primary slot for druid?Follow

Already, your weapon will more useful for stats, than for actually beating on anything. Everfrost and Mammoths is good place to solo.

I havent used one with my druid yet, but either you can quest for a paw of oppola (maybe opolla) or you can buy one from the bazaar, which on my server is about 400pps. It is very nice, and although you can't hit things with it, it doesnt really matter because druids are terrible at combat anyway, so the +9 wisdom would suit you much better. I think. With my cleric and druid, i have put every bit of plat i have got into either spells or wisdom items- and i havent regretted it. The extra mana is essential.

Look for Scimitars. Also a few fancy swords are DRU enabled. Set your parms and do a bazaar search, you may be surprised what's available.

Karlowin
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I'd start by saying that even though we're not a melee class, I have a 'thing' about getting all available melee skill-ups maxed early so as a tiddler in kelethin and PC switching between 1HS and 1HB is worth the effort. But. . .
As our Epic piece is a 1HS, I found myself an Oakleaf Scimitar.
The graphic is really nice, stats ain't bad, but the best bit is this:
It procs roots, which pisses off your MT/MA in a group, gets you despised and socially outcast; therefore reminding you that you're a Druid and not a Tank

All these druids talking about using melee weapons

Celeni is very proud of the fact that she has not held a weapon in her hand for well over 30 levels.

For many moons she used a Cone of the Mystics, but more recently has prefered a Ceramic Incense Burner of Ro for primary hand.

For a very long time she kept a Testament of Vaneer in her secondary hand, then a Crystal Chitin Shield for a while but now prefers the Tacticians Bulwark.

Mana is much more powerful than any melee weapon a druid might find.

i agree with you 100%

i have a tacticions Bulwork in the bank for when i get my epic. [/quote]

Hmm, now if you had said "basicly get something that adds to your mana..... I may have taken closer note.


By the way, I'm not discouraging your efforts to get your epic, but frankly above 60 it is of little benefit. Something to enhance your nukes or healing will be of much greater use to you.

WTH are you all talking about? I melee all the time.

Negative, sir, though I could.

If I need to med or swap spells I summon Naggy, where allowed. If I don't need to med, and often I do not, I wade in and melee. Get a fair few druid melee kills, too, just to annoy the tanks.

Why is this important? At lvl 36, I just hit 188 in forage with my druid. I would rather have a weapon that gives Wisdom.

We melees are so misunderstood. :(

Actually for about 20 levels or more I meleed little to none - just enough to keep my skills up. Now, with a 30/20 weapon and 40% permanent haste, I just can't help myself.

Tome of Necromatic Magic is good and cheap. Only 500pp or so (few months ago).

If you can afford, buy the improve healing 2 book also.

Epic is 1hs but that doesn't matter a bit. Sitting, medding up for a nuke or DoT is about 300 times more effective than swinging any weapons at a mob.

My druid's magelo is seriouly out dated but I have both books updated.

http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=94182

Just realized that tome has recom. level 60... anyway, try to get the improve healing 2 book if you can afford.

Edited, Tue Jan 27 23:09:54 2004 by Assailant

3 reasons this is important.

1. Not everyone that comes here has a lot of money and sine the original poster said...



Which tells me the obviously dont have a lot of plat to spend. This item is free and still adds something they may or may not need.

2. The original poster said...



Everyone has addressed many other parts of this persons request but everyone skipped over the part where they would prefer to not buy something.

3. A druid's forage skill maxes out at 200. This 10% brings you up to 220 effective skill.

- Per SoE in a Q&A at a Fanfaire, I believe, all skill % modifiers add to your skill untill you hit the hard cap of 252.

- %'s do not stack, Highest takes precedence

- Forage skill determines success/fail rate. On success you get an item off that zones forage table. Skill only effects getting rare (IE zone specific) items by giving you more successes and there for more chances.

Many people spend way more time doing tradeskills than exp grind, and therefore combat stats don't play as large a part in thier enjoyment of the game.

Low level mains are alway looking to make cash and foraging rare tradeskill stuff to sell in the bazaar is a safe way to make cash at level 25.

My level 31 Druid's forage is only 89. Not everyone has kept that skill up.

These can sell for as high as 1k plat to trade skillers that want to forage thier own stuff. Hardly sucks for a new player looking to make thier way in the game.

For the above reasons I recommended it to a level 25 druid. And I think every one of them is better than your suggestion of....