Thanks for the insight! I’m pretty well read regarding druids (I spend a ton of time in the Druid classic discord), but appreciate the word of caution. I think that if I roll with this duo I would end up using the Druid to run 5 mans and PvP, and the priest to raid. Most of my vanilla experience revolved around playing WSG ad nauseum and I will love being a god tier flag carrier.

You make a great point about DPS warriors in plate vs the relative squishiness of cat form. I’ll have to test that out, it’s probably more efficient to stay in bear form and take multiple mobs. I’m wondering if it might be worth it to play as balance, dumping as much mana from both toons as I can on one mob, then shifting into cat form for the next mob and letting the priest wand while we both regen mana. I know that for solo leveling feral is the go to, but with two characters it may change the optimal talents. If you’ve ever done testing on this I’d love to hear about it.

When I mention the warrior healer being a powerhouse, I was more referring to a lot of the duo leveling theory crafting that Kargoz has been doing. It seems the main downside to leveling a warrior is the lack of healing (which means multiple mobs is certain death) and downtime between pulls. The addition of an efficient healer is supposed to turn him into a leveling machine, since rage comes from taking damage and otherwise the warrior is “resourceless”. I’m assuming if I throw on thorns, dot up a huge pack, and swipe them down I should be able to mow through packs of mobs with relative efficiency. As far as PvP goes, I’ll never be able to pull off the duo shenanigans that a warrior can, especially since the Druid playstyle seems to be more of a mobility and attrition style - probably not the best match for a priest partner, but again I’m enticed by the duo caster possibilities of balance. SWP, moonfire, insect swarm, faerie fire, and some coordinated smite/wrath spam might be enough to take down enemies fast in world PvP, I’ll just be mana starved in extended fights.