Classes: The Druid

Druids - a powerful outdoor class. With the triple ability to heal, inflict direct damage and cast damage over time, druids are a popular solo class, as well as popular in a group. They are also a travelling class, given both sow and teleportation abilities.

How should you play your druid to make the best use of his abilities? What are the best solo strategies? How should the druid be played within a group? What spells are the most and least useful? What skills should you develop?

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#1 Jan 23 2002 at 10:16 AM Rating: Excellent
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Okay so here is how I lvled up in short order:
This is not a comprehensive guild and is mostly for solo people. It will however lvl you up VERY quickly.

1-5 usual newbie stuff - personal favorite is misty thicket.

6-10 I accually staying in misty thicket until around lvl 9 but some other good spots or qeynos hills and Blackburrow which is somewhat less crowded on Quellious than it was back in the hay days.

11-15 You can hunt in the West Commons fairly well. Your looking for young kodiaks and wisps if you have a magic weapon. Also a great spot is the sirens in the Ocean of Tears. Great Exp from lvls
12 to 15 You can find them on one of the rock pillars during the journey to Butcher Block from FP. Or you can hunt in Oasis (yuck) if you can deal with that craziness.

15-17 LavaStorm is your ticket. At 14 you get a very good DD to summoning spell. Go and take out Lava Crawlers who will CON white and yellow at lvl 15. VERY good experience. Another option is North Karana and hunting Pincer and Borer beetles.

18-19 I had alot of fun with this. You get an animal charm spell at lvl 14. Now you get to use it, head to North Karana, find a griffawn and charm it. Send it against anything you can find. It will tear through beetles. If charm breaks simply recharm it. This is alot of fun and once you get the hang of it your gonna wish thier were more animals in the game.

19-24 Take one step over to East Karana. Your quarry is the wealth of crag spiders that run around on the hills in this zone. They will be white to yellow at lvl 19. Use your new spell, careless lightning and bind yourself at the bridge in East Karana. Medd up and find one and snare... kite it all over until dead. Med and repeat. Its really bad loot but you can sell the silk to people or start your tailoring if you wish. It is fast exp and perfect until lvl 24.

24-28 This takes some courage to try but I spent this time kiting the Forest Giants in the Warslaks Woods (sp). Alot of fun. You can pull them out of the fort and kite them around the path. It will all make sense when you see the layout of the area. This is also a good time to brushup on your harmony pulling because you will need it later.

29-34 Pixie Guards in Lesser Fayderak. Remember that harmony spell, whip it out. There are 6 guard spawns as well as a robotic gnome called gearheart. If you attack the Pixies he will agro and is a tough ****. So the solution is to harmony him and the 2 pixies in the middle of the spawn. Then you can simply kite the 4 outer pixie guard spawns with your new spell Combust.

35-39 Time to learn to Quad Kite. Head over to IceClad ocean and kite the cougars on the second island near the big black tower. Here is how you do it: First off, no worf form, the Gnolls near by will hate you. If you notice when you first cross the little ice pads to get to teh second island there is a huge open area to your left with no mobs what so ever, thats gonna be your kiting area. Now the cougars spawn all over the place so just run around, start by snaring just 2, run in circles around them until they are close together and then use your lvl 34 AOF DD spell to kill them. If you can pull this off is phenomenal Exp.

39-43 Again IceClad but this time you are kiting Dire Worfs near the bride in iceclad. You will see several buildings with red dragons logos on them. The first one you come to left of the bridge is your kiting area. Watch out for giants but all in all the wolfs are very easy to kite.

44-48 Dwarfs in Butcher Block... if you dont know how to do them, go to the docks there and look around for someone kiting them, because chances are someone is doing it. If you get into a good groove, even hell 45 will fly by.

lvl 48 Dwarfs go green and your best bet for this really annoying lvl is DOTing in the dreadlands. Of you can do the bloodgill goblins in LOIO.

49-52 Quad kiting spirocs on Timerous is hella exp and hella fun. They have faction so watch out but the provens and watchers drop like flies since you have your upgraded AOE damage spell.

53+ thats were I am now. You can do wyrvens in Cobalt Scars, or try and group in maidens eye or sebelis. If you want to continue soloing then there are a wealth of places to DOT solo. At around lvl 54 with good mana gear you can do raptors in Timerous which are great exp till lvl 58.

Well enjoy all

Mork 53 wanderer
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