Restokins / Guides
Guides.
Each guide lives at one address and is revised in place as it’s tested, so the page you bookmark stays the current answer. Dated reads of patches and launch notes stay on the blog.
Start here
If you’re new to druid PvP or new to Forever, these four read best in this order.
- SettingsNewDruid settings for day oneSet up the options first, so the game is telling you what’s happening.
- BuildNewThe Restokin build: 35/0/16Then what the build is for, which gives the rest a reason.
- SkillsNewBalance druid PvP mechanicsThen the movement and casting skills, in the order that pays off soonest.
- BattlegroundsNewBattleground review checklistLast, a way to learn from every close match, one decision at a time.
Battlegrounds
There’s one guide per map, covering every druid job on it for Balance, Feral and Restoration alike. All four maps are live, every rule that comes from Classic or the beta says so in the sentence, and each guide is corrected in its change log as matches are played. To review the matches themselves, use the battleground review checklist.
Darkspear Islands for druids
Forever’s new map from 30 to 60, its four bases and its flag, every druid role, and the Darkspear Raiders reputation judged for PvP.
BattlegroundsWarsong Gulch for druids
Carrying the flag, escorting, defending and hunting their carrier on Warsong Gulch, for every druid spec, updated for the live game.
BattlegroundsArathi Basin for druids
The resource race in numbers, the five nodes, and every druid role from defender to back-capper, updated for the live game.
BattlegroundsAlterac Valley for druids
Every druid job in the forty-a-side map, from the race north to the recap loop at home, updated for the live game.
Matchups
How a druid fights each of the other classes, and another druid, from the Restokin build.
Professions
Professions that make a druid stronger in a fight, judged by what they buy in a battleground, with the hours each one costs set beside it.
All guides
Druid settings for day one
What to change in the options on a fresh druid, phase by phase from level 1 to your first battleground at 60, for every spec.
SettingsDruid console variables
The settings with no box in the menu, from the spell queue to nameplate distance, with the command, the default and how to reset it.
BuildThe Restokin build: 35/0/16
Every point of the 35/0/16 Balance and Restoration build, why each talent is in or out, and the roots test that will settle the last two points.
SkillsBalance druid PvP mechanics
Strafing, jump-turns, fake casts, shift timing and positioning, in the order to learn them, with a drill for each.
BattlegroundsBattleground review checklist
Turn one match, won or lost, into one cue for the next queue, with four questions: position, pressure, support and review.
Looking for one thing, such as a spell or a setting? Search every guide and field note.
Want a sheet beside the keyboard? Every printable sheet is on one page.
Have a druid and a free evening? The open questions list what the guides still rest on Classic or the beta for, as questions you can settle in game.
Reputation, profession and skill guides join this page as they’re written and tested, judged by what they do in a fight.