Arsaidh
04-04-2008, 02:43 PM
I have a 70 hunter that I've played through endgame content both pre-BC and post-BC (TK and SSC, never made it to Hyjal or BT). Because I took an enormous break and couldn't catch back up with my guild, plus I had really lost the desire for raiding, my hunter is retired to PvP and I am levelling a druid.
My main desire is to heal. I have a dps toon, and I love my hunter dearly, but I have always been fascinated by druids. I love the caster aspect, and I want to "grow" her to heal both in PvE (raiding even maybe, but definitely 5 man) and PvP. After just a couple of days work my baby droodad is level 23, with the full 5 piece "Of the Fang" set from Wailing Caverns. I am amazed at her versatility, and tend to be pretty "shifty" in my playstyle. Starfire, Moonfire, Fairy Fire, kitty shift, claw claw, claw.. rip <I usually never get the rip off, the mob dies too quickly>.
However, I am somewhat the laughing stock of my group of friends because they say levelling will go so much faster if I'm feral. I'm promised that if I will only spec feral, I'll level in half the time. Since I tend to be a pretty slow leveller anyway, that promise is appealing. But I'll wind up speccing Resto at 60 when I hit outlands anyway, to heal my way to 70 by running 5 mans. Is feral levelling really that much faster? Should I give up the "Resto since Day One" mantra and go for speed?
My main desire is to heal. I have a dps toon, and I love my hunter dearly, but I have always been fascinated by druids. I love the caster aspect, and I want to "grow" her to heal both in PvE (raiding even maybe, but definitely 5 man) and PvP. After just a couple of days work my baby droodad is level 23, with the full 5 piece "Of the Fang" set from Wailing Caverns. I am amazed at her versatility, and tend to be pretty "shifty" in my playstyle. Starfire, Moonfire, Fairy Fire, kitty shift, claw claw, claw.. rip <I usually never get the rip off, the mob dies too quickly>.
However, I am somewhat the laughing stock of my group of friends because they say levelling will go so much faster if I'm feral. I'm promised that if I will only spec feral, I'll level in half the time. Since I tend to be a pretty slow leveller anyway, that promise is appealing. But I'll wind up speccing Resto at 60 when I hit outlands anyway, to heal my way to 70 by running 5 mans. Is feral levelling really that much faster? Should I give up the "Resto since Day One" mantra and go for speed?