A Study Of N00bs

[Drasca]

Simply bringing a druid as your healer almost forces the group to have a pally and two aoers

You call this limiting?

Druid, Tank, Rezzer, something something. Hmm. All aoe classes have some form of CC, even weak hunter aoe has the fantastic Freeze trap. I don't think you're limited. Do you want space for four rogues or something?

lose potential CC utility in shackle and MC

Shackle's never really required, though it does make a few encounters more painful. MC... is dangerous. Fun, and useful but dangerous. Its not actively used if there are too many enemies or there's a safer route that's just as fast.

Beast sleep is very useful. LBRS spiders, DM west boss hunter's bear pet that charge stuns & north against dogs, UBRS against dragonkin. Inner mara... there's plenty of situations to use sleep.

I'm glad lurkers have called bull on class limitations. Don't need ideal, and the game is far easier than it looks. The varied skillpool available greatly makes up for any limitations and enchances class strengths.

The people that are completely biased against classes either don't know their class strengths. As demonstrated by Hilary, Druids can be for more ideal than priests for encounters.

I want to see more of what a druid can do, but in the rare cases I'm playing with one I only see where a priest beats them out.

How often have you played with druids? I've done so on a consistent basis and watched them shine, like taking down last elite or two through bearform / healing / moonfire combo while the rest of the party

It's an AoE pull. There's no way to manage aggro on an AoE pull

Bit of nitpick.

While I agree that its an aoe pull, I disagree on that aggro cannot be managed. Aggro can be prebuffed and should be spread around as much as possible for first half of a aoe pull. That buys just enough time to finish them without dying.

Also, as Artega already mentioned, Warrior retaliate just rocks too. There's no reason not to use it.