Shaman or Druid?

[Messianic]

Shaman is a late-peaking class. Druids are an early-mid peaking class.

Shaman are probably, overall, the most powerful class in the game at 60 with all their spells (Granted, Torpor is expensive as hell) and even *decent* gear.

Druids are probably, overall, one of the worst classes at 60. They've got some nifty tools, but the array of druid skills are just spread too thin to be seriously helpful. Charming rats in hate is pretty sick DPS, though.

[Flash]

As I understand it, Shamans are highly desired in groups/raids for their stat buffs, slows, and as a secondary healer. Not as good as a Druid healer, but with cannibalism you have less downtime, which is a good thing considering all the buffs a Shaman has to keep on people.

If you want to solo at 60 and make profit porting, Druid is the way to go, but for raiding/groups, Shaman is way preferred.

[touchtonedialing]

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

If you want to solo at 60 and make profit porting, Druid is the way to go, but for raiding/groups, Shaman is way preferred.

Druids are only maybe a better at soloing pre 34 and even that is probably arguable.

Shaman is the superior class in just about every way.

[Ephirith]

I've seen it said before about this exact same comparison and I'll say it again here, because I think it sums it up pretty well:

The slow spell is more powerful than the entire Druid class.

[falkun]

Track and Porting is pretty OP. Not that either of those will help you actually kill the target like slow will, but don't underestimate those skills.

That's one of the things I enjoy about EQ, the skills that aren't directly related to combat that are still game-changing.

[touchtonedialing]

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

Track and Porting is pretty OP. Not that either of those will help you actually kill the target like slow will, but don't underestimate those skills.

Tracking is nice but you can do without it in every situation. As far as porting goes, offer 50p to someone not in a group and they will drop whatever they are doing to port you.

[falkun]

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

Tracking is nice but you can do without it in every situation.

Good luck. Do you just run into HS to kill Drusella without first checking if she is up? Have you tried tracking down PHers before (IE: Skyfire mobs like Eldrig as a near-worst-case)?

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

As far as porting goes, offer 50p to someone not in a group and they will drop whatever they are doing to port you.

Then we agree, porting is a game-changing skill. If its not game-changing, then run everywhere you need to go instead of bothering porting classes.

[bakkily]

go shm, they're easy to gear, lvl, and should get into groups quite often easily

[Noselacri]

Not as good as a Druid healer

They have the same basic heals and shamans have better mana management, plus torpor.

[Sickle]

Having played a Druid and Shaman. I can say Hands down that Shaman has been a much better time. I am constantly asked to be in a group, where my druid would be LFG for hours.

SHAMAN FTW