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Originally Posted by loramin
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There's always exceptions that prove the rule ... but Druid level 14 isn't it. Cascade of Hail, Expulse Summoned, Halo of Light, and Invigor are all straight garbage. Befriend Animal probably won't get used at that level either (unless you are a twink with the Goblin Gazughi Ring), See Invisible won't be useful for a very long time, and Summon Food/Water are only useful circumstantially.
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Cascade of Hail is actually better than Ignite in terms of damage per mana.
Ignite - ~37 damage for 30 mana at level 14.
Cascade of Hail - 81 damage (3 waves of 27 each) for 62 mana at level 14.
While there's no way an untwinked toon is going to have enough mana to be quadding at 14, it's still actually a pretty decent spell if you root bomb (and grasping roots doesn't break). While it's by no means critical, and Ignite is definitely better if you're kiting, Cascade isn't totally worthless. Cascade is only sort of worthless if you're just snaring instead of rooting the mob. I guess it depends on playstyle.
The same with Befriend Animal. It's not
necessary to be charm kiting at that level for sure. There are some areas where a 14 could use it though. West Commonlands, Oasis, or Karanas, for example.
Neither of those spells is totally worthless. Yes, they aren't strictly necessary. At 14, you could still pretty easily handle most blues or on-level cons by root rotting (Grasping Roots + Stinging Swarm), nuke kiting (Snare + Stinging Swarm + Ignite while running), and even by meleeing a mob to finish them off. So, I guess that you could ignore those spells if you really wanted to (or at least save them for later) but to say that they're useless is a stretch.