Saturday, May 17, 2014

Changes for Tiuli

     I'm at the stage of the expansion where I'm thinking really hard about getting some of the neglected alts up to cap. Poor Tiuli, the resto druid's been hanging around in Pandaria for ages and getting nowhere fast. So finally the other day I picked her up and started in on the quests in the Valley of the Four Winds. It didn't go well. Tiuli is mostly resto, but I am too impatient to quest in resto spec so she had a feral spec for that.
    It didn't take long among the vermin for me to remember that I am as incredibly bad at feral druids as I am at rogues. There were many, many, many deaths and I started to think maybe she could just stay at 87 which was where I'd managed to get her to... in between dying to crowds of vermin and crowds of sprites and then one alliance hunter who must have just wanted to rub it in.
     But then I remembered that a while back I'd seen Repgrind's post about how much fun leveling a balance druid through Pandaria was. Well, it couldn't really be worse than my terrible lack of sneaky kitty ability, could it? And at least my baby nelf balance druid has given me some idea of how it's done.
     So Tiuli's a resto/balance druid now. And it really is so much better! She's not indestructible by any means but she can get things done and dies much less often, and when she levels enough for her transmog she'll be able to show it off in her shiny astral form when she's not being a part time tree. She's part of the way through Kun-Lai now and might actually make it to 90 in time for Warlords.

4 comments:

  1. I'm glad Balance is working for you. I tried it and I was awful so my second spec became bear. I once in a while think of trying it from level one and seeing if that made the difference. One day maybe!

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    1. I'm not sure that I'm what you'd call good at Balance either but I think it's a little easier to heal and keep her up with it which was just what I needed. She felt so squishy as a kitty.
      I wonder if trying feral more from the start would help me some too. Maybe someday I'll get around to that.

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  2. My Feral Druid is still sub-level 60, so I don't know much about Feral-ing. I do know that I really enjoy my Boomkin, though! I'm glad this change is working out well for Tiuli :D

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    1. Boomkin does seem like a lot of fun! I think one of the things I'm most excited about (aside from not dying all over the place) is that for questing at least I no longer have to lug around two sets of gear!

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