The Druid Dude (rant)

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Darkgenius111#0560 wrote:

There is no Druid, you have a furry with a identity crisis who works as a gardener with two plant magic spells and one that make people wet.. THE CLASS.

Even the Rotten Druid in Act 1 feels more complete as a druid, I really hope GGG can bring better stuff in the future because I have huge hopes for Templar

I had hope that the Oracle would be able to go anywhere in the passive tree globe, but most of his passives are stuck on his "side" of the passives tree, goodbye blood herald hollow palm druid dream..

Currently talismans are pretty strong from what I've seen, but primal skills are a huge letdown, see this;

Make it rain on plants and the plants grow, wow, wtf is this..
Slap as a Dragon, slam as a bear, slash as a wolf, call lightening and with the tears of the fanbase make enemies wet.. which in turn they take more frost or shock damage

I suppose spell totem exists.. depends on charges for some reason.

Feral Wolves, be the houndmancer is awesome though.

But too many complex abilities depending on other factors, good for tinkering, terrible for flow, fine if you're neurodivergent and prefers to play solo-selffund making classes based on "vibes", but coop this is sad when you have someone with a aura killing anything that looks at it instantly, there is a tragic, thematic failure here

The Rotten Druid in Act 1 has the ability to shoot spore missiles that seek you, lift a huge rock in the air and throw at you, create mine spores that blow up when you're near, has the ability to teleport you to his spore mines, can teleport via growths, has shroom that lashes out via aura and has manifested the ability of using cordyceps to create zombified minions out of anything that crossed his path...
btw, this would have been a perfectly balanced and awesome ascension, sporemancer/circle of spores druid.
People seemed hyped about it on Global when we've discussed.

GGG fully knows how to make fun abilities and animations they just didnt want to bother this time, I really like Path of Exile, they can do so much better than this.