Druid leveling spec

[LinktheDeme]

Well I heard Feral is good but everyone also seems to be using balance now. Also I have a static warrior buddy so being able to cast on him is always a plus which is why I wanna go balance more or less. If anyone disagrees please say why and etc would be nice. Aside from that was looking for some specs people have been doing for balance leveling.

[Kurp]

If you're duo leveling, just play what you want to, imo.

Otherwise, I like Feral because it has very little drink time. Even after you get Innervate, I had to drink a lot playing Balance. My experiences are pre-3.0, and I don't know if something critical changed for leveling or not.

[Slott]

I did 1-80 from scratch in about 3 weeks as feral. (Started November 20th 2008, so recently) There's very little downtime whatsoever, I was able to solo quest elites pre-bc 7 levels higher than me. I could sneak to quest points with ease rather than having to clear massive amounts of trash in caves, etc...

While they might have the same killing speed or whatever, I lasted from lvl 40-55 on 60 water. I averaged a level every 1.5-3 hours or so up until WOTLK.

It also depends on which form of feral you're talking about... cat and bear spec are rather detached from each other. I leveled primarily as cat. Bear kills alot slower, but takes very little damage and you can solo extremely high lvl mobs.

[Guitarman]

I'm leveling druid for a 2nd time, and again i'm going feral cat. The damage output is really high, and as said above you're not spending so much time drinking. My favorite aspect is having the fully talented prowl. Being able to stealth your way down to the end of a cave, kill x mob, then just stealth back out saves so much time.

[LinktheDeme]

Well i'm leveling with a warrior so wouldn't balance have near the same DPS and the ability to heal is always nice?

[fantasticdan]

Well i'm leveling with a warrior so wouldn't balance have near the same DPS and the ability to heal is always nice?

Just shifting out and throwing up some hots is more than enough to keep you and a warrior healed while leveling. And I don't know what you're going on about balance, it's not a healing spec, you can't cast heals from moonkin form either. Yes your heals will be better in balance gear, but that's mostly irrelevant while questing.

You can mainheal dungeons as any spec as well, just keep a set of spell power gear for it.