Honestly, full service druid PL has always seemed like kind of a waste to me. With certain classes like monks who FD PL, you really have to be active 100% of the time to maximize your efficiency, but with a druid passive PL is almost as effective and way easier for the PLer. Druid's strength in PLing comes from their buffs that provide a high utility especially at lower levels (e.g. DS > Haste, until a certain point). The marginal utility they provide beyond buffs simply doesn't justify the attention required imo.
Basically when I have druid PL'd friends in the past, I've always just loaded them up with buffs and then afk'd for 10-15 minutes until I have to refresh them. Snares are nice, but not really required. Patch heals are nice, but a good player should be able to pace their killing to not need them with regen.
I've never bought PL, but if I did I'd much rather pay a reduced price to have a mostly AFK druid hanging out and rebuffing me, than an increased price for a few extra snares or heals.
So yea, there are a lot of ways to PL with a druid. Some are more involved than others, but none of them are really any better than the other. The whole goal is to minimize the effort of leveling while maximizing the speed, finding what works best for you at the person you're PLing is the correct way to do it.
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