OT is an ideal place for grouping for druids. Charm a tigress or tiger and the duo/trio/full_group possibilities are endless. With a charm pet you’ll outperform many dps classes and should have enough mana to also buff/haste/snare it and have mana left over to provide additional support via heals/DS/buffs or even supplementary nukes. Make sure you keep mana in reserve to manage charm breaks. The mobs themselves aren’t independently extra resisty- you just have to understand that both tigers and tigresses have a very wide level range. Point is, you might accidentally end up with a pet target higher than expected who will break often.
I really cannot stress this location enough. It’s a unique zone.
-it’s a travel hub. In downtime being bound here provides ample opportunity for getting some port money.
-it’s a travel hub. Chances of random high level buffs (ie clarity) is good
-good relaxed places to safely afk and Med up.
-outdoor zone
-good quad opportunity if you want a relaxed and semi-afk play session
-charming prospects. Consistently finding 2 cats close to the same level is annoying. If charm soloing I would pit a cat vs a non cat. As mentioned above though ... it’s one of those rare zones where you can actually charm in and with a group and it’s good for at least a solid 11 levels for this purpose. There won’t be a lot of chances later to join a group and outdps the rogue while bringing heals and utility to the table. Druids really shine here.
For druids, this zone is perfect for those level ranges.
Fastest duo (by a long shot) I found from 39-45 was charming a high level tiger, fully buffing and hasting, and rolling duo with a shaman. Any shaman will do at or below your level. We just slowed mobs and healed the hasted pet. 2 of us parked at FM zone line would chainsaw through piles of corpses with no down time. Keeping a high level pet hasted and just healing it is a lot more efficient with a shaman than trying to dump old pets.
Take it or leave it, that’s my best advice. If I rolled another half dozen druids - I wouldn’t go anywhere else unless fun shenanigans were to be had dungeon diving with good friends (and the do doing so would be a fraction of what’s possible with a duo partner in OT.
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