So You Want To Be a Druid Trivia Quiz

Answer: A Night Elf or a Tauren

Night Elves -- a race belonging to the Alliance -- have long pointed ears, glowing eyes, and blue-green hair (the precise tint can be selected by the player). Tauren, who are allied with the Horde, are huge beings resembling bipedal cattle, from their horns all the way to their hooves.

Not all Night Elves and Tauren are druids -- other possible classes include warriors and hunters -- but, of the game's ten playable races, they're the only two called to druid-ness.

Answer: Leather

"World of Warcraft" features four classes of armor; from lightest to heaviest, these are cloth, leather, mail, and plate. The heavier the gear, the higher the protection -- but a character's class decides how heavy the gear can get. The heaviest armor a druid can wear is leather, though druids can wear cloth as well -- and they might choose to, if they find a cloth piece with some particularly nice properties!

Answer: Moonglade

The "Teleport: Moonglade" spell actually takes you to Nighthaven, the only town in the Moonglade forest. You'll speak here with various members and allies of the Cenarion Circle, doing some special druid-specific quests and learning about the game's backstory. You'll also find this spell very handy for later levels: by teleporting to Nighthaven and flying from there, you can often save travel time over taking a boat or a zeppelin.

Answer: Bear form

The quest for bear form leads you first to the forest of Moonglade, where the surprisingly friendly Great Bear Spirit sends you on a mission. Once you've completed this task, you can forevermore transform instantly into a bear, in violation of nearly every known law of biology and physics. We'll let that slide, though, given the bear's greater armor, greater health, and special abilities for attracting and absorbing damage.

At Level 16, a lengthy quest chain results in aquatic form, a seal-like creature that breathes underwater and swims speedily (NOT Speedo-ly: seals do not require swimwear). Later forms are simply purchased from the druid trainer: a cat at Level 20 for dishing out lots of damage, a cheetah-like travel form at Level 30 for swift overland movement, and a bigger, badder dire bear at Level 40.

Answer: Feral

Each class's talents are divided into three areas of focus, called "trees." For druids, these are Balance (for the maximum spell damage); Feral (for the most useful bear and cat characteristics); and Restoration (for the most effective healing). As more talent points are invested in a particular tree, higher-level talents become available -- so it is often best to focus attention on a single tree.

Despite its feral-sounding name, Beast Mastery is a talent tree for hunters (not druids), allowing them to make their pets more effective.

Answer: Entangling Roots ensnares the enemy in a rapidly growing plant.

Frost Nova, a mage spell, stops cold all enemies within a certain area. Concussion Blow, an ability that warriors can get through talent points, stuns a given enemy for a few seconds. Earthbind, which a shaman can cast using a totem, makes an area extremely slow for enemies to move through.

Entangling Roots is the only one of these abilities that can be used by a druid, although it has limits: it affects only one target at a time, and it can only be used outdoors (making it useless in buildings, dungeons, and cities). In addition to stopping the enemy (perhaps long enough for the druid to run away or bandage), the roots also deal a small amount of damage while they are active.

Answer: Poison

At Level 16, druids begin a quest line that leads to a Cure Poison ability; in the course of the quests, they must first make an antivenom and use it to cure sickly creatures. Later on, they can receive Remove Curse from a druid trainer. Both abilities are extremely useful: while active, poisons and curses can reduce a character's abilities, slow them down, and even deal deadly levels of damage!

Diseases, often caught from creatures with such charming names as Rabid Timberwolf or Festering Ghoul, are just as damaging (and, sometimes, can even infect party members!) but cannot be cleansed by a druid without the benefit of items for that purpose. Magic and bleed effects must also be left to run their course. In situations like these, a druid's healing abilities may well save his or her life!

Answer: You can resurrect any player even if you are in combat.

Yes, resurrection -- a miraculous feat at the center of numerous world religions -- is commonplace in the world of "Warcraft." Paladins, priests and shamans can all resurrect other players (and, in the case of shamans, themselves); warlocks can store the soul of one party member per half-hour, saving that person from one death; and hunters can return life to their pets. Only druids, however, can resurrect an arbitrary player in the middle of a fight.

The original druid resurrection spell -- called Rebirth -- does have a twenty-minute cooldown, unlike other resurrection spells, so it is important to use it only when it really counts. (And in those cases -- for example, bringing back a tank or a healer to fight a boss -- it really, really does count!) A druid who ventures into heavy fighting without a stack of Rebirth reagents -- the necessary seed changes for each successive level of the spell -- is likely to take some serious flak from party members. Just before the release of "Wrath of the Lich King," druids were given a second resurrection spell -- Revive -- that can't be used in combat but comes without a cooldown, putting them on a par with other healing classes.

Answer: A 10% armor bonus, from bark-like skin

It's easy to see why a druid in Tree of Life form can't be polymorphed (or turned into a critter): the form is a complete tree, with roots, branches, and even an assortment of leaves artfully arranged about the head and wrists. (A Tree of Life can be banished, however, like other elementals.) It also seems plausible that a tree might have somewhat fewer abilities than a druid in caster form! The Tree of Life can cure poison effects, perform Innervate (which increases mana regeneration), resurrect players, and cast a number of healing-over-time spells -- but cannot remove curses, use attack spells, or use healing touch, the workhorse of most druid healers without this form. Nonetheless, the Tree of Life healing bonus makes it a formidable tool for healers, especially in large groups.

Tree of Life is available once 40 talent points have been spent in the Restoration tree; the earliest it can be achieved is Level 50.

Answer: Flight form cannot be used on the original continents (Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms).

The Outlands -- high-level zones opened as part of the "Burning Crusade" -- are the first area where flying mounts and flying forms can be used, followed by "The Wrath of the Lich King"'s new continent of Northrend (although players can't fly there until Level 77). The "old world" of Azeroth just isn't designed for flying players!

Druid flight form is an instant-cast spell -- making it very handy for escaping sticky situations -- but it cannot be cast in combat. Both Horde and Alliance druids resemble birds, but with different colors: Horde in golden-brown, Alliance with gray-black. And finally, druids do get a whopping advantage in achieving lift-off: they need pay only 7 gold to a trainer to get a flight form and a riding ability of 225, where other classes must pay about 1000 gold for riding training and a flying mount. (All classes must spend additional cash to access flying ability in Northrend.)

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