WoW Classic Feral Druid Tank Guide – Best Races, Professions, Builds for PvE

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Druid Class Overview

Druid Leveling Guide

Balance Druid DPS

Feral Druid DPS

Restoration Druid Healing

Restoration Druid Healer

Strengths of Classic Feral Druid Tanks

Druids scale well with gear:

Strong in Both PVE and PVP:

精灵之火野性赐福Weaknesses of Classic Feral Druid Tanks

No Tanking Tier Bonuses

Not Many Raid Spots

Best Races for PvE WoW Classic DPS Feral Druids暗夜精灵牛头人

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Best Race for Alliance DPS Feral Druids德鲁伊力量祝福王者祝福强效拯救祝福暗夜精灵影遁迅捷

自然抗性: Nature Resistance increased by 10.

精灵之魂: Transform into a wisp upon death, increasing movement speed by 50%.

迅捷: Dodge chance increased by 1%.

影遁: Activate to slip into the shadows, reducing the chance for enemies to detect your presence. Lasts until cancelled or upon moving. Night Elf Rogues and Druids with Shadowmeld are more difficult to detect while stealthed or prowling.

Best Race for Horde DPS Feral Druids德鲁伊风怒图腾牛头人战争践踏耐久

栽培: Herbalism skill increased by 15.

耐久: Total Health increased by 5%.

自然抗性: Nature Resistance increased by 10.

战争践踏: Stuns up to 5 enemies within 8 yds for 2 sec.

WoW Classic Feral Druid Tank SpecializationsBalance:

Moonglow builds hybridize Balance and Restoration in order to provide mana efficiency, but can also deal moderate damage from range as well, however Balance Druids are not seen as overly competitive in Classic, as they are both mana intensive and utilize limited debuff slots.

Feral:

Feral Combat builds specialize in utilizing Cat Form for dealing damage, while also lowering the armor of their targets and increasing the critical strike chance of their group members. It is typically the go-to leveling spec, due to the increased damage and movement speed, as well as many of the talents benefitting tanking.

Bear:

Feral Tank builds trade damage potential for increased mitigation, while still providing the same utility in reducing their targets armor and increasing their group members critical strike chance. A slightly tweaked hybridized damage oriented build also exists for dedicated off-tanks who spend more time in Cat Form.

Restoration:

Swiftmend builds are often dedicated tank healers, specializing in consuming healing over time effects for a large burst of healing. Moonglow builds are more mana efficient, making them stronger for early raiding.

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评论来自 marth354

In the profession section it might be a good decision to note that druids cannot use any of the engineering bombs while in form which makes them less than ideal when trying to do anything but an initial burst of threat on pull unfortunately. Enchanting can also be a good choice since you need a BoP trinket for best in slot til I believe BWL and it can always be dropped after making the trinket if need be. Also while a bit more niche; Bear tanks could do well in a hunter group where a shaman can run an agility totem instead of windfury while still giving some benefit from the druid's aura. Might also be worth noting that they make good second threat tanks since they have a lesser dependence on being hit to generate rage and threat. .

Edit: Oops, I forgot to mention that the link to the beginner's guide currently links nowhere.

评论来自 Schmidka

"Druids scale well with gear" - I like vanilla bear tanks, I tanked raids on my weird 0/11/40 spec back in the day and I think they are generally underappreciated but if there's one thing they don't do it's scale well. At least not as far as mitigation is concerned, I can't really speak for the threat numbers. Much of the important +armor gear is obtained early, and you can hit armor cap in mostly blues after which your mitigation no longer improves much. Your health lead is partly tied to the Dire Bear skill, which also doesn't scale. In good blues a druid is par or better than a warrior for physical mitigation because the armor more than makes up for the difference in crits and crushing blows, but that does not remain true in the long run.

There is a small related point of faction balance here: Horde druids don't benefit from Windfury in the same way Alliance druids don't benefit (much) from Improved Lay on Hands.

评论来自 zaxscd2011

This is a resoundingly okay guide. I would encourage people whom are either interested in playing a druid tank or wanting to know whether they should bring one to raid to look elsewhere for a deeper understanding, because while this guide does a great job with the overview of playing a druid, it misses some of the key details.

There are two major examples. First, threat is the single most important raid mechanic in the game, and that is why druid tanks are much better for the Horde than they are for the Alliance, when this guide would indicate otherwise. The Alliance has access to Blessing of Salvation, which is a 30% threat reduction that gives them much more leeway in threat management. The Horde does not. Instead they have Windfury which greatly increases the threat of warriors and rogues. A bear tank has much, MUCH more threat generation than a prot warrior, so a bear will be able to stay ahead of threat (really far ahead if they are a good tank), whereas a prot warrior will not be nearly as far ahead, and you are going to have some AFK dps for a large portion of the fight.

As a note, I am specifically saying PROT warrior, dual wield Fury warrior tanking does not have this problem. Fury tanking is extremely viable, and is better than both bears and prot warriors if they know how to play their class, and really start to shine in BWL and beyond. A prot warrior will never, ever have the threat of a bear tank. For that matter, they won't have the mitigation of a bear tank (as a general rule- there are exceptions) until Phase 3 either, at which point bears will never be able to catch up again. But Bear mitigation is more than enough to main tank all content in the game, and the threat generation is high enough your DPS will rather you have a bear than a prot warrior any day of the week.

The second big thing is I would contest is some of the gear selection. None of the choices are bad, but they do paint a narrow picture of what bears are looking for. So a broader list (or more alternatives) would help with this.

Also, excellent job bringing up hit on bears. So many people forget how important hit rating is for tanks, and for bears, it is all the more important as it's so hard to come by comparatively to other classes/specs.

All in all, really not a bad guide, but I would adjust the mood of the writing. Bears are going into this with a bad reputation, because that's how people remember bears. And to be fair, bears were absolutely terrible for almost all of vanilla. But, by 1.12 they were really good. If we were starting Classic with 1.1 talents and itemization, I wouldn't even take a bear to deadmines, much less UBRS or MC. But we aren't, so bears need to be talked about as a 1.12 bear, which is a completely different animal.

评论来自 Kalados

So much misinformation. Vanilla was years ago but pservers have explored each class to their full potential. Druids can tank even Naxx just fine. There are tons of youtube videos of bears as MT's in raids like Naxx, ZG etc.

WoW Classic Feral Druid Tank Guide – Best Races, Professions, Builds for PvE

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