What kinds of weapons and armor do you envision your Druid wearing around Terminus? I'll get us kicked off with what I'd like to see and highlight some choices that would differ from the mainstream idea of what Druids could equip. Also, I do believe there will be race restrictions on equipment as well, I'll throw down some unique options for the difference races of Druids as well.
Weapons:
1 Hand Blunt: Hammers, Clubs, Maces, Scepters - All Races.
2 Hand Blunt: Staves - All Races. Warhammers, Mauls, Great clubs - Ogre only.
1 Hand Slashing: Swords, Scimitars, Blades - All Races.
2 Hand Slashing: Glaive - Elf only.
1 Hand Piercing: Short Spears - Halfling only.
2 Hand Piercing: Lances, Spears, Tridents - Dark Myr only. Spiked Chain - Archai only.
Armors:
Cloth - All.
Leather - All.
Chain - Humans only.
Scale - None.
Plate - None.
I tried to give each race its own specialty weapon or armor.
Yeah i could see Scimitars, multiple types of one hand blunts weapons, might have certain types of chain type armor, like mithril or something along this line, very light basically. I would really like a specific type of weapon be a lil specific to druids, like how EQ had that Paw quest but it was healer specific but towards druids maybe i dunno, will be interesting what the devs have planned for them it will definately be interesting.
If they do incoroprate a trident for the Dark Myr, which I really hope they dont, I hope they get away from the pitchfork concept. Another idea would be like a 3 pointed arrow head with one point at top and forming 3 points at the bottom of the head or three seperate blades coming off the shaft at different points along the shaft... Anything but a pitchfork....
Loose scale armor connected by leather strands would be cool for Dark Myr
While I don't mind the racial weapons, giving Human Druids chain armor seems a little less balanced and honestly ruins some of the aesthetic (at least, when I think of Druids). Spiked Chains for Archai seems like a pretty poor choice as well, but admittedly I hate the spiked chain in general so maybe I'm biased. If they have race-exclusive weapons, I would give Humans one-handed warhammers (distinct from normal hammers, involves an armor-piercing spike) and Archai one-handed flails (if you must give them a chain-based weapon) or something else (I don't know the Archai flavor very well.)
Wig said: I’ve been thinking, 2h weapons such as a club could fit. I guess it depends on whether druids are viable doing melee damage with spells or strictly spell casters...all while healing of course. It would be some interesting gameplay if they made the Druid similar to the bear shaman in Age of Conan, pretty much a melee healer...not sure how the community would feel about that one though lol
I'd really like it, but I know many druids in EQ are nostalgic from the "Pocket wizard with ports and heals" that druids were.
I'd really love to have one of the healer at least, beeing actively melee playing.
