Celtic Heroes

I have no aggy main hand book so i will gladly take the totem. A few items away still though.

My clanny has the 150 nature magic agg book. And i have new dl totem so i borrowed book to test. Seems agg book increases heal by 20 more than totem. So books better for healing and totems better for dps if ur gonna swing basicly.

My clanny has the 150 nature magic agg book. And i have new dl totem so i borrowed book to test. Seems agg book increases heal by 20 more than totem. So books better for healing and totems better for dps if ur gonna swing basicly.

thats funny
lvl 130 book adds the 150 focus and 200 nature magic
50 less focus cant be lower than 200 nature magic after someone tested it
after that test im pretty sure that the 25 more focus on dl totem is even higher than 300 nature magic
also to those who dont use roots, can be very useful, 115 crushing dmg is huge, who knows how good is it with enough attack (which means just higher your totems) and maybe haste

i suppose the main hand and offhand should have regens :/ the regen crown/talisman/2 bracelets wont do much regens otm wants us to buy sigils lol

aggy void grim is more rare even like 4-5 that i have seen on danu but hey at least we get to whack mordrid lol id personally get the lvl 150 focuz and the void grim instead of dl but at least it looks awesome to show out

many false assumptions here.

to correct some:
this totem is better for support druids then dps druids (with the exception of melee dps druids maybe).
the dragonlord totem adds focus, personally im a dps druid and i have learned that the more focus i have, the more i have to wait for my idol count. also much more then 1300 focus is not really needed. then i will discuss the nature magic. for dps druids, our magic works like attack for melee classes. to have a magic of 3.5k and up, would mean so much hitting percentage that your dps as druid increases hugely (currently i do not posses any actual stats, but i have noticed this in my different gear setups, differing with 300 nature magic already makes a remarkable difference). so i would definitly take the 150-200 agg book over the totem, and the void one oviously id gladly use, if i had the option to obtain one. for the 125-100 book i have my doubts that it would be better to have 100 magic versus 75 points you can save on your focus and put in vit, to survive attacks.
for support druids this totem adds focus, wich basicly is what they need. plus they can use more points into vit to survive attacks and be able to focus on healing and buffing others, not theirselves to survive. the magic barely adds any noticeable bonus versus the focus, plus it is well known that with the proc chance, a support druid could -on some bosses- use melee to have the occasional proc helping to kill a boss.

as for rarity, i know of only one void magic grimoire in my server, wich i was so unlucky to miss and not be able to purchase at the time, where now i would have been able to offer at least twice -if not more- what the person paid for it at the time. i am convinced there are servers that may not have one dropped at all, so that the dissapointment of the dragon totem there seems less compared to servers that may already have had the pleasure of seeing more then one void magic book drop. now the issue here is mainly that dragon totem is a quest, where in a matter of time many people will have acquired one, where the alas so longed for void grimoire is extremely rare and to me, personally, more valuable then the totem.

as i mentioned before, i would even choose the regular shadow magic grimoire over the dragonlord totem, for i have enough focus in my build, while my nature magic needs a boost (from the lack of any piece of dragonlord better then gloves, at lvl 184, wich was the best of the server in the druid class before i had my 2 week vacation). i can only speak for myself and the few i have asked here, but so far i have not encountered a person that replied to me they would rather use the focus totem then the book, after discussing the matter with me for some moments, assuming they where dps. for support druids, i do not know, as it has been too long ago, that i have been support (update 3 that is, still).

as much as the complaint the offhand and mainhand should have regains, i partly agree. you see, where the offhands always had regains and focus along (wich i was hoping to see becoming a tradition, also in quest offhands), the mainhands on the other part never had regain, only skill addons and focus or nature magic bonus. in my opinion this totem could have had a little more focus and some magic imbued, even if it was just 250 (although it should be 350, where rogues get 350 attack on their daggers). but then again, i also hadn't suspected the rather sober 160+ buyable totem, with its 500 totem ability, where i expected nature magic, like the old diamond totems used to have (and the adamant and new totems in the shops, up to 300, too?).

to conclude my stream of words, that i know only few will actually read, id like to say the following:
the best part of this severely out-of-balance totem, is its graphics, wich i will have to compliment the graphic designers from OTM on. as for the stats and specialties on it, i was hoping for a little more spectaculair or, at least, something obvious. sadly, i got neither of these two, and instead, before my eyes, unfolded a severely unbalanced, outdated, random, bad-looking (stats wise) and utterly ridicilous totem that, again, did not, by far, meet my expectations.

