@@hoasca3417 deep feral, like a PvE dps spec isnt very good. But 1/29/21 is a popular spec to play for feral in pvp and is definitely a good all around build!
hoasca You will be very handy in PvP. You have many things that can turn the table. It’s fun and you have to think about every step and spell you make. Try retro wow or other insta 60 server to have a small touch with your class choice :)
Played a Druid from launch all the way through Vanilla and I hope one thing continues with Classic reboot, the unwritten rule that Druids didn't kill opposing faction druids and would help in PvE if saw one in trouble. Was always fun since you couldn't talk but had mutual respect.
Reminds me of a German wow audio play. Test: What class to play? 1. Do you want to do damage? Player: Doing damage is nice but I am not crazy about it, I will pick No. 2. Do you want to be able to tank? Player: It is practical to be able to tank but I am really not into it, so I will pick No again. 3. Do you want to heal? Player: Great now he tries to make me a healer, I fucking hate that crap NO. Congratulations your preferred class is the Druid!
Lol the same guy here.. I just love how dynamic the druid is.. Sure its sucks a bit at vanilla, bit less on TBC but man I fucking loved druid in wotlk, esp. the pvp.. If you picked resto or boomkin or feral you always could be one of the top contributing players in bgs.. Personally I loved resto, being first in heal, making a huge difference in teamfights, many times in fights where opposition has bigger numbers, and if things went south I could just run away and regroup somewhere where it was needed so basically like this you pretty often end up being top healer with 0 deaths that can also nicely CC people and flexibly even accomplish the objectives.. Just awesome and flexible
13 years of druid.. Cant lvl since druid any other char.. They lack Utility.. Fun.. Great Looking Gear.. And tons of spells. And about Having Fun playing Suport Witch Hurts my Dmg even more And is unnoticed Still makes me so Happy.. After Wolk they ruined Class with Tranquility and a lot of suport so yoiu could Race With Dmg Meter..
I find this comment funny. For the longest time in vanilla I wanted to get my Druid to 60. But would always fall off at mid 30s. My reasons were always that the Druid felt like a watered down version of all my other 60s. But as a classic player, I’m stating to see the benefit to investing in a class that can be in the background. And frankly I think they are so under represented that they get geared even quicker
0:09: I play since 1.06 and I lvled up as a druid. I never heard about druids being underdogs. Druid was respected in many ways specially on pvp. And you do not need to top dps or hps meters, classic was not about the logs but about playing what you like and progress raid. People with this ideology killed the retail.
The fact you can only be Tauren or Night Elf is not a negative. It is consistent with the lore, and lore makes the game better as it gives everything more flavor and makes the game as a whole more immersive. An Orc Druid makes no sense whatsoever that's the mentality that led us to retail.
Good stuff Ebn! Love the versatility and supporting role that only a druid can really supply. It just comes down to finding other people that can see that in the class xD
I like what you said about the high skill floor and what happens once you get there. Been playing a Druid 3 years on private servers and feel like there’s so much depth and that I’m just a total noob. Like you said you really have to work for your kills so getting the skills to work up to that is so nuanced. Nice video you told well about Druids, I will link you to others who ask me about Druid. I really think they are great. Love being the underdog I’m switching to shaman for classic though as I’m ready for a change and this will fit my play schedule better. Funny though like you said on Horde you can only play Tauren and since I’m a Horde player at heart I want to play an orc. Druid is best on nelf lol. Well played. Great content.
@@MarcTube A skill floor is the minimum level of ability required to be effective. Or if you prefer, skill floor is how bad you can be and still be competetive, and skill ceiling is how much potential there is to stomp people completely - or win 1vX and so on.
Hey man, loved this video. I have played a druid since classic and can't wait to play again this summer. I especially loved your last point about trying to play another class and it's just not the same. I feel that exact same way!!! I will be looking forward to more druid content. You deserve more subs, keep going!!!
MOOooooo! yep Tauren is the biggest deterrent for me (my friends only want to play Horde). I've been a Druid main in Modern WoW since late Wrath, where I finally noticed this classes full potential. With Classic less than a month out now, I've started to deep dive on the class I know I want to play and am preparing for the up hill battle of Vanilla progression. I defiantly appreciate the coverage on this video.
