Druid Leveling

[Shunin]

Hey, I have just started on this server and want to make a druid! I hear I will have to heal once I get to 60 which is fine by me, but should I level up as a resto druid, or just go feral and try to switch at 60? Is resto going to be useless without someone else to help them, or can I solo grind mobs and what not?

Sorry if this is a repeat topic, I searched it and came up with 48 pages of comments that didn't really answer my question

[Doofoos]

Hi! First - never level as a resto (well if you're playing solo and dont have at least 3-4 friends playing with you all the time). Always choose dd spec, you can easily heal any instance in balance\feral spec till 55 lvl, just gather +int\+healing gear while you leveling. Second - i just quote myself, again

I suggest you to spend first talent to the 1\1 Nature Grasp in Balance, next talents to feral tree till 2\2 Feline Swiftness and 1\1 Feral Charge, so you will have 30% movement speed in cat and Feral Charge on 23 lvl. Then, in theory, would be better to take Furor 5\5 in resto tree, so you can have 100% chance on 28 lvl to jump to bear and immediately charge to the opponent and break his casting and immobilize him, i think it is a must have talents for low level druids survival at Nostalrius.
And where to put next talents is a very hard decision. Omen Of Clarity itself is not THAT good, but it can be very useful, especially on healing low-lvl instances. Yes healing. You just buff it on yourself and hitting mobs with your weapon till Omen procs, and then, yay free regrowths\ht's. It does proc in caster form very well. But it does require from you to spend a lot of talents to the balance tree. So you can wait a bit for it and keep spending talents to the Feral tree till Feral Faerie Fire (which is must have vs rogues\stealthers), and then switch to balance and pick 3\3 Natural Shapeshifter first, which might help you to save a lot of mana on pvp reshifts, and then take 5\5 Natural Weapons which will buff your damage in all forms and finally you will have Omen on 49 lvl.
This path might looks weird but it has a lot of sense in my opinion (at least till 28 lvl), and when i leveled i did almost the same (with some differences).

[Shunin]

Thank you I did go with feral for leveling after a few guildies said healing as feral is possible with gear (just like you said). Thanks for the reply man and hope to see you in game

[Litensjö]

hi, i'd agree with doofoos in general, but i'd spend the points in another order. both furor and feral charge are must-haves, but you don't need them that early. you will be walking around in your cat form most of the time while sololeveling and won't shapeshift that often as to justify furor so early. following this, i wouldn't pick up natural shapeshifter either that early. go for ferocity first and then climb up the balance tree for omen of clarity. natural weapons gets you 10% (!!) more damage on physical attacks very early, which you will be doing most of the time. all of this is assuming you're not doing much pvp while leveling.