Elves "Favoring" Cleric

[Bishmon]

I am an old gamer (a bit); for me, a Druid is basicaly a nature-oriented cleric, a shaman of sort...

It's reducdant for me. If you can heavily customise classes like Clerics. a Druid class is kind of useless and reducdant.

Agreed.

Once I heard they were focusing on wild shape for the 4E druid, I threw all my druid eggs in the 'hopefully the cleric is sufficiently flexible' basket.

And if the cleric is sufficiently flexible, great. That's all I need for a druid in my game.

 

[Rechan]

If you can heavily customise classes like Clerics. a Druid class is kind of useless and reducdant

That's a mighty big If.

 

[Gloombunny]

It's reducdant for me. If you can heavily customise classes like Clerics. a Druid class is kind of useless and reducdant.

The kind of druid class I would like to have is so different from the classic cleric that they really couldn't exist in the same class without making that class so broad it's meaningless. That's one reason for wanting separate classes, at least.

Unfortunately it seems that 4e is moving far away from the kind of druid class I would like to have.

 

[Rechan]

It's reducdant for me. If you can heavily customise classes like Clerics. a Druid class is kind of useless and reducdant.

Also, did you intend to use reducdant twice? Cause that's funny.

 

[Falling Icicle]

Honestly, I never saw much the point of the druid class, now that you perhaps can have very customised priests. Or shaman.

For me, it should all be melded into a generic cleric class.

As someone who enjoys playing Druids and hates playing Clerics, I couldn't disagree more.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

As someone who enjoys playing Druids and hates playing Clerics, I couldn't disagree more.

Sorry, kind of noticed it now...

As a player of Clerics, I don't understand quite why Druids are so different enough to be a separate classe.

 

[Xethreau]

Know how in Drow of the Underdark, most female drow take levels in cleric, but only some are 'priestesses of Lolth"? Perhaps its like that, except for elves. Spiritual elves might have cleric levels, but only some of them are considered priests.

 

[Xethreau]

Sorry, kind of noticed it now...

As a player of Clerics, I don't understand quite why Druids are so different enough to be a separate classe.

For the same reasons that Paladins need a different class from clerics, and why Sorcerers and Warlocks need a different class from Wizard.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

Know how in Drow of the Underdark, most female drow take levels in cleric, but only some are 'priestesses of Lolth"? Perhaps its like that, except for elves. Spiritual elves might have cleric levels, but only some of them are considered priests.

It's like you have in OA the samurai social caste and the samurai class...

IC terms, OOC terms... Sociological, technical, game etc...

 

[Falling Icicle]

Sorry, kind of noticed it now...

As a player of Clerics, I don't understand quite why Druids are so different enough to be a separate classe.

They have a very different outlook, different class skills, different spells, and totally different class abilities. Saying Druids and Clerics should be the same class is to me like saying Rangers should just be Fighters.