Druid worth the effort

[lorganus]

Hey guys I had a question in reference to leveling a druid. Allow me to hit you with some background so that your answers may be a bit more fine tuned. I have played for quite a while , and have a 70 lock and 70 shammy and a few odd and end alts- I took a break a few months back, but have kept up with changes in as much as possible through various forums.
Im about to get back into the game and I am really interested in leveling a 25 Druid I had started before I left. The class seemed very interesting and extremely useful. I found the leveling speed tolerable and after comming off the shammy I think I could probably level anything- so the actual grind isnt my issue. I guess my question is as experienced Druid players do you guys recommend picking him up? Has anything come out that has made the class signifigantly better/worse than it had been? What about the outlook for WoTLK? I just hate to invest the time if things are currently not looking so hot for the class. Again I realize I could read the info and assess the numbers, but that really wont tell me how things are being assessed from current Druid players view.
Thanks a heap

[Runorr]

Druids are now and always will be incredibly overpowered healers, go for it.

This is true. Speaking from experience druids are a very fun to play class be it PVE or PVP. And now with the new talents and spells it's gonna be even more fun because it won't be the same retarded Lifebloom Rejuvenate Swiftmend button mashing. Nourish and WildGrowth bring a whole new aspect to the game , that being the flash of light type of spell and the aoe heal which will give more variants of how to play in both PVE and PVP.

TL;DR = Go for it.

[Loxar]

Druids are now and always will be incredibely overpowered healers, go for it.

True. Sadly.

[Yeran]

You have 1 month left before WotLK launches and just a few days to the huge patch leading to it. Considering balance is still changed frequencly nobody will be able to tell you for sure how things work out.

Right now druids are very good in 2on2 arena for example, but you need equip you wont be able to get in time. In addition to that your most powerful heal will get nerfed with the next patch.
Tank-druids will see drastical changes as well.

I think its most importan if you like druids playstyle. You will have less buttons to press in any form compared to other classes, but more buttons overall if you do some shifting. You will envy the warriors shield reflect or the mages blink, but then again you are the only healer or tank that can stealth.

Overall WotLK is quite promising, finally buffing our damage-specs, so in theory every talent-spec should be viable. But I cant tell you if blizzard will success at this task, even more so since I have no idea what you want to do. (mainly leveling, 5-mans, raids, bgs, arena...)

Cat-leveling should be a lot of fun with greatly improved mangle and mana-regenerating improved leader of the pack tho.

[Nezoia]

Aslong as you don't plan to roll Owlkin or Kittybaer druid is a excellent choice.

The changes to druid ressurect and healing it's a superb buff for druid healing in 5mans. And they always been awesome raid healers.

[felyse]

Aslong as you don't plan to roll Owlkin or Kittybaer druid is a excellent choice.

The changes to druid ressurect and healing it's a superb buff for druid healing in 5mans. And they always been awesome raid healers.

I dunno moon chicken are pretty good in xpack and dont be hating on ferals now unless you are a lock then you can totally hate on us.

[Ulrik.]

The concept behind druids healing will always make them overpowered.

[Nezoia]

I dunno moon chicken are pretty good in xpack and dont be hating on ferals now unless you are a lock then you can totally hate on us.

No no, I'm simply reffering to Blizard's history of making everything but Restoration a complete joke.

I lost my faith and rerolled a while ago , because I didn't personally enjoy spamming lifeblooms.

[Deleted]

Druids are now and always will be incredibely overpowered healers, go for it.

Love people with no clue. Druids are falling to bottom of food chain in 3.0 and wrath. Resto ones, in arena, that is.

We were amazing for couple of seasons, but that's it. We never were OP in anyway during vanilla wow, more like crap. Lifebloom is getting way nerfed pve wise now too, so much for that.

[Zimbambadu]

No no, I'm simply reffering to Blizard's history of making everything but Restoration a complete joke.

I lost my faith and rerolled a while ago , because I didn't personally enjoy spamming lifeblooms.

I regularly break 2k DPS in any raid encounter on my moonkin. It's not exactly a COMPLETE joke.

[Zimbambadu]

Love people with no clue. Druids are falling to bottom of food chain in 3.0 and wrath. Resto ones, in arena, that is.

We were amazing for couple of seasons, but that's it. We never were OP in anyway during vanilla wow, more like crap. Lifebloom is getting way nerfed pve wise now too, so much for that.

