How do people rate druids?

[ByronosaurusRex]

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

Kinda a shame only clerics can really heal hard camps/groups in kunark. Makes forming groups all the more difficult.

Cleric/Chanter/Warrior. Everything else is optional.

[Shrubwise]

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

play a cleric

[Shadey]

I see lots of negative remarks here as to Druids healing capabilities. As I played EQ for 7+ years druids are in fact great healers. Spot healers for the most part in raids, taking up slack between complete heals from the cleric heal chains and keeping their groups alive. With proper gear a druid can heal VERY well. Even play main healer in a group with good gear and a good player. Clerics are the best healers but druids do have their place as a good healer as well.

And the bonus you get is a very competent solo class to play.

Oh and I played a cleric main in high end raid guilds and ran healers for many years (from classic up to Omens).

[gnomishfirework]

Originally Posted by Shadey

I see lots of negative remarks here as to Druids healing capabilities. As I played EQ for 7+ years druids are in fact great healers. Spot healers for the most part in raids, taking up slack between complete heals from the cleric heal chains and keeping their groups alive. With proper gear a druid can heal VERY well. Even play main healer in a group with good gear and a good player. Clerics are the best healers but druids do have their place as a good healer as well.

And the bonus you get is a very competent solo class to play.

Oh and I played a cleric main in high end raid guilds and ran healers for many years (from classic up to Omens).

You must not be remembering classic-velious (really up to pop) very well.

People would sit LFG over using a Druid healer. I remember how frustrating it could be if you didn't have a warrior, cleric, and shaman or enchanter. A lot of that wasn't as bad as people made it out, but Druids/shamans on their own aren't great healers at all.

It's worst case scenario (they are great back-up healers).

This person wants a healer. If healing is what you want, you go cleric. Druids jobs as healers doesn't get much easier in velious.

I wouldn't recommend a druid as a healer. It's just not how everquest operates at this time frame.

[Kingofqueens123]

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

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

pwnd

[Messianic]

The way I remember it was Druid + Shaman or Cleric. You could manage with a shaman and druid, but it wasn't near as efficient.

[Messianic]

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

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.

Truth

Druids make the absolute best tradeskill/vendor/banking secondary characters. Misty port is the closest portal to a bank, and druids have far better port locations than the only other porting class - wizards. Tracking helps them farm the garbage out of tradeskill material mobs...

Built-in sow, good PLing ability, questing class armor for alts (I hate that druids have Lava portal and us wizards don't - it's right next to the friggin temple of sol ro, THE wizard deity), farming, etc... But not a nuclear grouping class.

[Shadey]

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

You must not be remembering classic-velious (really up to pop) very well.

People would sit LFG over using a Druid healer. I remember how frustrating it could be if you didn't have a warrior, cleric, and shaman or enchanter. A lot of that wasn't as bad as people made it out, but Druids/shamans on their own aren't great healers at all.

It's worst case scenario (they are great back-up healers).

This person wants a healer. If healing is what you want, you go cleric. Druids jobs as healers doesn't get much easier in velious.

I wouldn't recommend a druid as a healer. It's just not how everquest operates at this time frame.

I remember just fine. It seams that you do not. Did I say they were the best choice as a primary healer. No I did not. But they do have their place and they do do a decent job healing when geared and played right. Those that "Think" they have to have a certain group make up all the time will want just that. But those that are willing to try different things will do ok with a good geared/played druid in their group. They do have their place in the order of things in EQ up to this point and beyond.

Oh and with the invent of AA's with Luclin the druids got a big bump in their healing abilities. So it was before PoP that they had more stuff in their favor to make them better healers then with just gear. Nuff said. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ele]

I played a druid on live through Sleepers, VT, and PoP.

I play a cleric this time around.

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[Kika Maslyaka]

Druid became potent high end healer once Luclin came out and we got that 3.5k heal, +heal focus items, +healing AAs really made a difference.
in PoP this gets upgraded to 4.6k heal + some more healing AAs + some high FT gear (Judgement set from VT gets you to Ft 15 with only 3 items) - and I could heal Hard LDON missions before even having elemental gear.
This of course depend of your tank's AC alot