70 Druid + ???

[GarithosDruid]

Hi all. I recently ordered a new computer which should be able to run two instances of WoW comfortably so I am considering dual logging two characters. I already have one 70, a druid, but I am not sure what would be a good class to use with it and was hoping I could garner some suggestions from folks who are a little more familiar with the mechanics of dual logging.

To start off, the druid is generally resto for raids but has pretty decent cat/bear gear as well so I sometimes spec to feral on weekends. I am leaning towards rolling, for the 2nd account, either a warrior, warlock, or hunter but I don't know which would be best and I would like a class that would work well with either spec (resto or feral).

Which of these classes do you think would best compliment my (generally restoration, but sometimes feral) druid?

Also, am I ignoring other classes that would work really well?

Some of my theorycrafting:

1. Druid + Warrior = No downtime on warrior since its getttin constant cheap heals, grab a bunch of mobs and start cleaving and whirlwinding as available. Possible problems - wouldn't charge break the follow? Cat druid + warrior seems like it would be tough to control.

2. Druid + Hunter = Leatherworking benefits both. Aspect of the pack would allow the hunter to follow the cat druid I think. Possible problems - not a lot of synergy and deadzone issues when the hunter is on follow, or did that get changed?

3. Druid + Warlock = Druid heals become warlock mana, some AOE spells. Possible problems - warlock can't keep up with cat?

I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks :)

[Toned]

Druid + rogue ftw .

[Vyndree]

Possible problems - wouldn't charge break the follow? Cat druid + warrior seems like it would be tough to control.
Nope, you can /follow through a charge :)


Possible problems - not a lot of synergy and deadzone issues when the hunter is on follow
No more deadzone as of the most recent patch :)


3. Druid + Warlock = Druid heals become warlock mana, some AOE spells. Possible problems - warlock can't keep up with cat?
Just don't take the feline swiftness talent, or mount the lock if you need to go a serious distance. /followers can follow from some distance away, so just mount whenever you're doing serious nonstop travel.

[Jusa]

Roll another druid. You can have it all.

level it as feral and set up a few keys to heal from your 70. Later you can stealth instances in cat and them pop out as bear/tree and kill the boss restealth and move on. wanna pvp spec them both boomkin and 1 shot ppl with starfire.

[GarithosDruid]

Thanks for the input, as far as grinding mobs goes, which of the proffered combinations do you think would be fastest?

I'm hard-pressed myself to see what would be faster grinding than a cat druid with hunter bringing the pain behind it just demolishing sing mobs one right after another and moving at 30% speed, but I don't have a lot experience w/ AOE classes so I might be underestimating them.

[perseph]

i think the best combo would be a dw warri + wf totem schami :)

but from the proffered...
i would go with the druide + hunter.
Hunter does very good single target damage and is a 1 makro char. almost perfekt for boxing ;)

[junx]

I have two 70 druids that I box occasionally. As a team they are really only good for stealthing to bosses in instances or farming in instances. In PvP you need to change forms constantly and kite alot so it doesn't work too well, at least mixing feral and resto. Two moonkin is okay.

Pet classes make great leveling companions for druids. I leveled one of my druids with a hunter and the other solo. When I was with the hunter it was pretty easy. I had one button that put up hunters mark, sent the pet in and put a heal over time on it. Roots is another big factor, on mobs there is no diminishing returns so you can just keep a mob rooted while the hunter kills it.

This would also work really well with a warlock. Better even there is pretty good synergy between warlock/resto druid as evidenced by 2v2 arena ratings. Voidwalker tanks, warlock dots and nukes, druid heals voidwalker or roots stuff for the warlock to nuke. Pretty easy.

[GarithosDruid]

Alrightey, after much tinkering with friends' characters to see how they played and how much micromanagement they would entail, I've ruled out using a warlock (just doesnt fit my playstyle) so I'm down to the choice between a hunter and a warrior.

What will probably decide it is which of the below combos can grind up gold, mats, marks, etc... the fastest in the world environment (will only doing minimal pvp and will be instancing solo):

Healer Druid + DPS Warrior (warrior is main, largish pulls when possible, warrior 'AOE,' druid heals)

OR

Cat Druid + Hunter (druid is main, single pulls, burn them down fast, move on fast to the next single pull)

Someone give me a nudge, lol :)

[Kfunk]

I just want to give some input to Fursphere's comment,

I play a warrior/pal (healer)/3x hunter.

Warriors are totally fine for aoe agro up through SM/uldaman (all I've done so far). Improved thunder clap combined with the low amount of threat generation from hunters and the paladin is solid. When things really do go wrong, the hunters can FD, the pets can take a beating, and the paladin can bubble out of agro.

I have not used the pets to offtank much because it would take too much work to target the mobs to offtank them with, and I won't argue that warriors are micro-intensive. However, the beauty of the group is that hunters and paladins are *not* micro-intensive and so you can pull off using the warrior as your main effectively.

Multishots cooldown prevents it from being an effective AOE tool. (in my experience up through lvl 40 at least, maybe I'm missing something that comes later on?)

[Bena]

I'm leveling a prot pally with a tree druid and I can aoe grind non stop.. pally goes in CC.. I can hold 10-15 mobs no problem.. with the druid healing. Only problem is finding areas that have big mob groups.. at 58 right now and wpl is awesome as there's several fields that you can run on mount grab them all .