Project Lore

From what i've read in the wotlk forums Druids are gonna suck for feral and bear tanking beyond all belief there only good spec will be resto and maybe boomkin. I hope this isnt true and its a bunch of pre-release QQ. And when the exp hits they will have revised and fixed w/e griefs/problems there are.

I've played all three specs at 70 and I have to say that Boomkin is by far my favorite. It was hard at first when I was gearing up to see the benefits, but once you are in all purples and your spell damage is 1k+ it really pays off. Nothing beats 2 shotting pretty damn near any non-elite mobs and the 17k armor doesn't hurt either.

Tanking with a druid is not easy. Druids generate aggro with high dmg and the Lacerate skill. The highest aggro you can generate is with Maul+Mangle+Lacerate(5 stacks) used in a sequence. For all druid tank watch out for Shadow Priests and Destruction Warlocks because they can steal aggro very easy from you. So as an advice keep your Challenging Roar for the boss and use it to get him back to you. If that fails that is a bit bad. Druid tanks are not very used in end-game raids because of this aggro loss and because the Protection Warrior cannot DPS as a feral druid.

My lvl 70 druid rocks! Like any good bear tank should :D

Tanking is a whole lot of fun and the experiance of being able to PvP and PvE with feral talents just plain rules :D

- Gaarth x

Sammy I am sorry but the druid on feral will be great in WotLK. The guys from The Blizzard development Team said that they hold back the druid on feral in TBC but now they really want to see druids tank in end-game raids. The talents on feral are amazing. All talents help the druid to tank better (higher dmg, smaller cooldowns) and the last talent, Berserk, is amazing: +30% hp (like Last stand at warrior) Mangle and Maul hits 3 targets. With this new talents Protection Warriors will have a big opponent for their place in a raid as Tank.

First off Kudo's for rolling a druid.

Tanking in itself is a tricky process as currently you have the choice of a Warrior - Paladin - Druid.

Warriors are great tanks as everyone knows very well balanced.

Paladins are excellent agro on multiple targets (but need good healers).

Feral Druid Tank = Agro Machines on single targets, if you have a good one on Grull and give them a 5 second head start, No one is going to catch this beast of the threat meter. (be scared when you see 4k+tps on your tank)

I am alittle nervious with the new bell's n whistles of WOTLK for feral tanking druids, yet given the flexiblities that I have found with gear + talents + gems, enchants, armour kits. Im looking forward for the new tasks at hand.

1st off my main is a druid tank. The one thing I really love about druid tanks is that if the group is full on tanks, *pop* you go cat form and take up a dps slot. What? The group needs an off healer for this boss? *pop* caster form. With the druid, you do get all walks of life and that is why I love it.

If you decide to stay balance, you can always be a panzerkin!

My main is a druid on Blackhand. I have seen all sides of a druid, playing balance, resto, and feral bear tank. And by far healing and tanking as a druid are the most fun. I think bear tanks are the most effective on mutli-mob pulls, along with protadins of course. If you decide to switch, you will have a lot of fun. Not that balance isnt fun, but i think below 40 it really isnt that great for leveling.

I have a 35 druid alt, but I prefer healing, actually. I can tank quite well, but I would rather be a warrior for that. Besides, healing people is so fun, it makes me feel like I'm actually doing something, just as tanking does. Dps feels... empty to me, like sure, it's good and all, but there are so many out there, I want to be different. After I get the warrior I'm levelling to 70, I am going to make a paladin for healz, and prolly a druid or mage for dps, but that will take a while. (less because I'm doing the recruit a friend thing for the paladin, and will prolly use the RAF account for a shaman, warlock, and druid, too.

Also... I may play alliance, but I'm horde at heart :D Taurens FTW.

Vên, Executus, TRG.

My main is a feral druid on anachronos server, i did lvl from 1 to 70 as feral and i realy enjoyed it like taking 5 mobs spam swipe i get low on health pop health regen from rage up ow again get low use barkskin cast healing touch regrowth and switch back to bear and swipe spam was realy great to do. also my time in outland was cool tanked mostly like i also do with my alts dpsing is nothing for me i got a lvl 70 hunter and its so boring just spamming macro's tanking and healing is cool it needs skill as dps you need skill for pvp like arena

deeeeeeeeeep breath

I know this is off topic, but recently one of teh blogs had links to 3 WoW comic strips (I know it was about waisting time while waiting) but I can't seem to find it now, does anyone remember what the other 2 links where? I know one of them was http://www.darklegacycomics.com/archive.html. I would like to check the other 2 again but I can't remember or find the links.

The great thing about being a druid is, in my opinion, the versatility. You may be specced this or that, but you never know when you have to suddenly switch gears.

I'm a balance druid, but from time to time I've had to tank (dire situations those were). And honestly, I understand the "life changing" feeling you're getting. I've NEVER tanked before-- my main is a rogue and my alt is balance, so when I tanked my ass off that time, I felt so powerful. :D

But lol, I don't think I'm gonna respec to feral. It's probably very fun too, but I loveeee my boomkin. Too much fun.

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i used to be a pally tank then i gave up and became ret then i lawl'ed at ret (until 3.0) so i gave up on my pally raiding wise and started in on my mage in now one of the top dps'er in our guild the only one who can touch me is our hunter

i also think its about time that druids got a new form like kung-fu panda form or something or maybe even a monkey or turtle form or better yet i murloc form!!!!!! ftw are these ideas perfect no so yall come up with some stuff

WHATS FUNNEST NATION?
tankin
healin
dps'n
or a mix???

good for you:),
the only thing i would say, when u hit higher levels u will need to use cat form, the power is unmatchable compare to the bears, saying that when i play my 70 druid i love bear form, you can just walk in and wipe.
anyway thanks for project lore

Will

I am leveling a dr00id at the mo.. i am finding tanking and DPSing on feral fun.. i was a warlock but i found Running around while i was watching them die a bit boring..

Going to try healing a bit later on..

Dusty.

man dont go tank druid go druid healer it is the best healer class in the game no1 can come near the heals a druid can do yes druids are not meant for big big healz like priest are we have 1 instant heal and all the rest are hots or involve hots when i played my druid i was the best skilled healer on my battlegroup
noticed skilled not the best geared or best at that i could heal rather nice i had only ZA kara and badge gear i never got in to higher then t4 but i still was the most skilled and well i would of been the best but my account got hacked and well i still like to blog and well talk about the time i had playing wow
pally tank + druid healz = awsomenessly awsome group