02-28-2005, 05:01 PM
DarkCrown,Feb 28 2005, 11:32 AM Wrote:[snip]
One thing to keep in mind when looking at druid abilities; a druid gets less practice time at the different group roles than the actual class he fills in for. The druid has had perhaps one third of the experience (or less) of similar level warriors at tanking. He's spent less time learning how to heal than the priests have. I think that as more people get into their third or fourth level capped char we'll see druids played with much more skill in the end-game.
-DarkCrown
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I can't speak to tanking an instance in bear form, but I will say, having played a warrior the most of all the classes, the rage setup of the bear comes naturally to me, so, I might be better at the bear than someone who hasn't played a warrior a lot. So, it's really experience once again that determines how good you are at it.
On the main subject, parties come in all different forms, and you'll never get a pickup party that performs like a party of friends who have grouped together a lot. A friend of mine and I know each other's habits well, and can anticipate the other's moves. Can't do that in pickup-group-of-the-day. You might get a priest who likes to pull! That group, strangely enough, kicked butt, the only one who died some was the priest, who was 5 levels below anyone else, and was a little reckless, but a great healer. She just laughed when she died, and merrily ran back to her corpse. It worked for her, I guess. :D
--Mav