Druid Leveling Guide & Best Leveling Spec 1-60 - WoW Classic

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Complete your Druide quests to get Forme d’ours as soon as possible once you are level 10.

Not all forms are learned by Class Quests: Forme de félin is taught at level 20 and Forme de voyage, very important while you don't have a mount, is taught at level 30.

Save up gold so you can purchase your mount at level 40, and at 60, too.

When approaching levels 50 and up, begin checking out your Pre-Raid BiS gear and where it drops. You can begin farming certain dungeons early on, while still gaining XP, to obtain some of that Pre-Raid BiS gear before 60.

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Druids in dungeon cleave groups will mainly be in Forme d’ours using Balayage to deal damage. Keep your Swipe ranks up to date!

Although you will be in Bear Form, you will likely not be main tanking for the group - Make sure you aren't actively tanking mobs, so Warriors don't lose precious Rage.

After level 30 or so, you will shift into a supportive role - Keep your buffs and Chef de la meute up, use Lucioles (farouche) often to increase your group's damage and use Eclat lunaire to pull mobs from a distance.

Use Sonner and Charge farouche to control dangerous enemies, keep all group members with Marque du fauve and tanks with Epines at all times.

Although Forme de félin may seem attractive, the constant AoE makes Bear Form much better for cleave damage, offering similar utility to the group.

Classic WoW Druid Trainer LocationsClassic WoW Druid Weapon SkillsStaves, one-handed maces, two-handed maces, daggers, and fist weaponsDefault Weapon Skills for Classic WoW Druids

Race

Default Weapon Skills

Elfe de la nuit

Daggers and Staves

Tauren

One-Handed Maces and Staves

Weapon Trainers for Classic WoW Druid Weapon Skills

Weapon Master Location

Weapons Skills Taught

Ilyenia Moonfire (57.6, 46.6), Warrior's Terrace, Darnassus

Daggers, Fist Weapons, Staves

Bixi Wobblebonk (62.0, 89.6), Military Ward, Ironforge

Daggers

Buliwyf Stonehand (61.6, 89,4), Military Ward, Ironforge

Fist Weapons, One-Handed Maces, Two-Handed Maces

Woo Ping (57.0, 57.6), Trade District, Stormwind

Daggers, Staves

Hanashi (81.6, 19.4), Valley of Honor, Orgrimmar

Staves

Sayoc (81.6, 19.4), Valley of Honor, Orgrimmar

Daggers, Fist Weapons, Staves

Ansekhwa (41.2, 61.4), Thunder Bluff

One-Handed Maces, Staves, Two-Handed Maces

Archibald (57.8, 31.6), War Quarter, Undercity

Daggers

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Peau du Fauve

Armure tempétueuse

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At level 10, your Druid trainer will teach you Téléportation : Reflet-de-Lune, which will teleport you to Moonglade - A sacred Druid-centric zone where you will go through for Class Quests. You will also learn your first form, Forme d’ours.

At level 14, you will go through a series of quests to learn your first dispell, Guérison du poison.

At level 16, you will go through a lengthy chain to learn a very useful form, Forme aquatique.

After this, you will go without Class Quests until all the way to level 50, where you will go through a lengthy quest leading you to the Le temple d'Atal'Hakkar, allowing you to select powerful rewards: Bâton d'ombrelune, Fourrure grisonnante or Etreinte de la forêt. For more information, check the Druid section on our Sunken Temple Class Quest Guide.

Changes to Questing in Classic WoW

Quests and Objectives are not displayed on the map. To put it simply: you will have to do some exploring. You will get lost at some point during a quest, and you might have to read the actual quest or go to an external website to find out what you are supposed to be doing. While there may someday be a leveling addon for Classic, part of the game "experience" is feeling immersed in the world and creating an adventure of your very own.

You may struggle to kill enemies. As a Druide especially, you won't have a ton of downtime as a Druid since you use different resources in your animal forms and can easily shift out to heal yourself in between pulls. With that being said, the enemies in Classic are going to be more dangerous than BFA mobs, and you'll usually be killing enemies one on one.

