QUICK START
Start with manageable pulls and keep mana for a heal. Feral is a practical solo route once your forms arrive; keep a separate set of caster equipment if you want to heal dungeons.
ROLE
Damage · Tank · Healer
RESOURCE
Mana · Rage · Energy
01
How Druid plays
Your form changes your available attacks and resource. A useful habit is to check three things before a pull: which form you need, how much mana remains outside that form, and where you can retreat.
For solo play, compare the time spent fighting with the time spent recovering afterwards. A slightly longer fight can still be efficient if you finish ready for the next quest objective.
Read more: Blizzard’s Druid class changes.
For named training milestones, quest upgrades and your first dungeon checklist, read the Druid levelling guide.
02
Three talent paths
You create a Druid first, then develop a talent path as you level. Read the choices below as playstyles: early points and a fully developed build are different stages of the same character.
Balance
Ranged damage with Wrath, Starfire and Moonfire. The tree supports spell efficiency and, later, Eclipse and Moonkin Form. Choose it if you enjoy casting and planning around mana.
Feral Combat
Cat Form spends Energy and builds combo points for damage; Bear Form spends Rage and is suited to tanking. Shared talents help both forms, but gear and your priorities change with your role.
Restoration
Healing with direct spells and healing over time. Learn when a small heal is enough, when an ally needs immediate help, and when changing form is worth the mana.
Use the planner to read the current talents and check row requirements. Legacy’s Talented bonus adds points separately; leave its rank at zero unless your character has earned the bonus.
＋ Plan your talent points
Read talents and plan a route for your Druid. Open the full Druid calculator for more space.
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03
Forms, healing and control
Open
Before forms, use Wrath at range and add Moonfire when the enemy will live long enough for its damage over time.
Adapt
Use Bear when you need durability. In Cat, spend combo points on an appropriate finisher rather than waiting for a full bar on a nearly defeated enemy.
Recover
Heal between pulls and return to the form you need. Avoid repeated shifts that spend mana without solving a problem.
Keep Mark of the Wild active. Use Entangling Roots to separate a dangerous enemy from the rest of a pull, then position so you can deal with one threat at a time.
Read more: Druid combat and early forms.
Weapon damage contributes to form damage in Forever. Inspect the weapon itself when your Cat or Bear damage feels weak; the old Classic habit of treating every weapon as only a stat stick is misleading here.
Before shifting, spend only the mana that solves a problem: a heal, a useful buff or control. Repeatedly leaving and re-entering form to top up a tiny amount of health can turn a sustainable route into a drinking route.
In Cat, choose a finisher for the health remaining. Saving five combo points on an enemy that will die to the next Claw wastes time; maintaining a bleed on a dying enemy wastes Energy.
Keep a small Intellect and recovery set for healing. Feral points do not remove your healing spells, but they also do not make a damage set a reliable healing set. Tell the group which role you are taking.
04
Choose gear for the job
Attributes, in numbers
Druid stat conversions
Humanoid class baseline. Cat and Bear forms need separate rules; equipped weapon DPS is not a form-damage estimate. The matching Cat tooltip gives 1 AP per Agility.
Level 30: class baseline, before buffs and talents.
The AP contribution is added to the weapon's base DPS. It is not total combat DPS. Listed weapon speed is used; haste, misses, crits, armor, procs and special attacks are excluded.
Agility
+0.891 ppWeapon crit contribution at this level
- Baseline melee AP
- +0
- Tooltip armor contribution
- +20
Intellect
+0.352 ppSpell crit contribution at this level
- Mana gained
- +150
Uses existing plus added effective Intellect: the first 20 contribute 1 mana per point; above 20, 15 per point. This is neither Spell Power nor mana regeneration.
“pp” means percentage points: +1 pp takes 5% to 6%, before other modifiers. Crit contributions are not total crit chances.
- Stamina
- The first 20 effective points add 1 health each. Above 20, the client uses your character’s current health-per-point rate; health buffs and talents can change the gain.
- Mana per 5 seconds
- +5 MP5 gives 60 mana over one minute, assuming a constant effective rate and enough missing mana to receive it.
- Spirit
- Mana recovery depends on class rules, talents and when you spend mana. See the regeneration mechanics.
- Spell Power
- Applied by each spell and rank's coefficient. It has no universal damage or healing conversion. Inspect the spell-rank data.
