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Leveling Boomkin at 60?
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Post by
Ethiery
Ok, to sum it up. I'm so sick of seeing "LF Healer!" in LFG I've decided to trade off some of my awesome mage dps time, to give back to the community in terms of HP.
Now, I always hear leveling "kitty" is the 100% way to go. But, I'm thinking once I hit 60 and the outland gear becomes readily available, leveling Boomkin.
Question one: Boomkin leveling - Easy since I'm familiar with mage or will it make me wanna pull out my teeth for going Oomkin?
Question two: Spec'd boomkin will I be able to heal the 4 other Dk's that will be in any party I try and do in OL as of now.
Question three: When I hit NR, stay boomkin till 80, or, due to a lack of "pressured healing" should I spec healer, and get in some good old, slow instance grinding till 80?
:edit: Yes, I know the title says "Boomkin" but my goal is to heal when I hit 80.
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Post by
Gilean82
Boomkin is very viable for leveling. The only reason people say to level feral is that you have no downtime versus drinking every 5-6 mobs as Moonkin. It's not a big difference.
And yes, you will be able to heal 5 mans as Balance spec. I did all of the Outland ones and UK / Nexus before I switched to Resto.
As far as leveling in NR as Restoration, I did not have much of an issue. I made sure to pick up Insect Swarm and just dotted up the mob, dropping Starfires once they were rooted. Not as fast as full balance or feral, but it gets the job done. Then again I was at 1200 spellpower with Karazhan epics so...
Overall, you will be fine for OL instances as Balance. Once you hit NR, I'd say try UK and Nexus and see if you can make it work. If not, do a hybrid spec so you have some solo-ability. Something like
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=0xGbur0oZZfVhu0uxVuc
should work.
Post by
Ethiery
Much thankies there. Just wanted to check ahead before I felt banging my head off my keyboard.
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Post by
Katsudon
Pick up both intensity and dreamstate while leveling; it will help lower your downtime a lot. Its possible to pull continuously and only rely on innervate if you have decent mp regen.
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