Simple addition to improve druids

[Jarrad]

It has been said for a long time that druids need some love, particularly in the form of a charmy. Currently they have access to conjure elemental which is not entirely useless, but the vast majority of charm stones are crap, and on top of this the spell destroys the stones. The good ones are not easy to get.
How about a higher tier of stones being loadable on high level Druid mobs and these stones can be attuned as per rings recently introduced. After you cast conjure on the stone it disappears but when the elemental is destroyed the stone reappears on the ground. If you release the elemental it reappears in your inventory.

I am not envisioning a trainable pet such as mages, but more akin to gate, with useful skills.

[Quid]

What druids need are like a beefy tank thingy, like a bear with menace, just imo, might be to op.

[Kadaj]

I think making ice storm a channeled spell again would at least help some of their grouping ability. Malevolent tentacles was always a good, strong spell to channel, perhaps making ice storm do about that dmg and have it channeled would be a good addition.

[Gramm]

How about making pre legend healing cloud 100% chance to hit someone in the group again. and fixing primal fury!!

[Kholos]

Once again I'll say, what druids really need is just to remove restrictions on the spells. Most of their spells require outside environments or pre-spells. Being able to tornado anywhere would alone make them a ton more useful.

[Jorake]

I think some of them should be removed. But in no way shape or form do i think you should be able to tornado inside lol. "LETS STORM THE CASTLE!! Tornado in the throne room!"

I think druids should get better pets. Flame shroud/cone of cold shouldnt be terrain based. Thorn spray should, efist should. Druids can call lightning anywhere now with legend storm cloud.

[Kholos]

You can conjure lightning bolts from your hands, and cast gust of wind, but a tornado is out of the question? It's all magic and make believe after all.

[Gramm]

heres a good fix for druids, try making the essences more than limit one each, this is insanely retarded having to take the clans main group to drake over 20 times for no essence and only 1 granite hands tablet.

dara must have just stopped loading in general.

[Thymorical]

Last time i helped get a druid ss i did drake 53 times to load the light essence it was about 7 years ago at least and i never even considered entertaining the idea of someone playing one.

[Rednax]

heres a good fix for druids, try making the essences more than limit one each, this is insanely retarded having to take the clans main group to drake over 20 times for no essence and only 1 granite hands tablet.

dara must have just stopped loading in general.

With regard to stoneskin... why not just make the essences always load, or make it a quest to kill the required mobs. something like the paladin sword quest.

[Kholos]

I agree essences are a pain. The mobs have to load, and then chance for essence to load. Essences feel like they are not unlimited (can someone check this?). At the very least, removing the nodrop flag from essences would be helpful. As it stands, it doesn't stop me from transferring them, just that I have to quit out and reloot gear is annoying.

[Alecto]

Essences should be 100% load if a druid is in the group, but getting the essences should unlock a zonelet quest like shaman and clerics have. 10 room zonelet, hard mobs. If you die you repop essences again, but since they load 100% it is not as big a deal. Also make essence mobs load 100%

Seriously, I'll do rdescs, rexdescs and redescs if someone wants to make the mob/quest part. Chasing FC for a week is a pain in the ass, but going to Crytic over and over for no mob or a mob with no essence might be worse...

I think it would be a great addition for next wipe.

[Master Mike]

without pk why not make the characters stronger. make druids buff as shit..

[reed23]

Quit wasting your breath people.  Jorquin doesn't want to hear your whining about how druids suck.  We have been crying about the horrificness of druids and changing group sizes back to 10 for years now, and The Almighty Jorquin doesn't want to hear your bitching any longer.  Find something else to post about please.  Keep casting resist heat in groups to be useful.

[Gramm]

fine then we will!!!!

8 man groups are mean and cruel and unjust and make the "main" group too exclusive, i say make it 16! what the hell is the bloody harm in it! especially if people arent pking each other right now!

you would be dealing way more fun out with larger groups to way more people who are daily getting shafted like a bunch of gingers.
its un necessary!! + if you up the cap on groupsize i can promise even larger massrips. decision to cut down to 8 was a fun idea for like 2 days or so!!! time to fixer up for those of us who had HARD disagreemode on that! its so easy to say split into 2 groups or 3 groups or 4 groups or yadayada! why though?? i mean if something works, it works right? 10 mans worked just fine so what the hell.

i can guarantee that outside of the elite top end players virtually everyone else probably didnt like the idea of cutting them out of groups.

not that id put myself on that list i might add, but people do seem to have FUN dying i find! especially in large groups.