5x Druids fun

[lowlbalance]

Let me tell you, I love my 5x Druids. I am doing mostly PvE with them. There are advantages (and disadvantages of course):

[+] easy multiboxing of a homogenous group setup
[+] Tank and Heal included via 2x dual-spec --> Heroics viable
[+] stealth group: e.g.: makes instance farming a breeze. I figured out farming Nexus for www.wowhead.com/?item=Belt of Draconic Runes and www.wowhead.com/?item=Tome of the Lore Keepers from Bosses Anomalus and Telestra takes just some 10minutes, reset and repeat. BTW, I do the reseting not by stealthing my way back out, but by disbanding the group, fly up to meeting stone, summon left back group leader, regroup, reset, enter instance.
[+] instant epic flight form shapeshift (what flying mount?)
[+] 15xTreants and/or 5xStarfall-mayhem for your PvP/PvE/Show-off pleasure
[+] 5xMoonfire-fire&forget kill-a-gazillion-mobs-questing
[+] Crowd Control: 5xroots and/or 5xsleep on dragonkin
[+] lolferal-fun? Check!
[+] lolfeline-fun? Check!
[+] lolbalance-fun? Check! (obviously, that's the primary fun )

[-] all the obvious homogenous group setup disadvantages like: slower itemization progress, no buffs-synergy, etc...

I recently hit Level 80 (as a side effect) on my 5x deep balance Druids from my grinding for epic flight form and dual specing 2 of them additionally with 1xTank and 1xResto.
I was amazed with how well the Bear/3xMoonkin/Resto setup works endurance-wise as opposed to the short termed brute-force "standard" 5xMoonkins_15Treants-root&spank dungeoning. I can see this already to work in heroics (as soon as I am geared enough). As a result of my above mentioned priorities, I only cleared in the progress WotLK instances of UK, Nexus, AZN, ANK with mostly greens (and the blues I grabed from the instance progress).

PS:
Easy way of downing final Hellfire Ramparts Boss (@ ~lvl60 of course) with 5x Druids (or any other stealth group that is):
Stealth past the 2 guards who trigger the final fight. Run around and DoT/Damage Nazan (the drake mount). When he is down to 1hp apply yet another DoT, kill the 2 guards, watch Nazan land and die, finally give Vazruden your 15xTreants-love and DPS him away.

[Ridere]

Druids are a lot of fun. I enjoy doing Wintergrasp with them, though they don't last as long as my Shamans do in most cases.

[Flekkie]

I keep meaning to pick mine up again, but moonkins have such fat arses! I presume even the new druid races in Cataclysm will still have the same moonkin form :/

He he, maybe I will again soon; I really enjoyed them to 60.

[Ogloo]

one question, when u get procs of eclipse or w/e its called, how to u x-fer to starfire when it only procs on 1?

[gitcho]

i've been playing my 5x druids steady for the past few weeks, and am at 71. I've got them all dual-specced balance/resto. Totally agree, they are super fun. They're the only class i've played that can 1shot a mob 2lvl higher - all others seem to take 2 casts.

I've been running balance for questing, and 5 trees in AV whenever it's up. The problem in the 70-79 bracket though, is that AV is hardly ever up. When I lvl'd my 5 priests in AV, the queue was 71-80 and games were up every 5-10 minutes. It's painful questing a 4th team to 80, and now that I'm realinzing queues are taking too long, I'd like to try instancing.

Am I OK to do UK with a bear, resto, 3xboomkin if all I have is quest green gear at lvl 71? or should I run my tank & healer through UK & nexus (or BC heroics/raids) to get blues first?

[Ualaa]

My 5x Boomkins is my most fun group so far.
And they're not even 80th yet.

I have battle rez, innervate and tranquility on round-robin.
I'm looking forward to Cat-Stealth-Starfall-Treants-Hurricane in Galv/Belinda's room, on defense.

Using IS Boxer, broadcasting the mouse is easy.
I've made a /Focus macro on each, with a 5-step Keymap... and have another macro to Cyclone my Focus.

Check out the movie section, the Moo's are a 5x Druid group which have done every (or just about) heroic there is.

[Ualaa]

one question, when u get procs of eclipse or w/e its called, how to u x-fer to starfire when it only procs on 1?

The last Keymap example, in my ISBoxer guide deals specifically with Eclipse procs.

[Multibocks]

3 boomkins would need 8 keymaps to cover the different possibilities.
000 no proc, normal dpsing
001 one proc
010 one proc
100 one proc
011 two
101 two
110 two
111 three

so suffice it to say, mind boggling =D

edit: I'll have to read Ulaa's thread. He usually has some good ideas!

[lowlbalance]

one question, when u get procs of eclipse or w/e its called, how to u x-fer to starfire when it only procs on 1?

I didn't bother to much with that yet. In the full balance setup I alternate as I please between starfire/wrath (with all of them), usually no DoTs and debuffs, because it's faster like that (usually opening with starfire and 2 wraths and that's it for CCed instance mobs).

In the Feral/3xBalance/Resto I just use one castsequence macro for all using (first DoTs) 1xstarfire and 3xwraths.
There are some good posts with good ideas. I think I will tweak on that when it's heroic time....

[lowlbalance]

i've been playing my 5x druids steady for the past few weeks, and am at 71. I've got them all dual-specced balance/resto. Totally agree, they are super fun. They're the only class i've played that can 1shot a mob 2lvl higher - all others seem to take 2 casts.

I've been running balance for questing, and 5 trees in AV whenever it's up. The problem in the 70-79 bracket though, is that AV is hardly ever up. When I lvl'd my 5 priests in AV, the queue was 71-80 and games were up every 5-10 minutes. It's painful questing a 4th team to 80, and now that I'm realinzing queues are taking too long, I'd like to try instancing.

Am I OK to do UK with a bear, resto, 3xboomkin if all I have is quest green gear at lvl 71? or should I run my tank & healer through UK & nexus (or BC heroics/raids) to get blues first?

My guess is, UK should be doable with lvl71 greens. I had by that time (was lvl 72 I think) a few more better feral gearing items and I had the impression that my Resto was on the edge of oom (I used my innervates between fight on Resto usually to be on the safe side). Other than that it was just getting to know the instance and the bosses for me...