Heirlooms for Leveling Druid

Well there are a number of ways that you can go about leveling a druid alt.

The main thing you should decide before buying a bunch of heirlooms is if you want to go as a feral druid(DPS/Tanking) or as a caster druid(Ranged DPS/Healing). As far as PvE goes, Feral druids are arguably faster at leveling then caster druids, although with heirloom items I don't believe that it will make too much of a difference which way you go, just choose which way you think will be more fun!

I'll go ahead and list the items for both types here so that way no matter what you decide, you can have the tools needed!

Feral Druid Heirlooms

• Chest - Stained Shadowcraft Tunic - 40 Emblems of Heroism
• Shoulders - Stained Shadowcraft Spaulders - 40 Emblems of Heroism
• Weapon - Repurposed Lava Dredger - 65 Emblems of Heroism
• Trinkets - Swift Hand of Justice x 2 - 50 Emblems of Heroism Each

If you want to be able to heal yourself in feral, then feel free to grab one or two of the Discerning Eye of the Beast trinkets instead. The spell power and mana regen don't really help a feral druid but it can help minimize downtime as you will be able to heal yourself more efficiently in between battles and regen the mana during.

Balance/Resto Druid Heirlooms

• Chest - Preened Ironfeather Breastplate - 40 Emblems of Heroism
• Shoulders - Preened Ironfeather Shoulders - 40 Emblems of Heroism
• Weapon - Dignified Headmaster's Charge - 65 Emblems of Heroism
• Trinkets - Discerning Eye of the Beast x 2 - 50 Emblems of Heroism Each

You can even go and enchant your heirloom items to make them even more potent. Enchantments made to heirloom items stay with them even if they are mailed to another character. Just keep in mind that heirloom items are always item level 1 so you will only be able to put vanilla/BC enchants on them.

On either of the chest pieces I would recommend Enchant Chest - Greater Stats. As far as the weapons go I would recommend getting, I would get Enchant 2H Weapon - Agility for feral and Enchant Weapon - Spellpower for Balance/Resto.

Have fun and good luck!

When one is looking at heirlooms for alts, they are looking to make the leveling experience faster both with the increased stats (heirlooms are considered to be equivalent to same-level blue items) and through the experience point bonus. Which heirlooms you pick for your druid depends on which spec you plan to level as.

Regardless though, an heirloom item I haven't seen mentioned yet is Dread Pirate Ring. Not easy to obtain, but still gives an added 5% experience bonus for kills and quests.

With stamina being the main stat on the ring, it would stand to reason that it would suit melee characters more than casters, but as anyone who has leveled a caster knows, casters too get smacked up too, and a bit of stamina doesn't hurt them any. Hit and crit will help everyone as well.