"you also get to travel the map a lot quicker than you could before"
Imo that is the reason most chose to be druids. It seems kinda wrong to pick a "class" in order to bypass the limitations of the teleport/travel system (a similar thing would be making mules to bypass the storage system). I honestly found lycan to be a fairly strong choice and worth the downside but druid not so much.
Why I'm saying this-absolutely nobody I met in game uses druid as their main skillset, it's always the support one (If anyone mains druid at high level please correct me). As someone who leveled it to 50 as main skillset (druid+psychology) I can say it's the most mind numbing experience I've had in PG and I did it solely for flight
To balance it out my suggestions would be two:
-either rework the skill into being a main skillset, add some dps skills, summon treants, animals etc. Any druid should have an animal summon imo or at least power over flora and fauna (charm or summon a biting vine kind of thing).
-rework the druid events to be fun for everyone not just levels 60+ (Not that they are fun for level 60+ players but most mobs are unkillable by lower levels). What Vzi says, it's not fun being forced into a "daily", reiterating older suggestions-turn them into individual quests like "dedicate 20 flowers to the Dreva altar", "Kill 20 pests", things that would require personal presence AND some actual player involvement besides just being there and tagging a mob. Players would still have to do these if they want the blessings (and most of us force ourselves to attend druid events cause we want the benefits).
I know a lot of work went into these events, I can see srand online during the events trying to make them go smoothly etc. I realize it's hard to just erase a lot of work but honestly the response ingame is overwhelmingly negative (again, please correct me if anyone thinks I'm wrong there). Players (myself included) are doing the same thing we did with lycan, just log off or do other things that don't involve exp during the event. The higher levels who still go are going simply to accumulate blessings (or to help finish the event), some have over 1k blessings in case some other bird/animal form gets added later. Overall "fun and engaging" are not the words that come to mind when it comes to druid events.
At least if the druid events stay in the current form we could do with an alternative that wouldn't be so disruptive, we have to delay dungeon runs, stop in the middle of crafting etc in order to let the druid event end first.
Citan said druid is not like lycan, it's not a punishment etc but-to me at least- feels more like "if you want flight put up with daily disruptions", imo at least lycan is easier to deal with.
PS-kinda unrelated - what I still consider to be my main char is druid/lycan, I would like to have a clear idea about what's going to happen to Khaylara in the context of druid-lycan conflict. I don't really need to know once more that they are permanent choices, I'm okay to be both and have the monthly and daily disruptions, maybe I'll restart playing lycan at one point BUT I'd like to know if the effort I put into leveling things like cheesemaking, poetry or leatherworking is worth it or my char will get messed up at launch/earlier being 2 incompatible classes.





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