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The 'jack of all trades' - spec

PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:26 pm
by Litensjö
hi, i'm currently leveling a druid and am thinking about the spec to come.
i enjoy the druid because of its versatility; still, due to having played a healer (priest) from release to end wotlk, i'm not planning on healing later. i do want to combine the rest: that would be offtank, damage dealer and pvp. i know the druid is neither the best tank nor the best dd, but in my opinion the most fun class to play (besides the wotlk disc priest :)).
so far i thought about https://en.nostalrius.org/talents/druid ... 0000000000 - that would leave me with 4 points to spend. out of the blue i'd go for the second point in feline swiftness and 3 points in natural shapeshifter, as pvp is going to be a lot of shapeshifting. since druid is one of the few classes i haven't done endgame raiding with, i do not know if i use 'shred' frequently. if i do, 2 points would be spent well there. i've also thought about improved rage, though this might be of least priority to me. any thoughts on where those 4 points will be spent best?
thanks a lot

edit: just came up with this - https://en.nostalrius.org/talents/druid ... 0000000000
i'm not sure though how it affects tanking when not having the critrage

Re: The 'jack of all trades' - spec

PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:07 am
by TheOpethian
One thing about being a "jack of all trades" is that you're not really good at anything. I'd spec into a specific role if I were you. Just a friendly piece of advice.

Re: The 'jack of all trades' - spec

PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 2:01 pm
by Floux
I am in the same case and I want to try this spec :
https://en.nostalrius.org/talents/druid?build=01400500100000005050521303022151050000000000000

As I am actually level 59, I should find out quickly if this OK or not...

Re: The 'jack of all trades' - spec

PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:52 am
by Litensjö
TheOpethian wrote:One thing about being a "jack of all trades" is that you're not really good at anything. I'd spec into a specific role if I were you. Just a friendly piece of advice.

I do know that. The only specific role though, where a druid kind of shines in PvE, is healing and as mentioned before I'm done with raid healing for now. I'm not really worried about finding a raid guild that takes me as a feral. I sure can't compete with people who know how to play their dd perfectly, but in reality that's not the case with everyone. In retail I did the same dps with my rogue twink as other rogues with a gearscore 300 higher than mine, not everyone's into theorycrafting. And no other damage dealer can offtank, battlerez, critbuff and innervate.

Floux wrote:I am in the same case and I want to try this spec :
https://en.nostalrius.org/talents/druid?build=01400500100000005050521303022151050000000000000

As I am actually level 59, I should find out quickly if this OK or not...

I didn't have a druid on high level, but as the 2 combo points on crit thing was really important as a rogue, I think it's the same for the feral dps and wouldn't want to miss out on that. If you only plan on tanking though it's okay, I think.

Can anybody please share some experience on the cruiciality of 'Primal Fury'?

Re: The 'jack of all trades' - spec

PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:59 am
by Dr. Doom
If PvP is a big focus, I'd favour Brutal Impact over Shred. Just a first glance idea, maybe wrong.

Re: The 'jack of all trades' - spec

PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:48 am
by Litensjö
Dr. Doom wrote:If PvP is a big focus, I'd favour Brutal Impact over Shred. Just a first glance idea, maybe wrong.

Sounds like a good idea. I wouldn't sacrifice shred though but only taking 3/5 in feral instinct