Which Druid race to chose?

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

Can you offer a little more than this please? Why shouldn't I?

I played a druid for a while and found it boring. At lower levels you're better off soloing and when you hit the higher levels, you'll get tired of quad-kiting by yourself (if you can find a zone where bards aren't swarm kiting =P). As a healer, while druids are good, they lack the utility that makes them a more desirable healer than a cleric or a shaman. Shamans are also very popular on blue so finding one to heal your group is usually pretty easy. While a cleric's ability to heal is pretty self-explanatory, the shaman can haste, slow, buff, root, cc, dot, nuke, etc...

For solo cash camps, there are a few camps that you will be able to handle well, but you'll never really have that solo/duo power that many other classes will have. I can think of one exception being Freeti in SolB, given a druid's ability to charm bats. I'm not sure if you can solo the noble, but you shouldn't have much of a problem with the imps/bats/bugs for Xping.

You will always have the luxury of porting yourself and that will become even more invaluable in the vast wastes of Velious. A druid is far more entertaining than playing a wizard overall, so if you're going purely for portability, the druid wins out. With the guild <Dial A Port>, however, finding transportation in Norrath isn't as much of a chore as it once was, making it surprisingly easy to navigate.

Now, I would absolutely play a druid on Red in a PvP environment. They can port around for targets, heal, track (i guess), they get a rain-line of spells which are incredibly destructive, they can stack 2 lines of DoT spells and they can nuke for significant amounts of damage. In groups, they are viable healers because of their offensive power in the event of PvP and they can evac later on to prevent PvP (or PvE) death in your group.

In the end you have to play what you think you'll enjoy. Although, leveling a druid as a first character isn't all that bad, seeing you can use him to power-level your next characters down the line.