Yesterday, I rolled another new druid, on another fresh server.

Partly it’s because I love starting with absolutely nothing – no BOAs, no bags, no cash, no professions.. and building from the ground up. I discovered that the first few points of fishing can be a goldmine; fish up some tattered cloth and you can vendor them for 1s each (for a penniless newbie, that’s crazy money). I’m weird, I love being broke and working my way up. I sold a stack of copper bars for 7g, (scratch that, just checked my bank alt – I sold my first Arcanite Rod recipe for 35g – chaCHING! Love that easy Moonglade money..) and I’m on my way – gradually buying bigger bags, getting my training. It’s a mini game in itself, for me.

But of course I also did it because I just get such a kick out of levelling druids. Not just playing them, but levelling them.

I know a lot of people can’t stand the levelling process, and wish they could “skip ahead” to max level. Not me – levelling is one of the most fun processes, I think. I get bored at max level; Keeva is starting to gather dust. She only gets time out of her box when it’s time for raids, otherwise I really have little drive to play her. But, a fresh druid? Om nom nom delicious levelling!

10-20, of course, is still a hideous drag; it takes a whole mana bar to kill mobs around your level, which means drinking every pull. OR you can utilise your new bear form; but Maul has a five-year swing timer.. drives me a bit batty. I guess it’s good if you’re feeling peckish and decide to go make a sandwich in the middle of killing your target. Blizzard have hinted that they were considering swapping Cat and Bear around, so that we receive our cat form earlier. This would be great – although you only start with one ability, at least it doesn’t have the swing timer of bear. Of course, if bear was at 20, that would mean no LFD tanking for 15-19 druids – so I guess we’ll see.

Whenever I mention a new druid, people ask me “how many is that, now?” and I tell them the truth – I’ve lost count. They laugh. I’m not being funny, I just don’t count anymore. Anytime I feel like doing something new, I usually pick up a druid. You’d think I would get sick of it over time.. but something just keeps bringing me back to the class, and to levelling more.

I have other classes, of course. I quite like mage – and I’ve been dual-boxing gnome mages a fair bit. They make me smile! Although the dual-boxing just makes me think how funny it would be to 5-box boomkins and have them all starfalling at the same time.. mmm, annoying! Back on topic though – I like my mage, I don’t mind shadow priest, rogue seems fun.. but at the end of a frustrating day, I get the most joy out of picking up a baby druid and levelling some more.


I’m not sure entirely what it is. Familiarity? Comfort? The fact that all my keybinds and Power Auras are already set up? I can do this practically in my sleep. I love to do lowbie dungeons as a druid – because I know the ins and outs of druid healing, I never have to worry if I’m doing the right thing, or if I’m being a bad healer.

I think mostly I chose druid and stuck with it because it suits my short attention span. I love to heal, obviously, but with the same class I can also go out and rip things apart, or shoot them with lasers, or tank. I love using all of my forms while questing – life never seems dull when you have a druid. Well, past 20 it never seems dull.

At end game, I love healing as a druid because it feels like there is pressure on us to multi-task. Keep HoTs up on the tank/s and keep an eye on them, do your normal job through the raid, and keep an eye out for emergencies too. Perhaps it’s maternal instinct or something – but I love that feeling that it’s my job to look after everyone. Of course, I love fights where I have specific assignments, too – because once I get into the swing of it, I can often stretch myself to include other people.

I just love the class, and no matter how many times I pick something else up for a while, I always come back to my druids. When I say “I’ll always be a druid” I know that I mean it. I might play other classes for fun on the side, but I really couldn’t imagine having anything but a druid as my main.


I know most of you out there aren’t serial druid levellers like me – but what keeps you coming back to your druid, instead of swapping to another class?



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