The Daily Druid is moving to a new site

On Monday, January 4th, 2010 The Daily Druid will be moving to a new site. There is no change of ownership, it's still just me finding great guides, strats and Druid info around the blogosphere and posting links to them for you. I'm expanding to cover other WoW classes and wanted an umbrella site for all the different class blogs to fall under.

Anyone coming to http://www.thedailydruid.com will be automatically forwarded to the new site. I'll post another notice on Monday the 4th to remind everyone following by RSS reader to update their feeds.

Thanks!

Dan O'Halloran

WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown Frozen Halls guide for all Druid Specs

Allison Robert at WoW.com has devoted this week's Shifting Perspectives druid column to playing well in PuGs and also druid strats for the Icecrown 5-man Frozen Halls instances. She covers tactics for Feral Bear Tanks, Feral Cat druids, Balance Moonkin and Resto Trees for Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron and Halls of Reflection.

WoW Druid Tier 10 Lasherweave Armor Sets

WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown Citadel is live. Here are the final stats on the Druid Tier 10 Armor.

There are 3 sets of T10 Druid Armor that come from adventuring in Icecrown Citadel that went live with WoW Patch 3.3:

• T10: 10-man
• T10.25: 25-man (Normal raid)
• T10.50: 25-man (Heroic raid)

The T10 can be purchased with Emblems of Frost. Emblems are gained through doing the Daily Dungeon, Daily Heroic or Weekly Raid.

The T10.25 can be purchased by turning in your T10 piece plus a Vanquisher's Mark of Vindication which drops from raid bosses in Icecrown Citadel on 25-man Normal mode.

The T10.50 can be purchased by turning in your T10.25 piece plus Vanquisher's Mark of Vindication (Heroic) which drops from 25-man raid bosses in Icecrown Citadel on Heroic mode.

So all raiders who want the top level gear must first get the earlier versions. Welcome to the new progression.

Druid T10 10-man gear

The 10-man gear (iLevel 251) can be purchased with Emblems of Frost: 60 for the shoulder and gloves, 95 for the head, chest and pants.

• Balance: Lasherweave Regalia
  • Lasherweave Vestment
  • Lasherweave Trousers
    
  • Lasherweave Mantle
  • Lasherweave Cover
    
  • Lasherweave Gloves
    
• Feral: Lasherweave Battlegear
  • Lasherweave Rainment
    
  • Lasherweave Legguards
    
  • Lasherweave Shoulderpads
    
  • Lasherweave Headguard
    
  • Lasherweave Handgrips
    
• Restoration: Lasherweave Garb
  • Lasherweave Robes
    
  • Lasherweave Legplates
    
  • Lasherweave Gauntlets
    
  • Lasherweave Helmet
    
  • Lasherweave Pauldrons
    

Druid T10.25 25-man (Normal) gear

25-man (Normal) gear (iLevel 264) can be purchased by turning in your 10-man piece plus a Vanquisher's Mark of Vindication which drops from raid bosses in Icecrown Citadel on 25-man Normal mode.

• Balance: Sanctified Lasherweave Regalia
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Vestment
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Trousers
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Mantle
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Cover
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Gloves
• Feral: Sanctified Lasherweave Battlegear
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Rainment
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Legguards
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Shoulderpads
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Headguard
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Handgrips
• Restoration: Sanctified Lasherweave Garb
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Robes
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Legplates
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Gauntlets
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Helmet
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Pauldrons

Druid T10.50 25-man (Heroic) gear

25-man (Heroic) gear (iLevel 277) can be purchased by turning in your 25-man (Normal) piece plus a Vanquisher's Mark of Vindication (Heroic) which drops from 25-man raid bosses in Icecrown Citadel on Heroic mode.

• Balance: Sanctified Lasherweave Regalia (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Vestment (Heroic)
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Trousers (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Mantle (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Cover (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Gloves (Heroic)
• Feral: Sanctified Lasherweave Battlegear (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Rainment (Heroic)
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Legguards (Heroic)
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Shoulderpads (Heroic)
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Headguard (Heroic)
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Handgrips (Heroic)
    
• Restoration: Sanctified Lasherweave Garb (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Robes (Heroic)
    
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Legplates (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Gauntlets (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Helmet (Heroic)
  • Sanctified Lasherweave Pauldrons (Heroic)

T10 Set Bonus

Restoration

• 2P Bonus – The healing granted by your Wild Growth spell reduces 30% less over time.
• 4P Bonus – Each time your Rejuvenation spell heals a target, it has a 2% chance to jump to a new target at full duration.

Balance

• 2P Bonus – When you gain Clearcasting from your Omen of Clarity talent, you deal 15% additional Nature and Arcane damage for 6 sec.
• 4P Bonus – Your critical strikes from Starfire and Wrath cause the target languish for an additional 7% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.

Feral

• 2P Bonus – Your Swipe (Bear) and Lacerate abilities deal 20% additional damage and the cost of your Rip ability is reduced by 10 energy.
• 4P Bonus – Your Enrage ability no longer decreases your armor and instead decreases all damage taken by 12%, and the periodic damage done by your Rake ability can now be a critical strike.

Blizzard has put a preview of what the new armor looks like.

T10 Druid Relics

Tier 10 relics for Druids. They can be purchased for 30 Emblems of Frost from Magistar Arlan in Dalaran. Emblems can be gained from the Daily Dungeon/Daily Heroic/Weekly Raid.

• Balance: Idol of the Lunar Eclipse – Equip: The periodic damage from your Insect Swarm and Moonfire spells grants 44 critical strike rating for 15 sec.  Stacks up to 5 times.
• Feral: Idol of the Crying Moon – Equip: The periodic damage from your Lacerate and Rake abilities grants 44 Agility for 15 sec.  Stacks up to 5 times..
• Restoration: Idol of the Black Willow – Equip: The periodic healing from your Rejuvenation spell grants 32 spell power for 15 sec.  Stacks up to 8 times..

WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown notes for Druids

Druids

• Prowl: This ability no longer has multiple ranks and penalizes movement speed by 30%.
• Rebirth: The cooldown on this spell has been lowered from 20 minutes down to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
• Rejuvenation: The base duration on all ranks of this spell is now 15 seconds.
• Tranquility: The cooldown on this spell has been reduced to 8 minutes, down from 10 minutes.
• Talents
  • Balance
    • Eclipse: This effect will not activate again within 15 seconds of either type of Eclipse effect firing, in addition to the existing 30-second cooldown for each type of Eclipse. In addition, Eclipse now grants a 40% critical strike chance to Starfire and 40% increased damage to Wrath, up from 30%.
    • Force of Nature: Health on the treants has been increased.
  • Feral Combat
    • Predatory Strikes: The Predatory Swiftness buff from this talent now has an 8-second duration.
  • Restoration
    • Gift of the Earthmother: Redesigned. This talent now increases spell haste by 2/4/6/8/10% and reduces the base global cooldown of Lifebloom by 2/4/6/8/10% instead of its previous effects.
• Pets
  • Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
• Glyph of Rapid Rejuvenation: This glyph allows for the druid’s haste to reduce the time between the periodic healing effects of Rejuvenation.

Bug Fixes

• Glyph of Hurricane: Now modifies the spell tooltip on Hurricane to indicate the spell also applies a movement slowing effect.
• Hurricane: When cast from Bear Form, Cat Form, or Dire Bear Form, this spell will now channel properly instead of stopping the channel as soon as the shapeshift is cancelled.
• Infected Wounds: This ability is no longer considered to be in the magical defense category; therefore spell hit no longer applies to its activation. Tooltip error corrected.
• Nature's Grace: The tooltip now correctly indicates that it will not be activated from periodic spell critical strikes.
• Swipe (Bear): Tooltip corrected to display 8 yard range.
• Rejuvenation: Druids will no longer get a more powerful spell error message when attempting to overwrite a Rejuvenation they cast.

WoW Druid leveling guide 1-80

WoW.com's Druid columnist Allison Robert has completed her extensive (and up to date) Druid leveling guide:

• Why to play a Druid
  
• Levels 1-9
  
• Levels 10-20 and how to spec
  
• Levels 21-30
  
• Levels 31-40 and notes on playing on PvP servers
  
• Levels 41-50
  
• Levels 51-60
  
• Levels 61-70
  
• Levels 71-80
  

Druid T10 relic stats from WoW PTR Patch 3.3

A new build has appeared on the test realms for WoW Patch 3.3. and with it comes new Tier 10 relics for Druids.

• Druid T10 Feral Relic (Rake and Lacerate) – The periodic damage from your Lacerate and Rake abilities grants 44 Agility for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Druid T10 Balance Relic (Moonfire and Insect Swarm) – The periodic damage from your Insect Swarm and Moonfire spells grants 44 critical strike rating for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Druid T10 Restoration Relic (Rejuvenation) – The periodic healing from your Rejuvenation spell grants 32 spell power for 15 sec. Stacks up to 8 times.

Source: MMO-Champion.

 

New Druid Tier 10 armor set bonuses revealed for WoW Patch 3.3

EDIT: The final stats are in with today's Patch 3.3 being pushed to the live servers. Look here for the most current stats. And check back with The Daily Druid for analysis and guides for Icecrown Citadel!

A new PTR build for WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown Citadel has been released and MMO-Champion has datamined the new set bonuses for the Druid Tier 10 armor

Druid T10 Restoration

• 2P Bonus – The healing granted by your Wild Growth spell reduces 0% less over time.
• 4P Bonus (Rejuvenation) – Each time your Rejuvenation spell heals a target, it has a 2% chance to jump to a new target at full duration.

Druid T10 Balance

• 2P Bonus – When you gain Clearcasting from your Omen of Clarity talent, you deal 10% additional Nature and Arcane damage for 6 sec.
• 4P Bonus – Reduces the cooldown on your Eclipse talent by 6 seconds.

Druid T10 Feral

• 2P Bonus – Your Swipe (Bear) and Lacerate abilities deal 20% additional damage and the cost of your Rip ability is reduced by 10 energy.
• 4P Bonus – Your Enrage ability no longer decreases your armor and instead decreases all damage taken by 12%, and the periodic damage done by your Rake ability can now be a critical strike.

Blizzard has put a sneak peak of what the new armor looks like.

Druid notes for WoW Patch 3.3 on the PTR

The test realm patch notes for WoW Patch 3.3 Icecrown Citadel just went out though the PTR is not up yet. There are a few notes of interest for Druids:

Druids

• Pets
  • Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.

Bug Fixes

• Druids
  • Rejuvenation: Rank 15 of this spell was providing a 15-second duration. It has been correctly reduced to 12 seconds.

It looks like this patch isn’t about major Druid rebalancing, but more testing the new 5-man content, but expect more changes to come before 3.3 goes live.

WoW Patch 3.2.2 for Druids

Allison Robert at WoW.com delves into the ability, spell and talent changes for Druids in WoW Patch 3.2.2. She covers updates to Moonkin form, Predatory Strikes, Typhoon and Infected Wounds.

Druid idol guide for all specs for WoW Patch 3.2

The Altosis Druid blog posts a round up of Druid idols for all specs current up to WoW Patch 3.2. He gives recommendations for each and shows you how you can acquire the high end ones without raiding.

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