Posted by Grallon(khwarismians) on April 26, 2000 at 10:24:36:
In Reply to: You forgot to mention fly and cure critical. (Semi-long) posted by Swist on April 26, 2000 at 07:53:16:
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> Armor of thorns is really nice.
Of the very few pks I had(he was mostly a pacifist, the reason he did not go sylvan)...two of them were warriors who bashed themselves to death.
> Treeform only landed me in trouble. It is just more convinient just to recall.
Well, not if you have the same recall as the person you are running from...Many times, I would flee;treeform, and they would think I worded and word to catch me....
> Forest haven - sux.
Now, I played before they lost bird and bear, so this might have changed to...but when I had it it WAS just like teleport, but limited the starting and ending points to forested areas. If my memory serves me. I did some exploring using that.
> Herbal forage - basically booster for some of your skills.
this was just a heal skill like rangers herb skill back when I was around, So I have no Idea.
> The hunt - You would not kill anybody with it on rank you get it.
Yes, you will, if you catch them ranking, but otherwise It is best used to start a battle to tank for you. Or if they run, to finish them off, or to mess with arbiters...
> Thornheart/spores - nice for long run fights.
Spores is great against mages...spore them successfully a few times, treeform and watch where they go, then when you are ready to pounce they are helpless. Thornheart I had perfected, and it worked maybe once in a pk(tried it in all of them) and perhaps 5% of the time on mobs...maybe this has changed.
> entangle/spike growth - short term dex reducers.
> Plant growth - you gain most profit out of it if you as Sylvan.
great for keeping yourself free of hiding thieves and assassins on eastern road...makes assassins step out, so if they are stalking you, this is great also good for calling the hunt/forest haven on roads
> fire seeds/sunray/thorn - damage supp. with different side affects.
Fire seeds really wasnt worth it except on felars...
Sunray is the bane of ragers. with fly and shield of thorns, many of them have no way to keep you from supping this on them, for massive damage.
> Call of the wild/liveoak - Mobs to help you. Not very relayeble(sp?).
With birdform, I almost never had an oak...it was just to convenient to fly around, leaving the oak.
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> P.S. I would like to hear some comments from players who play(ed) druids.
> Sent me e-mail if you do not want to discuss it on forum.
When Khwaris, Algumial, Voss, and Rozanov all had bearform are some of my favorite memories of cf. All of us in bearform, with a sylvan mage to haste us and invoker to shield us, we were a four bear wrecking crew...sure the supps in human form are more usefull than claws...but they just were not needed with four hasted bears...*sigh*