Druid

Overview

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.

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:

• 10 oz of capacity
• 5 hitpoints
• 30 mana

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:

• 1 hitpoint every 12 seconds
• 2 mana every 3 seconds

Elder druids regenerate:

• 1 hitpoint every 12 seconds
• 2 mana every 2 seconds

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 a 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 Poison, 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 posibility 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 alot of mana (and thus alot 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

• Vocation
• Knight
• Sorcerer
• Paladin

Pages of Particular Interest to Druids

Creatures

• Creatures: Full list of creatures organized by type.
• Summon Creature
• Convince Creature

Hunting

• Loot
• Offensive Fighting
• Balanced Fighting
• Defensive Fighting
• Melee
• Shielding
• Druid's Hunt

Vocation

• Promotion

Equipment

• Armor
• Helmets
• Legs
• Shields
• Spellbooks
• Rods

NPCs

• Druid Guild Leader NPCs
• Magic Shopkeeper NPCs
• Equipment Shopkeeper NPCs

Instant Spells

Name		Words	Prem	Level	Mana	Price	Group	Effect
Apprentice's Strike		exori min flam	✗	8	6	0	Attack	Shoots a weak fire missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Chill Out		exevo infir frigo hur	✗	1	8	0	Attack	Shoots a weak area attack directly in front of the caster, dealing ice damage.
Creature Illusion		utevo res ina "creature"	✗	23	100	1000	Support	Turns you into a certain creature for three minutes.
Cure Bleeding		exana kor	✓	45	30	2500	Healing	Stops the Special Condition called Bleeding.
Cure Burning		exana flam	✓	30	30	2000	Healing	Stops the Special Condition called Burning.
Cure Electrification		exana vis	✓	22	30	1000	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	Shoots an energy missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Envenom		utori pox	✓	50	30	6000	Attack	Deals Earth Damage (in a descending order) over time.
Eternal Winter		exevo gran mas frigo	✓	60	1050	8000	Attack	Summons a raging blizzard, dealing extremely high ice damage on a total of 64 squares around the caster. The spell deals about 5-10% more damage than Wrath of Nature, but its area of effect is smaller. Casting this spell puts ALL combat spells on a 4-second cooldown.
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	Shoots a fire missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
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 Speed. (Consult the Formula page to determine the enhancement.) Duration is 31 seconds. Cures paralysis.
Heal Friend		exura sio "name"	✓	18	140	800	Healing	Heals a specified player. This can also be used on yourself.
Heal Party		utura mas sio	✓	32	Varies.	4000	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	Shoots an ice missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Ice Wave		exevo frigo hur	✗	18	25	850	Attack	Shoots an area attack directly in front of the caster, dealing ice damage.
Intense Healing		exura gran	✗	20	70	350	Healing	Restores a medium amount of health and cures paralysis.
Invisible		utana vid	✗	35	440	2000	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		utevo lux	✗	8	20	0	Support	Provides illumination in a 3 tile radius around the caster (area effect). Duration is 6 minutes, 10 seconds.
Light Healing		exura	✗	8	20	0	Healing	Restores a small amount of health and cures paralysis.
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 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
Mass Healing		exura gran mas res	✓	36	150	2200	Healing	Heals all players and summons around the caster and will also heal the caster.
Mud Attack		exori infir tera	✗	1	6	0	Attack	Shoots a weak earth missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Physical Strike		exori moe ico	✓	16	20	800	Attack	Shoots a physical damage missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Strong Haste		utani gran hur	✓	20	100	1300	Support	Makes you run faster than with Haste and is slightly less economical on distance given same time and mana, can also cure paralysis. It lasts for 22 seconds instead of 33 as with Haste. To determine your speed with this spell, go to the Formula page.
Strong Ice Strike		exori gran frigo	✓	80	60	6000	Attack	Shoots a powerful ice missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Strong Ice Wave		exevo gran frigo hur	✓	40	170	7500	Attack	Shoots a powerful, but short ranged area attack directly in front of the caster, dealing strong ice damage.
Strong Terra Strike		exori gran tera	✓	70	60	6000	Attack	Shoots a powerful earth missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Summon Creature		utevo res "creature name"	✗	25	varies	2000	Support	Summons a creature to help you.
Summon Grovebeast		utevo gran res dru	✓	200	3000	50000	Support	Summons a Grovebeast which lasts 15 minutes.
Terra Strike		exori tera	✓	13	20	800	Attack	Shoots an earth missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Terra Wave		exevo tera hur	✗	38	210	2500	Attack	Shoots a powerful area attack directly in front of the caster, dealing strong earth damage.
Ultimate Healing		exura vita	✗	30	160	1000	Healing	Restores a large amount of health and cures paralysis.
Ultimate Ice Strike		exori max frigo	✓	100	100	15000	Attack	Shoots a very powerful ice missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Ultimate Light		utevo vis lux	✓	26	140	1600	Support	Fills the dark with light.
Ultimate Terra Strike		exori max tera	✓	90	100	15000	Attack	Shoots a very powerful earth missile at the selected target up to 3 square meters away. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Wrath of Nature		exevo gran mas tera	✓	55	700	6000	Attack	Calls forth a huge mass of poisonous vines to strangle enemies, dealing extremely high earth damage on a total of 101 squares around the caster. The spell deals about 5-10% less damage than Eternal Winter, but its area of effect is larger. Casting this spell puts ALL combat spells on a 4-second cooldown.

