WoW Classic Druid Guide: Weapon Skills, Abilities, Trainers, & Gear

The Druid is a versatile hybrid class, capable of filling any role in the game thanks to their powerful shapeshifting abilities. In WoW Classic, they are often considered to be jacks-of-all-trades, masters-of-none, with their flexibility and utility making up for what they may lack in damage, healing, or threat output compared to other classes.

Druids are best known for their unique group utility in the form of Innervate and Rebirth. In PvP, they are the kings of mobility, able to escape roots and slows with their shapeshifting and race ahead of the pack with Dash and Travel Form. Whether you’re looking to powershift your way up the damage meters, keep your party alive with powerful heal-over-time spells, or lift everyone’s spirits as a dancing Boomkin, the nature-loving Druid class has something for everyone.

Resto Druid Healing

Feral Druid DPS

Balance Druid DPS

Feral Druid Tank

Druid Talent Calculator

Druid Leveling Guide

Druid Macros

Powershifting Rotation

Druid Pre-Raid & Best in Slot (BiS)

19 Druid Twink

29 Druid Twink

39 Druid Twink

Roles & Specializations

The three talent trees for Druids are Balance, Feral, and Restoration.

• Balance
  • Provides talents for dealing damage with ranged spells.
  • Poor DPS performance in raids.
• Feral
  • Contains talents for melee DPS and tanking.
  • Cat DPS is generally mid-tier performance in raids, but great for leveling.
  • Decent tanking for dungeons and raids in Bear form.
• Restoration
  • Focused on healing.
  • Strong raid healing performance and great for dungeons.

View the complete Druid talent tree in our Druid Talent Calculator.

Class Feature: Shapeshifting

The signature feature of the Druid class is its shapeshifting capability. New forms are learned as you level, unlocking new approaches to combat and travel. Switching forms breaks snares and slows, allowing Druids a great deal of freedom of movement on the battlefield.

• Bear Form is the first form learned at level 10, and is the primary form for Feral Tanking. This form gets beefier at level 40 with Dire Bear Form.
• Cat Form is learned at level 20 and is used for Feral DPS. This form also allows the use of the Prowl and Dash abilities, allowing the Druid to stealth or sprint. If specced into the Feline Swiftness Feral talent, it also allows faster movement in areas where mounts can’t be used.
• Moonkin Form is learned through a talent in the Balance tree and is used for Balance DPS. This form gives Moonkin Aura, a 3% increased spell critical chance to party members within 30 yards.
• Aquatic Form is learned at level 16 and allows the Druid to move very quickly in water. This is an underrated ability for leveling and farming.
• Travel Form is learned at level 30 and increases movement speed on land. This form can only be used outside and is slower than a mount, but it is an instant cast.
• Tree of Life Form and Flight Form are not added to the game until later expansions.

Resources

Druids use multiple types of ability resources, depending upon their current form.

• Mana is used when they are in their normal humanoid form or Moonkin Form.
• Rage is used in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form.
• Energy is used in Cat Form.
• Combo Points are also acquired and spent in Cat Form.

Races

Druids have only one Race option for each faction.

Racial Abilities

Starting Stats

Stat	Night Elf	Tauren
Stamina	19	22
Strength	18	26
Agility	25	15
Intellect	22	17
Spirit	22	24

Weapon Skills & Armor Proficiencies

Druids can equip Cloth or Leather armor as well as Idols in the Relic slot. These proficiencies are available immediately and don’t have to be trained.

Below is a table of weapon types that Druids can use and where the initial skill can be trained.

Weapon Type	Where to Learn
Daggers	Default Sayoc in Orgrimmar Archibald in Undercity
Fist Weapons	Ilyenia Moonfire in Darnassus Buliwyf Stonehand in Ironforge Sayoc in Orgrimmar
One-Handed Maces	Buliwyf Stonehand in Ironforge Default
Polearms	Requires level 20 Woo Ping in Stormwind Archibald in Undercity
Staves	Default Default
Two-Handed Maces	Buliwyf Stonehand in Ironforge Ansekhwa in Thunder Bluff

Notable Abilities

Druids have a lot of useful abilities that will make them a welcome addition to any group.

