Ymik  

Punctuation can be your friend, too.

I realise the above post is a little old so I wont have a go too much other than at the things that are blatently wrong.

1) Wizards can do 13k - what is that some kind of random number you came up with? If your talking about manaburn I have seen a 38k crit, its based on the wizards total mana pool and they use their entire mana pool casting it. I will not dispute wizards are the best DD casters its what they do, but they dont nuke for that kind of damage repeatedly.

2) Tash you say? Druids fr, ac and atk debuffs are now better than any other classes. (See Hand of Ro, Ro's smoldering Disj, Ice, Fury of Ro, Ro's Illumination etc)

3) see 1

4) Clerics generally want their CH to land while the warrior has a comfortable amount of hps left so they dont get caught out by nukes, special hits etc. Druids 75% heal (Karana's renewal) 4680hp heal which means unless your tank has over 6240 (which does happen) it can heal as much as a complete heal if timed correctly. If they have over 6240 you heal slightly earlier than a cleric would.

5) Theres a lot to be said for evac, fighting back for a cr is much better if your 50% of your raid is still in their propper equipment.

6) DoTs are in addition to all the other functions, combining DD and DoT druids output some very nice damage especially in the longer fights.

And some new abilities not mentioned

Circle of Seasons
Protection of Seasons (best fr/cr buff)

Protection of the Glades
Blessing of the Nine (90% casters will take this over cleric Aegolism line for raids)

This post is mainly for people looking at the site now thinking druids are no use to a raid. I dont like to see my class knocked by someone that has not done the research.

"Druids are like hybrids. All around useful. uber soloers. Great at PvPing. Kinda useless in a raid."

Excuse me, do you know what you are talking about? Druids in raids are healers/nukers, very little else. That's their job.

Also, your comments about the guy's post about what druids do on raids are very uninformed as well.

Yes, wizzies CAN nuke for 13k. They can only do it ONCE though every 2 hours 24 minutes, it saps ALL their mana, and they have to spend 9 aa points in the skill after spending 18 other points into general and archetype skills. I've not paid attention to who tashes, but I assume enchanters probably do. Shammys CAN heal more, but they DON'T because they need to buff/debuff everybody and have very little mana to do elsewise. Many raids, mobs die too fast for necros to dot or they aren't allowed to dot because it'll screw others up (mainly mezzes) and to my knowledge no wizzies can dot. Also, you don't gate out in a raid unless you are done with the raid. If you wipe, you do every damn thing you can to make sure one cleric gets out. You will get your exp back, don't worry about that, just make sure that cleric gets out.