Druid +Warlocks

[Porkasaurus]

I'm thinking of putting together a tauren druid +undead warlocks (2-4) team and was wondering if anyone had experience with the combo before.

My thoughts are running the locks affliction and the druid Moonkin(moonkin aura doesn't exactly help affliction locks, I might try destruction) + resto.

The druid has an instant heal and hots, which I feel compliment the short casting time of affliction spells. With this I feel like I can be on the move as I plan to do a lot of PvP.

I lose fear protection on the druid but that isn't a huge concern to me.

The runner ups were a shaman or a paladin. The paladin is actually still a consideration because I could potentially tank instances, without healing but maybe better than a void walker. Both lost out because of the instant heals on the run and hots.

Thoughts?

[Rin]

Couple of initial thoughts, and questions as well:

1. Do you care about the PvE aspect of this combo at all, or are you only interested in PvP?
2. How do you plan on leveling post 60? Are you going to use one (or both) of the druids as your tank(s) post-60?

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This might be kind of bias since I'm running a 4-shammi + 1 pally team, but here it goes anyway :twisted: : The Paladin will give you the ability to tank an instance, no problem. Depending on how you spec the Pally (Holy or Prot), you can compensate for the heals, or just give your entire party great armor benefits. With the shaman, you can put down a tremor totem (fear immunity at your whim), you also get unlimited health regen from the shaman (healing spring totem stacks).. And you'll get Chain Lightning for PvP, plus Chain Healing... Your chain lightning combo off of 4 shammis will be enough to outright kill any single player if you cast it on that exact player at the same time, ideally it should kill 2 players at a minimum, leaving the third badly injured (once you get your gear up).

But, I could go into a whole different discussion about shammis, so lets get back to you... :D

Warlock pets aren't going to be able to handle high level instances as a "main" tank. They're awesome for PvP, but in a PvE situation they're going to be excellent until around level 60, then you'll notice things start to taper off when your pet(s) are getting hammered. If you don't care about the instances though, then your Druid + lock combo should be viable.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Biggest single problem = no AoE heals. When you get into large pull sizes, you will want to Hellfire for AoE, which really requires AoE heals to compensate for the group damage they're taking.

[unit187]

druid has insane tranquillity aoe heal, 300 per tick at rank1 iirc
10m cooldown tho... you probably dont do big pulls faster then that:P

[Ughmahedhurtz]

druid has insane tranquillity aoe heal, 300 per tick at rank1 iirc
10m cooldown tho... you probably dont do big pulls faster then that:P

You've never seen me run Blackrock Depths. ;)