This weekend, I’m planning to work on the update for the feral section of my leveling guide for the 3.1 patch. However, before I sit down and work on the leveling build, I wanted to take a look at cat, bear, & feral PvP builds that could be useful to think about when planning out [...]
Category Archives: Player Versus Player
Feral PvP – The DD forum discussion and suggestions
Ghostcrawler posted a lengthy response in the feral druid PvP “nerf” thread, which contained a decent amount of information about how the developers think about PvP balance, but nothing that was really helpful for the ferals that felt their chance at pvp success in 3.1 had been taken away from them. Here’s an excerpt with [...]
Go play in the PTR arenas today – Thursday the 26th!
Druids’ representation in the current arena system on the live servers (and the arena servers) are low. We all know that druids just aren’t playing very much in arenas. Some of it is the backlash against druids doing so well as resto in Burning Crusade. Anyway, the devs are looking for people to go and [...]
The Moonkin PvP fix: Typhoon & survivability talent needed
Cross-posting on the Damage Dealing forums and here: With the moonkin PvP community really falling to pieces over the lack of information and changes, here are some simple band-aid fixes that would make moonkin PvP okay in the short-term, to buy time for long-term fixes later down the line: 1) The fix for Typhoon: The [...]
Where did druid PvP survivability go?
When I was a young druid, our goal was to simply outlast our opponents, and hope that eventually they either surrendered, or we’d eventually realize we were no match for their power and we would use our escape abilities to flee from the scene. Even Flintlocke’s comic perfectly captured what it felt like to PvP [...]
Do I make you feel thorny? (thorns & PvP)
There is a post on the damage dealing forum whining about the damage done by the Thorns buff that druids have. Apparently, they’re afraid that restoration druids will live long enough in PvP that melee can suicide by thorns. Come on, Seriously? Right now, burst damage is a bigger problem than death by slow suicide. [...]