5 druids pve..

[russeadg]

How funny,

I ended up running 5x bears and am outperforming 1xbear and 4xcat - survivability is MUCH higher, and more mbox friendly.

I am 5x74 now, and finding huge problems with bosess in late BC and early WOTLK instances - some is mechanics issues which are just hard in mbox, but some seems like a dps problem.

Anyone who has experienced, do you have any guidelines on dps? I have pretty good AH gear (2h weapons in the 106-121 dps range), but the bears seem to be stuck between 700-900 dps each (so 3500-4500 combined dps) - against 180k bosses, the figths might just be taking too long. Any thoughts on my combined dps from any of you who have done similar setups?

Thanks!

[Zub]

Have you tried 4 bears + 1 resto?
sounds like you could ping pong the agro and make things easier for the healer

edit: Duh, just read Cyrberus' post

[Cyrberus]

I would love to see some movies of someone doing heroics with 5 druids in any form. I gave up on them, but never could get the moonkins to work. With the moonkins i only got 75% of the dps the cats were doing.

[Akoko]

Just to bump this thread, has anyone successfully cleared heroics with 5 druids of any combinations of specs?

[CheeseCake]

Leveling 5x druids myself, currently level 75
ive done almost every instance so far with main as resto and rest 4x bear tanks, dps so far isnt that much less than cats, instances running nice and smooth with 4 bears

Ive spent most of 70-75 doing av and its been extremely fun with 5 ferals
Not sure how they will be in cata instances, dont think its going to go well.

[Akoko]

After trying unsuccessfully to run 5x balance druids, I am now switching over to 5x bear tanks. The advantage being that I can sub out the lead druid and use my heroic raid geared main (a bear tank also) who takes almost zero damage from most 5 man mobs.

The gear will be uneven though and I suspect that will offset the advantage of being able to bounce aggro between 5 similarly geared bear tanks and gaining sufficient rage and vengeance on the others.