Caster Druid mini review

PC General Discussion
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Earth Druid

  • Earth Spike is so bad. Little damage, little spirit.

  • Landslide has a tiny AOE. Slow animation, really annoying. Primal buff is ok.

  • Bulwark is ok, but boring.

  • No mobility whatsoever. You’ll forever be as slow as a level 1.

  • Boulder pushes elites far far away. I don’t want that. It’s hard enough to hit with Landslide as is.

  • Petrify: Weak ultimate with a long CD. Give it a 30s CD and it would still be far from op.

Wind Druid

  • Wind Shear is alright as a basic skill. Much better spirit generation than Earth Spike.

  • For Storm Strike you have to get close, but you have to do that anyway for Hurricane. Good at making monsters vulnerable.

  • Tornado should be good with the legendary that makes it aim at enemies. Without it Tornado misses all the time. No surprise. It also often gets stuck.

  • Cyclone Armor is a bit lackluster. Bulwark is much better.

  • Hurricane wants you to get into melee range. There goes the dream of a Druid caster. It’s really a melee skill and you don’t want to be there, especially without mobility.

  • Also no mobility.

  • Cataclysm has an annoying knockback. Not going well with Hurricane. Also the damage is weak for an ultimate.

In general there are few synergies and I don’t think the caster Druid will scale well in lategame.
Same problem as D2: Several classes rolled into one, resulting in too few skills per “class”.
Spirit = Rage, therefore suffering from the same problems. Except Druid doesn’t have good effects to quickly fill rage and from what we know won’t get any.
I did not enjoy playing this class. Sorc, Rogue and Barb are so much better (and Necro too from what I’ve heard). Easily the worst and least fun class.

Short: Druid is hot garbage.

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Its ecause slow asf.

Won’t speedrun well in endgame

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100% spot on hahaha.

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Yea, Druid is missing a movement ability. It would be nice if they had one

(Also Necro could use one like a teleport to corpse kind of thing)

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Druid is slow at killing and slow at moving around. Won’t be a good endgame class due to mechanics.

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So far i’m finding both wind druid and earth druid underwhelming but i find wind druid slightly better though i’m going to keep trying with earth druid. maybe it’ll change after a few legendaries.

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Currently finding success in a companion/bear build, mostly due to legendary drops.

One gives an extra companion and 250% damage, the other causes pulverize to be a giant wave.

Dumped all points into Pulv + Companion skills, with storm strike basic for vulnerability.

Mostly just using Pulverize to clear everything out with the 10 sec overpower while wolves/vines kill everything around.

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Yeah but play the same build without the legendary afix and it’s total garbage.

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Trample is a movement ability that also gives you Unstoppable. Worked wonders for me so far.

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they changed the damage types aswell which killed any build from d2 and d3.

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Druids definitely need a rework and buff

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I tried wind caster, was absolutely putrid early as I didn’t find a weapon until before the end of the big main quest dungeon east of kyovashad. But once I did, the boss was easy and tornadoes + wind basic made it easy on veteran. Will play more in a few hours and see how later lvls and skills feel.

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The further the boulder rolls, the more damage what is being shoved takes. You should want that. Moreover, if you are playing as a ranged class, that gets things out of your face.

But not every spell has to or should support a particular playstyle. I use Boulder on my melee druid and like it as is.

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Buffs perhaps, but not a rework.

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This means they should hit like a truck even if it’s slow… I see that they don’t, but the slow but well timed hit playstyle can be overlooked for the intuitive faster buttons = faster kills.

to be fair though a a super wolf lunge/pounce that like stalls both characters or requires you be behind the monster would be super cool.

Necro could be able to tele to a corpse if in blood mist form or something. I can see people still speedrunning as necro if they just kill from a distance… making it interesting

Also huge fan of combo systems maybe a combo nature/magic skill?? on some kind of character eventually?? maybe? maybe? :slight_smile: