Boxing Feral Druids

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I have put paladins on hold as a back burner for the moment as it has got me thinking about changing my druid team to a paladin setup. I am hoping to have the same style play as my paladins but with druids, however the issue i want to solve is peeling/cc. Druids should fix this but with more button mashing and macros.

So i have relogged my druid team and now configuring the macros in game to replicate the paladins, so 1 feral tank spec, and 4x feral dps. however with talents to compliment off heals to the tank with smart macros to round rob out of forms etc

In thoery, this should provide all benifits i need, faster movement in cat forms, ability to tank on the whole team, and improved aoe etc. The issue with feral druids is mana, shifting is expensive and so i must round rob healing and get enough talents to improve regenation etc.

The idea of 4 dps and a tank is actually excellent but we must solve the mana issues, the paladins dont have a issue and heal strong. I hope this is the same

I think the passive regen is fine if you cycle through a single healer at a time. Regrowth, Rejuv, Healing Touch x2 is a easy rotation and should leave you with enough mana to swap back into cat form passing healing on to the next in the rotation. Maybe have the cat cower before exiting cat form so they do not accidentally pull aggro with Regrowth. Maybe weapon swap for +Int while healing would help with making it through a pull only needing one healer.

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I think the passive regen is fine if you cycle through a single healer at a time. Regrowth, Rejuv, Healing Touch x2 is a easy rotation and should leave you with enough mana to swap back into cat form passing healing on to the next in the rotation. Maybe have the cat cower before exiting cat form so they do not accidentally pull aggro with Regrowth. Maybe weapon swap for +Int while healing would help with making it through a pull only needing one healer.

Yes ideally, however i have become fond of a tank + 4x dps hybrid heal, combined they act as a healer. Just like the paladins, it means i have alot more burst and less healing required. Some talents to support abit more healing to work together.

I have been running a single healer setup, but i find in pvp, they get targeted alot. When they are all equal, they leave the tank alone and pick a random dps.

If i can survive a onsalught with some alive, this is a win in my books. but anything that gets close to me usually dead on impact.

PVE side of things, this combo works better, faster boss down times, less healing required.

I made the weird hybrid build to maximize the cat DPS and it's actually a lot better than you might expect. The problem is it has no AoE damage so you have to single target stuff down. Then again, cats attack so fast so on fights where there are multiple low health adds it's not difficult at all to quickly autoattack them down. There are a couple of instances where barkskin/hurricane or barkskin/tranq can be useful too. In some situations you can even use barkskin/tranq as a kind of AoE taunt. It causes huge threat.

Having hybrid stat set with some spirit/int helps a lot with regen at 55-60 but even in full agi/stam gear with no int/spi I never ran OOM while leveling. You just have to pull one pack at a time. If you pull too many mobs you'll have to start spamming heals, then you'll run into problems. This group makes huge use out of ClickBars, weakauras, etc. More than any other group I've played. Being able to quickly select a form or pop a cooldown, see all of your mana bars clearly from any window or clearcasting procs is hugely important.

This is a slow and steady type group but for some reason I'm having more fun with it than my mages. I always get caught up on min/maxing for efficiency and forget that actually enjoying the game is just as important. Especially in an old game like Classic. I've already done all of the content multiple times. Might as well just have fun.

I have done this as i like the idea from Paladins because it actually works! No dungoen so far as ever been a problem, except the paladin tank due to oom issue sadly.

I have been playing around with the druids, tank + feral dps and i found the switching is too much work for me. It is doable but in crazy situations i have may macros to mash for power shifting and RR healing techniques in forms, where passively paladins dont need to do this.

So what i have decided to do is............ combine the two!

So i am now leveling a druid as the MT, and the 4x ret dps as the dps healers with improved flash of light with the aoe. Combined with the druid tank, i get all the auras, benifits and buffs, no BOK, but i get MOTW and 5% crit bonus + thorns etc

So my tank can aoe with unlimited rage without going oom, while benifiting from all the auras for magic protection and huge dps increase, together this is going to work well.

