One Druid, Many Worlds

I’ve mentioned the excellent item comparison AddOn Pawn last week. Today I found a tutorial on how to set Pawn up on the Druid blog, Matter Hair and Sharpened Claws. If you know of any good scales (especially for Moonkin), post them here.

Feral Bear Tank News

Feral Bonus Armor explained

Big Bear Butt Blogger explains what Bonus Armor is and how it is calculated. This helps immensely with understading the 3.0.8 that doesn’t allow Bonus Armor to be multiplied by Bear form. Flyv on his blog also notes that his Bear armor change since the patch is negligible, but his armor in Bear form while wearing his cat gear (for those emergency off-tank situations) went up over 60%.

Feral Cat DPS News

Cat to do list

Flyv also lists the top 6 activities Feral Cat Druids should do upon logging in after patching 3.0.8. (Hint: you have to train cat Swipe.)

Moonkin Balance News

Moonkin for dummies

Today I’ve also discovered the Elitist Jerk guide to Moonkin stats, spell rotation, enchants, consumables, talents, mods and professions. And not an algebraic formula to be seen!

Wrath Raiding Gear Guide for Level 80 Balance Druids

Allison Robert, the weekly Druid writer at WoW Insider, has another Shifting Perspectives column up. This guide covers gearing your Moonkin for Wrath Raiding. It’s in-depth and well done. (Disclaimer: I run the site.)

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World of Warcraft Patch 2.2 is going live tomorrow morning. Other than integrated Voice Chat and some new Chat Channel customization, there aren’t any significant content changes. However, there are a few very nice additions for druids.

First is a new craftable chest piece for cat druids, [item]33204en[/item].

According to the commentors at WoWHead.com, for sustained DPS, this piece is equal to the Tier 4 Raid Feral Druid chest [item]Breastplate of Malorne[/item] and a great upgrade to the Karazhan Nightbane drop [item]Chestguard of the Conniver[/item]. It can be socketed for additional damage and/or shoring up the weak stamina stat.

If you’ve faced down Magtheridon for your T4 chest piece, don’t bother with this one. If you have your Karazhan chestpiece, the Shadowprowler’s Chestguard is a solid upgrade. And if you don’t raid at all, like me, this is a crazy good piece of feral cat goodness that has fallen out of Druid heaven.

To have it made, track down a leatherworker who is Revered with the Violet Eye (the Karazhan faction). The components are in this link: [item]33205[/item].

More druid goodness in Patch 2.2 after the jump.

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