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I thought it would take a lot longer for me to find a green (uncommon) or blue (rare) weapon or piece of armor. It did not. I've never been good with Attributes - I'm still guessing with 'hunter' - so I had to research it for the blog. (Then again most of the readers (readers.. are there any) already know about these attributes).
Attributes change as you develop in the game. What I need for soloing levels is not going to be the same as what I need when I want to specialize in healing or combat for end game raids.
For us early Druids, I believe a good mix is best. I'll be looking for the following (in the following order, I believe):
Intellect - Which increases our mana points and the chance we will score a critical hit.
It also, and I did not realize this, increases the speed at which we learn weapon skills.
Spirit - Which increases our health (except in combat) and mana regeneration.
Spell Power - To, well, increase spell power.
Strength - Which adds to our melee damage when we are in Animal Form.
Also good to know, Strength provides twice the attack power of Agility while in Cat form.
Agility - Which adds to our armor and our melee damage when we are in Cat form. This is kinda nuked by Strength as a single strength point gives twice the attack power as a single agility point, though, still good if you're looking at it for the armor.
Stamina - Adds to our health meter.
Also, and I didn't know this so copied directly from WoW Wiki
Heart of the Wild (Feral, tier 6) provides a +4% bonus to stamina in bear form per talent point, max 5.
In Dire Bear Form and feral specked, gain the following percentages to stamina: 25% (bear form), 20%, and 6% (Survival of the Fittest), for a total of 15.9 health per stamina. With Blessing of Kings, it jumps to 17.49 health per point of stamina.
Interesting, no?.. meaning, if you choose mostly talents from the Feral Combat talent tree, it is less likely you will need Stamina attributes if you decide to learn the talent 'survival of the fittest' and 'blessing of the kings', unless you plan to talent up for an end game attack dealer, then health will be your best friend and you can use everything you can get.
A good mix at the lower levels will be most beneficial, but if you want to specialize in spells or attack power, you can of course, lean heavy on the magic or the melee side of things. WOW is nothing if not diverse.
Also, if you are looking at attributes, sometimes your attributes will out rank your armor. Say, for example, I had a pair of boots that were 'armor 8' (very low level, I know) and found a replacement pair that are 'armor 7 +intellect 2', I would take the armor 7.
I read somewhere, appologies, I forget where, if you find an entire set of a family of armor, you get a boost. If you're searching for them, Druids should look for armor that is in the "of the Falcon" family, for Intellect and Agility, or "of the Gorilla" family for Strength, Intellect. I personally pick Gorilla, but there are so many other families out there.
Here is the official blizzard page for attributes.
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