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Originally Posted by Skinned
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So if you have a shaman slowing and a cleric healing you would take a druid over wiz for DPS because of thorns?
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Yes.
Case in point: level 58 thorns is a 32 point DS for 150 mana. Vs slowed mobs, if the tank only gets hit 10x a minute (unlikely) it still nets >2300 damage per cast - 15 damage per mana spent. That damage is unresistable and generates no aggro.
It would take 2 ice comets not resisted at 800 mana to equal one thorns cast to do the same damage of 10 thorn hits a minute to break even - 4 full minutes of meditating vs the 45 seconds of meditating for the Druid to cast that one buff - and still have 650 extra mana to nuke, dot, buff, heal, snare.
In a more realistic model, you have to acknowledge that the tank is being hit more often than once every 6 seconds.
So yes, even with heals, slows, and buffs covered - Druids really are that much better than wizards. They'll put out more damage over time as a dedicated dps toon. This isn't to say Druids are great dps (they're not) - wizards are just that bad unfortunately. A well geared ranger simply attacking at 30-40 dps puts both of them to shame - not to mention a pet class afk other than sending in their pet.
Even a buffed/hasted shaman pet (20dps) will out-damage a Druid or wiz in the long run.