@Ebbnflow most other classes claim druids are clunky. It's the other classes that feel clunky. Priest can heal but cant soak the damage (clunky) Warrior cant heal when in trouble without a pot ( clunky) Mages get an add half way through (clunky) Lock fear bouncing and pull in more adds ( clunky ) hunter/ rogues multi adds with cooldowns burnt ( clunky) Druids smooth transition from caster, to run like hell, to heal, to bear. Amazing solo or in groups. Since they can do it all in such easy movements they are the epitome of smooth. It is what other classes wish they were and they try to make it that way in later expansions.....we are already the perfect class!!
Couldnt agree more, was healing on a priest the other day and anytime a rogue or warrior gets on you youre pretty much dead, no real peels or ways to run!!
My main has been a resto druid for years. In legion, I specialized in healing maxed-out Mythics+ (+10 or +15). My gear was PERFECT for 5-men. Alllll mastery+haste... and then, what happened? I did a raid. I never raided. I studied all fights beforehand (got a long warning before the raid help request). And so, what happened? Here you have a super-specialized player, for 5-men, geared for 5-men, without critical strike rating... Was it gonna suck? Most people would have predicted a YES! You know what I did? I order to take advantage of the haste and mastery, I had to remain what my character was: a small-number-of -targets healer... During the whole raid, I healed the same 6 targets (mostly). The main tank and the 5 healers. Treating the raid as a 5-men. You know what happened? The other healers almost never panicked for their own life. The main tank received a kind of life-bar stabilization booster with all the HoTs, and I was able to have super quick and cheap healing touch on him and I almost never worried for my mana. The raid was a success, and I toped the healing charts, even beating the holy paladin for tank healing. DRUIDS ROCK and are very flexible!
Missing thoughts on dungeons (no rez can mean some will not want you as healer, gear up as bear tank) and raids (not many druids in raids comps, but low population means easy spots, easy gearing due to low competition)...
Amazing guide!!! Most of the guides are so general where people dont make distinctions at all. Druid like Paladin is the glass that has sooo much more that meets the eye while everyone fails to see it since they can't make finer distinctions about the class. I loved the vid and I am looking forward to be playing a Druid in Classic.
The point is to to determine the identity of ur class by ur talent tree, not your class alone. For example, Warrior is the only viable tank ( by far the best in tanking), he is also an insane dps as fury in raids and he is also probably the best pvp class. All that in 1 character.. all u have to do is choose ur talent tree. Now tell me, what's the point of going cast damage druid? instead of mage or warlock? Or healer without a ress? with insuficient heals that cost half ur mana. Or bear form? just to use 3 skills and pretend to be a warrior with that rage.. or maybe cat form? u're not even 10% of the rogue with that catform. U see where i am getting here? U go feral, u are just a worse warrior ( both for tank and dps) and a worse rogue. U go moonkin, u're a WAY worse mage/warlock. U go resto, u're good but u're still worse than paladins priests and shamans. So why would a new player choose a druid? cus of mark of the wild? cus of innnervate that will be used on a priest? or cus of a 30min battle ress? YOu are implying in ur comment that in order for a class to be support it must be weak.. but it's not true.. look at paladins... great supports.. are they weak? hell no. Again, there's a reason why it's the least played class by far.. and it's not cus it's a support class. The game has more support classes that are not that weak... not to mention that the gear of druid in general ( and every other hybrid class) is just akward...it's a pain to gear up a hybrid class based on ur spec. While as a mage, every gear that says "mage" is just perfect for you.. no need to screw ur head over that. In TBC druids were still the same class, but instead of being useless they were actually insane at supporting ( like they should) and decent to the other stuff. This is blizzard FIXING the flaws of vanila.. that's why most people prefer TBC over vanila.. vanila is just too incomplete compared to TBC. TBC is the definition of an overpowered expansion... it's just a way better version of vanila without the bullshit that came with wotlk and later with cata. Too bad blizzard decided to go with vanila instead of tbc just cus a bunch of 35+ year old dudes are having a nostalgia breakdown.
