DarkCrown,Jul 5 2005, 06:10 PM Wrote:Druid healing is decent in battlegrounds. We don't have the quick reaction time of a priest. In the open we are harder to kill than a priest. If people do target fixate and try to go for the kill you can often kite them well away from the battle.
Entangling roots can be handy. So can feral charge. This one stops casting and also locks the player in place for a few seconds.
You mentioned decursing. We can also cleanse some of the hunter debuffs since they are poisons. I usually innervate myself, but I've hit a few priests with it when they were busy keeping the melee up.
And we do bring the best buff in the game.
-DC
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You are right, clearing poisons is probably one of the most useful druid abilities that I left out. And innervate can be quite useful as well, unless the other team is on the ball at dispeling. But entangling roots in BG is not as useful, in part because they get dispeled often, and in part because half the battles take place indoor. And bear charge is somewhat situational, because stopping your own healing to prevent someone else's heals is somewhat counter productive.
But I was comparing a druid healer to a paladin. Consider the fact that you need to shift into a form that cannot heal others in order to achieve same damage mitigation that paladins have while healing. Plus, their heals are faster, and they are the only class in the game with a complete heal (LoH). NS/Healing Touch can be good, but if your tank carrier has 6k life and has MS debuff on him, that will be maybe 30% life.
I guess what I am trying to say is that in a large-scale battle, over 5 people, I think that a paladin has somewhat better healing and utility then a druid. But really, that's all they can do. Of course, for flag running druid is the best option out there.
A warrior + druid combo is quite powerful both in holding a flag and taking a flag away from similar-sized groups. For example, if they are trying to steal a flag, warrior can charge in, fear, slow everyone, while druid grabs the flag and runs away. When holding a flag, warrior should have it, while a druid stealths nearby. The "assassination" group cannot easily kill warrior first because druid will heal him, and they cannot kill druid first because he is stealthed! And in emergency, the warrior can hand the flag off to the druid who will kite it away in a travel form.