Druids are masters of nature and healing magic. Throughout history, they have used their skills and knowledge to the benefit of all humans. Nature can heal and protect, but can also cause widespread destruction. As such, druids command the powers of ice and earth to punish those who oppose the natural order.
Like sorcerers, druids are weak physically and cannot carry as much equipment as knights and paladins.
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Benefits
- Druids are welcome on team hunts thanks to their ability to heal others
- Various elemental spell effects make for interesting, colorful gameplay
- Druids can effectively deal several types of damage and can usually adapt to the hunted monsters' weaknesses
- Strong damage output in every situation, both single- and multi-target
- Can use Magic Shield to drastically increase survivability
- Fastest advancement in magic level (same as sorcerers)
- Largest amount of mana and fastest regeneration (same as sorcerers)
- Can make many types of offensive runes
- The only vocation capable of making the Icicle runes and the Avalanche runes which are useful for hunting dragons and demons
- Can use all types of runes, except the Holy Missile runes
- Can make healing runes
Drawbacks
- Weak in terms of defense, druids must maintain distance from their enemies while casting spells and shooting runes. Sometimes, that is difficult and some people might not enjoy such gameplay
- Not the best choice for hunting for profit due to the cost of runes and low carrying capacity
- Lowest amount of hitpoints and slowest regeneration (same as sorcerers)
- Slowest advancement in shielding and melee skills (druids advance a little bit faster than sorcerers, but the difference is negligible)
- Lowest capacity (same as sorcerers)
- A lot of commonly hunted high-level monsters are either highly resistant or outright immune to ice damage and earth damage, which usually makes sorcerers better when hunting alone
Advancement and regeneration
Stat increase per level
After advancing to the next level, every player receives an increase in capacity, maximum hitpoints and maximum mana.
Druids gain:
Regeneration
As time passes, every player will regenerate lost hitpoints and mana, as long as they have eaten recently (see the page on Regeneration for more information).
Druids regenerate:
Elder druids regenerate:
Promotion
When a druid reaches level 20, they can purchase a promotion and become an elder druid with certain benefits.
Tips and Tricks
All vocations should use their strengths to their own benefit. For example, it would be useless for a knight to try and make money selling runes. Instead, use the unique aspects of the vocation to your advantage.
Making Money
- Sell Runes. Druids can make large amounts of money as a Provider of nearly all kinds of runes, especially Icicle (Rune), if you have a premium account, and Avalanche (Rune) that high level mages use to hunt demons. You can make runes while standing around somewhere (manasit) but you can also use a melee weapon in a hunting ground wich you can easily slaughter and meanwhile making runes, this way you wont lose your soul (unless you are too hight level for the creatures you kill).
- Offer an Eternal Winter or Wrath of Nature service. Since Druids have strong attack spells, when you reach the level requirement for the Eternal Winter or Wrath of Nature spell, you will become very valuable on a large hunt or quest. Even helping with a quest that you have already completed, you can charge a large amount of money to help a group complete the quest.
- Offer a healing service. Because of the low mana cost for the Heal Friend and Mass Healing spells (compared to Ultimate Healing Runes), you can go along with a Knight on a hunt and do nothing but heal them. You can charge a flat rate for the amount of time you spend with them, or you might even be able to get a portion of the loot from the hunt. You may also do this on a group hunt, using the Mass Healing spell to heal other players, as well as summoned creatures.
- Summon creatures for others. You can charge a fee for summoning creatures for a paladin to convince. Since paladins cannot use the Summon Creature spell, you can summon a creature for them, and if they have enough mana, they can use a Convince Creature rune to take control over it and use it to help them hunt. You can also summon a monk or a ghoul for knights and paladins to train and charge an hourly fee (note you can only use this method in PvP and PvP-Enforced worlds because you cannot attack summons of players in Optional PvP worlds).
Gaining Experience
- Use a blocker. This way you can hunt larger creatures that you would not normally be able to take on alone. This will most likely cost you quite a bit in Runes, since druids do not have many instant attack spells, and you may need to pay the blocker for their services.
- Hunt with Summoned Creatures. When hunting with summons, you do not need to use as many runes, and you can stay in your hunting area longer because you are not using as much mana with your Rod.
- Use Defensive Fighting when you are hunting with Rods. Changing your fighting mode will not affect the damage that your rods will cause, but using Defensive Fighting will cause you to take less damage from any melee attacks. Note that the damage from Rods does NOT increase with level or magic level.
- Use your surroundings. Since most Rods cannot attack as far away as a Bow or Crossbow that Paladins use, druids need to use trees, stairs, and other obstacles to help maintain a distance from strong creatures. With some practice, you will be able to fight strong creatures without taking very much damage.
Advancing Your Skills
Magic Level
- Never have full mana. Your Magic Level is advanced by using mana. Every second that you have full mana, you are losing potential magic level advancement.
- Spend as little time as possible in Protection Zones. You cannot use mana that you do not generate, so spend as little time as possible in situations where you do not regenerate mana.
- If you have a daily reward streak of 3, 4 or 5 days, you will regenerate mana inside Resting Areas as depots, temples and houses. So you don't need to avoid being inside these places even though they are also protection zones.
- If you are a Premium Account player and you have a daily reward streak of 6 or more days, you are advised to stay inside resting areas since you will regenerate twice the mana you would regenerate outside these places.
- Always eat. Make sure you have access to Food at all times. If you run out of food, then you will not be able to regenerate mana for using.
- Use Rods to hunt. Using rods uses mana. An Elder Druid can regenerate mana as fast as the Snakebite Rod will use it, so they can potentially "train" their magic level by attacking creatures with this rod. If used on a creature that is immune to Earth, then your magic level will still advance, but you will not cause damage to the creature you are attacking, so you could potentially "train" for as long as you want to. A tip is to summon yourself a Snake and shoot it with your Snakebite Rod.
- Use your melee weapon when gaining Soul Points. You need only to kill one monster every 4 minutes, so you are not worried about killing monsters quickly. This frees up your mana for spells and you can use up your mana completely if you wish to train your magic level. The only time to use your rod is for leveling, otherwise best train your melee skill since you can use spells to use up mana.
- Carry Mana Potions. Not only is this a good idea if you get in a jam, but using Mana Potions will help you advance your Magic Level faster.
- Don't use Magic Shield if you don't need to. Any mana that you lose to your Magic Shield does not count towards your magic level. If you are not in danger of dying, use Light Healing, Intense Healing and Ultimate Healing spells instead. An other possibility for premium druids is Heal Friend which can also be used for self-healing, as it heals between 1/2 to all of your hitpoints (depending on your Level and Magic Level).
- Choose hunts carefully. The more mana potions you use, the more mana you'll be spending and thus the more progress you'll be making on your magic level. Choosing hunts that allow you to use a lot of mana (and thus a lot of potions) but provide enough loot to pay off your mana potions will result in significant increase in advancement rate. Obviously the power of your character will determine the most effective way to do this - for very powerful players this could be by using ultimate area spells with particular monsters may work (for example: Wrath of Nature on Quara), for less powerful players use of wave spells may be more suitable (for example: Ice Wave on Dworcs); obviously, killing more monsters (per cast) will provide more loot and make this more feasible
Additional Information
Related Pages
Pages of Particular Interest to Druids
Creatures
- Creatures: Full list of creatures organized by type.