@@rudy1999 a personal opinion with no real arguements to back it up . truth is both TBC and WOTLK were more favored than vanila, and the statistics prove it. in fact wow reached it's PEAK at wotlk, and then started to go down with cata... steadily. Vanila was all about grind, awfull pvp system with little to no skill involved, no arena also... raids had 0 mechanics.. It was good for 2005, and with the horrible mmos that coming out all the time it will see success even now... but compared to tbc and wotlk, vanila is a lot worse in so many aspects.. especially the pvp, the grind and the pve.
If you have a buddy try moving around the world as a *LOCK* (afflic/destro hybrid) *DRUID* (balance/resto hybrid) pairing - the synergy is astounding and the world melts around you while simultaneously you are unassailable.
Good video, was following you pretty well until you listed playing the best Horde race as a negative, perhaps it was just an editing mistake but other than that, solid points.
Played Drood since vanilla. Pro: you can tank 5 mans great since your threat is super high. Or heal it. Con: DPS is lackluster but in raids i was usually not last place. Unfortunately in raids you will be a healer unless your raid group is very chill or on farm status. I only tanked MC if i was the ONLY tank on. And we dont have defense so we can be crushing blowed by bosses (lame itemization Blizzard) We are great for world pvp but every kill is a project. Locks, shadow priests and rogues are tough fights. Hunters who know how to kite also. We can be feared by hunters scare beast also.
In phase 3 now and I did what I didn’t even think possible but being utility and topping raid healing. Noticed Regrowth has taken over my main heal spell. Raid only runs two Restos so splitting hots has been really simple. Such an amazing class and so much fun.
i think people should talk also about thorns and mark of wild, and that druids are both mele and range sustain and burst, i think that alot of people underrate the flexability, couse flexability of the druid is so strong, and also the mark of the wild buff is insanly good and under represented with game mechanics
I love your comments about not needing to shine as a druid but providing so much enhancement to groups. Some people are ok with not leading the charts, just find a group who appreciates all you do. As a druid I saved so many raids and PVP groups because I had major versatility. Can't wait to play one
The druids just buff everyone els around them thanks to intervene, BR to save fights when tanks die or the top DPS. Or give the +3% crit aura to you group and help them do even more ops in the fights
A leveling guide with spec, rotation, macros and gear for leveling a Druid would be golden for most players who didn’t play or level a Druid in vanilla. Btw, I started leveling a Druid on horde on Northdale. I know it’s late but I want to practice before Classic comes out. Good job on the video !!
Not that I wanna remove attention from Ebbn's amazing content, but I really liked Kargoz' druid leveling guide - in combination with Ebbn's speed leveling videos it should have you covered pretty well :)
This is a great video, I think many people thats been insecure about picking the druid should watch this video to get them on different thoughts that this is a correct pick (Y)
If i was later in the video I missed it. You may be correct about healing competitiveness I havent seen anything to disprove it and know it to be true from experience. But private servers have min maxed and shown how competitive former underdogs are / how they are viable. There are for instance some indepth guides and footage on how strong feral in raid can be with the right gearing and rotation - IE competing or outshining the typical leaders of the time - IE rogues, warriors, mages and warlocks.
I played a druid from first release till the end of burning crusade when the game went tits up, and I could not agree more. I managed to get rank 13 in PVP should have made 14 but work got in the way and stuff. I loved playing a druid, I tried every spec for many years. I have to say my favourite PVP spec was balance as a night elf moonkin, starfire from stealth was just a 15% chance auto kill. (I had every decent spell power item worth getting) also WSG flag carrying as your video shows was key to a lot of my points over the course of playing a druid. I think they have the highest skill requirement of any class I ever tried, and i tried all the alliance classes. With classic coming out next week me and a lot of friends from the old days are gona play again, but this time as horde, I wanted so much to relive my druid feeling but have decided to go shaman the only class even more complicated to play than a druid imo. No stealth this time means I will have to face up to fights I do not fancy, but there in lays the beauty of the druid it could do everything and a high spell damage specced balance could toe to toe with a mage but burn mana twice as fast :( I loved druids but wanted a new challenge. I hope you are going to play classic again? I loved your video it was exactly as I remembered playing a druid. Except you did not have stealth starfire alliance druids are way WAY better. I still love your vid :)
Thanks for the video Ebbn. I've been pondering creating a Druid come classic and this helped. You mentioned Druids required a fair amount of macros, perhaps you can share what macros you like to use in another video.
