TalonBot
09-08-2009, 06:31 PM
Every week, Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wow.com/category/shifting-perspectives/) examines issues affecting Druids and those who group with them. This week, we haul ourselves to Outland and are shocked to discover that +spellpower sometimes comes on leather.
The above video is the result of an idle question I was asked recently by a friend: "So how much damage would you guys do in caster form meleeing?" I started to answer and then realized I had no idea. The notion of actually hitting something with a weapon is utterly foreign to the class. We have claws and a can of celestial pain for that nonsense if provoked, but still, the question was pretty interesting, particularly because after seeing Prinnygod's comment (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/03/shifting-perspectives-leveling-41-50/comments/21366283/) from last week I started to wonder about all the different ways you could level as a Druid if you deliberately avoided Cat and Moonkin. Sure, you'd be a gibbering wreck at the level cap, but that's beside the point. Blizzard once had a talent called Weapon Balance in the Balance tree (http://www.wowhealers.com/content/view/89/48/) that improved our melee damage with weapons by 10% -- they were expecting us to hit things. I wondered how that would have worked out if Druid talent trees had never been overhauled.
So I took my main to the mobs outside the Argent Tournament and smacked stuff while running a stopwatch. What you'll see here is a level 79 Frostbrood Whelp (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=31718) with 12,600 health which took me 34.4 seconds to kill, with two global cooldowns devoted to casting a Rejuvenation (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=48441) and then a Lifebloom (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=48451). I'm currently on a Feral (Bear) spec and thus wearing gear that does help one's melee damage, mind you, but that still works out to a godawful 366.28 DPS. The moral of our little story can be found at the end of the video. Master of Arms (http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=705) is going to be a real trip.Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Leveling 51-60 (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/08/shifting-perspectives-leveling-51-60/)
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The above video is the result of an idle question I was asked recently by a friend: "So how much damage would you guys do in caster form meleeing?" I started to answer and then realized I had no idea. The notion of actually hitting something with a weapon is utterly foreign to the class. We have claws and a can of celestial pain for that nonsense if provoked, but still, the question was pretty interesting, particularly because after seeing Prinnygod's comment (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/03/shifting-perspectives-leveling-41-50/comments/21366283/) from last week I started to wonder about all the different ways you could level as a Druid if you deliberately avoided Cat and Moonkin. Sure, you'd be a gibbering wreck at the level cap, but that's beside the point. Blizzard once had a talent called Weapon Balance in the Balance tree (http://www.wowhealers.com/content/view/89/48/) that improved our melee damage with weapons by 10% -- they were expecting us to hit things. I wondered how that would have worked out if Druid talent trees had never been overhauled.
So I took my main to the mobs outside the Argent Tournament and smacked stuff while running a stopwatch. What you'll see here is a level 79 Frostbrood Whelp (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=31718) with 12,600 health which took me 34.4 seconds to kill, with two global cooldowns devoted to casting a Rejuvenation (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=48441) and then a Lifebloom (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=48451). I'm currently on a Feral (Bear) spec and thus wearing gear that does help one's melee damage, mind you, but that still works out to a godawful 366.28 DPS. The moral of our little story can be found at the end of the video. Master of Arms (http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=705) is going to be a real trip.Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Leveling 51-60 (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/08/shifting-perspectives-leveling-51-60/)
Filed under: Druid (http://www.wow.com/category/druid/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Features (http://www.wow.com/category/features/), Leveling (http://www.wow.com/category/leveling/), Guides (http://www.wow.com/category/guides/), (Druid) Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wow.com/category/shifting-perspectives/)
Shifting Perspectives: Leveling 51-60 (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/08/shifting-perspectives-leveling-51-60/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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