5 Druids

[Xzin]

http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ssotd/images/screenoftheday-new/ss1203.jpg

Druids :)

[Slats]

Ssssh ;)

[Texic]

Thats 6 druids!

[amalgam]

Thats 6 druids!

Crouching Cat, Hidden Character

[marvein]

but the burning question is. are they actually yours Xzin?

[Xzin]

but the burning question is. are they actually yours Xzin?

Nope, they were recently featured on Screenshot of the Day @ WoW's homepage.

They like to link to shots of boxers in formation.

[Phate]

Thats 6 druids!

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4568/motivator805801ns1.jpg

[Zseth]

Thats 6 druids!

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Win

[Wilbur]

Druids? No, nothing to see here, move along, move along.

[dodar]

loving the druids, though i only have four. but 8 DoTs plus 8-20 possible HoTs has proven more than adequate so far. with DoT and forget playstyle, they seem to be able to down a semi-infinite number of mobs before needing to even pop innervate. looting takes longer than killing!

my favorite fifth for instances is definitely feral drood though, so five druids maybe are the magic number. stealth killing just the bosses is a lovely bonus.

anyhow, about to hit 69 and run some practice bgs in the JV league for a bit before graduating to 70 (when everyone's resilience will nerf my DoTs into the floor).

eventually, at 80, i'm thinking of trying out 5v5s with a nasty rogue friend. resto druid or invisible mage might be ok compliment too. basic idea is to stealth into range and crush someone before they know where we are at all.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Crouching Cat, Hidden Character
/thread

/rofl

[glo]

Anyone having fun doing stealth runs with a 5 druid team? Feral, boomx3, resto seems like it would be able to take out a lot of heroic bosses.

[aNiMaL]

I'm wondering if that resto is needed.
To me it seems it can be be done with 4 balance specs.
Only one needs the boomkin form, that leaves 3 characters in caster form to spam hots when needed.

My druid-boxing knowledge is limited,
read the above as a question :p

[Naylix]

considering that they are changing spelldmg and healing to spellpower, the unified stat that druids will love, balancedr00ds will be very viable healers, especially since you triple the effects with that setup.

3 lifebloom stacks refreshed every 5-6 seconds should keep any moderately geared tank up in WotLK - even without a tree in the group.

And with the limit on swipe being removed (if they keep this, and I hope they do), a feral should be able to do paladinstyle group-tanking (almost)

Swipe becomes especially effective, when you have enough rage to powerspam it - and if you pull a group of 5-6+ heroic mobs...

And before then, dont forget Entangling Roots becomes usable indoors :) (I predict lots of 5-boomkin heroic-clearing, with this change in effect)

/Mwu

[dodar]

you guys are spot on. my four droods are all deep balance (tho one has imp gift of the wild). generally, i keep three in stance:0 to HoT and heal, though the same macros will work for all four when my 'leader' is out of boomy. when paired up with a tank, i sometimes keep all four out of boom for the +33% extra heals as well as avoiding crit-happy threat stealing.

i use f1-f12 for heals on my four toons. f1-f4 do cast rotation regrowths targeting each toons specifically (opting out on stance:5), f5-f8 do four Rejuvenations on each toon respectively, f9-f12 do lifeblooms. on the toon that the key is targeting (f1,f5,f9 target Balsfjord for example) if he is in stance:5 (moonkin) then he will barkskin instead of heal himself.

since i use the 'FTL' system for dynamic leader swapping(many thanks to the members who explained how to do this!), i have my focus target available for targeting my fifth party member. so i have separate keys for heal rotation and insta-HoT-ing my buddy. if my focus target doesn't exist or is not a friendly unit (i sometimes use it for special case attack or cc macros) then these heal keys target party1 instead. this way, if i let my buddy be party leader (tanks love being leader!), then i don't even need to bother with focusing him.

one of the coolest things about this drood team is that i can do a healthy amount of secondary healing with instants, thereby not having to interrupt the flow of dmg for more than a global cooldown at a time.

when playing pve on their own, i try to time my casts such that the boomy leader gets his spell off very slightly before his cows. that way, he tends to 'tank' for me with his +400% moonkin armor.

when the new talents drop, i will likely spend more time with all or three toons in moonkin, since they will be getting many more advantages than just the aura from the stance: frenzy!, +spell dmg from spirit, +4% dmg from master shapeshifter, + 10% intellect from furor. thinking od setting up some of the side keys on my g15 for swapping between a) all tauren mode, b) all boomkin mode, c) one boomkin, three cows, d) three boomkin, one cow(with enhanced rejuv).

