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Originally Posted by TomisFeline
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excellent summary and conclusion by Bockscar. Heavily weighing importance of raids if druid indeed is the pick, but perhaps that's relevant to enough ppl playing P99.
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Nah its a horrible take.
If you're putting heavy weight on raiding Druids bring unique buffs to raids, including a stacking mana regen buff (POTG), circles for highest specific resistances group buffs, and are absolutely vital to raid mobility by porting people in and out of raids and being able to SoW them. They also have the ability to charm in places like PoH and PoF.
SKs bring... nothing unique to raiding that another class doesn't do better. No stackable worthwhile buff (CotP and Divine Strength) or ability (weaponshield) like Rangers and Paladins, nor the ability to even heal themselves given the majority of p99 raid targets are immune to LTs. Their OTing role is better filled by a Pally that brings extra abilities to the table including an amazing 5 instant click charges of CH that have saved untold numbers of raid encounters over the years, and self heals.
Druids are also strong soloers and can do a surprising amount of farming and soloing in high end zones with animals, which includes end game zones with valuable drops like PoM / Chardok.
Honestly, the only place SKs have an edge over them is in group content, I'd say low level group content is the only place SKs really shine, since they have a better early snap aggro ability in disease cloud, until Pally stuns/root/lull put them ahead in that regard too.