Boxing Feral Druids

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Sounds good. Seems like 5 druids has been discussed by multiple people which is great since it is less played.

Please report back what specs you try and how they go and which ones you think are best. Considering all the memeing of "OOMkins" and Balance Druids have extreme mana issues (Moonkin form or not) it would be great to hear if you can finish all the dungeons without heavy use of mana pots/runes (not counting mage water as lots of teams have to drink often). Bear+3cat+healer has unlimited rage/energy for DPS with only one mana sync for healing (and the cats can shift periodically boost DPS and to throw a HoT as well) but that may really only be viable for PVE and not sure how it does in dungeons against bosses.

Best of luck and I hope things go well.

I will keep you all posted, I have done many compositions over the years but classic has really challenged the composition, this is not a bad thing it just means more learning and experimenting is needed. There is many pros and cons rolling all Druids, I do like the easy mode dots leveling, taking down 7-8 mins your level in one go while hot and run round them is insane with my specs.

i have just completed two dungeons that has put performed my shaman setup.

I have found going down resto/dots/hots, the dots from IS, MF alone kill everything and the group healing each other is strong but the problem with Druids at my level and maybe higher up is damage output is sustainable but average. Shamans has massive damage and not much tanking needed, where I did need one one would die but I would clear. Druids simply tank and spark.

but Druids have something I very dislike and that’s the lack of crowd control/aoe damage in classic, lots of mechanics going on with average damage and leather armour is high risk. Let’s say a second group of mobs get pulled and managing it is very hard.

I am still experimenting but I believe classic is gear dependent and being smart.

I’ll update how things are going, I think resto spec and dots is a better passive attack than boomkin. so currently I am 4x resto hybrid with feral tank. so far so good but I have aoe damage and healing concerns , both received and delivered.

FYI , no mana issues with resto hybrid focusing on dots for damage and feral for keeping the mobs busy while they die down, this maintains regeneration of mana, and if mana is good, Starfire finishes them off, my grinding or boss fights is MF, IS, spam starfire. this kills most things.

this is the a concern for most, is the damage output may not be good enough for the fun element.

BUT , they are insane all-moving , hots and dots is epic imo.l due to being healers makes it crazy fail-safe.