[dodar]

ooh, another trick i am using that i'm not sure others are yet, is multi-target cc. it works fairly well to allow me to cc 3-4 targets with one key.

so, on my leader, when i hit the '6' key, it will entangle his target. my second toon then runs this macro:

/targetenemy
/cast Entangling Roots

then the third runs (the '1' tells it to tab backwards through the target list):

/targetenemy 1
/cast Entangling Roots

and the fourth (this is slightly ghetto since you can only have one /target command per macro) runs:

/targetenemy
/castsequence reset=5 ,Entangling Roots

so, when i tap '6' once, if three targets are in 'tab-able' range of all my toons, then all three can get entangled. if i double tap the '6', the second tap causes the last toon to entangle the fourth target, if there is one. basically, he tabs twice and then entangles.

this is certainly not a perfect system, as i believe that the targeting lists are individually computed per toon and not always ordered the same. however, it works great for such a fast move, and at worst doubles up cc on some of the targets.

once i hit 70, i'll be adding the same system for cyclone. to all the shamm-boxers out there...this should certainly work great for hex!

[sp000n]

Can you explain this one to me again, please? When you say the "1" makes it tab backwards through the target list, does that mean you had to have targeted all three enemies in sequence prior to hitting the macro?

[Mamut]

On the premade server using 5 druids. One is feral and 4 are balance.

Normal level 80 5 mans have been easy enough using focus/root macros and just hotting the tank up. As soon as i stepped into heroics it became evident the the tanks premade pvp crap wasnt going to cut it.

The trash mobs were still fine using roots and hots, but the bosses i have had a heck of a time with. Too many HP's to chew through while hotting and dpsing even using innervates. Id like to try speccing one resto with 3 balance when i get more time. I wish the tank classes came with premade tank gear and not PVP gear as they are taking alot of damage that could be avoided with more def stats.

peace

[Fizzler]

and with the changes to entangling root...........................

[dodar]

this seemed more general that this thread, so i made a new one if anyone cares.

single target spell (CC!) macro'd into AoE ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=15018')

[pengwynman]

Being able to AOE cyclone would be incredible in arenas. I'm actually really excited to try these guys in pvp/arenas. coming out of the gate stealthed may give enough time for a starfire+starfall+moonfire combo if i can get the positioning right-- none of these spells are "directional" (you can't see where they came from) so that could cause a lot of initial confusion. Does anyone know if there is a way to summon treants without actually clicking on the screen? like summon them *at my location* then sic them on the other team's healer or something :P

idc if this team is successful or not, it's gonna be damn fun messing with people! :D

[dubiox]

5 druids, level 62, all feral spec, all have crap quest greens - feral gear for 4 of them, healing gear for 1, tried running ramps with bear tank, 3 feral dps, and nostance healer just using regrowth. Took forever and died a lot to get to first boss, then maybe got him down to 60% or so. Having trouble coordinating so tank gets aggro, I think that is the main problem really. Not sure what to try next. I am not interested in casting in general for leveling as running out of mana will just slow things down. I think if I could keep aggro the healer could keep up fine, sometimes though I make everyone heal the tank if healer dies.

I tried copying my macros from the leader to all (to simplify setup) and designing things to work around that but it just isn't working out.

FTL does not work well in the instance either. It seems like I need a harcoded setup for dungeons. It bugs out and starts giving unknown unit or something like that, I can't remember the exact error. It also bugs out questing but not very often.

Melee style is ok for elites out in the world, I just run through them in bear or cat, then spin around. The mobs turn to face me and the other guys can attack from behind it. Things get too crazy with the adds in instances though, like even when I root stuff I feel like I can't get everyone safely away from it without breaking the roots or getting hit by rooted mobs. The stance changing to cast the roots and then back to cat feels like an eternity too.

Did I wait too long to try instances? Should I try to have a real tank and heal spec or should I do bear and 4 moonkins? I am going to try it all out but man it takes forever to set up macros and test them and get them copied out, especially with FTL.

Oh and sometimes the bear goes into nostance for no apparent reason! Makes me crazy.

Fun stuff but after all this I am starting to wonder if instances are going to be even possible much less heroics, even with gear and spec.

Maybe I will try pally and 4 shaman or something. I need to level up some other stuff before RAF runs out anyway.

-K