Druid balancing

[ChaosSlayer]

re: low rank shield - you tried the Orcanite Quest from CB?

[Arremis]

Ah...I will do that...thanks Chaos

[Lang]

One thing ive wanted for a long time is to see the spell moonshadow added to the game. It would probably require some tweaking, but would need to remain far below clerics group heals.

Ancient glacier frost / sun's corona could use another increase in their -resist check. Both of them get resisted to the point you wouldnt bother casting them, sun's corona especially. Im talking about raid content here, they are fine on lower tier(1 and below) content.

Also, dots are NOT ok. Again, they are resisted to the point you wouldnt bother wasting mana trying to cast one. True vengeance could also use an increased -resist check(or a change to a chromatic resist check).

DS is pretty much a moot point since the cap is very easy to hit with a clickable ds. There would have to be some additional benefit to the ds for it to be worth casting (regen? ac?). Perhaps make the 70 group ds similar to the spirit of wood aa with a long recharge / similar duration to the aa.

I would rather the self only ds line remain as it is, instead of it being reduced to be targetable. Everyone already has a brackencoat click anyway.

The pet idea is entertaining, but really a waste of your time imo. Once you balance it against other classes(it would need to be significantly worse than mage/necro) it would end up about the same place it is now. Unless you want to increase mage/necro pets significantly, which might encourage people to play those classes.

[Wongman]

I was browsing some of the spells from Live, and I was wondering if it'd be possible to give druids the spell line which is a nuke that also heals the target of target. Possibly make the heal a group heal also? That would give them a solid function in raid settings since they can do decent damage as well as heal up the dps that are in the group at the same time.

[ChaosSlayer]

considering current Druid weakness, the potential new pet should NOT be "balanced" vs existing pets.
It should be as much base DPS as say BST pet, but at half hp/ac and a rogue by class.
And yes, tank+druid+pet is exactly what I had in mind.
And even with all that- it won't out-dps BST, cause nothing beats the melee weapons on Emu servers

[Arremis]

re: low rank shield - you tried the Orcanite Quest from CB?

Just completed the quest. Spiked Orcanite Targ Unfortunately, Druids can't use it

[ChaosSlayer]

did you do the alternative turn in npc spoke about?

[Kiowa]

druid pet could be something like a black puma?

I would like to be able to summon Lillu, The Killer Puma as a pet!

[Tyler]

Any feedback?

[catthib]

OK silly question time:

Has a new Druid pet been put into place here that is higher-level than Nature Walker's Behest? If so, where do I send my Druid to get it, because I have scoured her spellbook and she doesn't have it, and I keep the spell-file uptodate here religiously. And if no new pet spell yet, I won't worry about it.

But does anyone have a suggestion for a good hunting spot for a lvl 70Druid with a paladin bot? I miss some of the outdoor zones on Live and can't remember where is good spot for here for aa-grinding without massive amounts of adds.