Comments on: One of these Druids is not like the Other … http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/ So many numbers, you'll think you're getting audited Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Vailkyri http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/comment-page-1/#comment-1426 Vailkyri Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:58:37 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/index.php/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/#comment-1426 Just going thru and totally loving your site, I just passed 1600 + heal and over 450 spirit & int. As far as resto spec I have been resto since day 1 and leveled 1-70 as resto. I've tried feral and loved the dps soloing in cat form but personally I find tanking to be way tooo stressfull and I don't really like listening to long drawn out instructions before fights so with healing its pretty much 1) stand here and heal, 2) stand over there and heal, 3) bring the mob back to the tank rinse and repeat. Just going thru and totally loving your site, I just passed 1600 + heal and over 450 spirit & int. As far as resto spec I have been resto since day 1 and leveled 1-70 as resto. I’ve tried feral and loved the dps soloing in cat form but personally I find tanking to be way tooo stressfull and I don’t really like listening to long drawn out instructions before fights so with healing its pretty much 1) stand here and heal, 2) stand over there and heal, 3) bring the mob back to the tank rinse and repeat.

]]> By: Muda http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Muda Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:57:00 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/index.php/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/#comment-252 I just found that resto is really fun and challenging in PvP. For PvE I just choose resto cause we needed resto druids. (1 balance and rest feral at the time. 2-3 resto, 1 balance/feral (his feral gear is better than resto) rest feral (2))<br/><br/>And I love to kick mage ass as resto, fire I got FR, frost, I just shift out of their frost nova (to avoid shatter). Nothing better than humiliating mages :) <br/><br/>Though I respecc alot.<br/><br/>-Muda I just found that resto is really fun and challenging in PvP. For PvE I just choose resto cause we needed resto druids. (1 balance and rest feral at the time. 2-3 resto, 1 balance/feral (his feral gear is better than resto) rest feral (2))

And I love to kick mage ass as resto, fire I got FR, frost, I just shift out of their frost nova (to avoid shatter). Nothing better than humiliating mages :)

Though I respecc alot.

-Muda

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Anonymous Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:30:00 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/index.php/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/#comment-251 I was, and had always planned on being a feral druid. I'm an avid PvPer, and the feral druid style was just so dang fun. Stealthing around, doing crazy kitty burst on some clothie, bleeding a heavied armored target dry, popping out and CCing someone with a cyclone, feral charging to cancel a heal, bashing another healer, throwing faerie fire on the rogues to piss em off, and then throwing heals on myself and my team mates to keep us up, were all common occurances in literally every clash.<br/><br/>I made my transition to resto when I specced 1/29/31. This spec was probably the most fun spec I had ever tried, but I learned early that you have to have the right gear balance for it. In full feral gear I really didnt feel like I was losing out on too much PvP damage (or at least not as much as I expected!), and in full resto gear I could heal dang well (and my mana pool was HOT thanks to HotW). However, I couldn't do either as well as the pure specced druids, and pvping in half resto + half feral gear was a difficult style to say the least. I still hold that if I ever got the 2 piece tier 5 feral (instant regrowth FTW) that the 1/29/31 spec would work fantastically even in all feral gear. After a month or two on this fun but VERY hard to play spec, and after tasting the sweet sweet thing that is swiftmend, I gave in and specced 8/11/42 for PvP. <br/><br/>At first I pretty much refused to play Fleethoof at all unless I was running BG or arena with my rogue friend Nightcross. What was the reason? I couldn't kill anything (except a frost mage with moonfires and LOS hehe), and in general BG PVP people don't protect their healers. They feel as though they deserve heals, but could care less if their healer dies as long as they get that one last HK. Slowly, however, I started taking this as a challenge. How many people could I single handedly keep up at once? Could a warrior and myself really kill 5-6 alliance who had no healer? How long could I survive with a warrior and mage on me? Would that moonkin and resto druid ever be able to kill me? (Answer: No! Mookin ran out of mana even after 2 inervates! Course I had to use mine too :D) Healing became more exciting, and less of a chore. <br/><br/>The truth is, Healers win BGs. And to a lesser extecnt, healers win the arena. What team is going to cap the flag? The one with the better healers. What team will take the base? The one supported by the better healers. I'm not saying at all that DPSers and CCers are not important, I'm mearly saying that they are a dime a dozen. A good healer is a diamond in the rough, and a single good healer can literally turn the tides of a battle.<br/><br/>You can't really say that about any other role.<br/><br/>-Fleethoof<br/>Balnazzar I was, and had always planned on being a feral druid. I’m an avid PvPer, and the feral druid style was just so dang fun. Stealthing around, doing crazy kitty burst on some clothie, bleeding a heavied armored target dry, popping out and CCing someone with a cyclone, feral charging to cancel a heal, bashing another healer, throwing faerie fire on the rogues to piss em off, and then throwing heals on myself and my team mates to keep us up, were all common occurances in literally every clash.