On Taranis we have twovoid Magic's, and I am lucky enough to possess one. Yrck, are you sure that the 300 nature magic is better than the 25 focus? Morphmarfa's studies about nature magic showed otherwise.

Yrck, are you sure that the 300 nature magic is better than the 25 focus? Morphmarfa's studies about nature magic showed otherwise.

for dps druids, our magic works like attack for melee classes. to have a magic of 3.5k and up, would mean so much hitting percentage that your dps as druid increases hugely (currently i do not posses any actual stats, but i have noticed this in my different gear setups, differing with 300 nature magic already makes a remarkable difference). so i would definitly take the 150-200 agg book over the totem, and the void one oviously id gladly use, if i had the option to obtain one.

for support druids this totem adds focus, wich basicly is what they need. plus they can use more points into vit to survive attacks and be able to focus on healing and buffing others, not theirselves to survive. the magic barely adds any noticeable bonus versus the focus, plus it is well known that with the proc chance, a support druid could -on some bosses- use melee to have the occasional proc helping to kill a boss.

i can only speak for myself and the few i have asked here, but so far i have not encountered a person that replied to me they would rather use the focus totem then the book, after discussing the matter with me for some moments, assuming they where dps. for support druids, i do not know, as it has been too long ago, that i have been support (update 3 that is, still).

as you see in my quoted parts, i explain that dps druids can better use a book (because the nature magic ability decides how much evades there are) then a totem, that also isnt that good, without the magic boost, but with slightly more focus.

in the next part is the part where i explain it MIGHT be better to use the totem for support (i say might, because my experience in support druids is not that up-to-date, nor do i own a dragonlord totem to compare with a book). as stated the focus would be more helpfull, to be able to devide your points a little better perhaps.

so in conclusion:
for support druids the nature magic is basicly unfathomable, for dps druids it is a necessity to have good nature magic in order to hit more and, therefor, increase our dps.

Regen

Void is way better than totem due to the following:

1) DPS druids - Nature magic as explained by Yrck helps in lessening evasions
2) Support druids - I would assume not all but probably most druids invest in roots nowadays for clan bosses. Hence its equally important for you to have the +300 nature to reduce root evasion. Also, most support druids pump 90% stats into focus, hence +300 nature shld give u more healing boost in N.Touch
3) Leveling druids - Assuming yr still using root build to lv, u wont be using the totem melee dmg at all. Also, you be considered a dps druid as yr attacking mobs from a far when levelling.
4) Bossing druids - To each their own on this I guess, but my opinion on this is druids are probably struggling just to maintain yr energy while healing/supporting/rooting bosses. I doubt they want to melee charge mobs or even worse, bosses. I am sure you wont be meleeing sreng / hrung / boggans due to their aoe skills.

Regen

Void is way better than totem due to the following:

1) DPS druids - Nature magic as explained by Yrck helps in lessening evasions
2) Support druids - I would assume not all but probably most druids invest in roots nowadays for clan bosses. Hence its equally important for you to have the +300 nature to reduce root evasion. Also, most support druids pump 90% stats into focus, hence +300 nature shld give u more healing boost in N.Touch
3) Leveling druids - Assuming yr still using root build to lv, u wont be using the totem melee dmg at all. Also, you be considered a dps druid as yr attacking mobs from a far when levelling.
4) Bossing druids - To each their own on this I guess, but my opinion on this is druids are probably struggling just to maintain yr energy while healing/supporting/rooting bosses. I doubt they want to melee charge mobs or even worse, bosses. I am sure you wont be meleeing sreng / hrung / boggans due to their aoe skills.

While you did say "most" I want to make one comment about your 90% into focus. I stay alive bossing because I have a 50/50 focus/vit build. I watch all the other druids die over and over again because they stat how you mention. I prefer to stay alive so I can root and heal when needed. Beyond that, 25 focus is virtually worthless, but how many people have the luxury of agg books that give 175/300. 200 focus is useful, 200 focus with some vit would have been better.