Boxing Feral Druids

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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 )