Druid Questions

[Zargalose]

Hi there i am a returning player and wanted to run a Druid. I could really use a good budget list of items i have about 4kpp. Also where can i find a really good charm leveling guide as far as which areas to farm at certain levels?

[nhdjoseywales]

Originally Posted by Zargalose [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hi there i am a returning player and wanted to run a Druid. I could really use a good budget list of items i have about 4kpp. Also where can i find a really good charm leveling guide as far as which areas to farm at certain levels?

also looking for some good druid budget items. only have about 2k to spend on her though atm

[Daldaen]

Druids are extremely gear independent.

The only thing I would highly suggest if you are charming is a Goblin Gazughi Ring.

I would trade 100 WIS in gear for a Goblin Gazughi Ring personally. It makes charming 100x easier, you lose almost no mobs to late breaks of charm and later on in Kedge the item basically functions as instant invis since nothing but mermaids are non-animals. So you can use it to swim around freely (avoid mermaid area) with instant invis.

That being said, if you are unable to purchase one:

Ear - Jasper Gold Earrings - 3 WIS / 50 plat each
Finger - Platinum Jasper Rings - 6 WIS / 150 plat each OR Moonstone Rings - 30 Mana+ 3STR / 50 Plat each
Head - Nightshade Wreath - 5 WIS / 150 plat
Face - Platinum Ruby Veil - 7 WIS+STR / 350 plat
Neck - Chrysoberyl Talisman - 3 WIS+20 Mana / 300 plat
Hands - Split Paw Hide Gloves - 2 WIS / 20 plat
Wrist - Runed Mithril Bracer - 5 WIS+3STR / 500 plat each OR Chipped Bone Bracer - 5 WIS / 400 plat each
Arms - Platinum Armband - 3 WIS/STR / 200 plat
Chest - Foreman's Tunic - 3 WIS/STR / 100 plat
Shoulders - Braided Ivy Cords - 5 WIS / 400-500 plat. OR Prayer Cloth of Tunare - 3 WIS / 100 plat

Range - Small Wisdom Diety - 2 WIS / 100 plat
Secondary - Testament of Vanear - 10 WIS+Mana / Free Quest, just kill on higher level and loot on Druid.
Primary - Enchanted/Ruined Battleworn Morning Star - 5-6WIS / Free kill cleric undead in Kithicor, people let them rot often when doing Dark Elves.

Back/Legs/Waist to get WIS/Mana pieces will run you more like 800-1k each, I suggest against this if you're on a budget. Just save up plat for it later.

See here if you don't like my list: http://wiki.project1999.com/Druid#Pre-Planar

But as stated above, gear is generally rather irrelevant on a Druid. Getting a useful clicky like Goblin Gazughi ring is better use of 5k in my opinion.

[nhdjoseywales]

Thanks Dal. u r teh awesome

[Zargalose]

Thanks Dal. Any advice on where to charm for the early to mid levels. Not sure what the best areas are up till Kedge

[nhdjoseywales]

commoms-oasis-karanas is what im doing

[Beckoning]

Angelhawk has a good guide written for Druid charm kiting. I'm not sure if I can post links, so you can easily google this. I did find though that once I hit mid - 20s, it was easiest to just group (although I'm sure many people would disagree with me on that). I did HHK until level 35 starting in the late 20s.

[kledar]

I found charm kiting to be kind of frustrating when I tried it at level 19 or whatever in e. karana. The charm likes to break often, I wish I could snare and root, had trouble trying to control adds because I was sitting back a way. I can't afford the nifty goblin ring and I'm a human druid so I couldn't hide to break charm. The guide made it sounds so easy and there shouldn't be much downtime. I had a lot of downtime try to med my mana back up and had to run to zone often.

[nhdjoseywales]

Originally Posted by kledar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I found charm kiting to be kind of frustrating when I tried it at level 19 or whatever in e. karana. The charm likes to break often, I wish I could snare and root, had trouble trying to control adds because I was sitting back a way. I can't afford the nifty goblin ring and I'm a human druid so I couldn't hide to break charm. The guide made it sounds so easy and there shouldn't be much downtime. I had a lot of downtime try to med my mana back up and had to run to zone often.

why cant you snare and root?

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by nhdjoseywales [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why cant you snare and root?

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.