druid underwhelming

[Gotsa]

My fav bnuuy by far, but i just cant wrap my head around how to get her above 500 dps like other classes who can easily breach that with a single shopping trip.

dots up, butterly placed near boss / center..... ABC's.

and the boss dashed away. -_- better use another global to start up my dot again.

IMO the best use for druid, defense upgrade. the 2 charge in particular is fantastic. along with any items that can refresh it for team survivability.

[Yellow]

Druid is notably difficult to build right and requires some pretty strong items that most other classes also benefit a lot from. My best advice is to upkeep your secondary as much as possible and think ahead on where the enemy will be to maximize its damage. I've seen some players do upwards to 650 DPS with just very simple upgrades but that's mostly luck based. Grabbing the potions that increase damage on the shop, even if they are temporary for the current stage, can do a lot to help, the range one in particular can make your secondary a lot easier to setup and for multiple targets, remember you can also change targets with Shift or Spacebar to better place your secondary in a location where it hits all of them preferably.

It is better to let other classes do the DPS if they can get bigger numbers than you as long as you can keep the team alive from obtuse or out of position mechanics with Nature's Blessing default Flutterstep or other defensive gems like Sapphire Vanish or Garnet Warcry. Remember to be near your teammates and not near the boss as your abilities do not have any range disadvantage and track the enemy for the most part.
Ironically enough, unless you pickup an upgrade or item to make your primary or secondary do DoTs (like Emerald Lat Life Decay), she doesn't benefit that much from dot-based items (unless they help reset your Defensive, then totally go for it). Focusing on keeping yourself alive can be invaluable in Hard (and Lunar, as seen in the demo) so if your allies all pooch up you can still do a lot while you wait for them to revive.

Please get movement upgrades too, she has mobility issues. t. brainrot dancer main.

[Sir Pencil]

They're definitely situational. I've gotten Druid to above 1200 DPS, but thats easier to do in the boss fights involving multiple characters or a single boss and their minions.

Whenever possible, I switch out their secondary ability for the upgrade which lets it damage the entire screen. There's a primary upgrade which reduces the cooldown of their special by 2 seconds which lets you spam the butterflies. Get a few items which let your special apply debuffs/DOTs and you're cooking.

I'd equate them to a "ranged Heavyblader" - a fairly simple class that can almost always execute regardless of the situation. Maybe not always at the top of the charts, but they're never really at the bottom either.

Edit: As Yellow mentioned above, their Defensive can be upgraded to cooldown on every x instances of damage or debuffs (I forget) and if built appropriately that means it almost never goes on cooldown.

[zero]

ive been feeling the same about druid.

overall its not bad and even fun to play, but where the others functionally have no skills that can "miss" (unless you are especially out of place) a druids secondary can entirely miss on any boss that moves, which there is quite a few on.

this leads me to sorta struggle to want to play them cause unless you roll a spell modifier that specifically makes it turn from a zone->standard attack you have 1 button that situational wont work.

perhaps im not playing it properly, but the other classes dont really have a similar issue thus far.

[Mizstik]

Single target I'd say the 4-sec spirit (Sapphire?) + the -2s-on-special primary (Opal?) is the best. You just do 3-1-3-1-3-1 and get 700+ dps, very newbie-friendly.

Multi-target definitely the lightning secondary (Garnet Lat Life?). Just spamming that would get you 800+ dps on two targets.

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[Gotsa]

this was my best run. turns out completely ignoring secondary is the way to go.

opal primary, emerald special, garnet defensive. with nightengale gown being the core item.

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