5 Druids! Anyone tried this?

[Anastasiya]

I was talking to a fellow Guild member yesterday that was leveling up a 2nd druid, and got to thinking what would a 5 Druid Team be like? Feral Tank, Resto Healer, 3 OoomKin.

A few ideas i had that seemed like fun

5 cat form Stealh for those boss farming sessions, or avoiding unwanted attention. (and Chain Pounce!)

Travel Form for Early Speed Increase!

Flight Form at 68, for those Moon Fire Fly by spams!

and Epic HAX Form at 70! for HAX Farming and Fun!

Not sure if 3xBoomkin DPS would be enough for Heroics and stuff. but still seems like a fun idea.

[Kyle K.]

I had posted this up a couple days ago, and I am actually in the process of finishing off the first steps of setting this team up. I am going Tank, 3 Moonkin and a Healer, much like you had said. With one of the Moonkins as a backup healer for later on. I hope it works out but only time will tell.

Good Luck!

[ElectronDF]

I thought of this. But I thought too much instead of just trying it. If you have a druid tank, you are fine, but maybe there is a better tank (better taunt and AOE aggro). If you have a druid heal, you are fine, but maybe there is a better healer (AOE heal and different buffs-instead of just the same). If you have moonkin for DPS you are fine, but maybe if you mix in a few different types, you get better utility (warlock-anti-run, hunter--offtank and low interaction needed, mage-water-portals). Everytime I thought about it, it just seemed like I was only getting stealth out of the deal and that didn't seem enough to me. Maybe it would be different in BG's or questing, but still, for instances, it just didn't seem that impressive. Don't mean to dash your hopes though, so try it out and tell us how it goes.

[d0z3rr]

The only reason I never play my 5x druids is because I'm always distracted by other classes. Why have 3xboomkins when you can have 3xmages instead? Why have a drood healbot when a priest would be better? Why have only motw buff, when you could have fort and int?

[Drizzit]

The only reason I never play my 5x druids is because I'm always distracted by other classes. Why have 3xboomkins when you can have 3xmages instead? Why have a drood healbot when a priest would be better? Why have only motw buff, when you could have fort and int?This is so me. I hate even finished 1 team to 70. I started with 4 sham and a tank... Couln't power lvl them so switched to 3 locks, priest, tank. I could power lvl this team cause one of the locks was 70. When power lvling this team i am thinking of other teams and professions and stuff. Like 3 shadow priest, priest, tank; 3 hunters, priest, tank; 4 druids; 3 mages, priest, tank. I only like pve so that is why i always have a tank and healer. Now for professions... that would be fun have everything but clothies have alchemy. That would be something, talk about the daily primals and the transmute proc if it happens. Anyways going to focus on the lock team basically get the tank up so i can power lvl sham and any other team i can think of lol.

[Tdog]

The only reason I haven't tried 5x druid is the lack of a regular rez.

@OP if you use the search option located on the top right of your screen you should be able to find some info on 5x druid teams. There are several people running one.

[xtobbenx]

Instead of going: Feral + Moonkin + Moonkin + Moonkin + Resto

I would rather just done it like this:

Main toon: Balance all the way inc tress, But not the less threat talent + improved armor from the feral tree. Gear him with more stamina and all lethar, (aka Panzerkin)

Toon 2-5: Balance with the less threat talent and rest in resto. Normal moonkin specced.

Before a pull you hot up your main(regrowth is stacked for 21 secs x5) and pull and nuke the crap out of everything (aka 5 elly style) while the main will get all the agro and having hots to heal him. At some point you will need to restack some hots so have your toons in normaly forms. This way you can preaty much get tons of time to nuke with all the insane honts going on yor main.

I belive that MBing is alittle bit about breaking up in the traditional tank+healer+3dps setup and just going in with 5dpsers and nuke the crap out of the place :D

[Icetech]

my 5x sham team is 51.. it's soo hard not starting antoher team up:( next team will be 5x shadow priest for pvp i think..

or like 4shadow 1 disc..

[badashh]

I wonder if you could tank a boss with like 20 Trees? I mean the booms have the 400% armor, you might not need a regular tank.

Here is an interesting guide about tanking as a boomkin. I think once you get to 40 and can boom, go 5x the boom.

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=305842304&sid=1

[SaltyPoison]

I'm boxing 5 druids currently, all boomkin. I'm at lvl 43 and have cleared everything up to SM: Cathedral, and am currently working on ZF. So far, I've had a good time with it. Battle rez is kind of a blessing and a curse, it has saved my as more than once for sure. Right now 5 dps works pretty well, and innervate has solved most of my mana issues on longer boss fights. For the harder hitting bosses, I can stack both dot heals on my main, get initial aggro with them, and have no problem taking hits. With boomkin form, you get the same armor buff as you do in Bear form, just not the stamina (and I am decked out in cloth until outland: bad itemization at low levels ftl).

