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Morsus
11-24-2005, 11:10 PM
I currently have a lvl 14 tauren druid and I am having a ball with it. I am currently speccing in feral but I was just really curious if there were any druids out there who are fully balanced specced and also whether or not it is really a viable option in pvp? Any help someone could give me as well as a template for it if it works would be great appreciated. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Morsus

Fendicano
11-30-2005, 08:10 PM
I tried out the balance spec for about a month after 1.8 and I seriously hated it. The problem is this:

With a feral build, you spend your mana and shift, do your damage, and shift out to heal as necessary. The only mana you used was the mana to shift, leaving a large chunk of yorur mana (usually all by the time you need the heal) for you to heal yourself, cast a little, and shift back.

With a balance build, you spend your mana to nuke the piss out of someone, and they are beating you up pretty bad, they blow a pot, and you're back at square one, still trying to nuke them. You get low on health, so you heal yourself, only to find you either A.) don't have enough mana to heal yourself, or B.) Have enough mana to heal yourself, but not enough to finish killing your opponent.

These thoughts are coming for a Tauren Druid on a PVP server. If you are on a normal server, I would imagine balance would not have many problems. You would, however, experience more downtime with the balance spec.

Hope my 2 copper helps.

Rykuro
12-02-2005, 03:29 AM
i just respeced my talents from balance to feral and combat is a lot faster now

with balance i had to take too many mana breaks and didnt last long in duels or pvp because my mana went so fast