I made my transition to resto when I specced 1/29/31. This spec was probably the most fun spec I had ever tried, but I learned early that you have to have the right gear balance for it. In full feral gear I really didnt feel like I was losing out on too much PvP damage (or at least not as much as I expected!), and in full resto gear I could heal dang well (and my mana pool was HOT thanks to HotW). However, I couldn’t do either as well as the pure specced druids, and pvping in half resto + half feral gear was a difficult style to say the least. I still hold that if I ever got the 2 piece tier 5 feral (instant regrowth FTW) that the 1/29/31 spec would work fantastically even in all feral gear. After a month or two on this fun but VERY hard to play spec, and after tasting the sweet sweet thing that is swiftmend, I gave in and specced 8/11/42 for PvP.

At first I pretty much refused to play Fleethoof at all unless I was running BG or arena with my rogue friend Nightcross. What was the reason? I couldn’t kill anything (except a frost mage with moonfires and LOS hehe), and in general BG PVP people don’t protect their healers. They feel as though they deserve heals, but could care less if their healer dies as long as they get that one last HK. Slowly, however, I started taking this as a challenge. How many people could I single handedly keep up at once? Could a warrior and myself really kill 5-6 alliance who had no healer? How long could I survive with a warrior and mage on me? Would that moonkin and resto druid ever be able to kill me? (Answer: No! Mookin ran out of mana even after 2 inervates! Course I had to use mine too :D ) Healing became more exciting, and less of a chore.

The truth is, Healers win BGs. And to a lesser extecnt, healers win the arena. What team is going to cap the flag? The one with the better healers. What team will take the base? The one supported by the better healers. I’m not saying at all that DPSers and CCers are not important, I’m mearly saying that they are a dime a dozen. A good healer is a diamond in the rough, and a single good healer can literally turn the tides of a battle.

You can’t really say that about any other role.

-Fleethoof
Balnazzar

]]> By: Phaelia http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Phaelia Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:14:00 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/index.php/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/#comment-250 Good news for you (and me), Niraz. With the release of Zul Aman, they're going to be adding "free" spell damage to Healing gear. I'm guessing that the gear will look something like:<br/><br/>- Increases healing done by spells and effects by X.<br/>- Increases damage done by spells and effects by X/2.<br/><br/>That way it's clear who the gear is intended to be most advantageous to healers. Of course, such a change might mean that I can no longer justifiably sit and pout when my Arena partner is insta-gibbed...<br/><br/>@ Josh -<br/><br/>You're doing what a friend of mine is doing in reverse. He's using his Druid to tank and his Paladin to heal. Me, I have a Warlock that I use to farm; she was a tremendous help when I was saving for Epic Flight Form!<br/><br/>Thanks for the responses! Good news for you (and me), Niraz. With the release of Zul Aman, they’re going to be adding “free” spell damage to Healing gear. I’m guessing that the gear will look something like:

- Increases healing done by spells and effects by X.
- Increases damage done by spells and effects by X/2.

