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Originally Posted by nhdjoseywales
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why cant you snare and root?
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I believe he is referencing the fact you can't do both until 1 month into Velious when Root and Snare stack.
The reason I say Goblin Ring > spending 5k on WIS gear is because it saves you time, allows you to be more precise with your breaks, and saves you EXP.
Without the ring you will be trying to hide break (which fails often) or casting a 40-50 mana spell with a 4-5 second cast time. You will sometimes have pets die in this period of time and sometimes when you hide to break you don't react fast enough after hide to cast invis or you hide, break immediately and the mob has too much health to die in one nuke when he likely would've lost that health in the 4-5 seconds you were planning on delaying. Plus this will let you med another tick longer usually because you can insta break whenever and not need to cast a spell.
When charm killing you will basically be casting snare or root (root indoor, snare outdoors), charm, and a nuke to kill your pet. Cutting out the invis cost does save some mana and getting more Med ticks can offset the lower WIS.
All that being said, if you have 4-5k available to yourself and you buy the goblin ring, the next 100 plat you get you could buy a few wis pieces and then when you're porting every 50-100 plat you could buy another piece.
Whereas if you spend your initial 4-5k on all that wis gear, you now need to spend awhile saving back up that much to buy the goblin ring.
Charming with one and without one is hugely noticeable. By the time you're leveling in kedge you definitely want one because it doubles as instant invis so you can travel around the zone easily (just learn where the mermaid area is and remember to invis there). Also at higher levels using it to break charm is extremely convenient because it doesn't prevent you from casting another spell immediately (like a root or a nuke) because it's a clicky. Whereas a spell invis will require you wait the 2 seconds until you can cast a new spell.
It's not required by any means but it makes life much easier. Far easier than the extra few hundred mana that gear would provide you. And yea, though you may need to stop and med a few mobs earlier than the Druid in wis gear, you will likely level equally as fast because you aren't losing any pets to late breaks from failed hides or casted invises. By your 30s you'll have porting and be able to make the platinum to easily close any mana gap you would've had with another Druid very quickly with how cheap that gear is.