One of the reasons I love my World of Warcraft druid is the versatility of the class. WoW druids can customize their abilites many different ways: healing centric, melee dps/tank centric and spell damage centric. For awhile, I was spell damage centric aka Moonkin aka Balance specced. I started looking for gear to enhance my spell damage and found it hard to come by for my class.

At the same time, David Bowers, my fellow Shifting Perspectives druid class columnist at WoW Insider posted a feature highlighting gear available to non-raiding tank specced druids. Brilliant! I decided to focus my next feature on my current problem of gearing a non-raiding Balance specced druid. What I didn’t count on was my compulsion to be thorough.

Three feature length articles, five weeks and one sore pair of hands later, I completed my survey of gear for Moonkin druids leveling from 60 to 70 through The Burning Crusade expansion. You can check it out here:

• Part I - Chest, legs, head, shoulders, wrist and hand slots.
• Part II - Waist, feet and back slots.
• Part III - Neck, fingers, trinkets, two-handed weapons, one-handed weapons, off-hand and relics.

I couldn’t get to gems and enchants, so I linked the excellent coverage written on those two subjects by Fiordhraoi on his Balance of Power blog.

If you play a Shadow Priest, Warlock or Mage, you may also be interested in this third piece as many items are perfect for your damage specs as well.

Due to popular demand, I will continue the series, this time covering Restoration (healing) specced druids. I’ll link those up when they are done, probably some time in November.