Was linked by Delos over at Laser Chicken - thanks a lot! *smile*
I have a "baby" Balance Druid of my own - Amashan (see Cast sidebar for Armory link)
I needed a new banker character once my hunter started actually getting levelled, so I created a Druid for some unknown reason. The name was a slight adjustment to something that came up from the Random button on the character creation screen. (Remember, I'm awful with names, and just needed something quickly)
At some point, I leveled to somewhere around 20 (bored, burning off rest XP, etc) - was specced Feral of course, as that's "the only way to level". He wasn't really meant to go much further, only to mess around with when I was totally bored of everything else.
A little while ago, one of my old managers got his old Diablo-2 group into WoW, and they were all happily learning and exploring the game for the first time. They had a "set" group that would do instances once a week, and stay even-leveled otherwise - any other time put in would need to be on a different character.
Soon, my old manager (who I'm good friends with) had an alt (a warrior) up to the same level as Amashan was at, so we ended up grouping up to level and quest together - I was his "guide" (cheating of course by following Jame's guide), and we blasted through a bunch of stuff quickly together. I respecced to Balance at the start of that, as I already had tank, healer, and melee DPS types, and being able to summon Treants seemed like it would be a blast.
If I can get back with that group again, I'd really strongly consider power-leveling Amashan up to run with them, Balance all the way.
Balance Druid Spec question: Improved Faerie Fire seems like an uber-skill for raids, but how do you get those points and keep the threat reduction from the Resto tree? Do you drop the Wrath pushback skill?
November 30, 2007
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From what I understand, most raiding moonkins don't pick up Imp FF because the results aren't tangible and are often in fact detrimental to the moonkin.
If you help all the melee hit 2% more, you increase their dps and you have nothing to show for it. The raid leader sees them doing 2% more dps, and by comparison you falling by 2%. Those points don't seem so good now, do they?
Of course, if you have a smart raid leader he'll know this (especially if you tell him) but over time it's my guess he'll forget (raid leaders are human too) and you'll start to look less and less desirable than that mage/warlock vying for your spot.
Of course, this is all speculation as I'm not a raider. Subtlety is definitely ftw though and I would never give it up as a raider. I don't have those points, however much I would LOVE to have them. The points leading up to subtlety just don't fit my playstyle as well as the points I'd be missing out on in the balance tree.
Thanks for the bump!
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