Boxing Feral Druids

[nodoze]

... ive made a orc hunter group with healer , wolves for group pack early bonuses. There’s lots of pros and cons, lots of things about Druids I like but the new group for now is relentless, reckless. semi good tanking and out of this world dps, pets are plate basicly with taunting like a factory, I will get aoe apes at 50 to further support the tanking and aoe barrage!

the Druids I’m keeping as I feel I will come back to them later due to the powerful survival and flexibility for all-round in-game Mechanic’s, in game performance etc they are too good, the new team is more a reckless PvP team with pve support that works.

I think Hunters can be fun and it seems to me that a healer brings more to 4 hunters than a 5th hunter so I hope that proves out for you.

If I recall correctly most folk who ran Hunters recommend pets with screech (also an AoE effect) both early and at 50+ over Apes with ThunderStomp. I think you can find pets with Screech as low as 8th level and I think they were considered superior in large part due to their screech being spammable (only limited by focus) while thunderstomp has a 1 minute cooldown.

Best of luck to you with either team (both teams)... If you are having fun and/or trying/learning new things you are doing it right!

[Apatheist]

I use moonglow/NS spec. I started with HoTW but I've found I much prefer moonglow in PvP and once I got my preraid BiS I can do all of the PvE content I want without paying to respec. I don't usually farm on my druids.

In PvE I switch to feral gear and cycle between druids to regen mana. 1 Bear, 3 cats, 1 resto. Heal until the resto is around 50% mana then swap to cat form and switch to one of the other cat windows and start healing with that. If you get good at juggling your 5 mana bars you pretty much have unlimited mana even without innervate. To facilitate this style I've focused on my own "BiS" list rather than the lists you might see on wowhead. I've gathered a bunch of gear with mixed stats (int/spi/agi/stam) so my regen is decent while still having a decent amount of AP. Then you can just macro your weapon swap to match the form you're using. There are a bunch of ways to play druids but that's how I do it.

I switch to caster gear for PvP and just try to burst people down with wrath or moonfire spam. You will never be able to take on large groups like mages can but I've killed other 5man parties outside dungeons and it's fun for picking off PvP flagged people in enemy cities or dueling outside Org. You can burst pretty hard out of stealth.

If you expect druids to be as strong as mages you'll be disappointed but I still find them fun. I play mine as alliance on a server that is heavily horde favored so it's pretty fun being able to stealth around and pick people off when 80% of the server is horde.

[boxblizzard]

I think Hunters can be fun and it seems to me that a healer brings more to 4 hunters than a 5th hunter so I hope that proves out for you.

If I recall correctly most folk who ran Hunters recommend pets with screech (also an AoE effect) both early and at 50+ over Apes with ThunderStomp. I think you can find pets with Screech as low as 8th level and I think they were considered superior in large part due to their screech being spammable (only limited by focus) while thunderstomp has a 1 minute cooldown.

Best of luck to you with either team (both teams)... If you are having fun and/or trying/learning new things you are doing it right!

Adding a healer to the team has made a world of difference for the hunters, i now can do mobs 9 levels above myself without any mana or aggro issues, this blows casters out the water for pve so for leveling this works, dungeons i can sweeping through them without any stressing with pets on round-robin taunts etc, the hunter group is fun but i have problems with close encounters etc, so they are powerful but not perfect where the druids can do everything just more balanced.

The thunder stomps and screech owls are a good consideration for later, for now wolfs share melee damage bonuses that compliments them getting extra damage off, not much but enough when theres 4 of them biting.

I will get them to 60 and then go back to druids and have them ready for 60 awell, i think druids need more gear and time to make them a topper, they wony do damage like other dps but they have very good healing on the go, and out of all the casters its decent because they can also use forms unlike priest etcs

I will see how things develope!

I use moonglow/NS spec. I started with HoTW but I've found I much prefer moonglow in PvP and once I got my preraid BiS I can do all of the PvE content I want without paying to respec. I don't usually farm on my druids.

In PvE I switch to feral gear and cycle between druids to regen mana. 1 Bear, 3 cats, 1 resto. Heal until the resto is around 50% mana then swap to cat form and switch to one of the other cat windows and start healing with that. If you get good at juggling your 5 mana bars you pretty much have unlimited mana even without innervate. To facilitate this style I've focused on my own "BiS" list rather than the lists you might see on wowhead. I've gathered a bunch of gear with mixed stats (int/spi/agi/stam) so my regen is decent while still having a decent amount of AP. Then you can just macro your weapon swap to match the form you're using. There are a bunch of ways to play druids but that's how I do it.

I switch to caster gear for PvP and just try to burst people down with wrath or moonfire spam. You will never be able to take on large groups like mages can but I've killed other 5man parties outside dungeons and it's fun for picking off PvP flagged people in enemy cities or dueling outside Org. You can burst pretty hard out of stealth.

If you expect druids to be as strong as mages you'll be disappointed but I still find them fun. I play mine as alliance on a server that is heavily horde favored so it's pretty fun being able to stealth around and pick people off when 80% of the server is horde.

This is where i have leaned towards for druids for the pve part, its works and its solid, damage as you say is lack luster but the rest of the class and abilities at hand shine really well, this is what i think ultimately will make me lean always more towards druids and they can also be respec for different roles which is a win for everyone!

thanks for the info