Damn you, beat me to posting it

This looks great thematically.
No melee power though which is kinda scary to be honest.
Am very happy about the Elemental absorption (65%).

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Probably still doesn't make sense to not use a shield, but its cute. They could amp the absorption up to 80% IMO.

Which dev has the hard on for temporary hp? Wait, is temporary hp reduced by reaper self heal penalties?

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Feb 7^th, 2018 at 3:03pm:


Why break up the monk monopoly on melee builds?

Bear druids get the shaft and wolves get snipped for their exploits, but gain a reasonable power gain to make up for it.

Atleast the possibility of pure wolf druids exists. Bears are gimped until we have info on natural fighting and whether or not bears get glancing blows and or melee power boosts to actual make their abilities deal damage.

depends on what stays, can see some intersting bear builds with what they have there.

And yeah, they need to make changes that make other classes/builds as fun as the tree, wolves, etc. instead of bringing everyone down to some boring cookie cutter thing.

SpaceGoat wrote on Feb 7^th, 2018 at 5:53pm:


I think you're overstating the amount of bears.

Asheras wrote on Feb 7^th, 2018 at 4:49pm:

Thanks. Maybe getting half a stalk for temp hp myself now.

So there's like 600% threat in the bear tree. Even with that will it be able to actually pull aggro away from somebody who is trying?

Metal-Beast wrote on Feb 7^th, 2018 at 10:08pm:


I don't think half the playerbase, let alone the devs can be made to understand that a tank needs to deal decent DPS to keep aggro.

Which is a shame, vanguard had nice potential but was still held back to appease the "tanks shouldn't DPS" crowd. And I expect bear druids will remain in the dumpster as well.

One thing I really like is them adding bonuses to a spell while in a certain form. Lots of potential there.

I would have loved something like this
When barkskin is cast, in addition to its normal effects, if
Wolf add 1 dodge
Big wolf 2 dodge
Bear add 2 con
Big bear 2 con and a 3 prr
Fire elemental 2 prr and 5 fire res
Etc

Asheras wrote on Feb 8^th, 2018 at 8:32am:

Bear-barian! (you knew that was coming)

Asheras wrote on Feb 8^th, 2018 at 8:32am:

OK.. Then why roll a Ranger?

Asheras wrote on Feb 8^th, 2018 at 8:32am:

OK... Then why roll a Barbarian?

Asheras wrote on Feb 8^th, 2018 at 8:32am:

Agreed.

Asheras wrote on Feb 8^th, 2018 at 8:32am:

Probably because Clerics are already trumping Pally and Fighter Tanks.

None of this is a polemic directed towards you.

The issue at hand is that Druids fall into a very murky "What the hell is the point of this?" area in DDO and have been that way since PnP.

So many of the interesting abilities Druids SHOULD have don't map to a video game simply because they are roleplay driven, and require DM moderation to keep in balance (like shapeshifting).

Another bone of contention that had the devs swallowing their tongues in fits used to be the "OP" nature of self-healing classes who could also DPS.

With Reaper, self heals are almost fucking irrelevant, unless you have massive hamp, massive positive spellpower, high UMD, or all of the above.

This would likely change if one of the dev staff played Druid.

It's why Arty seems to always get things like 1000 Party-Wide Temp HP every 10 seconds (because a staffer plays an Arty live, I forget which dev) and every other class gets the shaft with no lube.