View Full Forums : Respecc to Moonkin?


Denali
05-15-2006, 02:44 PM
I'm a level 42 NE druid, currently feral specced, and I have a dilemma. I know my guild mates love LotP, as most are melee oriented, but I'm hardly in feral unless I'm soloing. Most of the time, when we go to instances, I'm the only one capable of healing, and this leaves me using FF, MF, and spamming Wrath, while busting out heals. So why not take advantage of this and switch to Moonkin? When I first got my different forms (i.e. cat, dire bear), I immediately respecced to feral. I'm now debating on respeccing AGAIN to balance. Any suggestions?

gwmort
05-15-2006, 03:34 PM
You will not be able to heal while actually in Moonkin form, but I heal pretty well as 33/0/18, when I stay caster. The benefit is the balance talents are better than most of the resto talents in terms of making your spells more efficient and faster (moonglow, nature's grace), especially when couple with some of the lower resto talents to prevent interruption and get more speed (Nature's focus and iHT), add some mana regen and stronger rejuvs and I am ready to heal, and I still have wicked good dps from MF and wrath whenever I have some slow healing times where mana isn't as critical.

Another bonus is good moonkin gear boosts dmg and healing, so you don't need to switch gear (which you can't do in combat anyway) to switch from helping with the dps to healing or vice versa and still be effective. note: bonuses on pure +healling gear are higher so I do keep a set of that on hand if I am MH.

ixeos
05-15-2006, 05:15 PM
I completely agree...I am 41 moonkin (er...balance) and all of my gear is probably best for a resto druid, since it is +int +spir +stam but I love it b/c of my HUGE mana pool to use while in moonkin form. Even if I'm in an instance and am main/backup heal and I run out of mana I can still switch to cat form and do dps to kill mobs faster (less healing req'd) which lets the mana regen. I'll only drink unless one of the others is drinkin or if I'm completely oomkin.

Your best bet if you want to stay ferral is to find some other druids that aren't...I'd take 5 druids over any combo anytime.

Trixtaa
05-15-2006, 08:29 PM
If you want to respec, I heard from some people that Druids are getting free respecs when 1.11 comes out because of the Innervate issue ushering some to try out new builds?

Anyone confirm this?

gwmort
05-16-2006, 08:43 AM
I don't believe we are, I believe I saw a blue post somewhere in the forums confirming this, but I can't recall where now.

Claritondeus
05-16-2006, 04:07 PM
That would be awesome if we did. Save me about 25g.

Trixtaa
05-16-2006, 07:08 PM
Pooey.