Look, you could order a pizza directly from in game in EQ2. What more do you want?The price was never an issue for anyone who isn't a broke boy. The problem is the maladaptive design effects that come from having P2W/P4QOL mechanics in your game. There is a financial incentive to make shit grindy and shitty and less fun to inspire people to pay for QoL. Everquest is already a property completely caked in the shit of MTX, so nobody is surprised. I just don't give any credit to the developers of such shit covered slop as 'artists' because their goal is obviously milking people for a few extra bucks vs making the best product they can. This is an ideological and moral complaint, not a financial one.

DRU brings DS, dots, nukes, snare, sow, and pac to the table. It is a very versatile class. WAR/BST/DRU would be capable of crushing most things.You just take a wiz & dru to 25 and move back to your primary trio. Doesnt take much time at all, especially when your wiz hits level 18 with Garrison's nuke.
You then get all the ports ever needed in Rituals. No reason whatsoever to keep the Dru in your main trio. Its a master of none for bringing anything unique to the table.
This is me.The price was never an issue for anyone who isn't a broke boy.


Look, you could order a pizza directly from in game in EQ2. What more do you want?
Druid is miles behind shaman sadly. No slow, no pet, no puma, no canni. All it really gets over shaman is better nukes. They did a bad job on druid and ranger imo and really ignored most feedback on them and I think they will be extremely low pop classes.Druid fills most caster roles, just not quite as well as mainline casters. I would say it's just as good a healer as shaman, but no slow. But as mentioned if you run enc/bst/bard/rog for slow I think druid is very competitive.
I will say that for the most part right now slow is a MUST unless you go cleric + defensive stance. Shamans getting slow AND heals is why everyone overlooks Druids at the moment.
They get a charmable pet in every zone except Sky. Blows the shaman pet out of the water.Druid is miles behind shaman sadly. No slow, no pet, no puma, no canni. All it really gets over shaman is better nukes. They did a bad job on druid and ranger imo and really ignored most feedback on them and I think they will be extremely low pop classes.
No need for skips. Fear/hate/naggy/vox/yael raids have minimal trash. You spawn with 0-1 pulls away from minis or the final boss.What about skips? On THJ skips were all the hotness with classes like monk, rogue, bard....