Wow Gold -- Lower Level Druid Gear

It occurs to you that the question of strength or agility comes up pretty fast when you start down the path of building out your Feral Druid. It sparks huge threads all over the web, some crying and all in all a ton of discussion. Relatively speaking, young Druid reads some of these threads and forum boards seem to require a Masters Degree in Advanced Mathematics. On top of that very often these are talking about very high level raiding and endgame Druid builds which can be confusing as well. Here is a very simple break down of the two stats and how they compare. You have more to learn but this will at least get you going.

It sounds crazy that you are attempting to make decisions on stats. As soon as you have got an answer, you will find someone else saying something totally different. Simply you can try and get a feel for the numbers. You can get different gear and rebuild your talent trees all the way. Let us first take a look at the very basic definitions of these stats and how they affect your Druid.

The first one is strength. Its attribute increases your Druids attack power on a scale of 1 strength equal to 2 Attack Power. For every 14 points of attack power you have your DPS for melee attacks increases by 1. For example if you have an attack power of 140, you will have an increase in DPS of 10. It might be easier to think of 1 point of strength being equal to .14 DPS.

Another is agility. This stat does a great deal for us. First of all when a Druid is in Cat form he gains 1 attack power for each point of Agility. Secondly 1 point of Agility increases your armor by 2 points. This attribute also jacks the critical hit chance with weapons and increases the chance of Dodge. Again, in a different expression, 1 point of agility is equal to .07 DPS.

So what should you gear your Feral Druid with? Looking just at attack power it would seem that loading up on strength is the way to go. The more attack power, the more damage you will do. However, that is true what you give up by ignoring agility. You will miss out on the dodge for one. Your dodge chance is just what it sounds like and it gives you the possibility of dodging a melee attack.

At low levels, the basic deal is that the best investment you can make is in the Strength stat as a Feral Druid. As a matter of fact, the harder you hit at low levels, the better off you are which does not mean that you can completely ignore agility. When the decision comes up for gear with strength or agility, it leans towards the strength boost. At some point, at much higher levels, the favor tips towards agility but do not get too concerned about that just yet.

As a low level Feral Druid, this does not even scratch the surface of the issue but it should get you go in the right direction.