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[zhai]

The other Homeless Moon folk have wildly outstripped me in posting lately, so I am going for the TKO this evening and catching up on some things I've been meaning to post here. Apologies to those on my LJ who will get it all at once.

Jay Lake's recent post on writer ages reminded me of something I was discussing with pantlessjohnny at last ReaderCon, and later

Comments

[maggiedr]

Ok, I would have said hunter second for you. As cool as I think pet classes are, I nearly always find controlling the pet and my character to be too challenging. Otherwise, I'd likely pursue that more.

They did have a half-elf race in EQ. I played the shaman class in that game, so that's the first class that I ever became proficient at. Although proficient in high-end EQ meant sitting with my finger poised over a single hotkey for hours.

The regret that I had about playing large races was that I presented an easier target. For that reason, I did play a gnome for awhile in WoW, and I have to say that it was a ton of fun.

From shaman in EQ, to bard in DAoC, and druid in WoW, I was always attracted to utility classes that could move fast (shamans had a speed spell in EQ). However, I got sick of always being handy in a group, but generally expected to provide one thing (buffs, speed, or healing) and never having any impact with damage. That was another reason that I enjoyed my gnome characters, one a mage and the other a rogue. Being able to stealth is as addictive as speed. I guess that's why you never get to have both skills.

This makes me miss online gaming. I wish a new one would come out that appealed to me.

[anguirel]

Having my own Tauren Druid, I'd have to say you apparently aren't Feral if you don't think a Druid has both Speed and Stealth. ;p Outside in my PvP armor, I can move faster than standard walking speed (107%, I think) while stealthed in Cat form. And I can add Dash or a few other speed bonuses on top of that. And Travel Form (161% with armor bonus) is just a quick shift away... or Epic Flight Form (416% with Trinket) in Outlands.

Of course, I'm back to hybrid Balance/Resto now, so I don't do that as much, but that's the main attraction to me of the Druid class. I don't need to level a new character when I want a new play style, just respec.

[zhai]

You know what's funny about this comment? When I first read it my immediate thought was "huh -- druids must be due for a nerfing."

And sho' 'nough...