Help me respec my druid

[Watto44]

Really not sure how I'm going to spec now, even after spending all that gold on the test realms. Will probably end up going either 0(+1)/29(+1)/21 or 0(+1)/19(+1)/31. I must say that the latter is looking very appealing right now, as it's got most of the things I love about my 1.7 build (9/21/21) with the added bonus of imp. regrowth and innervate! On the down side, it doesn't have HotW, which looks like one of the sexiest talents in any of our trees, a true hybrid talent.

For what to you plan to use Feral Faerie Fire, against Rogues (counter stealth) in PvP or for mobs in PvE? I think that decreasing the armor of a target by 175 for 40 sec. is rather low.

Feral Fire does indeed have additional trainable ranks which keep it on par with normal faerie fire. The damage increase to cat and bear forms from faerie fire is not to be underestimated, particularly given than ferocious bite is affected by armor. Throwing FF on a low armor mob/player does make a big difference in your damage output.

Exactly why it's worth a talent point to a Feral Druid. I can't tell you how much mana has been wasted doing Moonfire+Bear Form when tanking an instance, besides the fact that it makes it harder to Enrage, and is just plain annoying.

I really don't see the point of using feral faerie fire as a ranged pull. Addimittedly I haven't had a chance to experiment with the addition aggro that Feral Instinct gives you, but I know that without it I much prefered the front end aggro of starfire+moonfire+rejuv when I was tanking. As for the mana cost, it certainly didn't bother me that much, as long as I had enough after the pull to throw in the odd cheaky regrowth if I lost aggro. Keep in mind that feral fire used to cost rage/energy as well. I'd much rather burn a bit of mana than 5 rage early in a fight. The fact that it's now "free" in feral forms and one point to get it for both forms is just gravy.

This will be my Feral Combat specced Druid in patch 1.8, incl. "Leader of the Pack" which now has the important critical strike bonus that was previously already included in a 5/5 "Sharpened Claws" skill (now 3/3 in patch 1.8)

I might be miss-reading your post nobbie, but the new three point actually gives more crit chance than the old 5 point version. (6% vs. 5%) Neat huh. :D

On to mana regen and Reflection. While theorycraft certainly isn't my strong point, I actually missed reflection more than innervate for healing 5 to 15 man instances when I respecced. The difference was quite noticable, and my mana bar would get to that scary range quite a lot more without reflection. Now that it only costs three points and is much lower in the tree I'll definately be investing in it no matter which build I end up going for. The question is do I go 3 in reflection and 1 in imp regrowth or 2/2? :huh:

Hehe, I have so many descisions to make I'm scared to log in and start spending points. :blush: My respecs are already up to 45g and I'm trying to save for an epic mount. :wacko:

PS. Thick hide rocks gnollguy. :D (Remember, it's applied before the armor bonus from Dire Bear, and works for all forms.)