How do people rate druids?

[Warnie]

Are druids a desired class for healing groups? Or are clerics the kings of healing and druids are only taken if there is no other choice? Is there a significant server population of druids? Just asking because they seem pretty cool to play what with buffs / heals / ports / sow and capable solo.

If I wanted to play a healer, would I be better off playing a cleric vis a vis group love?

Cheers

[Kika Maslyaka]

druid are great solo class
druids can offer ton of utility options to a group
druids are capable casual healer, but raid healing is better left up to a cleric
there are shit load of druids all around us =)
if you want to be a TRUE dedicated healer, cleric is the way to go - druids will not step into serious healing powers without their PoP+ era spells, which won't happen on this server, or at least any time soon...
for anything else - druids are better [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ennoia]

Originally Posted by Warnie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are druids a desired class for healing groups? Or are clerics the kings of healing and druids are only taken if there is no other choice? Is there a significant server population of druids? Just asking because they seem pretty cool to play what with buffs / heals / ports / sow and capable solo.

If I wanted to play a healer, would I be better off playing a cleric vis a vis group love?

Cheers

From personal experience on P99 and on live, Druids are kinda useless in groups. Even in PoP I saw Druids who had trouble keeping people alive, even with those big heals. Go root something that doesn't summon, dot it, then go afk until it's dead.

[Kika Maslyaka]

Originally Posted by Ennoia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

From personal experience on P99 and on live, Druids are kinda useless in groups. Even in PoP I saw Druids who had trouble keeping people alive, even with those big heals. Go root something that doesn't summon, dot it, then go afk until it's dead.

in 60+ solo wasn't a decent XP anymore, and my druid on live was a 100% group healer, and with some decent gear, FT and 100+ AAs - I was standing next a cleric in CCH on raids in tiers 1-3, Ssra, and VT no problem.
Of course my gear was significantly better than those of a "casual" lev 65 druid [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Mardur]

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[Mardur]

wow that was bigger than expected

[Mardur]

that's what she said.

[Torven]

Ok so, I'm a 60 druid and I'll give my two cents.

Druids are not primary healers after like level 40. CH is essentially the only tank heal late game. Basically if my friends give me charity by grouping me, my sole job is to cast every non-CH heal on non-tanks so the cleric does not have to waste mana on non-CH heals to eliminate downtime. DDs and dots are way too expensive in this game (for any class) to be a form of viable DPS.

If you want to play a druid at the higher levels, learn how to charm and quad kite, because finding groups will be difficult. If you don't intend to play one to a high level, then go nuts.

Essentially I made a druid to help my friends out by porting them and powerleveling them. Druids are also really handy for misc chores like selling in EC and camping green dungeons. They are a great supplementary character. I really would not recommend the class to somebody who wouldn't make other characters to do things with, though. I have a 56 magician and 52 warrior to play when my friends need a class for serious content.

[Ennoia]

Originally Posted by Mardur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

that's what she said.

You can't 'that's what she said' your own comments. That's against the rules.

Originally Posted by Torven [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ok so, I'm a 60 druid and I'll give my two cents.

Druids are not primary healers after like level 40. CH is essentially the only tank heal late game. Basically if my friends give me charity by grouping me, my sole job is to cast every non-CH heal on non-tanks so the cleric does not have to waste mana on non-CH heals to eliminate downtime. DDs and dots are way too expensive in this game (for any class) to be a form of viable DPS.

If you want to play a druid at the higher levels, learn how to charm and quad kite, because finding groups will be difficult. If you don't intend to play one to a high level, then go nuts.

Essentially I made a druid to help my friends out by porting them and powerleveling them. Druids are also really handy for misc chores like selling in EC and camping green dungeons. They are a great supplementary character. I really would not recommend the class to somebody who wouldn't make other characters to do things with, though. I have a 56 magician and 52 warrior to play when my friends need a class for serious content.

DoTs are fucking amazing. The only class DoTs suck for is the Shadowknight, because they just get recycled Necromancer spells until like after PoP (in terms of DoTs).

Edit: With the SK snare spell being the exception, but it's meant for aggro, not DPS.

[Estu]

Originally Posted by Torven [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

DDs and dots are way too expensive in this game (for any class) to be a form of viable DPS.

So wizards are shit outta luck, then?