Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Balance news comes at you every Friday — learn how to master the forces of nature, and know what it means to be a giant laser turkey! Send questions, comments, or something you’d like to see to tyler@wowinsider.com.

If there is one thing that avid readers may know about me, it is that I have a huge tendency to push players to become less single-minded. In any game that I play (particularly MMOs), I despise the one-sided nature that most players fall into. The mind set that «I am a DPSer, I am here to DPS, all I do is DPS» is highly pervasive within the gaming community — and frankly, I want to break that concept so hard that it hurts.

No matter what class or spec it is that you may play, you always bring more to the table than your prescribed role. DPSers especially have far more utility than they realize. It’s time that players wake up to this, and that is exactly what I intend to facilitate in this week’s article. Playing balance is exceptionally fun. You bring fantastic damage to any raid group, but you also bring so much more than that. Want to be a better raider — no, want to be a better player in general? Then read on!Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: How to raid as a balance druidFiled under: Druid, (Druid) Shifting PerspectivesShifting Perspectives: How to raid as a balance druid originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Balance news comes at you every Friday — learn how to master the forces of nature, and know what it means to be a giant laser turkey! Send questions, comments, or something you’d like to see to tyler@wowinsider.com.

If there is one thing that avid readers may know about me, it is that I have a huge tendency to push players to become less single-minded. In any game that I play (particularly MMOs), I despise the one-sided nature that most players fall into. The mind set that «I am a DPSer, I am here to DPS, all I do is DPS» is highly pervasive within the gaming community — and frankly, I want to break that concept so hard that it hurts.

No matter what class or spec it is that you may play, you always bring more to the table than your prescribed role. DPSers especially have far more utility than they realize. It’s time that players wake up to this, and that is exactly what I intend to facilitate in this week’s article. Playing balance is exceptionally fun. You bring fantastic damage to any raid group, but you also bring so much more than that. Want to be a better raider — no, want to be a better player in general? Then read on!Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: How to raid as a balance druidFiled under: Druid, (Druid) Shifting PerspectivesShifting Perspectives: How to raid as a balance druid originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments