Guide: The pvp Druid and you.

[Ginchy]

Yeah yeah, I know most of you are like "Dude, all you have to do if bind lifebloom to every key and slam your head against the keyboard!"

Although this could be possible in some situations, I'm gonna tell you how to get people saying this kind of stuff to you:




Basically, I use 1 macro, everything else can be keybound.

/cast Natures swiftness
/stopcasting
/cast Healing touch

^ that is the macro to use when you're in those OH SHI- moments when your partner/s are at 2% health. With full BG healing gear, it will normal heal for around 11k, and crit for 20k+.

In order to really be GOOD at your resto druid, you can not be a keyboard turner, you need your to be very versatile, use your mouse to move in and out of LOS of spells and such(though this pretty much applies for any class haha)

With the newest changes to treeform, you should always be in tree form, unless of course you need to cyclone someone in those clutch moments.

The best pvp spec for the druid IMO is this:http://talent.************.com/?drui...&version=9704#

The barskin glyph is amazing, simply because you can pop barskin while stunned by a rogue or pally, and thats a 25% less chance that you'll die in 1 GCD

Now to the healing part.
You're basically gonna want to keep your hots up on anyone you see. I reccomend getting grid for this, it allows for easy targetting and healing.

Try to keep at least a stack of lifebloom on all your partners, this will mitigate a little bit of damage they take, but resto druids are meant to be the best healers IMO in arena, seeing as how they can keep every single HoT that they have up on numerous people.

Try to jump alot, this doesnt really do anything, but I know that it pisses everyone off 6):
Regrowth+rejuv is godly, because it increases the healing on your nourish, and you get to use Swiftmend at least 3 times before they run off your target.

It will be hard to throw heals with cast times out sometimes, but in clutch situation, nourish can be a lifesaver, it heals for 7-8k, and only has a 1.5 sec cast time.

So basically, you need to keep at LEAST a lifebloom on everyone, keep regrowth+rejuv on your targets taking the most damage.

Oh I forgot to mention, if you're EVER getting mana burned by something, you can shift into bear form and it will get interupted(just a little tip if someone didnt know about it hehe)

Hope you guys enjoyed

[fearedtoast]

The druid class has six healing spells, and you only covered three of them, and without explaining their effects, duration, and modifying talents.

You didn't cover innervate, which is a resto druid's most interesting move by far.
The best way to handle innervate is to save it in a match, and then cast as many hots up on yourself as possible (and make sure your partner has his hots up while you do this), rebuff yourself, and cast the spell while out of LoS. If you can stealth, do it.

You also didn't cover re-entering stealth in the middle of a fight, and using various feral moves like bash, maim and pounce to assist your teammate(s).

You didn't cover what glyphs should be chosen.

The talents link is broken.

No match-up ideas, what to do against *blank*

You didn't cover what you want to gem for, or what gear to aim for.

You DID mention that druids in bear/cat form can't be affected by drain mana/mana burn, it's possible that a druid or two didn't know that.

If you can edit your guide with the ideas I mentioned above, then it'd be a 10/10, fabulous guide rarely seen on Mmowned.

[Ginchy]

The druid class has six healing spells, and you only covered three of them, and without explaining their effects, duration, and modifying talents.

You didn't cover innervate, which is a resto druid's most interesting move by far.
The best way to handle innervate is to save it in a match, and then cast as many hots up on yourself as possible (and make sure your partner has his hots up while you do this), rebuff yourself, and cast the spell while out of LoS. If you can stealth, do it.

You also didn't cover re-entering stealth in the middle of a fight, and using various feral moves like bash, maim and pounce to assist your teammate(s).

You didn't cover what glyphs should be chosen.

The talents link is broken.

No match-up ideas, what to do against *blank*

You didn't cover what you want to gem for, or what gear to aim for.

You DID mention that druids in bear/cat form can't be affected by drain mana/mana burn, it's possible that a druid or two didn't know that.

If you can edit your guide with the ideas I mentioned above, then it'd be a 10/10, fabulous guide rarely seen on Mmowned.

I wasn't really focusing on arena. I think I've probably done like 3? arena matches since it was released. I mainly BG and this is for the people who like to do this

[fearedtoast]

I wasn't really focusing on arena. I think I've probably done like 3? arena matches since it was released. I mainly BG and this is for the people who like to do this

That'd explain the lack of arena tactics, although it's still quite worth mentioning the spell mechanics and gearing ideas. The stickies on the Druids section of the wow forums give quite a bit of good insight if you want to check those out.

[jfazau]

Don't use that dark blue font please, it gives me a headache

[Notauser]

You also didn't cover re-entering stealth in the middle of a fight, and using various feral moves like bash, maim and pounce to assist your teammate(s).

Probably because outside of bash using a feral form is a huge waste of mana, and a restealth just means they're going to swap to your partner who has no lifeblooms (6sec minimum OOC timer).

pre-hotting is really the only thing between a good Druid and a bad one.

[Notauser]

Man you must be getting close to getting your 1850 weapon.

Juking, LoSing, Shadowmelding, actually -using- travel form, assisting DPS must not exist. But hey, what do I know.

BTW, at the end of a full duration cyclone, you will be out of combat.

Cyclone-Pounce-Maim-Cyclone-Bash seems pretty useless to me.

oh snap getting told from a rival what's up. **** me and my gladiator titles are going to go cry.

Juking, LoSing and assisting in DPS are totally Druid only things, and not common amongst anyone with a pulse.

btw not only do you have no idea what DRs are, but your little CC chain just cost 3k mana. additionally half of the Druids out there can't shadow meld (must be bad to have rolled Tauren) and shadow meld has the same bugs that stealth does and is very unreliable.

here's a though, try playing this game against good players before talking, and don't act like shit every healer above 1800 in TBC had to do is now "skill" just because bad players (like you) can be carried by stupid amounts of damage.



ROFL nice edit ("Edit: Bear form is less than 4% total mana on my druid. A mana burn is 12%. 1=3 FTW " in case he deletes it). thanks for proving you're awful at this game and have no idea how game mechanics work.

[Ginchy]

jesus, i just wanted this to be a nice little guide. not a flame fest.

[00kevin]

jesus, i just wanted this to be a nice little guide. not a flame fest.

This.

Previous flame posts deleted. Sawry Ginchy, I call out bads when I see em, pet peeve of mine 6):

[lolnej7]

Who cant play druid is totaly braindead...i played feral on 70, decided to roll resto on 80.
Got a DK friend we played 2,4k with hatefull gear, its so retarded easy cant even compare it with s5 pala/dk.

[rt3378]

rejuv is actually the most mana efficient spell, not lifebloom

[BaboonX]

I don't see the point in posting a guide that only covers a small portion of everything. Why don't I make a mining guide just saying where to go and don't give a route / what to do with the ore you farm? Why not making a instance farming guide just saying the instance to farm and not how to farm it? etc etc etc.

You didn't cover that much at all, It would be nice if you spent a little more time on this guide.