Utility

• Innervate
• Prowl
• Rebirth

Movement

• Aquatic Form
• Dash
• Teleport: Moonglade
• Travel Form

Dispels

• Abolish Poison
• Cure Poison
• Remove Curse

Crowd Control

• Bash
• Entangling Roots
• Feral Charge (Feral talent)
• Hibernate
• Pounce

Threat

• Challenging Roar
• Cower
• Growl
• Soothe Animal

Buffs

• Leader of the Pack (Feral talent)
• Mark of the Wild
• Moonkin Aura (from Moonkin Form – Balance talent)
• Thorns

Debuffs

• Demoralizing Roar
• Faerie Fire
• Hurricane
• Insect Swarm

Druid Trainer Locations

Druid class trainers can be found in both Druid starting zones, in Moonglade, and in a few other locations depending upon your faction.

Trainer	Faction	Location	Coordinates
Denatharion	Alliance	Darnassus – Cenarion Enclave	34.8, 8.6
Fylerian Nightwing	Alliance	Darnassus – Cenarion Enclave	33.6, 8.6
Mathrengyl Bearwalker	Alliance	Darnassus – Cenarion Enclave	35.2, 8.0
Golhine the Hooded	Alliance	Felwood – Talonbranch Glade	62.0, 24.4
Jannos Lighthoof	Horde	Feralas – Camp Mojache	76.0, 42.2
Loganaar	Neutral	Moonglade – Nighthaven	52.4, 40.6
Gennia Runetotem	Horde	Mulgore – Bloodhoof Village	48.4, 59.6
*Gart Mistrunner	Horde	Mulgore – Red Cloud Mesa	45.0, 76.0
Maldryn	Alliance	Stormwind – The Park	19.8, 52.8
Sheldras Moontree	Alliance	Stormwind – The Park	21.0, 55.6
Theridran	Alliance	Stormwind – The Park	21.6, 51.4
Kal	Alliance	Teldrassil – Dolanaar	56.0, 61.4
*Mardant Strongoak	Alliance	Teldrassil – Shadowglen	58.6, 40.4
Kym Wildmane	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Elder Rise	77.6, 29.0
Sheal Runetotem	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Elder Rise	77.0, 27.6
Turak Runetotem	Horde	Thunder Bluff – Elder Rise	76.6, 27.6

Gear Sets

Here are all of the equipment sets for Druids in Classic WoW, including dungeon sets, raid tier sets, and PvP sets.

• Wildheart Raiment (Dungeon Set 1 or Tier 0)
• Feralheart Raiment (Dungeon Set 2 or Tier 0.5)
• Cenarion Raiment (Tier 1 – Molten Core)
• Haruspex’s Garb (Tier 1.5 – Zul’Gurub)
• Stormrage Raiment (Tier 2 – Blackwing Lair)
• Symbols of Unending Life (Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj)
• Genesis Raiment (Tier 2.5 – Temple of Ahn’Qiraj)
• Dreamwalker Raiment (Tier 3 – Naxxramas)
• The Highlander’s Purpose/ The Defiler’s Purpose (Arathi Basin)
• The Highlander’s Will/ The Defiler’s Will (Arathi Basin)
• Lieutenant Commander’s Sanctuary/ Champion’s Sanctuary (Rare PvP)
• Field Marshal’s Sanctuary/ Warlord’s Sanctuary (Epic PvP)

Notable Items

• Manual Crowd Pummeler: This low-level mace from the Gnomeregan dungeon has limited uses, but is extremely powerful for Feral Druids.
• Wolfshead Helm: This helm is essential for “power shifting,” which involves constantly shapeshifting in and out of Cat Form to gain energy.
• Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros: One of the first legendary weapons in the game from Molten Core, which is usable by Druids.
• Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian: A legendary weapon from the Naxxramas raid that can be used by Druids.

Skill Books

Below are all of the skill books that are available for Druids in WoW Classic. These books teach new abilities or ability ranks that cannot be learned from trainers. The books are not Soulbound and can therefore be traded or purchased from the Auction House.