Druids, less DD spells than even 'Holy' Priests

[Bob the Beholder]

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I'm not playing a hybrid Druid.  I'm not playing a Healer.  I'm not playing a Melee form Druid.

I'm concentrating on Balance Spellcasting to get the most out of my Talents spent in that tree.
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I'm sorry, but that first bit up there is, essentially, saying, "I'm not playing a druid."

If you want to play a druid, but don't want to use healing or feral forms, then what you are doing is playing a weak mage. You can do that if that you want--nobody's gonna stop you. But you're going to be playing a third of a character.

And the three talent trees are in no way provided to make you choose between one of the druid's aspects. If you're balance specced, you can still heal quite well, and your dire bear form is still gonna have damn good armor and a bonus to aggro. If you're restoration specced, your spells will still do damage, and your cat form can still stealth and ravage.

Example: With my level 60 undead mage I used to play with a druid by the name of Mosma. Mosma was balance specced, back then. He and I two-manned about a third of Blackrock Depths--him tanking and healing and me killing stuff.

Another druid, by the name of Pamah, is restoration specced. Restoration/balance, in fact. Pamah tanked a Scholomance run I went on the other day. He was quite successful at it.

The whole point here is that a druid IS a hybrid. If you're playing a druid and thinking that you're not going to be a hybrid, then you are going to run into problems. (Not saying it's impossible, or that nobody's ever done it. Just that a well played druid will have a trick for every situation, and that trick may not be a damage spell.)