Zones don't guarantee a certain amount of levels: Once again, coming from BFA or one of the later expansions, you might be used to finishing a zone (Vol'Dun for instance) and expecting to be two levels higher. In Classic, the difficulty of zones vary, and especially as a Druide, you will want to do a lower difficulty quest. You'll find yourself bouncing between a few zones at any given level range.

Best Druid Questing Zones in Classic WoW

Sombrivage (Darkshore) (11-19): Once you complete the starting area for your particular race, you begin to have options of where to go, where to quest, and for Alliance, in particular, one of the best early game zones is Darkshore.

Loch Modan (10-18): Second to Darkshore would be the Gnome/Dwarf 10-18 zone of Loch Modan. The zone isn't as rich as Darkshore, but, it has some relatively easy quests. This is a good place to come back to and complete the quests once you out-level the content.

Marche de l'Ouest (Westfall) (9-18): While these initial questing zones come down to preference, I would not suggest Westfall as a zone in regards to difficulty. However, if you have a group of friends you are leveling with, and you want to go into Deadmines for a quest run and get some higher item level rewards, this zone is worth considering.

Les Carmines (Redridge Mts) (15-25): This is the level range where you will have to bounce between zones of equal difficulty if you want to fill your quest bar from questing alone. Forming an efficient route of the next few zones will be important to increase your leveling speed.

Bois de la Pénombre (Duskwood) (20-30): This is probably one of my favorite zones; it's full of quests, full of flavor, and has a lot of solid upgrades. Don't miss out on this zone if you play Alliance.

Les Paluns (Wetlands) (20-30): This is probably the last "Alliance only" zone, from here on out you will enter into zones that are contested by both Horde and Alliance.

Les Tarides (the Barrens) (10-33): This is the big one, as it is the meeting point for three of the four races of the Horde, this zone has no shortage of quests and will easily propel you toward level 20. As great as this zone is, be ready to compete for mob tags, as there will be a lot of players funneled into this one zone.

Forêt des Pins argentés (Silverpine Forest) (10-20): This is the Undead version of The Barrens; it has some decent quests to complete, but, I usually don't end up coming here at all.

Les Serres-Rocheuses (Stonetalon Mts) (15-25): Although this zone offers Alliance quests, it is almost entirely a Horde zone. This zone is fantastic as it is right next to the Barrens, and the level range of the two zones overlap.

Contreforts d'Hillsbrad (20-31): Home to the infamous Southshore vs. Tarren Mill world PvP spot, this zone has a lot of good quests for both Alliance and Horde and is usually worked into most people's leveling routes.

Ashenvale (19-30): Another flavorful zone as this is the home to what will become Warsong Gulch, plenty of quests for both Alliance and Horde.

Mille pointes (Thousand Needles) (24-35): Home to the infamous Shimmer Flats, this is a great zone for both factions to get almost an entire level. It also has a questing hub for Horde.

Vallée de Strangleronce (Stranglethorn Vale) (30-50): probably one of the most infamous zones in the whole of World of Warcraft, you will be coming to this zone off and on from level 30 and up towards level 50.

Désolace (30-39): Home of the dungeon Maraudon, this is one of my favorite zones in the game, and I spend many levels here. There are both Horde and Alliance quest hubs here.

Hautes-terres d'Arathi (30-40): This zone is home to the 2nd battleground Arathi Basin, there are two hubs here (one for each faction), and there are plenty of good kill quests here.

Terres ingrates (Badlands) (36-45): This is a quick and dirty zone, while it only has a hub for Horde; it is a quick level, and if you have enough players around your level you can do an Uldaman quest run.

Tanaris (40-50): Home to the dungeon Zul'Farrak, I recommend questing here as well as doing a full quest run of ZF.

Feralas (41-60): This is one of the less popular zones for people to quest at, it's worth coming here in your early 40s as there are plenty of quests for both factions.

Gorge des Vents brûlants (Searing Gorge) (43-56): This zone is particularly exciting because you get your first taste of the end-game, On one side of Blackrock Mountain is a lower level zone with various quests coming from the Thorium Brotherhood.