Lies, I could blast heals with the best of them in Naxx. It was all about pre-casting. Timing is everything. Something today's lifebloom rolling no-skill players can't grasp.

[Nezoia]

We never were OP in anyway during vanilla wow, more like crap.

Then my memory serves me wrong. Or perhaps was that just because I played horde, and we had no paladins, so druid was a insane OP single target healer with downranked Healing Touch.

Priest got penality if they downranked , druids didden't. And shamans was doing raid healing. (Again, no paladins!!)

(Good times on the priest, I actually got to take Improved Spirit and Power Infusion as a raid healer, yay!)

I regularly break 2k DPS in any raid encounter on my moonkin. It's not exactly a COMPLETE joke.

Type /dance , look at yourself for a minute, and you'll realise I was right.

[Deleted]

Lies, I could blast heals with the best of them in Naxx. It was all about pre-casting. Timing is everything. Something today's lifebloom rolling no-skill players can't grasp.

Cuz Pve is hard and shizzle. Are you now saying that Nourish spam is somehow skill requiring stuff to do?

Then my memory serves me wrong. Or perhaps was that just because I played horde, and we had no paladins, so druid was a insane OP single target healer with downranked Healing Touch.

Priest got penality if they downranked , druids didden't. And shamans was doing raid healing. (Again, no paladins!!)

(Good times on the priest, I actually got to take Improved Spirit and Power Infusion as a raid healer, yay!)
Type /dance , look at yourself for a minute, and you'll realise I was right.

I was alliance, we had paladins doing that. Only one druid in raids to buff stuff.

P.S Didn't you just couple posts ago say you rerolled, but now you claim to heal in naxx? Make up your mind.

[Yeran]

Some people have actually seen the old naxx in vanilla.
That time my druid was a twink and sucessfully healed patchwork due to the downranking-power (I can definately see why they nerfed it / get rid of it). Horde again of course.

Still I wouldnt agree ferals are a joke right now, actually blizzard said they introduced sunwell-radiance mainly because bears were too good at tanking. Then again we stopped raiding about the time we reached felmyst and I overall felt useless at that given encounter. There are definatly fights were you arent usefull since your kitty part is anything but competitive and you cant contribute in tanking. Thankfully just a few of those (where it matters) and thankfully blizzard adresses this now.

[ishy]

Then my memory serves me wrong. Or perhaps was that just because I played horde, and we had no paladins, so druid was a insane OP single target healer with downranked Healing Touch.

Priest got penality if they downranked , druids didden't. And shamans was doing raid healing. (Again, no paladins!!)

(Good times on the priest, I actually got to take Improved Spirit and Power Infusion as a raid healer, yay!)
Type /dance , look at yourself for a minute, and you'll realise I was right.

Yeah your memory is wrong.
And ht rank 5 was never that good. Druids were just taken along for a) buff, and b) someone has to wear their loot.

All classes got 'penality' if they downranked after the downranking nerf was implemented.

[Yeran]

Talking about horde and talking about patchwerk your statement is plain wrong. Downranked HT had incredible mana-efficiency. Horde missed pala healers along with mana-blessing and kings so we pretty much had to use some druids there. Dont think we had less than 2-3 resto-druids at any given encounter in naxx (11/15). I think thats quite ok, now if only feral and balance had been viable.

[Mefi]

Druids are falling to bottom of food chain in 3.0 and wrath. Resto ones, in arena, that is.

rite.. cyclone and roots still work aka druids are still win in arena

[Poofy]

Druids are now and always will be incredibely overpowered healers, go for it.

[Nezoia]

P.S Didn't you just couple posts ago say you rerolled, but now you claim to heal in naxx? Make up your mind.

Reroll is just a common word. "Swapped back to a old pre. TBC level 60 character that I orginal raided with and leveled it to 70" -- reroll.

Also, I never got to Naxxramas on the priest. Just MC and ZG, before I changed faction (and realm).

[Schoengeist]

If Blizz doesn't totally nerf us to the ground, Moonkins will rock in Wotlk - we supply the raid with nice buffs, our mana problems are pretty much gone (other caster classes have much bigger mana issues at lvl80 atm), we have great aoe-capabilities, battle rezz / normal rezz, our off-healing got much more powerful thanks to the spellpower changes AND we dish out competitive single target damage.

A lot of things can change, - if some people still don't take moonkins serious, it's their loss.