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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 5298549" data-attributes="member: 59248">Primitive Screwhead: That.  Well, mostly.How a character converts from 3.5 to 4e has very little to do with her class/race combo and (to a lesser degree) the details of her build -- and a lot to do with her general outlook and themes -- and -some- details of her build (as in "what does she do all day?").To take the examples:Wizards in 3.5: do everything except heal, sure.  But mostly (except for specialist builds like gishes) blast the hell out of things, buff the party, summon monsters to fight things for them, knock enemies out of the fight outright (via save or lose, walls, etc) and/or solve problems in creative ways.Druids in 3.5: Are almost as flexible as wizards.  They heal, summon, save-or-die, blast things to death, and shapeshift into monsters to hide or wreak havoc.By contrast, in 4e, characters tend to specialize more.  But:Wizards in 4.5: Blast the hell out of things, summon monsters to fight things for them (but only a few times per day), knock enemies out of the fight outright (temporarily), and sometimes solve problems in creative ways (cantrips, rituals).  Not so different -- but few buffs, and you do have to specialize more.Druids in 4e: Blast the hell out of things, summon monsters to fight for them (see wizards), buff (if mostly by making monster defenses bottom out, turning them into walking pincushions), and shift into monsters (but not so much to hide as to play defender/sub striker for a short while).You could build a pretty decent wizard/druid Int/Wis controller (giving up ritual casting for druid shapeshifting and the ability to access the great druid at wills in wild shape), but this wouldn't so much be "turn into a bird and fly overhead while I blast stuff with fire" as "blast stuff in human form and when the situations's appropriate, turn into a tiger and maul the remaining monsters up-close and personal; when things are tight, use wizard dailies to take monsters out of the fight outright for a while".  OTOH, a lot of that you can get just from Druid (though wizard dailies are better, IMO) with some flavor twisting (or just train arcane and take some arcane rituals).Edit: OTOH, if you're most interested in the bits of Wizard/Druid that are gone (wizard party buffs, druid healing, wizard gishers and druid "turn into a monster and kill everything" fun; that kind of thing) then you might be better off grabbing classes more appropriate to that sort of thing (shamans are the half of the druid that the druid lost; artificers and bards have the buffing the wizard gave up; wardens and barbarians are better at the "shapeshift into something horrible and kill everything" style) and retheming as/if necessary.</blockquote>

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