Druid/Elder Druid

[NiteHawk]

I've played way too much WoW, but it'd be neat to differentiate healers a bit by having a 'heal over time' spell for perhaps druids. It'd function similar to the food you have in-game already, so I don't think it'd be too challenging to add. :>

Already doin. BRA

[Aieron]

So, I've been playing my druid a lot lately (finally lvl22), and I was thinking that the morph functionality could be better. I'm of the opinion that it'd be great to allow druids to freely shift in/out of their forms. The heal that morph gives would need removing, but it'd be far more interesting to be able to change forms at will (or with a penalty). Part of my reasoning is that I don't see myself using bear form in its current form, but I'd definitely use it if I could shift between my forms at the cast of an action or even a full round.

[NiteHawk]

So, I've been playing my druid a lot lately (finally lvl2), and I was thinking that the morph functionality could be better. I'm of the opinion that it'd be great to allow druids to freely shift in/out of their forms. The heal that morph gives would need removing, but it'd be far more interesting to be able to change forms at will (or with a penalty). Part of my reasoning is that I don't see myself using bear form in its current form, but I'd definitely use it if I could shift between my forms at the cast of an action or even a full round.

I would be fine with this, long as people felt it would be fine too. The heal would need removing, and I think morphing should take at minimum 2 attacks, but a full round might be better. I would assume they still draw the same MP though, maybe less to support this, but something.

[Ellora]

i actually like the idea of being able to change forms at will. I woudnt mind testing it out.

[nitestalker]

this sounds interesting, Id say give it a shot and see how it goes, worse case it gets changed back to how it is now.

[Aieron]

I was thinking have morph be a toggled spell similar to songs. Here is how I'd like to see it work:

- Toggled ability so players can choose when they're a caster again or want to go into bear form (or other future forms)
- Mana drains while shapeshifted similar to bard songs when activated
- Morph duration limit removed (have mana drained scale up based on time in a morphed form to penalize staying in form too long?)
- Lower initial mana cost to morph (because mana drains while morphed)


Obviously, we'd need to balance costs/rounds used for each action to avoid people unmorphing to full heal and morphing back too easily.


Edit:

Completely unrelated suggestion:

Give bear form a taunt ability.

[daedroth]

So itd be something like:

/change bear
to change from one form to (in this case the bear) another

/c animorph bear
to choose the form from the start, in this case the bear again

/c animorph cat
(to morph to the cat first)

That would mean you could heal first time (the animorph) the spell was cast, but with the "change" option (while under the effect of the spell) you wouldnt heal but you would change from one form to another. The change could be classed as an ability, so your not actually casting a spell which is prohibited while morphed (not sure if it would be easier to keep it as a spell and have morph block all spells except for change or having change as an ability).

Change could take just 1 attack?

[Aieron]

Nah, I'd remove the heal from it entirely and let them pop into caster form at will too.

[NiteHawk]

I'd say something like 10 MP cast, 2 MP drain would work for this too. Maybe 3MP drain but might be pushing it there.

2 MP drain is 24 MP per minute. 3 would be 36 MP per minute.

2 minutes and 10 MP would be about 58 MP used. which is about where it's at now.

[Rodeo]

Gentle rains could be the healing spell for druids.