

c555e501d0 If you look at what you give up in the resto tree, it's really not much. This is a viable alternative to deep resto. There's a fully viable raid spec that is both a tank and a healer, thanks to Heart of the Wild in the feral tree which gives +20% intellect. You don't want to play a tank main with a druid, but you can be a healer+offtank. Druids also bring a lot more utility, like combat rez and innervate, as well as immunity to polymorph effects. Of course arms warriors can also be offtanks if they spec for it, though it does require some talent juggling whereas the feral talents are very dual-role friendly. They can do okay DPS whenever they're not expected to tank, unlike a prot warrior. balsh Sergeantīears are excellent offtanks on raids. The class in BC was also easier to play due to the shapeshifting changes (no longer have to switch humanoid before changing form).

There were main tanks feral in my guild, which would be impossible in vanilla. In BC even if feral wasn't the best spec (resto druid is probably the most op class in BC), feral was alot more viable than it was in Vanilla. Edit: And for OP asking comparison with BC, it's like day and night. Yet pretty weak but also pretty rare because of that which gives you an unique awesome feeling. That being said and like I said, feral is realy awesome and probably has the most interesting gameplay and mechanics in vanilla pvp wise. There is no reason to take a feral druid in raid, I was lucky enough to raid from MC to Nax as feral on retail just because my pvp guild back then has joined a pve guild and my guild was kicking ass in raid so they were taking any member for raiding. Yeah druid tanking is pretty bad, all you have is armor and hp no defense stat so warrior is better in almost any situation.
