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Naralix
As someone who used to play rogue and then later with WotlK DK all the way to Legion and has now played druid on Vanilla extensively, here are some good reasons for you to roll Druid when Classic comes out:
- Druids are the easiest class to level after Hunters and Mages.
You are not gear dependant and you have little to zero downtime and selfheal. You also get travelform and catform movespeed at level 20 to get around easily ontop of aquatic form for all the annoying water related things.
- Until level 55 you are able to join every dungeon group no matter what role they need.
DPS? You can join. Heal? You can join Tank? You can join. You can perform on all of these roles in feral specc and with bad gear until the endgame dungeons.
- Druids are no longer limited to healbots in modern vanilla.
People have found ways to massively power up feral DPS through wolfshead helm and nonstop powershifting, putting Feral DPS on around middle of the pack with other DPS classes that aren't fury warriors and rogues. In the same specc, you will also be working as an offtank even in MC. And as such you are a midtier DPS who is also offtanking and provides raid utility in innervate, battlerezz and critbuff.
Moonkins, just like elemental shamans are an accepted DPS in the latestage of Vanilla. AQ40 is what provides both Shamans and Druids with optimized gear to perform as caster DPS when racking up on demonic runes for mana sustain and likewise keep on par with most vanilla DPS classes.
- Druids are the least played class
Druids are tradionally the least played class on every vanilla server. This means a few things for you.
- You have little to zero loot competition during raids.
- You are highly wanted in raiding guilds even if druids are not a toptier class.
- You are highly wanted for PvP ranking premades as a flagcarry.
- You stand out more across the playerbase and will find recognition faster if you are a good player, in the community based game that is Vanilla WoW. Since there is very little druids, being a good player will make you stick out highly from the mass.
- Druids is -THE- easiest class in Vanilla to gear up
Wtf what are you talking about you need gear for 3 different speccs???
Druids as a class are all over the place. Even if you have access to Naxx and AQ40 gear, your best items. Items that you will FOREVER continue using as they are BiS are often lowlvl items, PvP items and quest rewards.
If you play a druid, you can obtain anywhere of 20 and 40% of your BiS gear in the first few months of classic coming out. Items you will NEVER replace, ever again because they are better than anything you can get even from Naxx or AQ40.
Among them is a level 43 epic staff world drop, you can just buy from the AH. Being the best tanking weapon in the game.
The best tanking ring for you is a blue item quest reward and a ring from MC.
The best trinket you will keep using forever is something you get in the first days of hitting 60 from Onyxia attunement.
The best gloves and boots are from getting PvP rank 12 which is very achievable compared to rank 14.
The best helmet is a level 40 blue item any tribal leatherworker can make for you, so good its better than T6 helm into TBC.
The best DPS weapon, you basically get by hitting exalted in AV since weapon DPS is irrelevant for druids in vanilla. This means unstoppable force is equal to toptier/highend weapons for druids and the list goes on.
- Druids are a good class to make money with
Mages, Rogues and Hunters are the unquestioned topdogs for goldmaking in Vanilla. But druid follows right after, being able to farm things such as Maraudon Princess which is a common farmmethod also for rogues, hunters and warlocks, putting out about 30-40 gold per hour. Ontop of being able to gather herbs easily with travel form and the tauren racial.
- You have the best mount in the game the first weeks into Vanilla
Having played during 3 different vanilla realm launches, it usually takes a good while before epic mounts are something you see commonly or even at all.
If you are optimizing your leveling and playtime, you are going to achieve PvP rank 8 in the first few weeks of the server launch.
This means you get access to the druid pvp set, boosting your movement speed in forms by 15%. Now adding the movespeed enchant on your boots, puts your travelform at 63% movement speed. In other words, you are as fast as people are mounted with Carrot on a Stick.
Except that other players can not mount in combat. Have a 3(!) second casttime to mount up in vanilla and get dismounted when touching water or getting dazed.
If you play a flagcarry during this brief period of vanilla, it also means that players can never catch up to you as you are holding the flag since you run faster/equal than they do.
If all of these reasons have not convinced you to roll druid, heres two amazing PvP videos that will show you that druids are anything but bad in modern vanilla PvP.
Balance Druid World PvP
BG Flagcarrying + Walljumps + Feral Druid WPvP
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