Why does root suck?
 

Could someone please explain why root breaks all the time? I'm talking about casting it on blues, and it breaks 2 seconds later. This sort of defeats the purpose of having a root spell at all...

Higher level root spells last longer (I think Paralyzing Earth may be as long as two minutes), so at least you have that to look forward to. I still remember the base "Root" spell to be pretty useful on its own though ...

you need to flick your wrist more 3/4 of te way thru spel

it's similar to wingardium leviosA instead of wingardium leviOSa

I'm a lvl 34 druid...and it still sucks.

Nothing, I'm just tired of having to cast it 5 times to kill a single mob...spending as much mana on root nearly as dots.

I literally just had to cast it 6 times in one fight to kill a rhino...that's outrageous. This cannot be correct.

are you basing this complaint off of your rhino quest or all mobs?

i think rhinos are especially resistant

I have been playing my shaman quite a bit and it seems fine. I seem to get max duration roots over 50% of the time on blue cons that are quite a bit below me (will likely turn green next level). Then of course nukes and some dots have a chance to break it when the land. I don't have any data, but feels like about 20% of the time it breaks on one of those.

It was a long time ago, and i'm not going to go do a bunch of research, but this is consistent with my memory that roots were not guaranteed duration and nukes and shit could break them.

Where are you hunting Supaskillz? Because it's not in the OT I'm guessing...

Mobs in OT have crazy resists, which is why I never animal charm there (but happily animal charm without issue in many other zones). I have no idea if that's classic or a P99 thing (it feels like a P99 thing to discourage people from an already overly-popular zone, but I didn't play a Druid much back on live so I don't know for certain).

Either way, I wouldn't base your entire opinion of the spell solely on how it works against some of the most resistant (for their level) animals in the entire game.

P.S. As a side note, a Druid of your level can get XP MUCH faster with animal charming than with root/rotting (especially if you can get a Goblin Ghazugi Ring, although even if you can't and have to cast invis on yourself it's still better XP). I definitely recommend checking it out.