A Study Of N00bs

[Quark]

General responses all around here, but this is the key:

Quite simply there are many cases in the end game where I would refuse to enter an instance with only druid healers.

How often do you hear that for priests? Never. In fact, the most druid friendly instance in the game - UBRS - is still done many times with 3 priests or 2 priests + pally with no druid whatsoever.

I am not arguing that druids aren't viable. They are. But they're not ideal, and sorry if you disagree with me but I feel their hinderences make them far from ideal. Will that stop me from playing with Druids? No, in fact I want to play as one, if I ever get back into this game (stupid computers). But it's things like the res that make druid less appealing than priest, which is why 90% of the time you're being healed by a priest and not by a druid.

The battle ressurection is overrated. There are too many other things that could be happening that either make it useless or unnecessary. I can't argue for its use in 40-person raids, but from what I've seen so far ressurecting one person everywhere else is generally not gonna save you from a wipe, unless that other person happens to be a priest/pally that's going to stay out of combat.

The Leather argument is laughable. Priests have plenty more armor than my Rogue when they cast Inner Fire. They also have the quick Fade.

I'd be inclined to disagree with Quark and say that if you want a druid to be your main healer you should look to have a pally for additional rezzing ability (and additional healing if need be) or bring a priest and a druid and let the druid use more of his skills along the way.  You may even make a friend of a druid this way if they can have some more fun instead of having to be main healer.

I'm not disagreeing with this at all. Having a druid as your only res is a liability and you should look for ways around it. I'm saying it shouldn't have to be this way, because it just pushes people back towards the "holy trinity" and pigeon-holes them so that they have more options elsewhere.

But I'm not sure that giving druids a non-timered rez would send priests the way of the dodo either.

I still think it'd be a priest advantage. Fade, Shackle, Inner Fire, and PW:S are all good advantages that a Priest has. Not that the Druid can't counter some of this, but they still don't seem equal in my eyes.