Saw an interesting conversation in EC about Druids.

[Taminy]

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

Optimal groups can be more than 6 specialist. It doesn't HAVE to be one tank, one healer, one crowd control and 3 damage dealers. Versatility has its place in min-maxing.

I would agree than cleric/tank/cc/3 dps isn't the best group.

I'd actually say it's cleric/tank/cc/backup healer/2 dps. But shaman are a much better backup healer than druids - as was already pointed out. On the other hand when I was leveling to 60 (I'm a warrior), I never turned down druids for groups unless we had 2 or 3 healers already. I was never into forming absolutely perfect groups. I think those people tend to spend too much time LFG only to log off or they have cleric/warrior/monk/enchanter/rogue/rogue then die because of a bad pull or respawn and the cleric can't heal the tank and the enchanter at the same time.

However, I did a lot of duoing from 51-60 with my shaman friend which was faster xp than any group - and when we invited a druid along for a trio, the experience was god awful...