Leveling Your Druid in World of Warcraft
Druids, like shammies and pallies, do a little bit of everything. They shape shift to the appropriate form of the role they take on. If they are tanking they go into bear form, if they are on DPS, they shape shift to cat form. By shifting into the individual forms, they are a little more efficient in that role than a shaman or a paladin would be. By the same token, they would have to come out of that form to perform another task. For instance, where a shaman of paladin can heal while tanking, a druid would have to come out of bear form and back into his original form to do the same. Just like any other class, the more DPS a character can deal the easer it is to level. For this reason, the build that allows for the quickest leveling is one that utilizes the Feral talents.
A druid that is going for a DPS build is going to want armor with strength, agility and crit bonuses. A little bit of a spirit bonus wouldn't be bad either, to help with health regeneration. Most leather gear is going to be useful. Most of the DPS is going to be achieved in cat form. In order to use a weapon, you have to be in your original form. They main reason you would be doing that is you are acting as a healer. As always, you want a weapon with the highest DPS you can get, but ultimately, you shouldn't have to use it very often.
As you get talent points allocate them accordingly: Nature's Grasp 1/1; Ferocity 5/5; Furor 5/5; Naturalist 5/5; Omen of Clarity1/1; Brutal Impact 2/2; Thick Hide 3/3; Feral Instinct 3/3; Sharpened Claws 3/3; Feral Swiftness 2/2; Feral Charge 1/1; Primal Fury 2/2; Predatory Strikes 3/3; Shredding Attacks 2/2; Faerie Fire (Feral) 1/1; Savage Fury 2/2; Heart of the Wild 5/5; Survival of the Fittest 3/3; Leader of the Pack 1/1; Improved Leader of the Pack 2/2; Primal Tenacity 3/3; Predatory Instincts 5/5; and Mangle 1/1. This build will get you all the way to level 70. Some people prefer to use the Feral build to level quickly to level 60, then re-spec to healer. Unless you have a very strong need for a healer, it is not a good idea. Druids can heal fairly well, but they are no where the healer that a Priest is. This class is much better at DPS and tanking than healer.
Druids are really aren't hard to level up as long as you have the right build. They are very different form all other classes, so it is going to take a lot of time and experimentation to play the character as efficiently as possible. The variety of roles this class provides more than makes up for the work it takes to learn the nuances. Like other hybrid classes, the druid levels faster when working in support of a group, but this character is very capable of soloing, even at the lower levels. With the right build, they won't be there very long anyway.
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