I like pvp and i played priest basically since vanilla and swapping the class is a thing im thinking of since long time...i tried to play a druid on those private servers and what i noticed that the many buttons/hotkeys/makros is just a thing i cannot ignore. It is more or less killing me and the hight risk you to take with that class compared to the reward you get is very poor ( pvp wise ). PvE wise i like the druid a lot, it offers a lot of different options depending on the situation and the leveling process is smooth. My conclusion: I tested the druid for about a month and if you are not a top notch druid and a master of the class then you basically lose 100% of your fights against every class.Its absolute vital to understand the pvp situation you are in and then react with the correct shape shift counter + the 5000 spells you also have to use while fightening. Pve wise you can do nothing wrong with the druid. His tools are limitless. I personally will skip the druid but it was interesting. I guess after all i will stick with shaman or priest ( once again )
Yeah its not a very forgiving class, like you said you have to do everything right. If i wasnt able to play a druid I would play a shaman, a very fun class with really good tools for pvp and pve
You went from playing arguably the most brain-dead easy class in the game (which happens to be the best 1v1 class while taking almost no skill) to what most would suggest is the most difficult class to master. Can't say I'm surprised =P
Druid is a lot of fun, you have 4 specs wich all play differently. Are they the best cookie-cutter spec? Of course not, but they're fun and that is all that really matters unless you're pushing for world first wich doesn't apply for 99.9%of people. Play the class you want, the race you want. It takes a long time to get to 60 and you don't want to get there and feel like youre missing out
another downside to druid: in addition to the con of "if you're horde, you have to play a Tauren," if you're alliance, you have to play a Night Elf, and Teldrassil sucks ass. Worst starting zone. Also, you have to do the wetlands run.
@@nullvektor9922 i know darkshore is really streamlined. Not sure about teldrasilli. Mulgore is fairly fast if you know how to strategically die and use spirit rez
technically if you know what you're doing and route it well it's one of the fastest but it's really frustrating and pretty fucking boring i.e. barrow dens isn't even tagged as a group quest but it regularly wipes groups of 2-4 and it'd take well over an hour to solo
@@Ebbnflow that's too much effort and knowledge compared to teldras....Mulgore is like.. enourmous compared to teldras :/ It's naturally worse.. Of course that applies only if u played both horde and alliance in mulgore and teldras.. if u're doing only horde or only alliance, then naturally u will feel more comfortable with the one u're choosing.. since u've probably done that a million times.
Thanks so much for this video. Helped me decide NOT to go with a Druid for Classic. Played a Druid from BC and loved it and none of these issues were present
Why Me whats it like to not have a mind of your own?? fact is tbc isn't very far removed from classic, but this idiot has made up your mind since you don't have one of your own!
Great video and the mic sounds so good! You must get tons of suggestions, but I've only mained druid since Cataclysm and used to play Hunter in Vanilla, so I would really like to see a guide for pre-raid gearing as a resto druid. Doesnt seem like theres videos on the subject yet. Anyways, have a good one!
Thanks for noticing the mic, I got a new one so glad it sounds good. Yeah I want to do a pre-bis list video for druids I just want to hear a final word from blizzard on progressive itemization so the video has the correct items!
Thanks for the video man, I have been thinking about druid come classic but I have ZERO experience in the class. I am finding myself having a tough choice on if I should stick with it or not as I have never really used macros all that much.
