I’m just catching up here, but this was another good “shared topic” from Blog Azeroth. What do you enjoy about the class you play the most? This is a great topic, because if you are going to invest as much time in a game as many do in WoW (oh boy, do we ever), you’ve got to play a character you like. (Unless, of course, you have some weird love/hate relationship.) Well, I don’t just like the druid class, I like it like it in that fifth grade infatuatory way. It wasn’t always like that, however.

In the beginning. Booooring. Sling a couple wraths at the mob, burn it down with my staff. Ugh. The first levels for the druid class are sloooow going. Every class is that way to an extent, but the druid particularly so. A noob mage can only cast 2 or 3 spells before going OOM, but boy do they hurt! I’d argue that the druid from 1-20 is the most boring class there is. Sure, it’s great that you get Bear form at 10 – a lot of fun to finally be able to shapeshift – but you STILL take forever to kill stuff. Now it’s just even harder for them to kill you. Getting up to 20 was like pulling teeth, but once you get there…

Cat Form, baby! God does the game change for a druid once you get cat form. You go from low and slow damage to mega burst tear mobs to shreds DPS. Oh how exhilarating after 20 levels of tedium. Now I know how rogues feel from level 1. If it weren’t for Cat Form, I probably wouldn’t be a druid today. And my love of Cat carried me all the way to the outlands with the druid (and I don’t even like cats!). I rarely tanked, almost never healed. I just went out and shredded mob after mob after mob.

Instancing. Cat form got me to the outlands, but versatility and fancy tricks took me all the way home to 70 and the “end game.” I’ll never forget my first time in Ramparts, where all my skills were really starting to come together. I was there for DPS, and to off heal if needed. Well, during the second boss fight, the priest went down. It looked like we were about to wipe, but I popped out of cat, blew my BR and tossed a regrowth on the priest when she was back up. Then in the final fight, the tank went down while fighting the dragon, and I saved the group again by going Bear and finishing him off. A druid, when you really have things going, can be flat out amazing and help the group in so many ways.

Flight Form. This, my friends, sealed the deal. Instant flight, without having to shell out the 900 or so gold, at 68 no less? Sign me up! Instant flight can be so fun, I’m sure you’ve all seen the druid suicide dive. There’s nothing better than flying high HIGH HIGH above Shatt, and dropping all the way down, trying to pop flight form at just the right instant to be impressive….or….the wrong instant and be dead.

I love the Druid class because I feel like there is so much you can do with it. You can excel at any role if you focus. Feral tanks, once maligned, are now accepted and often sought out. Cat DPS can be through the roof, as can the OOMkin (though I have yet to try that spec), and a Resto Tree druid is a fantastic healer for raids or anything else. Though I am a Resto Druid now, I still have my tanking and DPS gear in the bank, and I’m always one respec away from filling a different role if the group needs it.  Are you unsure as to whether you’d like to tank, DPS or heal?  Roll a druid!  Just remember I warned you about those first 20 levels!

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