In an effort to keep my Druid fresh to me, I moved to a balance/resto spec (I have been my guild's main tank for over a year). I'd been stockpiling decent equipment, though the cost ended up being very high anyway, getting some new enchants and a few new pieces of gear.
Soloing is really fun.. on single mobs I can kill them before they get to me (with help of roots) and with multiple pulls I am using roots, cyclone, etc to nice effect.
But I was surprised how hard instancing has been! Rather than being a stressful but single role type (tank) I have lots of responsibilities. In order to prove (to myself at least) that I can be a viable DPS form with moonkin, I did DPS at the expense of all else.. and finished tops in dam meter every time I've gone in.
The problem is, there are other things I need to be doing... because I AM so versatile, the team needs me to also backup heal, battle rez (missed a big one last night :( ), jump in for melee, protect and heal the healer, innervate, etc... after a year plus of tanking, it requires a very different approach to instances and I'm still having trouble getting off my one track mind (DPS).
I was hashing this out with one of hte best balance druids I know, and he was like "oh gawd, yes, doing instances with a balance druid is always so hectic, there's just a million things to do and hard to do it all."
What a surprise.. and and a learning experience.
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Druids are incredibly busy in most instances imo. The main tank of my guild is easily the busiest player we've got. He tanks all the creatures, heals himself when he has to, battle rezzes "so you don't waste mana Manza", pops potions, goes back to tanking, he's a *machine*. Other ferals have tried to mimic this, and gotten squished. Caster form is extremely risky when tanking, so he's got to be very quick about it.
As resto, I pewpew, get the debuffs on, go tree, healhealheal, go caster, pewpew debuffs again, hopefully don't have to battle rezz, but I ***** up, and that's a fact, go tree, Innervate the main healer, which is sometimes me. I'm too reluctant to tank as I fret I don't have enough sta and armor in my healer gear. This is a failure on my part as any druid should step up and fill any gap in a group at that moment. It's what being a druid is all about.
As resto, I pewpew, get the debuffs on, go tree, healhealheal, go caster, pewpew debuffs again, hopefully don't have to battle rezz, but I ***** up, and that's a fact, go tree, Innervate the main healer, which is sometimes me. I'm too reluctant to tank as I fret I don't have enough sta and armor in my healer gear. This is a failure on my part as any druid should step up and fill any gap in a group at that moment. It's what being a druid is all about.
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