Thanks for pointing out these cons as I think many have skewed views of vanilla druids. There's a reason this was one of the least played classes back in Vanilla and I think it boils down to the "master of none" along with the fact that there's a lot to manage as a druid, much more so than other classes, and the work for many won't be worth it. Having stances like a warrior, needing to watch yourself and others for heals, and then also manage your surrounding opponents is quite a game in itself. It's a completely different playstyle than other classes. The only one that came close for me was Disc Priest later in wrath. I'm glad you mentioned macros as macros and keybindings were always in constantly changing for me as I found more efficient ways to play. I'm always curious how other druids set up their macros and binds. In addition I'm also curious about self and party member healing. I used the self target modifier key back in the day and then had party members bound but curious how others do it. Would be awesome to have a macros and keybinding video and also why certain spells are in bars for certain forms.
tbh... i was main druid in vanila. Class was weak but since it was super fun and capable of dealing with any problem in any situation, i was super fine. But problems that cannot be changed and stopping me from playing druid in classic : the gear... just like any hybrid class in vanila.. i just hate the way hybrid gear works in vanila.. TBC and wotlk handled that way better. And the other one is the farm. With mage, in northdale i was rich in no time... cus aoe farming is just insane.. i don't wanna skip that.
A well played Druid is a thankless role at times, but I think they are the best 5 man class in the game...I always appreciate a well played Druid in my group.
unless if u die and then u have to run all the way back to your group just cus blizzard didn't give a ress to that healer. Which was obviously a mistake that was fixed later on.
@M Z warlock can't ress, if u have a priest, the priest will be healing the group. So there's no room for you. Shaman... yea if u have shaman ench or ele he can ress ur group.
@M Z yea i call that bullshit.. i was playing vanila as well u know. Again SS is not a ress.. and if u have a shaman or a priest in the group then yea problem solved... but if u have a shaman or a priest, u probably don't wanna take a druid.
With the regrowth spec you are most definately able to top the healing meters if you super tryhard i am in one of the top alliance guilds on northdale and i am in the top 2 or 3 every raid in HPS this does require a lot of consumables though keep up the druid content :)
I've heard a lot of people saying that they use regrowth a lot on private servers and I think they have the math wrong. I played druid all the way through WoW and I hardly used regrowth outside pvp. I saw a video that said they are giving the full +healing on both the heal and the HOT, whereas in classic it got a lot less. I'm not saying anything for sure, but just beware of what you learn from these private servers. Very small differences can change the playstyle of a class completely.
@@TheToledoTrumpton yes! I have heard that the healing coeficient of the hot portion of regrowth might be messed up on private servers, we will have to wait and see I guess
If geared for it, you can twoshot people with a Ravage+Ferocious Bite or Starfire×2 combo, but since Druids don't have the crit talents of the Rogue it wont be anywhere near as dependable. However, catching someone sitting down will guarantee a crit with Ravage, and in those situations you have a high chance of 2-3 shotting someone. Also a fun thing I like to do, is to open in Stealth, lock down the target, run away and restealth, and reopen with either Ravage or open with another Pounce and lock down again, playing with my target. If you PvP with Wolfshead Helm and have the Furor-Talent, you can burst someone down in Cat form with Shred+Powershifting. If fighting 2 players you can Root/Sleep the other while bursting the other down in Cat. An especially sweet part of that is, since the base damage of Druid is surprisingly high, you can do a surprisingly high burst combo with Shred+Powershifting even if playing naked. The negative of it is that you are vulnerable while in Cat form, but the Feline Swiftness-Talent helps pretty good there, including in making you be the first to open in Stealth against a Rogue if specced for it. If you and the Rogue both have the 5-point better Stealth, and the Rogue has the extra points in detecting stealthed targets, and you have Feline Swiftness, the Rogue will be able to spot you 1 step further away than you can spot the Rogue, but because of you moving so much faster in Stealth than the Rogue, you will be the one to get the opener. Just do this while moving, jump constantly ahead while facing sidewaysbackwards while having a Pounce+Attack macro set to the Mousewheel hotkey and let the mousewheel roll freely while moving. And Feral Druid can actually be top on DPS. The best Rogues and Warriors will lie above you in DPS, but far from everyone plays at the max of their class. And regardless of being Nr 1 or not, if you use Powershifting if wearing Wolfshead Helm/Furor-Talent and use a Shred×5combos+Ferocious Bite combo while using Manual Crowd Pummeler, you will be able to be a top DPSer. Look up Shedo the Druid to see it in action. Also look up Skarmtank's videos on being a dedicated Raid Tank as Druid. They are really good.
