So now that druid spells got hammered...

[Bubbles]

The druids regen the clerics and shamans who mod rod during the buff stages of a raid encounter. Sheesh. They both have a place. In classic, i've seen both druids train adds in both planes and even mages pull. Hell i've pulled Hate on my cleric before.

Your planar roles are only as boring as you make them.

Mages: rods, maloisi (or whatever), nukes, damage shields, petting down pet mobs, dispells, nukes, summoning food and water (hey, it's useful!).

Druids: kiting adds, tracking, regen, SLN, fire/cold/magic resist (i remember them having the best FR/CR spells, but that may be kunark for the Circle-line), snare, rooting mes'd mobs (i know blind better, but still!), nukes, off heals for enchanters and clerics and such, SoW, thorns, HARMONY.. etc.

There's valuable classes, and then there is valuable people. Some of the most talented people i've seen on this server were druids, and could literally make or break planar clears and avert wipes through smarts, reactionary thinking, and using their class outside of the box.

Now you can certainly argue that once you hit Plane of Sky, mages become one dimensional and druids get to shine in only certain specfic spots, but a *lot* of classes fall into that category. Without the ability really to tap/cast on a ton of the upper tier mobs in sky, a necro (very versatile normally) is reduced to being a really $#!++y mage with slow summon times.. Come Kunark / Dragon encounters, pet casters especially see their general usefulness fall by the wayside.

It doesnt really matter, a good druid or mage or necro can always shine in the 6man dungeon crawls awaiting in the 51-60 grind, and it's a well deserved break from idling in EC on our 4th alt while waiting for a text or twitter batsignal to race to XXXX target like sheep.

Besides, you idiots, this is 2011.. It's not 1999. You *knew* what you were signing up for. If you wanted to be useful on a raid, you would have gritted your teeth and suffered through a cleric or warrior. You didn't. You got unlimited solo and duoing options levelling 1-50 and didn't end up the game-breaking class for planar and raid encounters. I THINK YOU KNEW this would be the case going in, no real reason to worry about it now. :P