Celtic Heroes

Last week there was a post in General regarding swords. (I'll edit this once OTM sorts the forums to provide a link. It is currently missing).

Within that thread, Admin made two posts that really caught my eye. The first mentioned that there is an offhand for Druids (all classes, actually)in the Dragon gear quest line. The second asked for ideas on a new Druid offhand.

I am unsure if the two posts were related or not. Admin said that the Dragon offhand was completed, so the "new offhand" question could be taken as a call for lux ideas. On the other hand, Beta testers will apparently be given the chance to test out the Dragon gear, so it is possible that he was asking about what stats should go on the Dragon offhand (implying that it was finished, but up for tweak debate.)

Either way, my question to Druids (and non-Druids of informed opinion) is this:

What characteristics would you like to see in a new Druid offhand?

I think it would be cool to have an offhand totem with +15 or +20 crush damage. It should also add at least 100 focus to compete with the grimoire for support druids.

I have seen a rare totem that procs a natures embrace on the user with 120 health per tick. That's pretty awesome and some sort of useful (i.e. not bane of crom) proc should be added to the dragon mainland and/or offhand. Adding a 5-10% embrace, shield of bark, howling wind, or natures breathe proc would all be pretty good. Not all of them, just one, but these would be the coolest things to proc.

it would be an absolute delight to see an offhand without regain but with more focus and other benefits then the masters grimoire, that way its just like the offhand with rogues, u can choose for regain(venom dagg) or for better dmg((in this case heals)ice blade).

Well, I think it should be like the flower wand or the stave of bolts. ( Flower wand shoots fire and stave of bolts shoots lightning ) And i think this one should be unique.
When we come to the stats I think it should be:

Crushing damage: 60
Magic damage: 30
Adds skill: Dragon fire ( Just brainstorming )
Attack speed: 4000
Weight: 17
Focus requirement: 50
Vitality requirement: 35
Dexterity requirement: 15
Strenght requirement: 40

Just an idea for the admins.

EpicHealerGuy~Level 52
ChaosFlames Chief
Mabon

It's possible for them to make an offhand that doesn't do damage but increases skills. An example could be:

Healer's Staff
Offhand
+10 Focus
+5 Natures Touch
+3 Nature's Embrace
+3 Nature's Embrace
+150 Nature Magic
Level Requirement: 50

It might be a little over powered, but it would be cool.

Possible, nice idea. But where will the quest or shop be? Can you contact the admins?

as a quite experienced druid i happen to know that heal is the most important thing for a clan, so most high lvl druids are certainly full or mostly full support. id say make druids a more usefull dps class (wich kinda sucks currently, depending on how many sigils one buys, need 1k+ for good dps as druid spamming dps skills) with a offhand for dmg skills. however the main thing a druid does is heals, so most usefull would be something like alpha named above, however it should add more focus then the ow offhand if it is a quest one. also the quest one should be without regain, when the shop one is with regain. thats just my idea tho. it would make a noticable diff in gear with plat and non plat players, also it would make a better way to devide the better druids from the less good ones for a clan.

I recently switched to a full support druid, and since I don't have points in strength, I thought a weapon based on healing would be nice. And since other people seem to agree with me, I'll try suggesting it.

i can ensure you most druids will agree, however there are people who make a different setup so they can do dps too. ive tried melee H2H dps myself, and i must say it is quite good with the right gear. now for those people a dmg offhand would be nice. then we got the people who go skill dps (wich requires many sigils, like 1k) wich is extremely powerfull if you can handle the energy regain. ive tried it myself with 400 sigils, its very strong (i used pots too tho). i outdpsd quite a few strong dps players (140 rogues and 145 rangers, surprisingly, as long as they had average gear). for these people there should be a different choise too, as they do not need embrace, they mostly use touch as only heal spell and sometimes a buff like howling wind. so id say create a dps offhand AND a healing offhand, as it would create a better choise system for druids.