The cc issues should also be fixed, because the druid will power shift and instant cc for rets to catch up with speed boost, as the feral can run at 30% and avoid most cc. This in turn should make the ultimate pve/pvp team with no limits and very nice melee buffs.

Also the druid tank can drop heals and BoW benifit (improv blessings ofc on each ret )

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Yes ideally, however i have become fond of a tank + 4x dps hybrid heal, combined they act as a healer. Just like the paladins, it means i have alot more burst and less healing required. Some talents to support abit more healing to work together.

I have been running a single healer setup, but i find in pvp, they get targeted alot. When they are all equal, they leave the tank alone and pick a random dps.

If i can survive a onsalught with some alive, this is a win in my books. but anything that gets close to me usually dead on impact.

PVE side of things, this combo works better, faster boss down times, less healing required.

I used tank + 4 dps hybrid heal until max level. It did work pretty well and I was not shifting more than once per pull so passive mana regen worked great. It was not working as well at max level, so I am trying the single healer + 3 dps approach instead. It is nice because the tank health is not as much of a roller coaster, and dps is actually close as I do not miss any energy ticks on the cats and they get more chances to proc omen of clarity for a free shred. Maybe once my gear is better I can try 4x hybrid again.

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I used tank + 4 dps hybrid heal until max level. It did work pretty well and I was not shifting more than once per pull so passive mana regen worked great. It was not working as well at max level, so I am trying the single healer + 3 dps approach instead. It is nice because the tank health is not as much of a roller coaster, and dps is actually close as I do not miss any energy ticks on the cats and they get more chances to proc omen of clarity for a free shred. Maybe once my gear is better I can try 4x hybrid again.

This is a good setup.

After playing around with the feral tank, i have decided to review my paladin team and put back the paladin tank.

1. due to more available gear in dungeons

2. review why i am going oom and look into improving my "pace" or strategy, i have taken different rotations and now left with mostly full mana except on double or trouple pack pulls then its burst down moments.

The thoery crafting of adding the feral is great, but i love my paladins too much and end of the day, we must play what we think is fun. I have before grinded my soul away with compositions that end of the day did not fullfil the "fun" aspect.

So i have put the druid to one side, and will stick to solid teams of the same class. Once my paladins are rock solid, i will bring out the full 5 druid team again and try again at a later date.

[fleaplus]

This is a good setup.

After playing around with the feral tank, i have decided to review my paladin team and put back the paladin tank.

1. due to more available gear in dungeons

2. review why i am going oom and look into improving my "pace" or strategy, i have taken different rotations and now left with mostly full mana except on double or trouple pack pulls then its burst down moments.

The thoery crafting of adding the feral is great, but i love my paladins too much and end of the day, we must play what we think is fun. I have before grinded my soul away with compositions that end of the day did not fullfil the "fun" aspect.

So i have put the druid to one side, and will stick to solid teams of the same class. Once my paladins are rock solid, i will bring out the full 5 druid team again and try again at a later date.

I could see 5x pallies being fun, but I would imagine you would want to start with a dedicated healer at level 60 just to make grinding out gear easier. It also gives you improved blessing of wisdom which combined with the AQ20 spell rank upgrade should help with mana regen on the whole team starting out.

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I could see 5x pallies being fun, but I would imagine you would want to start with a dedicated healer at level 60 just to make grinding out gear easier. It also gives you improved blessing of wisdom which combined with the AQ20 spell rank upgrade should help with mana regen on the whole team starting out.

I have no mana issues from heal at all, the blessing of light healing bonus makes 4 flash heals strong as a holy light in half the time. It’s a strong combination!

if raid requires it I will consider the change but 4x dps as off healers in PvP is important, in pve I burst down trash and bosses in record times.

Im still leveling at the moment and will put them through thierbpaces with some videos to boot.