- Summon Creature
- Convince Creature
Hunting
Vocation
Equipment
NPCs
Instant Spells
Name | Words | Prem | Level | Mana | Price | Group | Effect | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apprentice's Strike | ![]() |
exori min flam | ✗ | 8 | 6 | 0 | Attack | ![]() |
Cancel Magic Shield | ![]() |
exana vita | ✓ | 14 | 50 | 450 | Support | Removes an active Magic Shield from the player. |
Chill Out | ![]() |
exevo infir frigo hur | ✗ | 1 | 8 | 0 | Attack | ![]() |
Creature Illusion | ![]() |
utevo res ina "creature" | ✗ | 23 | 100 | 1,000 | Support | Turns you into a certain creature for three minutes. |
Cure Bleeding | ![]() |
exana kor | ✓ | 45 | 30 | 2,500 | Healing | Stops the Special Condition called Bleeding. |
Cure Burning | ![]() |
exana flam | ✓ | 30 | 30 | 2,000 | Healing | Stops the Special Condition called Burning. |
Cure Electrification | ![]() |
exana vis | ✓ | 22 | 30 | 1,000 | Healing | Stops the Special Condition called Electrified. |
Cure Poison | ![]() |
exana pox | ✗ | 10 | 30 | 150 | Healing | Cures the status of being poisoned. |
Energy Strike | ![]() |
exori vis | ✓ | 12 | 20 | 800 | Attack | ![]() |
Envenom | ![]() |
utori pox | ✓ | 50 | 30 | 6,000 | Attack | Deals Earth Damage (in a descending order) over time. |
Eternal Winter | ![]() |
exevo gran mas frigo | ✓ | 60 | 1050 | 8,000 | Attack | ![]() |
Find Person | ![]() |
exiva "NAME" | ✗ | 8 | 20 | 80 | Support | Tells you which direction a certain player is, relative to you, and a rough idea of the distance. |
Flame Strike | ![]() |
exori flam | ✓ | 14 | 20 | 800 | Attack | ![]() |
Food (Spell) | ![]() |
exevo pan | ✗ | 14 | 120 | 300 | Support | Creates various kinds of food. |
Great Light | ![]() |
utevo gran lux | ✗ | 13 | 60 | 500 | Support | Provides illumination in a 4 tile radius around the caster (area effect). Duration is 11 minutes, 35 seconds. |
Haste | ![]() |
utani hur | ✓ | 14 | 60 | 600 | Support | Increases your base Speed by 30% for 30 seconds. Cures paralysis. |
Heal Friend | ![]() |
exura sio "name" | ✓ | 18 | 120 | 800 | Healing | Heals a specified player. This cannot be used on yourself anymore. |
Heal Party | ![]() |
utura mas sio | ✓ | 32 | Varies. | 4,000 | Support | The Heal Party spell will increase the regeneration speed of players on his party to 20 hit points every 2 seconds for a period of 2 minutes. |
Ice Strike | ![]() |
exori frigo | ✓ | 15 | 20 | 800 | Attack | ![]() |
Ice Wave | ![]() |
exevo frigo hur | ✗ | 18 | 25 | 850 | Attack | ![]() |
Intense Healing | ![]() |
exura gran | ✗ | 20 | 70 | 350 | Healing | Restores a medium amount of health and cures paralysis. |
Invisible | ![]() |
utana vid | ✗ | 35 | 440 | 2,000 | Support | Makes the caster invisible to some creatures. Duration is 3 minutes, 20 seconds. |
Levitate | ![]() |
exani hur up exani hur down |
✓ | 12 | 50 | 500 | Support | Permits vertical movement via levitation, up or down one level. |
Light Healing | ![]() |
exura | ✗ | 8 | 20 | 0 | Healing | Restores a small amount of health and cures paralysis. |
Light | ![]() |
utevo lux | ✗ | 8 | 20 | 0 | Support | Provides illumination in a 3 tile radius around the caster (area effect). Duration is 6 minutes, 10 seconds. |
Magic Patch | ![]() |
exura infir | ✗ | 1 | 6 | 0 | Healing | Restores a small amount of health. (Cures paralysis) |
Magic Rope | ![]() |
exani tera | ✓ | 9 | 20 | 200 | Support | Teleports you up through a hole when you are standing in a rope spot. |
Magic Shield | ![]() |
utamo vita | ✗ | 14 | 50 | 450 | Support | Damage taken reduces Mana instead of Hit Points. Duration is 180 seconds. |
Mass Healing | ![]() |
exura gran mas res | ✓ | 36 | 150 | 2,200 | Healing | Heals all players and summons around the caster and will also heal the caster. |
Mud Attack | ![]() |
exori infir tera | ✗ | 1 | 6 | 0 | Attack | ![]() |
Nature's Embrace | ![]() |
exura gran sio "name" | ✓ | 300 | 400 | 500,000 | Healing | Heals a specified player. |
Physical Strike | ![]() |
exori moe ico | ✓ | 16 | 20 | 800 | Attack | ![]() |
Restoration | ![]() |