Yep, Shedo and Skarm are both great druids and highlight the strength of feral druids in terms of dps and tanking capabilities!! You can get some gnarly burst with crits in cat form, but you struggle to lock down apponents like you can as a rogue which makes bursting people down in pvp a bit tricky, but I agree with you it is possible!
@@Ebbnflow Yeah, it's not as cut and simple as with a Rogue but it's actually really easy. Just needs to go about it differently than a Rogue would. I think of it as a Hit & Run tactic, where you keep the other player stunned/Rooted the whole time while your Dot/Bleeds take half their healthbar from each time to run away and restealthed to open again. Or keep the Rooted while bursting them down with spells, or just go rampage with Powershift+Shred, hell that tactic has even worked against Warriors for me. Or wear them down by tanking them... So many options for playing with your prey :D
I just signed in only to upvote and subscribe to your channel because this video was AWESOME! I wanted to pick something bad ass for upcoming Vanilla like Undead Priest/Rogue. But mannn... Druid and his support skills in a pvp group is just what I wanted to play. Plus I like trolling ppl :D In addition, that rooting with the two mobs (in Feralas i think) was all my laughs :D Keep up the good work!!!
It is possible for a druid to top or atleast be competetive in the healing meters, 1 druid per raid is skilling regrowth + rejuvenation. He gets insane late AQ early Naxx. Con is only one druid per raid is allowed to do this job. but keeping the hots up on the tanks and throwing here and there is boosting hps insanely. Another Con is when you do this, you slurp mana potions and demonic runes all day... but you can be #1 at some fights.
i think we had like 3 or even 4 healing druids in bwl and i remember playing heal druid myself in aq etc. didnt feel like i was a shitty healer or didnt feel like the other druids were bad. u just spam a low rank healing touch allday, pretty much the same as priests do also spamm low rank heals.
@@lolleonlolable Depends on the healing build. You've got the Swiftmend build which is more focused on the tanks. Then you have have Moonglow which makes you more mana efficient and typicial heal the rest of the group / your assigned groups.
The reason I see classic as a better expansion is the pvp factor of it. I hated resilience and fly mounts. Leading to abandoning the biggest part of the world EK and Kalimdor and kiss goodbye to WPVP.
lololol... love it.. kickin the rogues asss no problemooooo at the end. Any druid should be able to beat a rogue in a duel, like you were saying about skill floor. With skill you can bean nearly anyone.
This is honestly why I'm torn between hunter and druid; because everyone is gonna try to be the next "world of roguecraft", undead rogue is going to be by far the most abundant class. I'm extremely looking forward to crushing them as a nelf hunter or druid.
Great video! I'll be maining a druid on classic because I just genuinely love the class not because their the best at anything. also i love the underdog mentality, also I love how complex the class is I could never play a rogue as a main because it's so braindead it's not even funny who cares if I'm topping the charts if I'm not having fun.
Yeah all good points. I played a rogue in og classic back in the day but switched to druid after playing one for a while and realizing just how versitile they are!
I played a dps feral on Elysium/lightbringer. pro: definitely the most fun and challenging rotation, having to watch, energy, mana, swing timer, while powershifting and moving in and out as a melee dps shouls. cons: ended up costing me 250g a week on consums cuz i was flasking every raid and farming that much is really a bummer
Nice Video! I really want to make one. Looks like it should be an elf. Too bad, I always loved it when these big cows does turned into cats or birds XD
Once you go all in in druid all the other classes fade in comparison. Love the comment about the rogue getting props for his (singe) flagrun. Did rank 11 as carrier i know exactly how that is :)
not for all of us, i've done every role on a druid and i still find shamans more fun to play, i will main a shaman and maybe first alt will be a druid every time. the only thing a druid has on a shaman is stealth imo.
