Druids got utterly screwed by Kunark. Here's a little math comparing Druids and Shamans. First, in Classic, lets assume we have a L50 warrior with haste (being optimistic here) who parses at 50 dps duoing with a L50 Druid and L50 shaman against a L40 undead frog in Lower Guk. The frog does 20 dps and has 3000 hp, making it a 1 minute fight.
Druid: 60s * 20 dps = 1200 hp = 4 greater heals = 600 mana
Shaman: 60s * 20 dps * 0.35 (slow) = 420 hp = 1.5 greater heals + 1 slow = 400 mana
Now let's run those numbers again in Kunark, with a L60 warrior at 65 dps duoing with a L60 druid/shaman against a Krup Knight with 8500 hp and doing 30 dps. The fight now lasts two minutes and ten seconds due to the massive increase in HP.
Druid: 130*30 = 3923 hp = 6.5 superior heals = 1650 mana
Shaman: 130*30*0.25 = 1.6 super heals + 1 slow = 670 mana
So the Shaman needs less than half as much mana to keep a tank up duo. Now combine this with the fact that the shaman gets canni and the Druid doesn't, and a shaman is more or less continuously killing (in practice a monk with a fungi + regrowth can basically fight a slowed mob forever without heals) and you can start to see why Druids are just weak at higher levels. We haven't even gotten to the part where Shamans get haste and Druids don't, or the part where the Shaman epic is 10x easier than the Druid one and better because it stacks with root.
Now the big equalizer Druids have is charm. Lets suppose we put our duos in Sol B at the Efreeti camp, and the Druid has a charmed bat. The druid duo is now doing 130 dps; the fight is half as long, and the Druid is using 825 mana which is suddenly much closer to the shaman. Unfortunately for this team, Druids also got screwed on animals in Kunark. In classic you can charm in Hate/Fear/SolB/Gukbottom . . . which is basically everywhere. In Kunark you have Chardok, which is the worst, most annoying dungeon, and nothing in KC/Sebilis/HS/Sky. I am told things get a little better here in Velious; at minimum Enchanters and Druids will both be rocking charmed dire wolves in Kael.
The one saving grace you have as a Druid is that if you make friends with a lot of enchanters, they can fix your weaknesses. They have slow and mana regen. Unfortunately, shamans are still an even better duo/grouping partner . . . . .
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