Reflections From The Pond

Or possibly quadruple spec.

Remember how I fiddled about trying out druid healing specs but avoiding the overcooked broccoli form because, well, eh, for no other reason actually than the slightly withered look of it. No, I tell a lie, I actually avoided it partly because every time I see a tree I think aha there’s Zetter (our resident tree!), and the one time I actually specced into this brassicaceous form (for a Masquerade Party!) I couldn’t find myself on my screen, must have been that damned Zetter blocking me all the time! Oh, wait…

Anyway, I suddenly felt kind of extremely silly trying so hard to heal as a druid and not take advantage of their imba 51 point spell, Wild Growth, so I decided to rectify the situation by karaoke! doing the one thing a poor dual specced druid should do. I specced lazer chicken, of course!

Fast forward a few days to a Naxx run, which I entered as my beloved prime time spec, feral, but for the very first time I was in there as a full-time kittycat – miaow! – instead of the tough tank-with-my-face slim and well-muscled pretty bear, and I promptly discovered why meleeing the in Naxx is hell.

Especially for a class with a pathetic aoe (well, not pathetic maybe but not a fast one in my tank-oriented bear spec due to the 50 Energy required). So maybe especially for a druid that refuses to realise that cat and bear have slightly differently oriented specs nowadays. And especially if you don’t want to switch to bear for the much more powerful bear swipe because you don’t want there to be any confusion as to who the tanks are in this run, m’kay.

The trash pulls was a pain (single-target ftl in the crackling aoe fireworks), and Anub’Rekhan was even worse.

Run to boss, open up the can of whoopass, claw that boss til he bleeeeds, uh-oh, he calls on his little friends so run away, little girl, run run after the big friends instead and scratch and claw and bite them to death, and then scoot across the room to refresh all your bleeding nasties on the big ugly arachnid, only to run out again when his little friends came back for seconds. Lather, rinse and repeat.

I spent more time running back and forth than I did dealing out pain! Well, maybe not, but it was an awful lot of running around, and only one dash.

So, since a druid is all about shapeshifting, I promptly switched talents and moved over to the feathered caster variety. Granted, I had no hit rating whatsoever in my former leafless healing set, and of course I had forgotten to change my glyphs from the resto to the whoopass variety, but I still did an imba amount of damage compared to my poor kitty! Yellow numbers popping out ftw!

And in this form I did something, never recorded once in over 200 surveyed worlds (bonus if you recognize the quote) 50 Naxx runs, I snagged me a Safety Dance achievement!

Fast forward a few days again, when the meandering wit and erratic whims of my druid made her ditch her feral spec and actually go for a fully fledged leafed resto build. Yes, one including the flaxen walking brassica.

Happy as a kid in a candy shop she ran around in Stormwind trying to talk to her stationary kin (who were not responding btw) and was going to take a quick peek at her resto glyphs that she luckily still hadn’t gotten around to swapping for pew-pew ones when I realised that her primary spec, the one that’s always been feral, you know, the one that now had a brand new decidous branch (/giggle) instead, this spec was not decked out in resto glyphs but was, in fact, still sporting heavy duty bear tank glyphs. The resto glyphs were, naturally, still safely attached to her moonkin spec.

/facepalm.

So shall I get me new glyphs? Or shall I swap my specs? Or, given that I probably will feel the urge to reclaim my furriness real soon, and it’s not entirely improbable that I will actually get me two feral specs, one for the in-your-face tankmaestro and one for the sleek death-on-paws, shall I just turn a blind eye to the glyph department for the time being?

Or shall I just avoid the entire mess and go level my priest instead?

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