A skill floor is the lowest level of skill required to play a class/character effectively, whereas a skill ceiling is the point at which increasing your skill no longer makes any difference in how well you're doing. Except for the LoL community, which I hear has a different definition for the term skill-floor..
Its been a while but a friend that was a resto druid main back in van he said it was one of the best healers.. He was a guilds main healer in raids and they did all content.. Thats why i picked resto druid in BC and i was always top heals from then on
I have no experience in classic nor much in wow but dosnt it cost alot to re-specs cus that would be a major con idk if People stick to one spec through pvp and pve though great video helped me make up my mind on what class to play
I didn't play WoW till late WotLK and all the anti druid stuff vanilla players talk about really put me off. In cata I started playing alts and druid was by far my favorit alt. (always played healer) I will play a healer in Classic but druid was always the one class I never really considered. Soo... thanks for making my choice even harder D:
1 Feral and 1 Moonkin Per raid can be usefull too. It's 3%crit for half of the raid. 3% x 20 people = 60% efficiency only because of 1 buff ! The rest is your dps ( feral can be in the top 5 dps if played godly good )
Druids are under-appreciated because the majority of druids under perform. I have played vanilla resto druid across 3 different servers and they are absolutely capable of topping healing meters across all content using a variety of different play styles. Pull your weight and you will be revered by your guild mates and PuGs.
@who knows I've always raided with at least one other druid in the raid and had the pleasure of raiding alongside some top priests. The majority of the time I am the top spot and I have seen other druids from good guilds put up similar results.
I prefer healing classes too, but it is only recently in the game that you could stay specced for healing and actually do enough damage to quest. That is what worries me
Healing isn't a race: You shouldn't be trying to top the healing meters: Doing that leads to over-healing & wasted mana: Which leads to OOM which leads to wipes. Before the pull, coordinate a priority system with your other healers to minimize wasteful, over-healing.
@@nikolaikalashnikov4253 Overhealing has its purpose. Follow assignements but the mentality where you need to have 0 overhealing leads to deaths. Use consumables and you won't OOM.
@@GregQT i think it's quite the opposite... it's a lot easier to run into noob rogues/mages/priests/warriors.. classes that are actually played by the general population... While druids... druids is a class that will be picked by a guy who KNOWS what he is picking... at least nowadays. So the chances of 1 druid to be better skilled than 1 mage/rogue/priest/warrior are significally higher. Also, healers are not that try hard in the meters like the dps are...there are more important and significant things that a healer is doing in a fight rather than mindlessly toping a meter, using an 1-4 skill rotation like the dps. Healing meter has about..0 value compared to the dmg meter. And maybe... just maybe, if a druid is topping a paladin or a priest... maybe, the paladin and the priest suck? or they are undergeared? or maybe they don't even give a shit and let u try hard since u want to? It all depends you know... it's not that simple like the dps.
Really awesome and helpful video. I played priest through vanilla until cata and then rolled druid. Have rocked resto druid ever since and just love it so much. Really torn for classic between priest or druid. Only con that matters to me is lack of an OOC res. Thoughts?
They're fantastic for casuals. I mained druid all through classic and had an absolute blast just doing open world stuff and dungeons and casual BGs. You're able to tank, heal, and dps on demand with the same spec meaning you do amazing solo or in small groups, and aquatic and travel form makes getting around a thousand times easier, especially in early game. When I first unlocked aquatic form I just spent a whole day swimming all around the coasts of the world, and I was too fast to get killed by most mobs even when they were way higher level.
The most fun I ever had in Burning Crusade PVP was playing a fully end game healing Druid. So much fun did not die much, apart from getting one-shotted from time to time by people Multiboxing - 5 Shamans. Even pug BG'S were fun. Everyone will be playing DPS Warriors, Rouges, Locks. Obtain the 5 man dun run with a healing druid. :-)
Look. I haven't played since quitting during MoP because it got boring and repetitive but never really stopped watching RU-vid WoW creator's videos out of sheer nostalgia for the most ideal time of gaming in its earlier years like vanilla and BC (and mostly playing most classes except druid) but now I'm thinking of playing classic during the summer and rolling a druid to challenge myself. If I do I'll remember this video.
definitely gonna roll a druid ! Taurens ftw. Hope that tanks are not gonna be hated in classic.... i wonder how the druid tank performs in tbc and wotlk though ....
