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Gemily
Also, before you get really far, if you don't like forms, Druids are not for you. The whole basis of our class is to reach the form for each tree (Example, eventually balance points lead to Moonkin Form). Because our forms buff not only ourselves, but our group/raid as well.
If that really is going to be a problem, I would suggest a Mage if you like balance.
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MegaVolt
Druids basically have to use forms. For balance you will get your form later but eventually you get it and there is no point in not using it.
As has been pointed out: If you want a caster class without forms then a Druid is probably not right for you. But since it is your first character I wouldn't recommend a Mage. Leveling a Warlock or a Shaman is probably easier (and there are generally a lot less of those two on any server).
If you decide to stick with the Druid then you should be aware that leveling feral is considered to be quite a bit faster then going balance.
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Some more helpful advice, choose Skinning and Mining or Herbalism as your professions, put anything you gather onto the auction house (NEVER vendor them), don't vendor your white or green items (sell those on the auction house as well) and resist greatly buying any better items on the auction house until level 80 (though if you want to do that you're free to do so. You'll just save a lot of gold that way). Happy WoWing.
This is very good advice, however there are other options.
I find it very annoying to have to look for herbs / minerals and to double loot all animals to skin them. The extra gold from selling things on the AH is nice but it is work and once you are lvl 80 and you get into raiding you will have to pick up crafting professions anyway, meaning either a lot of farming mats to level them or the need to buy all the things back from the AH that you sold there earlier. I don't like both.
Enchanting on the other hand is probably the single most awesome and useful profession anyone could have on their first WoW character. Being able to disenchant soulbound quest rewards is totally awesome and at least on my server the enchanting mats get a much better price at the AH then the items themselves (or the vendor price for soulbound items). Enchanting is also totally awesome once you start doing your first heroics at lvl 80 since it allows you to get lots of mats from disenchanting the blue and purple items.
Tailoring goes very well with enchanting. You find cloth anyway and you can disenchant everything you made with tailoring, giving you tons and tons of enchanting mats. That way you can basically level both professions at once and sell the left over mats on the AH, making some gold on the way.
The gold income won't nearly be as much as with 2 gathering professions. But you save a ton of annoying work (you don't have to gather anything) and you don't have to re-learn professions once you hit lvl 80 (which is annoying and extremely expensive).
There is of cause also the middle ground: Enchanting and one gathering profession. Works great, gives all the benefits of having enchanting and you only have to re-learn one profession at lvl 80.
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curlymon
Google:
Quest Helper and Cartographer (work very well together)
or
Tour Guide
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