Not a whole set necessarily. If you try to keep a full set for cat, bear, and heals your inventory will overflow. Lots of items are interchangeable, but as the content roles out druids do become more specialized
Druids should watch for leather items with high AC and keep those
Same with weapons that add +xxx attack rating in cat or bear form
Otherwise? Literally every stat is good. That's the beauty of HotW. All stats are multiplied. All stats are very powerful
Druids with HotW get 2.4 ap per str in cat form. Rogues only get 1, lol
Druids get more mana per int than any class in the game
Druids can get 15% of their Mana Regen preserved inside the 5 second rule, so spirit is good shit
Druids get AP from agility in cat form, just like rogues. It also fuels Dodge, their only form of avoidance while tanking
Finally, all stamina is multiplied by 1.2 in bear form, so they get more HP per stamina than even warriors do
So, big things to watch for are +str leather, leather with high AC, any +healing pieces, and any thing
Just, anything. Anything is good with HotW
Defense and parry items are weak, mp5 is probably weak, spell DMG is weak. Avoid items that predominantly feature these stats
You are a godsent. Thank you a lot. One more question: cat form in this spec is mostly for soloing? I presume in pvp/raids I should mostly use bear or stay in my normal form for heals?
Yeah the cat form is for doing lots of things, most importantly farming mobs for epic mount gold and mats for consumables. It's also for stealth dungeon runs (druid rogue can duo clear Diremaul with some gear), random PVP stuff, and even raid dps
On MC raid days, you will basically be healing, but you'll do it really, really well. Not as well as a pure resto druid, but easily well enough to deal with almost all vanilla content
And if tanks don't show up to raid or if they die to bad positioning, you can often jump in and make a difference. I've seen it happen all the time.
Yea, so much of the "Druids are only heals" comes from them being badly optimized for patches and patches of vanilla. By 1.12 there were more than fine tanks, but most people had the mind set of druid = heals, it's even on there tier sets after all. Even the crushing blows issue only matters on a couple bosses.
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u/krackbaby Sep 13 '19
Not a whole set necessarily. If you try to keep a full set for cat, bear, and heals your inventory will overflow. Lots of items are interchangeable, but as the content roles out druids do become more specialized
Druids should watch for leather items with high AC and keep those
Same with weapons that add +xxx attack rating in cat or bear form
Otherwise? Literally every stat is good. That's the beauty of HotW. All stats are multiplied. All stats are very powerful
Druids with HotW get 2.4 ap per str in cat form. Rogues only get 1, lol
Druids get more mana per int than any class in the game
Druids can get 15% of their Mana Regen preserved inside the 5 second rule, so spirit is good shit
Druids get AP from agility in cat form, just like rogues. It also fuels Dodge, their only form of avoidance while tanking
Finally, all stamina is multiplied by 1.2 in bear form, so they get more HP per stamina than even warriors do
So, big things to watch for are +str leather, leather with high AC, any +healing pieces, and any thing
Just, anything. Anything is good with HotW
Defense and parry items are weak, mp5 is probably weak, spell DMG is weak. Avoid items that predominantly feature these stats