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Rids · 19 Jul 2005, 23:05

One on one with a druid, a rogue will lose, they may not (any?) dps, but they have the staying power, and to be fair, some of our epicced up druids can be a pain in the ****ing ass with moonfire/root spam. Combine this with the fact that druid shit seems to drop every other ****ing mob in high end content, and you'll find they can drop us quicker than any pally. (Just to give you an idea of how bad druid shit is, I have a full set of Wildheart apart from the belt, also, if Cenarion wasnt druid only, I could probably have 4 or 5 pieces of that, I want to be a tree damnit

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If they get the dps boost in cat form that they're all bitching about, we could have a new class to rival shamens in the faggotry stakes.

MrL_JaKiri · 19 Jul 2005, 23:41

In our raids on MC, we've seen hunter loot, hunter loot, hunter loot. We operate a zero-sum DKP system, and the only person as low as the three hunters is Mr Shards, who is the person the negative points go to when we dis something - which has been almost exclusively hunter loot as well.

The best way to beat a druid is to run away - same as with palas.

Leshy · 20 Jul 2005, 00:17

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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

The best way to beat a druid is to run away - same as with palas.

Entangling Roots. Travel Form.

Hicks · 20 Jul 2005, 04:31

I think druids will be getting their DPS boost in the next patch, Blizzard have said they're looking at the Druid feral tree in particular along with all the Hunter trees. While I agree with Rids that if they do buff Druid DPS they risk creating another monster class like Shaman (Overpowered LOL) there does need to be a trade off imposed through a rework of the Feral tree. Druids who spec feral should be able to do good DPS and have skills almost on par with a rouge but at a cost of their healing being very limited, at the moment the trade off is simply spec restoration or be laughed at.

Druid I don’t think will be a tough job for Blizzard to “fix” without ruining game balance the hard task is going to be making Paladins a viable/fun class without over powering them or just deleting them from the game.

Also surely running from Druids is a bad move, Paladins I can see running away from since they have zero catch ability but Druids are fairly good at stopping classes escaping, as Leshy said root > travel form > moonfire > root > bear form melee.

MrL_JaKiri · 20 Jul 2005, 08:51

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Originally Posted by Leshy

Entangling Roots. Travel Form.

Shows that I haven't been fighting many druids lately - or at least not "high" level ones.

Leshy · 20 Jul 2005, 12:22

I was fighting one for about two hours last night.

He was four levels below me (33 vs 37) and kept attacking me at the troll ruins just north of Grom'Gol. Every time I'd be stabbing away at a troll, I'd get a cat destealthing behind me, and him attacking me. I seriously blew about 20 Flash Powder on Vanishes to get away, break Entangling Roots, or be able to Ambush him. I've never been so happy to have Preparation as last night. In the end, I ended up killing him a grand total of seven times, including:

Two one-shot Ambushes upon his resurrection
Two cases of him aggro'ing a high level mob while chasing me, and then being finished off by both of us
One attempt by him to just circle me in catform and going pure melee

One time he also got the help from a level 37 Human Rogue, as I had just finished killing a Troll. I Vanished, sapped the Rogue and /hugged him. He then sodded off.

After about two hours of this, the Druid managed to get me once. I had a pretty bad pull of two Trolls at once, and just as I was about to finish off the second, when I got Faerie Fired and Rooted, so I Vanished to break it and hit Sprint to get away. I was halfway to Grom'Gol when I noticed two things: I was at pretty low health, and I was out of healing pots. Uh-oh. *BAM* Moonfire. Then he went away as I didn't see him again

djbass · 26 Jul 2005, 10:24

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Originally Posted by Leshy

I'm either Nyxlath or Nyxene, MrL will be some variation of *oodleduck

I've tried looking for both names and many variations of *oodleduck. Just keeps telling me no such character exists :/

I did manage to find Hicks though \o/

Dante Hicks · 26 Jul 2005, 10:27

I've started playing the other day. I'm "Dariann" (Darian was taken

) on Shadow Moon. Night Elf.

SilverSmoke · 26 Jul 2005, 10:28

Which class?

Dante Hicks · 26 Jul 2005, 10:35

Warrior, I generally start games as a warrior as it's often the dullest class and that means there's more excitement yet to come.

SilverSmoke · 26 Jul 2005, 10:50

Actually tanks (and healers) are pretty important teamwise. Solo'ing can be pretty boring indeed though.

MrL_JaKiri · 26 Jul 2005, 10:50

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Originally Posted by djbass

I've tried looking for both names and many variations of *oodleduck. Just keeps telling me no such character exists :/

We're both horde, so if you're on the alliance side then you won't be able to find or communicate with us.

MrL_JaKiri · 26 Jul 2005, 10:53

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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

Warrior, I generally start games as a warrior as it's often the dullest class and that means there's more excitement yet to come.

The dullest class is probably one of (Warrior, Priest, Warlock, Druid). Priests and warriors because if you don't like the roll they play in the game, you won't enjoy them, or at least you'll annoy people trying to group with you, druid because they're so sloooooow to level and warlock because of shard farming.

djbass · 26 Jul 2005, 10:55

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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

We're both horde, so if you're on the alliance side then you won't be able to find or communicate with us.

So am I though, playing as a Troll Mage under the name 'djbass'. Since the chance of finding you both online is something of a random probability I've tried to send mail as a test, each name including dante's have come back as player not found.

MrL_JaKiri · 26 Jul 2005, 10:57

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Originally Posted by djbass

So am I though, playing as a Troll Mage under the name 'djbass'. Since the chance of finding you both online is something of a random probability I've tried to send mail as a test, each name including dante's have come back as player not found.

Ah, thought - are you using the european servers?

NEWSBOT3 · 26 Jul 2005, 11:13

you need to be on the same server to mail though ?

djbass · 26 Jul 2005, 11:19

Ah.. fair point, and yes you would need to as there are seperate databases for us & european realms.

Bugger, since I've already activated by key on the us realms I can't transfer it. I didn't choose them by choice, it was the only option presented to me at time of installation.

NEWSBOT3 · 26 Jul 2005, 11:21

transferring us->eu is 'a bastard' from what i hear, and t akes a few weeks at best.