Personally, I like the versatility of the group. When doing quests, I can use kitty form and quest with zero downtime. And if I run into alliance, unless they are considerably higher level than me, I don't have any problems. Stealth, heals, melee, ranged.... I like it. And I can't wait to pvp with a flock of trees on my side :D

[chippydip]

Instead of going: Feral + Moonkin + Moonkin + Moonkin + Resto

I would rather just done it like this:

Main toon: Balance all the way inc tress, But not the less threat talent + improved armor from the feral tree. Gear him with more stamina and all lethar, (aka Panzerkin)

Toon 2-5: Balance with the less threat talent and rest in resto. Normal moonkin specced.

Before a pull you hot up your main(regrowth is stacked for 21 secs x5) and pull and nuke the crap out of everything (aka 5 elly style) while the main will get all the agro and having hots to heal him. At some point you will need to restack some hots so have your toons in normaly forms. This way you can preaty much get tons of time to nuke with all the insane honts going on yor main.

I belive that MBing is alittle bit about breaking up in the traditional tank+healer+3dps setup and just going in with 5dpsers and nuke the crap out of the place :DActually, you may as well just leave toons 2-5 in human form. Boomkin aura doesn't stack, and since the "tank" is in Boomkin form, you aren't losing any damage with your alts by keeping them in human form. This way then can all heal as needed and you could work out some casting rotations to keep up 4 stacks of lifebloom between starfires if you wanted to.

I actually thought about doing this myself but, when I ran the numbers, shaman totem stacking puts them over the top dps-wise. I thought it would be fun to pop out of stealth in an arena match and 5xWrath + Moonfire someone before they knew what hit them, but I just couldn't convince myself that this would be better than a shaman team in the long run.

If you aren't concerned with min-maxing your team, though, I think druids would be a very fun team to play (its always been one of my favorite classes).

[Fragmad]

I'm boxing 4druids and a warlock (70). What can I say, I whish I'd rolled shamans :p

But I haven't tryed all this fun stuff like stealthruns etc. I have tryed doing instances with them but with no success. But my gear is a big blame in that, I have quest greens/blues only, saving honor/points for S4.

Imo you should roll shamans. I choosed Druids because I wanted to be original (everyone do shamans).

But it's not all bad, I would imagine farming goes alot quicker, 1xSiphonlife + 4xInsect Swarm = Dead mob. So 1 button to kill a mob, and you just run around doting shit up, it's awesome.

[MrLonghair]

Dropping trees is a bit of a bastard on more than two moonkin. I got pretty good at switching windows fast. They hit harder from your spelldamage, so stack it up right from the start, don't be afraid to spellthread (blue) something that you will use until red mageweave pants at level 37.

[Basilikos]

My main character is a 70 boomkin that has been resto in the past. I am currently leveling 4 more boomkin and then my main is going resto. I haven't quite gotten moonkin form on the alts yet, but I'm still really pleased with the output (and I'm stuck with cloth until about 51 or so when decent leatherworking pieces become available). Armor kits will help, but even with one or two spellcasts, I'm not getting hit so much.

I decided to stick with druids since I enjoyed them so much. I've got other groups started, but I'm refusing to level them until I am able to get the druids past 50 or so only so I can stay on my intended task.

[maonani55]

LOL Drizzit, your right, the first true multiboxer is Robert Palmer. It took me a while to figure that out until I saw his Addicted to Love Video on Youtube. :thumbsup:

Im also 5 boxing NE druids at Ravenholdt which is a PVP server. The good thing about it is that you can get to the Cathedral without getting clobbered. Im powerleveling them with a 70 Druid and its good so far. I mainly got attracted to the idea because 5 druid teams doing instances (Anzu). Its slightly different from multi-boxing but definitely doable.

[kura]

I'm doing 5 druids right now.. Instances we're a little tough to coordinate in the beginning, but I'm starting to get used to it. Feral is definitely working out better than balance so far, though, but that's just me.

Oh and no ankh.. or resurrection (kindof).. SUCKS. hard. But stealth makes up for it time and time again.

[Littleburst]

I'm doing 5 druids right now.. Instances we're a little tough to coordinate in the beginning, but I'm starting to get used to it. Feral is definitely working out better than balance so far, though, but that's just me.

Oh and no ankh.. or resurrection (kindof).. SUCKS. hard. But stealth makes up for it time and time again.Stealth Run anyone? :D

[maonani55]

I'm doing 5 druids right now.. Instances we're a little tough to coordinate in the beginning, but I'm starting to get used to it. Feral is definitely working out better than balance so far, though, but that's just me.

Oh and no ankh.. or resurrection (kindof).. SUCKS. hard. But stealth makes up for it time and time again.You do have to admit you can have more control on battle rez instead of the ankh. 20 mins instead of +/- 55mins ankh. You have 5 lives on a battle field with it. Thats like 5 more people with you, only they are slackers and only start stabbing when somebody complains about the dps meter. And if it takes really long to take out the boss you get to do it all over again hahaha.

[Stealthy]

The one thing that puts me off druids - no way to break / avoid fear without PVP trinket.

[maonani55]

true true, fear is a big letdown when it comes to be bunched up together or at least within it range. I dont think the 15% resistance helps much. I have been powerleveling my little ones in the stockades and even a 70 druid gets stunned majority of the time. ;(