How crit changes as you level +10 attribute examples
| Level | Agility → weapon crit | Intellect → spell crit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | +2.05 pp | +1.455 pp |
| 10 | +1.577 pp | +1 pp |
| 20 | +1.139 pp | +0.525 pp |
| 30 | +0.891 pp | +0.352 pp |
| 60Future/reference | +0.5 pp | +0.167 pp |
“pp” means percentage points: +1 pp turns 5% into 6%, before other modifiers. These are contributions, not total crit chances.
Assumptions & sources Build 1.60.1.70205
Interactive figures use class baseline: race, buffs, talents, form overrides and server-side changes are not applied. The client data describes configured conversions; it is not a combat-log measurement or a gear ranking.
- Attack Power: added Strength × the class's AP-per-Strength field. Agility's melee and ranged AP fields are kept separate.
- Crit: added attribute × its exact class-and-level coefficient × 100. No interpolation or Classic fallback is used.
- Ordinary swing contribution: added AP ÷ 14 × listed weapon speed. The divisor and +2 armor per Agility come from the matching client tooltip code.
- Configured mana contribution at effective Intellect I: min(I, 20) + 15 × max(I − 20, 0). An increase across the breakpoint is the difference between the old and new totals.
- Stamina's first-20 breakpoint is present in the matching constants file. The exact above-20 Forever rate has not been verified; the UI obtains it from the game's runtime API.
Class conversion data · Level conversion data · Matching client tooltip source · Intellect and Stamina constants · Read the stat mechanics
Game data and icons © Blizzard Entertainment. Public client exports: wago.tools; client UI mirror: Gethe. Values rounded for display.
Keep your melee and caster equipment separate. A piece that helps a healing set can be poor for Cat damage, even if it has a higher item level. Look at the actual stats and the task you are about to do.
Feral
Compare weapons as well as Agility, Strength, Stamina and defensive stats. Forever changes make weapons relevant to form damage.
Caster
Compare spell power and useful mana stats. Intellect gives a larger mana pool; recovery and affordable spells determine how long you can use it.
Tank
Keep a durable set. A damage upgrade is less useful if it makes an unfamiliar pull difficult to survive.
Read more: Forever’s weapon and form changes.
Feral · quests
Deepgrave Trousers from An Ancient Grudge in Hall of Thanes are an early leg-slot comparison. Do not choose a caster reward automatically if your next hours are in Cat or Bear.
Healing · first dungeons
Trogg Scepter from RFC’s Oggleflint and Aetherwisp Bracers from Hall of Thanes’ Faldrim belong on the caster/healing shortlist, rather than replacing your Feral weapon plan.
Healing · quest reward
Important Heirlooms in Hall of Thanes offers Dwarven Tome. Keep it with your caster set when you intend to heal.
05
Your first group role
Tell the group whether you are joining as damage, tank or healer. Flexibility is useful, but the group still needs to know who is responsible for each job.
If you are healing, equip your caster set and watch mana before the next pull. If you are tanking, establish control before moving on. If you are dealing damage, help with control and emergency healing when it prevents a death.
06
Ability and build milestones
Level 10
Bear Form. Complete the form quest. Bear gives a Rage-based melee route and an early tanking option.
Level 12
Revive. Train the ordinary resurrection before joining groups. It is separate from combat resurrection, Rebirth.
Level 14
Cure Poison. Follow the class unlock. Keep it reachable rather than treating every available spell as damage training.
Level 16
Aquatic Form. A class-quest travel tool for water routes. Plan the quest when it fits your journey rather than interrupting every zone for it.
Level 20
Cat Form. Complete the Cat quest. Energy and combo points replace Rage; practise Claw and an appropriately timed finisher.
Level 30
Travel Form. Shortens outdoor travel. Useful time saved between objectives can matter more than a small damage-rank purchase.
These are toolkit changes, not measured percentage-DPS claims. Talent unlocks assume enough points in the required tree; Legacy bonuses and off-tree points can change when a build reaches them.
07
Sources and beta updates
Written for WoW Forever beta. Ability values and talent choices can change with updates; check your current in-game tooltips when a detail differs.
Blizzard — Hunter and Druid deep dive · Method — Druid levelling · Mobalytics — Feral progression · Icy Veins — Ragefire Chasm rewards · Wowhead — Hall of Thanes quests and rewards · TalentsForever — licensed beta spell and talent records · Wowhead — early Druid healing equipment
Community tips are linked beside the relevant advice. They describe player experience; they are not measured class rankings.