Week 3 - Druid Appreciation

My Druid is already fairly well played. Each expansion, she is usually the first alt I pick up to work on after my main character and as such her Class Hall is already completed, she has her class mount form, she's been doing heroic Antorus raids and even has most of her professions rounded out. This is Seara, originally a Night Elf but race changed once Worgen became available as anything had to be better than playing a race I really dislike. I'm not a huge fan of Worgen either though so I am looking forward to having new Alliance Druid options when more Allied races become available.

Her Restoration healer outfit on the left is just the Cruel Gladiator's Dragonhide armour set and she's followed around by Sombrius, her little Blossoming Ancient. The outfit on the right is what she wears while being Balance and not in moonkin form (rare, but it does happen) along with her little moonkin hatchling pet, Yuli. Both of these pets are named after friends that made those specs shine for me.

Worgen Druid mount form

I did do a little work on trying to get some of the skinning ranks that she hasn't acquired yet this week and managed to get the quest chain for [Mother's Skinning Knife] to drop. As there was so little to finish on her this week, I decided to take a short visit to another Druid alt. I'm levelling a Highmountain Tauren as I'd like to have access to the armour in case I decide to play one at some point. I always liked Tauren. I used to play a lot of Tauren before I started raiding, but when the graphical updates for characters came in, I didn't like the way the faces had changed for the Tauren. I found myself no longer liking any of my Tauren characters and no amount of customising seemed to make one that I could be happy with anymore. The Highmountain Tauren though, manage to work for me. Perhaps the tattoos obscure the face and soften it enough to not annoy me? Whatever it is, I am enjoying my little HM Tauren Druid, Wenona.

Wenona, with Erik the baby elderhorn. Her transmog is something I threw together to show off her tattoos while still looking plain and practical. You can find the individual items linked here 

To make things a little different this time, I decided to level her as a bear (or possibly it might have been a subtle influence from one of my raid leaders who happens to be a Guardian Druid). I'm loving the pretty graphics for the new druid forms but the bear definitely seems to level a lot slower than a moonkin. It might just be that I haven't reached a high enough level to get to the good stuff yet, but I seem to be able to pull just as many enemies whilst levelling as a moonkin and kill them faster. I do like the versatility of Druids. I love that they can cover every role in game (even if I don't tend to play every role in game). Druid was the first class I ever played in WoW. My beta character was a Tauren Druid and I never really lost the love of them. I managed to get my baby Druid from mid-20s to mid-40s though, which is quite a heavy amount of levelling in one week for me.

I really love the Highmountain Tauren druid travel form

Alt Appreciation: Week 2, Druid

Its been a tougher week than I anticipated with very little time online, so I managed to devote very little time to my Druid after all.

Let me introduce you to my Worgen Druid, Seara. I always enjoyed playing Restoration and Balance Druids. Most expansions have seen the Druid as my 'go to' alt when I branch away from my main character for an evening. I seemed to lose interest in playing Druid a lot when the mushroom spells were added though as for some reason that I just can't put my finger on, it reduced the level of fun for me.

This being said, my Druid was still one of the first characters I took to 90 this expansion. I find it hard not to smile when I see a Moonkin. There's something about them that is both scary and amusing at the same time.







My Druid did originally start out as a Night Elf but changed races as soon as Worgen were brought into the game as I just don't like playing Night Elves. I have a few Tauren Druids on various servers too but this is the one I think of when I think of Druids.

She is pictured here in her usual transmogrification set which is made up of low-level green items. I know it won't surprise you to see a plain outfit on one of my characters! I do love the hat with this one. It suits the Worgen model very well. Pictured with her is her usual choice of pet, Erik the Moonkin Hatchling. He's just so much fun to dance with. If you've never tried it before, next time you spot that pet, target it and dance with it!

My online time with my Druid this week has been mostly spent on making her UI neater and doing a bit of crafting as time has been so limited. I feel a little bad for neglecting her this week but she usually gets more time than my other alts and as always, my health should come first.