Originally Posted by Daboran
The important thing here is, no Druid should be so closed minded as to insist on a dps-only role - you can never justify a place on those grounds alone unless your melee truly suck.
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At least up to the karazhan level, my dmg meters are showing that my feral druid, when allowed to focus on DPS, is very capable of performing very well -- normally #1-#2 in karazhan, even though kara probably knocks off quite a bit of druid DPS due to all the bleed-immune mobs. No, our melee do not suck, because I get similar results when pseudo-PUGing with (well-geared) friends from other guilds in heroics.
No druid should "insist" on a DPS role, I agree that's just fantasy. But at least up to & including kara, I can't see why anyone shouldn't take a feral druid in a mainly DPS+utility role, akin to a shadow priest. For SSC and above, well, I'm all ears.
Even if the DPS may be a few percent lower than an equivalent rogue, the overall benefit of losing 1 rogue and gaining LOTP +crit and group heals, an innervate, battle rez and clutch heals makes it a no brainer. Feral druids are like the shadow priests of melee groups to me, you always want at least 1.