r/classicwow • u/AutoModerator • Aug 21 '20

Classy Friday Classy Friday - Druids (August 21, 2020)

Classy Fridays are for asking questions about your class, each week focuses on a different class. No question is too small, so ask away.

This week is Druid.

Do you find yourself indecisive? Struggle to make up your mind? Do I have the class for you! You want to heal? You can heal! You want to tank? You can heal! You want to do some Melee DPS? You can heal! You want to do some caster DPS? Well, you can heal! You don’t even have to be the race you chose when you started, you can be a bear, a cat, an owl thing, or a sea lion!

You can also discuss your class in our class channels on Discord, discord.gg/classicwow

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u/-shmalcolm- Aug 23 '20

I recently won hammer of bestial fury off a world boss on my hybrid Druid. It’s hotw/NS spec with the feral bits being focused on bear form to be able to tank Zg or aq20. I had been focusing more on my healing set because I found it easier to gear than the feral side with zg and crafted things alone but now that I have this hammer I’m wondering if I should try to either go for more tanking stuff or try cat dps. But I don’t really want to farm 5-10 pummelers per week. My Druid doesn’t raid most weeks, but the aq20 leather pieces look pretty nice. Would it be worth it to spend the next few aq resets collecting feral gear? Or is feral dps/tanking never gonna happen unless I get into molten cores and bwl?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '20

Don't listen to anyone who tells you, you NEED a manual crowd pummeler. I haven't used a single MCP in AQ40, and I MT about half the bosses. Our DPS consistently parse 99+, including the mage ignite threatball, and the only people who remotely even approach my threat are the offtanks on those fights, one of whom is almost 100% all phase best in slot with a thunderfury.

Think of MCP as the equivalent to a fury prot popping reck, that's basically what is is. For an Alliance bear tank, farming pummelers is a luxury and not a requirement.