Steppes ardentes (50-59): The other side of Blackrock Mountain, this is a higher level zone and has hubs for both Horde and Alliance, you will probably come to this zone a couple of times as the level range is quite large. Some dungeon quests come from this zone.

Gangrebois (Felwood) (47-54): This zone is a must-complete for me as the quests are quite good and you will need to come here to get your Balise cénarienne, which is needed to farm various consumables like Tubercule de navetille.

Cratère d'Un'Goro (48-55): This is another hot zone as it has a plethora of quests and will get you nearly two levels from completing the crater.

Maleterres de l'ouest (Western Plaguelands) (46-57): This zone is excellent for quick leveling, as you can complete the "cauldron" questline for massive amounts of experience. It's worth noting that you need a breadcrumb quest from your faction's major city.

Maleterres de l'est (Eastern Plaguelands) (54-59): Home to the legendary Naxxramas, this zone gives you another taste of the end-game immediately upon questing. You will spend a lot of time here even at max level.

Berceau-de-l'Hiver (Winterspring) (55-60): This is an amazing zone, it has a ton of quests that give a ton of experience, and you can get Cache de Mau'ari, allowing you to farm Jujus, a very good consumable for raids.

Closing Thoughts on Leveling a Druid in Classic WoW

Quality of Life changes have been implemented over the years: If you are coming from Battle for Azeroth, there are going to be a lot of not-so-friendly changes that make questing harder, or at least take more time. Quests and objectives won't be marked on your map, so you will have to do a lot more exploring. There won't be a steady stream of quests from 1-60, so you will have to combine questing and grinding enemies for the experience to level. There's no AoE looting, and quest items take space in your bags. Cooldown abilities are available much less frequently, and there's significantly less personal healing, which adds much more downtime in between pulls as you sit and eat or use First Aid/Alchemy to heal. Playing efficiently is the best thing you can do to speed up your leveling.

Play Feral for Leveling: By far the best leveling spec for a Druid, you gain access to several damage increases as well as movement speed increases to increase your leveling efficiency.

Grouping is Optional for Druids: Although I didn't cover this explicitly in this guide, Druids can handle themselves just fine on their own. However, if you have a group of friends who you want to level with or a group of gamers who can be with you consistently throughout the leveling process, then a Druid will be a fine addition to any leveling group.

Buy abilities only when needed: A lot of people don't think it is possible to afford a mount by level 40, in reality, it's much easier as long as you only buy the necessary spell upgrades to save money. It's also worth noting that following this guide for buying spells will save you a lot of travel time as flights back to major cities or your questing hub can take a lot of time away from leveling.

Weapon upgrades are significant for Druids: Unlike other melee classes Druids don't benefit from a weapon's DPS, but rather the stats on a weapon. If you come across a weapon that has high strength and agility, odds are that this weapon will be something you will keep for a long time while leveling.

Commentaires

Commentaire de marth354

A nice little bonus for druids is being able to train in moonglade. Set your hearth to your current quest hub, turn in, and then tp to moonglade for training and hearth back to your questing zone. Helps to shave off a little bit of that travel time in a way no other class can early on.

Commentaire de Ymf17

While stacking Strength at first glance might seem better than Agility, at low levels the AP gained from stats doesn’t translate very well into faster kill speed. The AP power curve is linear requiring substantial amounts of AP to go from let’s say: 12 hits to kill a mob to 11 hits. At least by stacking crit you can sometimes get lucky and get occasional high tempo burst damage. Crit also becomes significantly more valuable once Blood Frenzy talents comes online. - Shedo

Commentaire de bobbis91

Minor typo in the changes to levelling section, struggle to kill:
"in your animal forms and can easily !@#$ out"

Guessing you mean shift ;)

Commentaire de bobbis91

Also of note, especially for Feral
Combo Points
Combo points are stacked on your target and are lost if you switch/kill your target.

