to how I could retool myself for restoration without breaking with the group I currently play with (Allen has no interest in playing a shadow priest)?
Perhaps some insight as to how I could contribute as a teddy tank?
Thanks in advance!
-Mike