Druid

Overview

Druids are masters of healing and nature. Throughout history, they have practiced their control over nature to the benefit of all humans. They are very skilled in healing and supportive spells, and can create more different kinds of Runes than any other vocation.

Because of their focus on magical abilities, they are sorely lacking in physical skills, and have little physical strength to carry items and equipment.

Benefits

Fastest advancement in Magic Level (same as Sorcerers)
Fastest Mana regeneration (same as Sorcerers)
Largest amount of Mana (same as Sorcerers)
Can make many different kinds of Runes
Only vocation able to make the Icicle and Avalanche runes which are useful for hunting dragons or demons
Can use all different kinds of Runes. (except the Holy Missile rune)
Can make Healing Runes
Elder Druids have the capability of enchanting melee weapons with ice or earth powers.

Drawbacks

Slowest Hitpoint regeneration (same as Sorcerers)
Smallest amount of Hitpoints (same as Sorcerers)
Second slowest advancement in Shielding and Melee skills (minutely faster than Sorcerer)
Smallest amount of Capacity (same as Sorcerers)
Offensive Spells cost more Mana than Sorcerers
Cannot use lots of armors (same as Sorcerers)

Gains and Regeneration

Gains by level

With each level, every player recieves an increase in Capacity, Maximum Hitpoints, and Maximum Mana.

With each level, a druid will 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 page on Regeneration for more information).

A druid will regenerate:

1 Hitpoint every 12 seconds
2 Mana every 3 seconds

An elder druid will 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.

See the page on Promotion for more information.

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.
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

Pages of Particular Interest to Druids

Creatures

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

Hunting

Vocation

Promotion

Equipment

NPCs

Instant Spells

Name	Words	Prem	Level	Mana	Price	Group	Effect
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.
Levitate	exani hur up exani hur down	✓	12	50	500	Support	Permits vertical movement via levitation, up or down one level.
Haste	utani hur	✓	14	60	600	Support	Increases your base Speed by 30% for 30 seconds. Cures paralysis.
Invisible	utana vid	✗	35	440	2,000	Support	Makes the caster invisible to some creatures. Duration is 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
Intense Healing	exura gran	✗	20	70	350	Healing	Restores a medium amount of health and cures paralysis.
Ultimate Healing	exura vita	✗	30	160	1,000	Healing	Restores a 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.
Creature Illusion	utevo res ina "creature"	✗	23	100	1,000	Support	Turns you into a certain creature for three minutes.
Ultimate Light	utevo vis lux	✓	26	140	1,600	Support	Fills the dark with light.
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.
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.
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, totaling up 1200 hitpoints.
Cure Burning	exana flam	✓	30	30	2,000	Healing	Stops the Special Condition called Burning.
Cure Bleeding	exana kor	✓	45	30	2,500	Healing	Stops the Special Condition called Bleeding.
Cure Electrification	exana vis	✓	22	30	1,000	Healing	Stops the Special Condition called Electrified.
Envenom	utori pox	✓	50	30	6,000	Attack	Deals poisoned condition
Strong Ice Strike	exori gran frigo	✓	80	60	6,000	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 Terra Strike	exori gran tera	✓	70	60	6,000	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.
Strong Ice Wave	exevo gran frigo hur	✓	40	170	7,500	Attack	Shoots a powerful, but short ranged area attack directly in front of the caster, dealing strong ice damage.
Cure Poison	exana pox	✗	10	30	150	Healing	Cures the status of being poisoned.
Magic Rope	exani tera	✓	9	20	200	Support	Teleports you up through a hole when you are standing in a Rope Spot.
Chill Out	exevo infir frigo hur	✗	1	8	0	Attack	Shoots a weak area attack directly in front of the caster, dealing ice damage.
Magic Patch	exura infir	✗	1	6	0	Healing	Restores a small amount of health. (Cures paralysis)
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.
Cancel Magic Shield	exana vita	✓	14	50	450	Support	Removes an active Magic Shield from the player.
Ice Burst	exevo ulus frigo	✓	300	230	0	Attack	Casts a powerful ring of ice around the character.
Terra Burst	exevo ulus tera	✓	300	230	0	Attack	Casts a powerful ring of earth around the character.

Spells No Longer in Use

Rune Spells

Name	Words	Prem	Level	Mana	Price	Group	Effect
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.
Disintegrate	adito tera	✓	21	200	900	Support	Makes 3 Disintegrate Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Destroys movable objects.
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.
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	2,500	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.
Fire Bomb	adevo mas flam	✗	27	600	1,500	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	2,000	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.
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	1,900	Support	Makes 1 Paralyse Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune).
Poison Bomb	adevo mas pox	✓	25	520	1,000	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.
Poison Wall	adevo mas grav pox	✗	29	640	1,600	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	1,800	Support	Makes 3 Soulfire Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Causes the target to catch on fire.
Stalagmite	adori tera	✗	24	350	1,400	Support	Makes 10 Stalagmite Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Sends out an earth missile (like HMM), it deals Earth Damage.
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.
Animate Dead	adana mort	✓	27	600	1,200	Support	Makes 1 Animate Dead Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Transforms a corpse into a skeleton.
Icicle	adori frigo	✓	28	460	1,700	Support	Makes 5 Icicle Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Shoots an Ice attack, this is the Druids' equivalent of the Fireball.

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