Celtic Heroes

Ive been healer pretty much full game, and gotten board of it now that i have full dl. So i switched to dps with root and touch so i can still solo heal bosses.
Im just looking for advise on how to increase my dps. Such as:
Shoud i add to base dex/str
Is melee with dmg gear better than pur casting dps
Is full rare better than full dl?

Any help is appreciated. Ive been doing tests but harde without an ingame parcer

Casting is much better than melee for dps. A mix of ancient beastbone, wyrmbone, and dragon is best for dps.

Ive been healer pretty much full game, and gotten board of it now that i have full dl. So i switched to dps with root and touch so i can still solo heal bosses.
Im just looking for advise on how to increase my dps. Such as:
Shoud i add to base dex/str
Is melee with dmg gear better than pur casting dps
Is full rare better than full dl?

Any help is appreciated. Ive been doing tests but harde without an ingame parcer

idk much about actual melee dps druids, since i havent seen any
they might be good, but druids are slow hitters, not much dmg on weps too, so casting could be better

about dex/str, melee wont be the best for mage, so i guess str wouldnt be good
as for dex, in melee builds some use touch, touch is getting interrupted a lot while combat (unless ur using roots too), i dont really recommend using touch, but if u do then put some pts in dex for dodge, usually i wouldnt add, maybe and wyrm brace that would add dex vit and foc
well i guess u should mix between beastbone, maybe wyrmbone too and dl if u got, for the skills u need
for example beastbone gloves for lightening strike, or dl gloves has that too

gl

Your best bet is to stay pure casting and find rings and armor pieces that help increase the overall damage of your 4 damage skills.

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A few pointers i would like to give: vines is your best dps skill by far, followed by lightning and swarm, and finally by stormtouch. Vines lightning and swarm increase exponentially (or maybe quadratic, too lazy to plot points and find a best fit curve). By this i mean that if you increase vines from 1-2 the damage might go up by 15. When you go from 20-21 it might be 50. And from 40-41, an increase of 80. These are just random numbers, but hopefully it helps you realize that the higher the better for vines lightning and storm. Swarm on the other hand is linear so every skill point added increases the damage by the same amount. In some cases a fabled vines ring might be much better than a royal lightning, if your vines is already very high. I would try to acquire the very best rings possible in the priority i mentioned. It all depends ln your gear and rings but if i were you i would try to find 2 aggy lightning bracelets, focus/nature magic anmy slot (cause lets be honest, how much does 40 antick do whenur using hundreds per tick??) ancient beastbone gloves, aggy rings, and max focus for a minimum amount of hp necessary to survive aoe from bosses. Energy will be a massive problem and unless you like pushing the pot button thousands of sigils are a necessity.

A few more things that may help your dps on a long fight: i revolve everything around lightning. I want to be clicking it as soon as the cooldown is over. Delaying by a few secs may not seem like much but can decrease your overall dps by a couple percent. Still may not seem like much, but to put it into perspective its like a rogue with or without poison wep.
These skills are avoided often, so try to keep vines on at all times. Lasts 30 secs and 15 sec cooldown so even if its evaded once you can keep it on a boss over the duration of the fight. 3k max damage, every 4 seconds, unavoidable, is massive and alone will get u many kills. Hope this helped some

get your vines and stinging swarm highest possible. that will make you defeat other dps druids. use ancient beastbone legs, rest dragonlord except hood, wich u use crown for. bracelets id suggest either nature touch or lighting strike agg bracelets, only with nature magic on it tho. use a lighting strike or nature magic with calm charm. choose between using 100 magic 40 focus neck or 40 regain neck, id suggest focus one. as in rings, be sure to max out vines and stinging, but if u have royal strik/storm use that. personally i like putting extra on strike so u dont have to put 40 points in it but less (33 in my case) so that u may max energy harvest to fill the energy cost a little. now as for stats 300 vit is more then enough (with bonus) and the rest of your points go to focus and nothing else. as offhand and mainhand use agg book with 150 foc and 200 magic or void one, do not use dragon totem it ruins ur hitting percentage. nature magic should be around 3.5k or more for abosolute top hitting. focus should be around 1300-1400.

EDIT: on a side note id like to mention stinging swarm is posion dmg, therefor always hits in the high part of ur area of hitting. for example on mobs vines does 2k dmg and stinging 700-800. then on bosses vines do 800-1200 and stingin 600-700, wich is less decrease and very helpfull. therefor dont underestamate the power of stinging swarm on bosses. keep that and vines on at all times and try to round your casting pattern so that you cast skills asap, without wasting precious cooldown time on storm and lighting, the most important skills to cast immediately.

I'd like to mention that my server(Danu) has a famous dps druid that does melee as well as just lightning strike skill. His name is imjamin. He like level 155 now maybe 160 but when he was 135 he could ks level 150 rogues and still heal over 1k. So If i got the gear, melee can work out. He hits almost as high or higher than most rangers ad rogues of 10 levels above him so melee can work out even though Druids are slow hitters

I'd like to mention that my server(Danu) has a famous dps druid that does melee as well as just lightning strike skill. His name is imjamin. He like level 155 now maybe 160 but when he was 135 he could ks level 150 rogues and still heal over 1k. So If i got the gear, melee can work out. He hits almost as high or higher than most rangers ad rogues of 10 levels above him so melee can work out even though Druids are slow hitters

to my shame, i dont have the gear to try this out, but with several borrowed pieces of quite good gear, i can inform you i havent got anywhere close to outdpsing a lvl 100 rogue with good gear, as lvl 180 druid. i would very much like to meet this person you speak of, and convert with him myself.

EDIT: sorry for my late respond, for i was on vacation in italy and did not have any wifi, nor any laptops or other devices to acces it.

The build I use for my druid is this:

Max Lightning Strike..
Max Storm Touch
Max Strangling Vines
Max Stinging Swarms
Rest in Nature's Touch.

Full foc with 40 dex (helps evade) and 150/200 vit.

Although, my friend got the kill on Hrungir with this build but he has 10 vit..

Hope this helps,
xArctic.

10 vit 3k hp cough cough