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Originally Posted by Cecily
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Honest question: How is a low level shaman more useful than a low level druid? Is it it the 20% slow or is it the AGI buffs?
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More useful is up for debate, but the Shaman does have advantages if we're talking teens-level characters. Shaman gets better armor (banded typically at low levels) and can act as a tank perfectly fine if it has to. Druids go squish even in the teens. Shaman also heals better than Druid during the teens due to the mana efficiency obtained from Inner Fire while the Druid equivalent (Skin like Wood) doesn't add health. Skin like Rock does but it doesn't scale enough to be particularly good until after either class gets Healing at 19 anyhow. As damage they're relatively equal. Druid's primary advantage lies in getting root earlier and having snare for stopping runners if necessary.
Spirit of Wolf costs a (relative) lot of mana at lower levels so constantly re-buffing it on a puller or tank who's being constantly stripped makes little to no sense. In a zone like Unrest it's also largely unnecessary since a strafe-running player should be able to outrun about anything in the zone and a ghoul-rooted player isn't outrunning anything.
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