Druid raiding and overall usefulness in velious

[gobbosnobbo]

Don't they get much better in that expansion?

Like, isnt their druid buff + symbol better than cleric buff + symbol, and doesnt it give mana regen too?

[Esheon]

Clerics get Aegolism (54 AC, 1100 hp) with Velious.

Protection of the Glades is 24 AC, 470 hp, 6 mana/tick. I can't remember if the mana regen stacks with C2.

We do get a better heal spell with Velious. It's slightly better than Divine Light I think, but of course nothing to CH or Celestial Elixir.

And now that I've actually looked it up, Glades + Marzin is better than Aegolism for hp, worse for AC, and Aegolism blocks Symbol spells.

[gobbosnobbo]

Ahh thats why. So basically Ageo is what blocks.

Well, at least that puts having a druid to at least one in a raid, yeah?

[Daldaen]

Glades stacks with Clarity II. Totalling 17 mana regen. Add Gift of Brilliance (enchanter) and bard's Canata, you can be pulling in 30-40 mana regen each tick. Very nice.

Also worth mentioning:

Ro's Fiery Sundering:

2 : Decrease Fire Resist by 37 (L39) to 43 (L65)
3 : Decrease AC by 5 (L39) to 7 (L65)

Fixation of Ro:

1 : Decrease AC by 15 (L44) to 18 (L65)
4 : Decrease ATK by 52 (L44) to 62 (L65)

These two debuffs will be stuck on every raid mob that isn't Fire immune.

Reducing AC/Resists makes them take more damage over the long run and reducing ATK reduces the likelihood your tank will get one rounded.