exura max vita | ✓ | 300 | 260 | 500,000 | Healing | Restores a very large amount of health and cures paralysis. |
Strong Haste | ![]() |
utani gran hur | ✓ | 20 | 100 | 1,300 | Support | Increases your base Speed by 70% for 21 seconds. Cures paralysis. |
Strong Ice Strike | ![]() |
exori gran frigo | ✓ | 80 | 60 | 6,000 | Attack | ![]() |
Strong Ice Wave | ![]() |
exevo gran frigo hur | ✓ | 40 | 170 | 7,500 | Attack | ![]() |
Strong Terra Strike | ![]() |
exori gran tera | ✓ | 70 | 60 | 6,000 | Attack | ![]() |
Summon Creature | ![]() |
utevo res "creature name" | ✗ | 25 | varies | 2,000 | Support | Summons a creature to help you. |
Summon Druid Familiar | ![]() |
utevo gran res dru | ✓ | 200 | 3000 | 50,000 | Support | Summons a Druid Familiar which lasts 15 minutes. |
Terra Strike | ![]() |
exori tera | ✓ | 13 | 20 | 800 | Attack | ![]() |
Terra Wave | ![]() |
exevo tera hur | ✗ | 38 | 170 | 2,500 | Attack | ![]() |
Ultimate Healing | ![]() |
exura vita | ✗ | 30 | 160 | 1,000 | Healing | Restores a large amount of health and cures paralysis. |
Ultimate Ice Strike | ![]() |
exori max frigo | ✓ | 100 | 100 | 15,000 | Attack | ![]() |
Ultimate Light | ![]() |
utevo vis lux | ✓ | 26 | 140 | 1,600 | Support | Fills the dark with light. |
Ultimate Terra Strike | ![]() |
exori max tera | ✓ | 90 | 100 | 15,000 | Attack | ![]() |
Wrath of Nature | ![]() |
exevo gran mas tera | ✓ | 55 | 700 | 6,000 | Attack | ![]() |
Spells No Longer in Use
Name | Words | Prem | Level | Mana | Price | Group | Effect | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Force Strike | ![]() |
exori mort | ✓ | 11 | 20 | 600 | Attack | ![]() |
Poison Storm | ![]() |
exevo gran mas pox | ✓ | 50 | 600 | 3,400 | Attack | ![]() |
Undead Legion | ![]() |
exana mas mort | ✓ | 30 | 500 | 2,000 | Summon | Creates a Skeleton from every corpse around you. The area affected is the same size as the Mass Healing Spell. |
Rune Spells
Name | Words | Prem | Level | Mana | Price | Group | Effect | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Animate Dead | ![]() |
adana mort | ✓ | 27 | 600 | 1,200 | Support | Makes 1 Animate Dead Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Transforms a corpse into a skeleton. |
Avalanche | ![]() |
adori mas frigo | ✗ | 30 | 530 | 1,200 | Support | Makes 4 Avalanche Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Chameleon | ![]() |
adevo ina | ✗ | 27 | 600 | 1,300 | Support | Makes 1 Chameleon Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Turns you into an item. The effect lasts for 200 seconds (3 minutes, 20 seconds). |
Convince Creature | ![]() |
adeta sio | ✗ | 16 | 200 (+ some to use) | 800 | Support | Makes 1 Convince Creature Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Convinces a creatures to help you. |
Cure Poison Rune | ![]() |
adana pox | ✗ | 15 | 200 | 600 | Support | Makes 1 Cure Poison Rune (Item) (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Cures the target from Poison. |
Destroy Field | ![]() |
adito grav | ✗ | 17 | 120 | 700 | Support | Makes 3 Destroy Field Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Destroys fire, poison and energy fields, from any distance as long there's nothing blocking the path. |
Disintegrate | ![]() |
adito tera | ✓ | 21 | 200 | 900 | Support | Makes 3 Disintegrate Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Destroys movable objects. |
Energy Field | ![]() |
adevo grav vis | ✗ | 18 | 320 | 700 | Support | Makes 3 Energy Field Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Energy Wall | ![]() |
adevo mas grav vis | ✗ | 41 | 1000 | 2,500 | Support | Makes 4 Energy Wall Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Explosion | ![]() |
adevo mas hur | ✗ | 31 | 570 | 1,800 | Support | Makes 6 Explosion Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Fire Bomb | ![]() |
adevo mas flam | ✗ | 27 | 600 | 1,500 | Support | Makes 2 Fire Bomb Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Fire Field | ![]() |
adevo grav flam | ✗ | 15 | 240 | 500 | Support | Makes 3 Fire Field Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Fire Wall | ![]() |
