08-01-2006, 11:47 AM
Well for me if the raid needs a tank, I log onto my lvl 60 decked out warrior who will tank far far better than any druid except in a few situations such as AE aggro or encounters purely dependent upon elemental resists. I lug around all sorts of tanking gear on that warrior, a good 48 slots worth of the crap, and I did not want to go through such a horrible gear grind with this druid. I wanted to keep it simple, and I think +dmg/heal gear is the way to go, since it applies well to either the healing function or the nuking function.
As far as nuking goes, I have no real illusions here. I know a mage is going to put me under the table in that department. But the way I look at it is that to have a reasonable nuking function, I must put far more talents there than I do need to put into a healing function. From a PvP standpoint, I can root nuke stuff that is too dangerous to engage up close (rogues, warriors). My strat is to play a second line guy, healing where needed, rooting where needed, and running if targetted and in general surviving. My experience with warrior on BGs is you rarely get anyone healing you, and you die fast, which means less honor since you get none while dead. I suppose as I get better gear and graduate from AV to AB/warsong, I may wish to have more feral function to perform flag running services. But for now I need a good zerg on zerg PvP build.
There is some synergy between balance and healing, so that is what makes this build appeal to me.
About the only thing that really makes me want to go 30 feral/21 resto is the idea of stealth team running. I have not done alot of this, and all stealth groups in games like DAOC were a lot of fun for me. But even in that kind of situation, I think you bring more to the table by upping healing and nuking than you do by upping feral dps...odds are the rogues are going to clean up, and where they need support is for standoff situations or healing. For something like that I would go maybe 26/15/10 where I would rely upon wrath and moonfire as my main nukes, have long range roots and some grasp, and from feral pick up utility stun and cat speed/stealth radius. On the resto end I could only go for uninterrupted heals, and I would try to wear +heal/dmg leather such that emergency bear mode would have high armor.
As far as nuking goes, I have no real illusions here. I know a mage is going to put me under the table in that department. But the way I look at it is that to have a reasonable nuking function, I must put far more talents there than I do need to put into a healing function. From a PvP standpoint, I can root nuke stuff that is too dangerous to engage up close (rogues, warriors). My strat is to play a second line guy, healing where needed, rooting where needed, and running if targetted and in general surviving. My experience with warrior on BGs is you rarely get anyone healing you, and you die fast, which means less honor since you get none while dead. I suppose as I get better gear and graduate from AV to AB/warsong, I may wish to have more feral function to perform flag running services. But for now I need a good zerg on zerg PvP build.
There is some synergy between balance and healing, so that is what makes this build appeal to me.
About the only thing that really makes me want to go 30 feral/21 resto is the idea of stealth team running. I have not done alot of this, and all stealth groups in games like DAOC were a lot of fun for me. But even in that kind of situation, I think you bring more to the table by upping healing and nuking than you do by upping feral dps...odds are the rogues are going to clean up, and where they need support is for standoff situations or healing. For something like that I would go maybe 26/15/10 where I would rely upon wrath and moonfire as my main nukes, have long range roots and some grasp, and from feral pick up utility stun and cat speed/stealth radius. On the resto end I could only go for uninterrupted heals, and I would try to wear +heal/dmg leather such that emergency bear mode would have high armor.
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