Leveling druids post nerfs

[Rimson]

Ok thanks for the advice guys. Is there a guide to charming anywhere? Never played a class in live with any type of charm.

[Gnar]

Guide:

1. Buy spell
2. Mem spell
3. Cast spell
4. Do not duck during casting of spell

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by Rimson [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ok thanks for the advice guys. Is there a guide to charming anywhere? Never played a class in live with any type of charm.

Search the forums a bit - I know Alawen and others have discussed how good it is and how they used it. But essentially, keep your distance and be ready to snare either mob if charm breaks. Remember that you need to personally do at least 1 damage to a mob to get 100% exp (a level 1 nuke works). If your pet does all dmg, he steals a vast majority of the exp.

[moklianne]

Charm kiting was the best xp for a Druid without a doubt, until they nerfed it in PoP.

Snare mob
use tunare's (animal -MR)
charm mob
attack same mob type with pet
when pet hits 15% invis to break charm
snare healthy mob
use tunare's
charm healthy mob
attack nearly dead mob

This was of course the way to do it after they nerfed the dps of charmed pets. I believe that happened around the same time of the xp nerf in PoP though.
Straight up charming and pet hasting may be enough to kill a mob right now.

[xshayla701]

Originally Posted by moklianne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

use tunare's (animal -MR)

What is the full name of this spell and the level? Did not know druids had this..

[Mardur]

Originally Posted by xshayla701 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What is the full name of this spell and the level? Did not know druids had this..

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.htm...55&source=Live

[Ardenya]

I've been charming frogs in PoS but never in classic so I cant advise you where to go to but this is how it works.

Find an animal and snare it. Always keep your charmed mob snared as you dont want to have a beefed, angry monster running towards at full speed you when charm breaks. Always re-snare at charm break! Pull him to a safe area where you set up your camp. Charm it and put it on guard. Next, buff it with STR and a DS. This will give it an edge against the mob it will be killing.

Now you can go ahead and pull another mob. Get it back to your camp, root it and sic the charmed mob on it. Throw a DoT, gain some distance to have time to react in case charm breaks. As someone has said, you'll need to make damage to get full exp.

I'd advise you to keep the non-charmed mob rooted so you'll have to deal only with your ex-pet should charm break but thats not necessary if you find it to be a mana drain.

As your pet kills the mob its been fighting your next move depends on how many HP it's got left. As you had it buffed up before pulling the other, it should have enough HP to be able to take on another without dying. In that case pull the next mob, have you your pet kill it.

Should your pet have only little HP left, break charm using either invis or hide and take it out. At best, it'll have about 5% left and will be an easy kill but still grant full exp. Whatever happens, you dont want your pet to die to the other mob as you'd lose out on easy exp.

So to sum it up:
1. Get a mob, snare, charm, buff; resnare on charm break!
2. Get another for your pet to fight, root, DoT
3. Break charm, finish off your ex-pet
4. Profit!

It takes some training to be able to pull it off smoothly but its definitly more fun than your usual root/rot. You can play around with pet buffs to see which works best, giving your pet the necessary edge. You'll might even throw a small heal now and then to make sure it survives the fight.

[Nedala]

Buff your charmed pet with your awesome animal-haste buff too!

[Zapatos]

Try finding a spot with other animals if you can. Just snare+panic animal and sick your pet on em, re-applying fear as you need to. As with charming, always be on guard to have an angry and buffed former pet coming to kill you. And remember to do some damage yourself too!

[Ongbak]

Originally Posted by Ardenya [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've been charming frogs in PoS but never in classic so I cant advise you where to go to but this is how it works.

Find an animal and snare it. Always keep your charmed mob snared as you dont want to have a beefed, angry monster running towards at full speed you when charm breaks. Always re-snare at charm break! Pull him to a safe area where you set up your camp. Charm it and put it on guard. Next, buff it with STR and a DS. This will give it an edge against the mob it will be killing.

Now you can go ahead and pull another mob. Get it back to your camp, root it and sic the charmed mob on it. Throw a DoT, gain some distance to have time to react in case charm breaks. As someone has said, you'll need to make damage to get full exp.

I'd advise you to keep the non-charmed mob rooted so you'll have to deal only with your ex-pet should charm break but thats not necessary if you find it to be a mana drain.

As your pet kills the mob its been fighting your next move depends on how many HP it's got left. As you had it buffed up before pulling the other, it should have enough HP to be able to take on another without dying. In that case pull the next mob, have you your pet kill it.

Should your pet have only little HP left, break charm using either invis or hide and take it out. At best, it'll have about 5% left and will be an easy kill but still grant full exp. Whatever happens, you dont want your pet to die to the other mob as you'd lose out on easy exp.

So to sum it up:
1. Get a mob, snare, charm, buff; resnare on charm break!
2. Get another for your pet to fight, root, DoT
3. Break charm, finish off your ex-pet
4. Profit!

It takes some training to be able to pull it off smoothly but its definitly more fun than your usual root/rot. You can play around with pet buffs to see which works best, giving your pet the necessary edge. You'll might even throw a small heal now and then to make sure it survives the fight.

Great advice, but the problem that I had was that sometimes root/charm broke so fast that I waste all my full mana for blue 2 kills. My baby druid is lvl 16, maybe it was because lack of MR debuff? Or just random charm/root effects.