What expectations of the druids in WOD?

[simakover]

hello, im have many of 90's and dont play at last patches. With wod im want to back in wow and now choosing class.
what u can say about druids in wod? especialy resto, feral and guardian?

[Deleted]

Depends on the content you want to play.

PvP:
Random BGs; Ashran/World PvP; Arena/Rated BGs?

PvE:
CMs, Raids, HC-dungeons/Small-group content, Questing?

If you are more specific then I and others will certainly be able to tell you more

[simakover]

Raids in resto\cat
BG in cat
arena in resto
dungeons in guardian

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Raids:

Cat is currently very strong in single-target and sustained 2-target cleave situations.
For (Burst)-AoE, Feral is kind of underwhelming as swipe is kind of untertuned and you mainly need to apply rake to as many targets as possible.

But tuning can change during the next month and there is a good possibility that Feral will get a nerf.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Feral got easier with this Addon (removal of most snapshotting, pandemic dots, combopoints on the player), but it is still one of the harder classes, with up to 40% downtime (energy-class), which means you plan ahead.
For some people thats a selling point; others dont like that.

Resto is quite solid in Raids right now and can compete with other healers in terms of HPs. Although I heard that they have more of a problem with Mana than other healers. But if you enjoy the new healing model and Resto-druids you will be fine.

BG as cat; Not much to say there; Having stealth always allows to pick the fights where you will likely win, and if you loose the upperhand you can decide to run away as feral. So I would say Feral is a good class for BGs.

Arena as Resto: Can't say much really as I havent followed the PvP-metagame in the Beta. But with the level 100 talents (no swiftmend cd and double rejuvination) druid should have good burst/single-target heal provided the mana keeps up.

Dungeons as Guardian: Dont know much; sry; but tank is tank; quick invites, and Guardian ist not really hard to play. Same is true as for CM; Guardian does not really bring a lot to the group, which can be a negative factor for small-group content; but normal HC-dungeons you will be fine.

Sooo, what it really comes down to is if you like playing the druid after the ability-removal of 6.0

[simakover]

so, that about first week in wod? how damage\survival in pvp? dps in hc?

[Deleted]

I'm 630 ilvl right now and I've Healed and dpsed a lot of heroics and did some boomkin PvP. Resto healing feels pretty nice right now haven't had any major issues.

Boomkin pve is strong also both aoe and single target but our aoe is a bit annoying to get started in dungeons with glyph of guided stars.

Boomkin PvP feels about the same as it was on beta. We have very powerful burst, our healing feels balanced like if I can get away I can heal up pretty fast. We're still as slippery as always pretty much the only class I can't get away from is a windwalker or a good warrior.

Overall I'd say druid is one of the best clasees so far, it can perform all roles very well.