Dark and Light/Druid

Druid
Equip: Cannot use heavy armor,since druids will be found on the front i dont really understand why;if i would upgrade anything about my gear,its the weapon,it can be any useable melee weapon doesnt matter,only thing that counts for me is damage output,protection you wil gett from the pets and summons surrounding you.

Fighting Style: Druids dont get much offensive spells,the only thing that you can skill is the two styles in the basic fighting tree,i am lvl 24 now and its by far my strongest attack,every druid will need this if you want to kill monsters at a nice rate.

Melee: Druids are made for melee,since the only really DRUID ONLY skill is morphing into bears,the other path has a root,instant heal,and a teleport; since melee is like the only choice (i read about druids beeing nice rangers and i think that is absolutely wrong) you will need the fighting DD's mentioned before,you will see they cost a good amount of Stamina,which isnt any problem since u recover whole stamina via: potions,or,just sitting down infight,in some secs

1 man army: everyone can have 5 pets out (a pioneer dragon,3 dodos and a rancho) in addition to those, you may cast 3 summons and 3 pets as a druid,which make a total of 11 "warriors" besides you; including the druid himself it makes 12,according to that u can assume how easy the PvE part is,standing in the middle of a huge spawn of white wolfs f.e. and just use the crossbow and nexttargetbutton to pull any monster around u,the rest is up to the pets

Where is that healing path druids were supposed to get (Potion Creation)? implemented with the launch of DnL (April 06). in order to chose the druid specialization at lvl 10,u need to select Healer when reaching level 5 (you can also just level to 10 select druid,and the system automatically choose healer and opens the skilltrees) and thats the only healing a druid can get right now,i see 5 heals in there,every single one is an upgrade of the one below him,i wont put 1 point in those as long is i am not involved in big clanparties or pvp since u just dont need them

by Varrok


 * Healer Skills
 * Druid Skills

&bull;FunnyStuff if u ever play a druid and have any mount available,plz morph to a bear and mount on dragon,looks freaking hilarious,the best thing is that dragons cannot fly when u sit on them as a bear =) also funny is how the emotes are looking when morphed,the dance lol,or just sitting down is so well animated

&bull;Hints and/or Bugs nothing is perfect,so isnt the druid,here some things drawing my attention: when morphed into bear u dont have weapons or a shield displayed,so far its ok,but when morph ends and u still fight,you are fighting with your fists (waepon and shield equipped though and working fine) just a small animation mistake

a good tip for every melee fighter including druids: if you have the basic combat DD's as your main damage skills,make sure to start with one of those,if u are addicted by the success of those DD's make sure u are in a range under 5 meters,f.e. if u fight on a ramp down a hill,the distance to the monster isnt always the same as its told to be,if u cannot use the weapon DD u wont be able to use it afterwards infight too,dunno how to explain exactly -.- just try that your opening attack is one of the two melee attacks so you avoid deadly surprises like "Target too far".