WoW Druid Guide

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Druid Gimmicks

The druid has quite a few fun and powerful abilities and I’ll discuss a few here.   

Innervate- Every druid gets this ability restoring 225% of your base mana pool (this is the amount of mana you have with no gear and talents) over 10 seconds to any friendly target. Very useful to keep you going while leveling or giving your healer that extra mana to keep people up. 

Rebirth- The only class with a resurrection spell that can be used proactively in combat. If for whatever reason an ally dies and you feel the fight isn’t lost yet you can use this spell to resurrect them and keep the fight going. 

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Tranquility- Every druid gets this powerful spell. While channeling this spell you heal all group members in range for a huge amount every 2 seconds for 8 seconds. Whether you can’t keep up suddenly as a healer, or the actual healer can’t this could very well be a life saver. 

Starfall- The last talent for moonkins allows them to summon a flurry of stars. These stars randomly deal damage to targets in range and deal extra damage if targets of the stars are close to other enemies. 

Force of Nature- A balance druid can summon 3 treants and make them attack his enemies. These treants deal considerable damage and definitely can’t be ignored. 

Typhoon- Another balance talent, this one allows you to knock back targets in front of you while dealing minor damage and slowing the targets. Once again, a lovely ability for knocking people of off ledges making them plummet to their death! 

Berserk- The final feral talent allows you to temporarily reduce the energy cost by 50% for all your spells. In bear form this removes the cooldown and rage cost of mangle while also changing it from a single target attack to hitting 3 targets. 

Swiftmend- This restoration talent allows you to instantly convert one of your heals over time into a direct heal that heals equal to the full duration of that heal over time. You might have to re-read that last sentence! 

Wild Growth- This interesting spell heals a target and up to 4 others within range. It applies a heal over time which decreases in strength as it runs its course. 

Cyclone- This ability stuns the target while making them immune to damage and healing. This is a very versatile spell and requires some sophistication to time properly. 

Choosing a profession 

Considering the versatility of the druid you can make any profession combination work as long as you choose it for the appropriate playstyle. As such I’ll give some suggestions per spec 

Cat/Bear-Mining/Skinning allows you to gather and sell resources. Skinning/Leatherworking allows you to keep your armor up to date. 

Moonkin- Tailoring/Enchanting allows you to make some spell damage gear. Leatherworking doesn’t provide too much caster gear and as such it’s worth dropping the armor to gain the items with valuable stats at the armor cost. Enchanting gives you the ability to enchant your gear and disenchant the gear you make with tailoring that aren’t being used. The materials you gain from disenchanting can then be used to level your enchanting further. Herbalism/Alchemy is a solid option to supply yourself with health/mana potions but also elixirs which boost your spell power and intellect. Mining/Skinning is always an option for those in need of money 

Restoration- In all fairness, you shouldn’t be playing this specialization until you hit the max level and can start focusing on instances and raids. As such you’ll be so far in the game you can find out yourself what you want for your druid. If you need some hints I could suggest herbalism/alchemy or enchanting/leatherworking.
To learn more about druid professions you can have a look at my Best Druid Professions Guide.

The verdict 

The druid is by far the most versatile class. There’s no role or sub spec that you can’t fulfill. Unfortunately the druid is a bit tedious to level at the lower levels as the abilities aren’t spaced out as I reckon they should’ve been. If you like what you read in this world of Warcraft druid guide I’m sure you’ll get through it and you’ll be glad you did. Even around level 30 the druid in cat form becomes arguably the best level and once you hit the zones where flying is allowed your instant flight form is so powerful that nothing can keep up. Even if you decide to level as balance you will still have the option to stealth past monsters with your cat form saving you time and unnecessary fighting.  

All in all the druid is a quite  complicated class because of the many animal forms and roles you can fulfill. Because of this new players might want to reconsider making this their first class. But if you do then once you get past the first few levels you’ll be well ahead of most other players. 

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