Ebbnflow never really had that prob. Was in the group with mages in raids adding chance to crit and steady DPS. Honestly did alright for myself and the group loved the extra Crits and when the monster was dead....the Dance!
A druid in my guild broke records on healing meters in naxxramas. He was BiS gear with ateish though. But everyone else was geared, including other healers and a priest Atiesh. So druids CAN top healing meters definitely. And they are great for pvp. 1-3 druids are needed in raids.
Yeah they scale really well with healing gear for their hots, people say regrowths healing coeficient might be off on private servers but who knows! They definitely can do well if they bring consumables and are geared
@@Ebbnflow I think this druid went above and beyond to reach Rank 1 on heal meters for naxx bosses. He completely dominated by using every consume and having BiS gear. We also coordinate paladin DI's in fights like Maexxna to get the best meters. Druid is definitely beats Paladin and priest. It just depends on the fight, because once everyone is geared, you are competing against other healers for top healing. So the best healers will know exactly when to heal when someone takes damage and get the heal off before other healers do. In the end, healing doesn't matter, its all about DPS.
Amazing content! New player here. Druid is calling my name. I can't stop looking up world pvp videos and builds. I never got to play vanilla. runescape and guild wars 1-2 were my thing for over a decade. Tried modern wow but classic looks much more appealing to me. In guild wars 2 wvw (realm v realm v realm combat) I played pick team (thief) in guild fights. Its a small subsection of your zerg that takes out healers or other valuable targets mid fight through disruption through unconventional/ unexpected means. Its often underappreciated in group fights/ mobility/ difficult to kill if well played/ plenty of important interrupts and immobilizes to land/ peeling for your teammates, etc. I thought rogue would be my thing in wow so I tried sub in retail and I do like it well enough. Thought I would like rogue in classic, but after watching so many videos and threads explaining stuff like this... I am sold on druid. It looks complex in just the right way that gets me excited. That and I watched verycoolguy make rogue look, while hilarious, a bit one-dimensional in comparison to druid hybrid builds. tldr; thanks so much for the vid! Can't wait to see more and play druid in classic!
I'd love to see a video about pvp strats versus each class, as a resto on a private server (think it is the same as yours) I can get away but never seem to be able to secure kills. Maybe I'll try and see if you are on one day and run some stuff by you
i think peoples opinions on druids will change once classic launches people think they are a jack of all trades master of non but they can really shine with a skilled player. I maned druid back in the day and i will be maining druid again because of how quick they can level but not just that, how strong they can be
i actually warn people not to play druid because it'll ruin them for other classes. druid has the most interesting playstyle, with so much to learn. I mained a lock, played lots of alts, but once i started leveling a druid, i was done. i always prefer druid now and other classes start to bore me once i hit around level 20. the only classes that DON'T bore me to tears are priest and warrior, and that's largely because i love to heal and tank (and i feel priest is best, most interesting healer). but even with those two, i'm only interested BECAUSE of tanking or healing. the rest just feels like baggage (wars can't heal, slow leveling, etc, priest lacks mobility and not very tanky). druid is endless. so many techniques, so many playstyles, always new things to learn and improve upon. i think they're best for people that are really interested in the mechanics of vanilla, as opposed to topping charts. or if you GOTTA GO FAST
Hey Ebb what's your opinion on the Regrowth trend on pservers? Although, it has a higher coefficient than what we might see in Classic, do you think we will stick with it since lately the TC'ing surrounding it is yielding better results? Also, I'd say one of the hardest aspect of pve resto druid is not overhealing.
Hey ! great video, keep going ! Have you ever consider doing a video about macro's ? It's a real struggle for me and a few of my druid friends, i think it might be a good idea ! Anyway thx for the good content ! ♥