adevo mas grav flam | ✗ | 33 | 780 | 2,000 | Support | Makes 4 Fire Wall Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Heavy Magic Missile | ![]() |
adori vis | ✗ | 25 | 350 | 1,500 | Support | Makes 10 Heavy Magic Missile Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Icicle | ![]() |
adori frigo | ✓ | 28 | 460 | 1,700 | Support | Makes 5 Icicle Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Intense Healing Rune | ![]() |
adura gran | ✗ | 15 | 120 | 600 | Support | Makes 1 Intense Healing Rune (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Heals target better than Light Healing. |
Light Magic Missile | ![]() |
adori min vis | ✗ | 15 | 120 | 500 | Support | Makes 10 Light Magic Missile Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Paralyse | ![]() |
adana ani | ✓ | 54 | 1400 | 1,900 | Support | Makes 1 Paralyse Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Paralyses target. Any healing spell on the paralysed target will cancel the effect. |
Poison Bomb | ![]() |
adevo mas pox | ✓ | 25 | 520 | 1,000 | Support | Makes 2 Poison Bomb Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Poison Field | ![]() |
adevo grav pox | ✗ | 14 | 200 | 300 | Support | Makes 3 Poison Field Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Poison Wall | ![]() |
adevo mas grav pox | ✗ | 29 | 640 | 1,600 | Support | Makes 4 Poison Wall Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Soulfire | ![]() |
adevo res flam | ✓ | 27 | 420 | 1,800 | Support | Makes 3 Soulfire Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Stalagmite | ![]() |
adori tera | ✗ | 24 | 350 | 1,400 | Support | Makes 10 Stalagmite Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Stone Shower | ![]() |
adori mas tera | ✓ | 28 | 430 | 1,100 | Support | Makes 4 Stone Shower Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). ![]() |
Ultimate Healing Rune | ![]() |
adura vita | ✗ | 24 | 400 | 1,500 | Support | Makes 1 Ultimate Healing Rune (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Heal the target a large amount of HP. The amount changes with the magic level and level of the user. |
Wild Growth | ![]() |
adevo grav vita | ✓ | 27 | 600 | 2,000 | Support | Makes 2 Wild Growth Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Creates a rune to cast a tree which blocks off 1 square meter. |
Possible Hotkey Assignments
If you are having trouble with too many hotkeys to remember, then the following table may be useful for you. It provides an organized set of hotkey assignments for the most commonly used spells for this vocation.
This table is only an idea to help you build your own set of hotkeys, you obviously do not need to use these key assignments if you do not want to. See the page on Hotkeys for a blank template.
You can also print this table out and place it above your keyboard as a quick-reference. Make sure you print "landscape" instead of "profile", or you will not print the entire table.
Healing/Support | Attack/Support | Support | |||||||||||||
Energy | Fire | Physical | Earth | ||||||||||||
F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | F6 | F7 | F8 | F9 | F10 | F11 | F12 | ||||
Light . | Light Healing . | Intense Healing . | Ultimate Healing . | Energy Strike . | Flame Strike . | Physical Strike . | Wrath of Nature . | Haste . | Levitate Up . | Invisible . | Magic Shield . | Standard | |||
SHIFT+ | Ultimate Light . | Antidote . | Food . | Mass Healing . | Heal Friend 1. | Heal Friend 2. | Heal Friend 3. | Heal Friend 4. | Strong Haste . | Levitate Down . | Magic Rope . | Summon Creature . | Powerful | ||
CTRL+ | Destroy Field. | Antidote Rune. | IH Rune. | UH Rune. | HMM. | GFB. | Explosion. | Envenom. | Fire Field. | Convince Creature. | Chameleon. | Paralyze Rune. | Runes | ||
Missing Spells: | Great Light, Wild Growth, Find Person, Creature Illusion | ||||||||||||||
Missing Runes: | Light Magic Missile, Fireball, Energy Field, Desintegrate, Poison Bomb, Animate Dead, Firebomb, Soulfire, Poison Wall, Fire Wall, Energy Wall |
See also: Druid/Template