Druids are World of Warcraft's "jack of all trades" class -- that is, capable of performing in a variety of different roles and as such have one of the most varied playstyles. A druid can act as a healer, melee DPS, ranged DPS or a tank, utilizing a variety of shapeshifting forms. As a druid levels up, he is able to learn new, powerful forms which he can cast to change into different creatures to suit their roles.

At lower levels, a druid will heal or ranged DPS in his caster form, but at later levels players who spec into the specialized trees will gain access to two special shapeshift forms for each different role.

Healing druids will learn Baum des Lebens, which reduces the mana cost of their healing spells and grants a passive healing aura to their allies. Their ranged damage-dealing counterparts will learn Mondkingestalt, increasing their armor and granting a spell critical aura to their allies. There are also two feral form druid forms -- the mighty Bärengestalt (and at later level, Terrorbärengestalt), a tanking-oriented form which provides additional armor and health and grants access to an arsenal of threat-building and damage mitigation abilities, and the rogue-like Katzengestalt which is capable of significant melee DPS.

• Druids learn their different forms through questing or training. Some shapeshifts are only learned via talents.
• There are some shapeshifts that all druids can learn. Bärengestalt is obtained at level 10, Wassergestalt and Reisegestalt at level 16, Katzengestalt at level 20 and Terrorbärengestalt at level 40.
• Druids even have their own flying travel form! Fluggestalt can be trained at level 60, and Schnelle Fluggestalt at level 71 provided the player has already trained Gekonntes Reiten.
• Some druid shapeshifts are obtained via talents only - Mondkingestalt can be obtained at level 40 when a player specs deep into the Balance tree, and Baum des Lebens at level 50 after speccing deep into Restoration.
• Druids have their own, class-specific teleport ability that allows them to travel to and from Mondlichtung, which is handy when needing to train!
• Because feral druids do not actually swing weapons while in shapeshift forms, they instead gain a special statistic from any melee weapon they equip called "feral attack power." This stat is a conversion of a weapon's DPS (damage per second) into an attack power-granting statistic which affects the cat or bear's damage output.