Spells No Longer in Use

Name		Words	Prem	Level	Mana	Price	Group	Effect
Force Strike		exori mort	✓	11	20	600	Attack	Causes Physical Damage focused on the single square in front of the caster.
Poison Storm		exevo gran mas pox	✓	50	600	3400	Attack	Poisons enemies around the caster.
Undead Legion		exana mas mort	✓	30	500	2000	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	1200	Support	Makes 1 Animate Dead Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Transforms a corpse into a skeleton.
Avalanche		adori mas frigo	✗	30	530	1200	Support	Makes 4 Avalanche Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Shoots an Ice attack that covers a large circular area centered around the target, this is the Druids' equivalent of the Great Fireball.
Chameleon		adevo ina	✗	27	600	1300	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). Creates an energy field, initial damage of 30 and followed by 25 addtional damage once the field is left.
Energy Wall		adevo mas grav vis	✗	41	1000	2500	Support	Makes 4 Energy Wall Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Creates a 1×7 Energy Fields Area if shot straight from the body. If shot on an angle, a total of 13 energy field squares will be made spanning 7 fields vertical and 7 fields horizontal.
Explosion		adevo mas hur	✗	31	570	1800	Support	Makes 6 Explosion Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Makes a small explosion in the shape of a plus-sign (+) around the target.
Fire Bomb		adevo mas flam	✗	27	600	1500	Support	Makes 2 Fire Bomb Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Creates a 3×3 square of Fire Fields.
Fire Field		adevo grav flam	✗	15	240	500	Support	Makes 3 Fire Field Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Creates a Fire Field.
Fire Wall		adevo mas grav flam	✗	33	780	2000	Support	Makes 4 Fire Wall Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Creates a 1×5 Fire Fields area if shot straight from the body. If shot on an angle, a total of 9 fire field squares will be made spanning 5 fields vertical and 5 fields horizontal.
Heavy Magic Missile		adori vis	✗	25	350	1500	Support	Makes 10 Heavy Magic Missile Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Shoots an attack that inflicts Energy Damage.
Icicle		adori frigo	✓	28	460	1700	Support	Makes 5 Icicle Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Shoots an Ice attack, this is the Druids' equivalent of the Fireball.
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). Shoots a weak attack that causes Energy Damage.
Paralyse		adana ani	✓	54	1400	1900	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	1000	Support	Makes 2 Poison Bomb Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Creates a 3×3 area of Poison Fields.
Poison Field		adevo grav pox	✗	14	200	300	Support	Makes 3 Poison Field Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Creates a poison cloud which deals an initial damage of 5 per hit. Total damage is 105 hitpoints (5 turns of 5 hp, 5 rounds of 4, 7 rounds of 3, 10 rounds of 2 and 19 rounds of 1) untill damage stops (when not healed).
Poison Wall		adevo mas grav pox	✗	29	640	1600	Support	Makes 4 Poison Wall Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Creates a 1×5 Poison Field area if shot straight from the body. If shot on an angle, a total of 9 poison field squares will be made spanning 5 fields vertical and 5 fields horizontal.
Soulfire		adevo res flam	✓	27	420	1800	Support	Makes 3 Soulfire Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Causes the target to catch on fire.
Stalagmite		adori tera	✗	24	350	1400	Support	Makes 10 Stalagmite Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Sends out an earth missile (like HMM), it deals Earth Damage.
Stone Shower		adori mas tera	✓	28	430	1100	Support	Makes 4 Stone Shower Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Shoots an earth attack that covers a large circular area around the target, this is the Druids' equivalent of the Thunderstorm.
Ultimate Healing Rune		adura vita	✗	24	400	1500	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	2000	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.

See also: Druid Template

Click here for a printable version.