Not sure if Feral has something like Savage Road in Classic, a buff finisher to use if your target is on low hp and you have 3-5 CP's to use, use that not FB to finish and help on the next mob

Commentaire de Morrigandruid

Some thoughts on the talent choices:

Its more efficient to fill out Improved Nature's Grasp and 5/5 Natural Weapons for the extra damage in 1-20, then when you hit 20 you can respec to feral - this avoids completely wasting points for 1-20. Then Feral Aggression is really not that great if you plan on doing any dungeon tanking or world pvp at all while leveling, I would recommend any combination of the feral Tier 2 talents over that - especially Brutal Impact since it's very good for any world pvp and Feral Instinct for tanking. Thick Hide makes a very minor difference to damage taken which may be worth it to reduce the amount you have to heal between pulls at higher levels (once you have more armor).

I also like to go into the Balance tree and pick up Omen of Clarity immediately after Feral Faerie Fire or maybe Savage Fury, since it's useful to get the damage boost from OOC and Natural Weapons as soon as possible. Otherwise very good talent choices.

There are also a couple of very nice gear pieces that are worth picking up:

Totem of Infliction - offhand that gives you 50 armor and a chance when hit to do shadow damage - comes from a Duskwood quest
Smott's Compass - a 1% dodge trinket from a quest in STV
Band of the Great Tortoise - 120 armor ring from an escort quest in Tanaris - amazing for tanking

Commentaire de marth354

Just a note on weapon skills for anyone looking at this guide and doesn't already know; as a druid your weapon skill with your equipped weapon does not affect your attacks while in forms such as cat and bear. That means that in general it isn't a priority to level unless you plan to be smacking stuff directly with your weapons in caster form for some reason. The same thing applies to weapon damage, as mentioned in guide, and chance on hit effects on weapons whether they be innately built into the weapon or added via an enchant like crusader; they have no effect while attacking in form. Meant to post this a while ago and kept forgetting to do so.

Commentaire de Exolth

Don't remember druids using polearms in vanilla? Wasn't that added in wrath?

Commentaire de thegalaxygoddess

I'm annoyed that this guide assumes you're going feral. I'm not even bothering to train feral skills, balance all the way. I was balance in vanilla, I'm playing balance in classic. I don't care if it's not as efficient.

I recommend adding a tab for balance minded druids.

Commentaire de mightystrax

I still not got cat form and i have found myself that leveling as a caster is much easier at very low levels at least. Being a bear means you cant heal yourself in a fight (since shifting cost 55% of mana). Also low level bears struggle to get rage while fighting toe to toe, having only one damager, that deals not enough damage to one shot a mob. I'd like to suggest playing caster until you get cat and more damaging abilities. Considering leveling in classic is pretty tough - you won't get levels fast. And when i finished reading this guide i felt myself like "You start, get bear, than cat, choose talents and you are done" That is not going that fast sadly...

Commentaire de turnaround

At it's best this is a feral leveling guide with notes for tanking. this not a Druid leveling guide at all. My opinion if you're going to make a class guide on how to level up it should cover all specs.

Commentaire de Quintette

I really do not understand why Duskwood is mentioned in this guide as a preferred zone between levels 10-30. Not only for druids, but for nearly all classes. I used to love Duskwood when I played Vanilla; nice storylines, decent gear upgrades and the area sort of felt like home at a certain point. So when my druid hit level 13 in WoW Classic, I thought I'd revisit the place.

Bad plan! I crossed the river between Elwyn Forest and Duskwood and (regretfully) ended up somewhere around Raven's Hill Cemetary. From there, trying to get back to Darkshire, took me countless numbers of deaths, being attacked by mobs with an incredible aggro range that, even when just following the road between Raven Hill and Darkshire, took me out in 2 or 3 attacks. Gear: utterly broken (100% repair bill). Me: utterly gutted when I finally made it alive to Darkshire, only to find out that there are no quests available there at level 13.

Whilst appreciating the dedication, effort and time that have gone into making these guides, I think the level range for Duskwood really needs an update to prevent other players from having the same frustrating experience.

Commentaire de yummypugs

There's another trainer for alliance at the Felwood flight point, next to the house.

Druid Leveling Guide & Best Leveling Spec 1-60 - WoW Classic

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