That way it’s clear who the gear is intended to be most advantageous to healers. Of course, such a change might mean that I can no longer justifiably sit and pout when my Arena partner is insta-gibbed…

@ Josh -

You’re doing what a friend of mine is doing in reverse. He’s using his Druid to tank and his Paladin to heal. Me, I have a Warlock that I use to farm; she was a tremendous help when I was saving for Epic Flight Form!

Thanks for the responses!

]]> By: Josh http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Josh Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:57:00 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/index.php/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/#comment-249 My other chars are a Rogue, a Priest, and a Paladin.<br/><br/>Out of all 3 healing classes I rolled, Druid is by far the most fun and interesting one to play, so I shelved the others and sticking with healing with the Druid. I'll just make the priest shadow and the paladin tank. :) My other chars are a Rogue, a Priest, and a Paladin.

Out of all 3 healing classes I rolled, Druid is by far the most fun and interesting one to play, so I shelved the others and sticking with healing with the Druid. I’ll just make the priest shadow and the paladin tank. :)

]]> By: niraz http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/comment-page-1/#comment-248 niraz Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:09:00 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/index.php/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/#comment-248 I have not respecced once nor do I plan to. I have been full restoration from the beginning. Although i've been having issues lately with farming items and gold. I've been trying to farm for my swift flight form and i suck at it as a resto. hahaha. but that's pretty much my only complaint that i can't farm as well as other classes. But i love to heal and priests/pallies/shammies just don't appeal to me. restodruid all the way. <br/><br/>Nirazdin<br/>Baelgun I have not respecced once nor do I plan to. I have been full restoration from the beginning. Although i’ve been having issues lately with farming items and gold. I’ve been trying to farm for my swift flight form and i suck at it as a resto. hahaha. but that’s pretty much my only complaint that i can’t farm as well as other classes. But i love to heal and priests/pallies/shammies just don’t appeal to me. restodruid all the way.

Nirazdin
Baelgun

]]> By: Phaelia http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Phaelia Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:13:00 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/index.php/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/#comment-247 Aiuriun,<br/><br/>I envy your experience with both tanking and healing. I actually have a nearly full set of Feral gear in my bank (although it's a mixture of Cat and Bear) and used it when taking a friend through Stockades (the level 20 instance in Stormwind). I now know the ultimate power of Feral tanking from my experience holding aggro on not 2, not 3, not 4, but FIVE, Five, five Defias Prisoners ... at the same time! :-)<br/><br/>Thanks for sharing your experience! Aiuriun,

I envy your experience with both tanking and healing. I actually have a nearly full set of Feral gear in my bank (although it’s a mixture of Cat and Bear) and used it when taking a friend through Stockades (the level 20 instance in Stormwind). I now know the ultimate power of Feral tanking from my experience holding aggro on not 2, not 3, not 4, but FIVE, Five, five Defias Prisoners … at the same time! :-)

Thanks for sharing your experience!

]]> By: Aiuriun http://www.resto4life.com/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Aiuriun Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:59:00 +0000 http://www.resto4life.com/index.php/2007/08/15/one-of-these-druids-is-not-like-the-other/#comment-246 I was actually resto for sometime, I'm still one of the better geared restos in our guild as well. However, there was a night when I was out farming with my mage friend and a guild group desperately needed a tank. We had been short on tanks and just picked up a new healer so the GM sent me some gold and asked if if I'd tank. I've been tanking ever since. I'm always willing to respec to help the raid out but I think tanking is what I love the most now.<br/><br/>~Aiuriun<br/>Spinebreaker I was actually resto for sometime, I’m still one of the better geared restos in our guild as well. However, there was a night when I was out farming with my mage friend and a guild group desperately needed a tank. We had been short on tanks and just picked up a new healer so the GM sent me some gold and asked if if I’d tank. I’ve been tanking ever since. I’m always willing to respec to help the raid out but I think tanking is what I love the most now.

~Aiuriun
Spinebreaker

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