Is a lvl 29 Twink Flag runner any good?Follow

Cat form with feline swiftness is 30% faster - that is not bad but shamans do better in that bracket (40%)

You're better off at 30-39 where you can shift out of everything and alternate between travel form and catform with feline swiftness without losing too much speed.

Keep in mind though, that Shaman can't shift out of impairing effects as a druid can. This, in my eyes, makes them the better runners.

so I am getting mixed feelings...

besides flag running, are they good at normal fighting in WSG or AB?

The 30-39 bracket is where druids really shine. My usual flag run (horde) consists of:

Rez at graveyard, shift into travel form.

Run up the side entrance towards the balcony (not the roof).

Shift to cat form and stealth once inside. Since cat form also has track humanoids, I can see how many ppl are in the flag room guarding.

At this point I usually wait for my group to cause some type of distraction to raise my chances of success.

I then drop down from the balcony, grab flag, hit sprint, then book it down the tunnel if no enemies are there.

Once outside, I switch back to travel form and run like hell towards my team members.

If the opposing side has our flag, I will shift to bear form and hold the flag as long as possible, usually with 1-2 ppl guarding me.

Repeat as necessary. =D

Dash is actually 50% @ that level. At level 46 you get dash rank two.

I'd say that druids @ 39 are better than at 29 for BG's. I remember when i was a 39 druid, all i did was carry the flag. They also do well in combat too.

That's right, first Dash is only 50% - still pretty darn fast.

Druids are deadly flag stealers. You got built in speed. You can shift out of roots. You can heal. You can root others, instantly by talent - or by casting.

You can shift to huge HP and AC, basically like a warrior. You can track humans in cat form. You can stealth into bases.

Even if shamans are 10% faster in ghost wolf, they can't get unstuck (except once by BG trinket). They can't click out of fear w/ trinket, and I *think* druids can.

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Oh, thank you, Thing!

Yes, indeed, druids can click out of fear. So, you got a healing root-caster (no abnormal cooldown on it) w/ three forms (4 if you count sealion for AB) - caster/healer, cat for speed and stealth and human tracking, bear for AC and HP - who can shift out of roots and etc.

You've got shaman, who heal, who can't root (but can earthbind and frost shock, and those work indoors - root doesn't - but the Shaman totem and shock are on long cooldowns) - you've got one form which is faster - but shaman can't click out of movement impairing debuffs (save once, w/ bg trinket) - and shaman can't stealth, can't track humans - and can cast water breathing - but can't go fast underwater like a druid in sealion form.

I'm sure I'm forgeting a bunch of things - but I'm angling druid over shaman for flag stealer/ flag runner. Shamans can do it. But druids, even at 29, seem to have more advantages overall - at least the way I play.

At 39 it isn't even a contest. Druids rule there.

Edit - wsg, lvl 29, you're tooling across midfield as a Shaman. Hunter concussive shoots you. You click out of it. But the warrior charges and hamstrings you. Now you're gimped and slow. They've got you. Your only hope is that you get help from your side. Or drink free action (but you already did that to steal the flag out of the heavily guarded flag room). Also free action has to be used before the snare.

Druids just plow through all that. Go from animal form to caster form and back to animal form. Zoom zoom zoom ... gone. Druids can be stopped. But it's hard.

Edited, Apr 5th 2007 4:56am by IponemaGirl