The Druid
As master shapeshifters, druids can take on the forms of a variety of beasts, morphing into a bear, cat, storm crow, or sea lion with ease. This flexibility allows them to fill different roles during their adventures, tearing enemies to shreds one minute and surveying the battlefield from the sky the next. These keepers of the natural order are among the most versatile heroes in Azeroth, and they must be prepared to adjust to new challenges on a moment’s notice.
The Druid class is intended to be protector of the wilds, defender of the great balance, and preserver of life, but unless you’re playing on an RP server, I somewhat doubt that you truly plan on doing anything aside from laying some major smack down on everything from mobs, when leveling, to other players in the arena, to bosses in raids.
Let not the (relatively) low population of Druid’s sway you from your interest. Druids are one of the most fun, inventive, and overall powerful (overpowered?) classes in the game, and for good reason considering how the class is designed.
GotWarcraft Druid Guides
- Druid Class Guide – this is an overview of the Druid class. More details are in the guides below.
- Druid leveling guide – Leveling as a feral cat is nice, fast, and easy. This guide covers general leveling, rather than specifically PvP or Dungeon leveling. It includes a feral build and lots of tips.
- Go here to get leveled even faster.
- Balance spec for PvE – The build, the gems, the stats and rotations.
- Feral – Feral Druid guide for raiding and PvP. Gears, gems, enchants, builds.
- Feral DPS – A guide to raiding DPS for ferals.
- Feral Tanking Guide – Bear form – build, gears, etc.
- Restoration – Like to heal? PvE or PvP? Druid healers rule and this page has the builds and info you need for resto. This is the older guide on the older section of the site and hasn’t been updated to 4.3. Still has some good info, though.
- Restoration PvE – Resto for raiding, covering builds, glyphs, etc.
- PvP Builds – Based on the amount of QQing we hear about Druids we have to conclude that they are quite nice in PvP. Toughness, damage, speed, shape-shifting, heals… The only downside to the class is that it takes work to make best use of your vast array of abilities.
For a more in-depth and highly detailed resource on everything Druid related, from Leveling to PvP to Raiding to earning gold, check out the Killer Guides’ Druid guide.
Mist of Pandaria Notes for Druids:
- There will be massive changes to the talent system, among other things. WoWhead has a preliminary view of the new talent calculator here
- Bliz says, “Druids: This class has always felt as if it had four specs, so now it will.” There is no further explanation for now.
- Take all talent and ability analysis with a BIG grain of salt for now.
Blizzard covers the new Druid builds for Mists of Pandaria
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Our class guides for whichever class you’re playing:
Death Knights – Druid – Hunter – Mage – Paladin
Priest – Rogue – Shaman – Warlock – Warrior
The GotWarcraft Gold Guide
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