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I primarily play a d/s my third class is warrior which i dislike playing but will play it if the raid whines for the buff. I've never had any issues healing in either roll but i prefer d/s as it's what i've used since chapter 2 when elves were released. With the 60 elite d/s becomes so easy to heal with imo.

Granted I wish they would bring back the need for NP. That's what made playing a druid so much more fun and it would cut out all the bad druids that probably shouldn't even be in a raid

I cant tell you the amount of MEF spammers i've been in a run with that make me want to smack them with a book. It's just as bad as the priests that do nothing but spam GH or nothing but Urgent throu an entire run.

Play around with it. Get use to your elites and enjoy!

Quoted from "erinprice69"

I cant tell you the amount of MEF spammers i've been in a run with that make me want to smack them with a book.

+1...don't be one of them...save the MEF for directly after the big aoe, and use HoT's to soak up the rest of the damage...

I would strongly recommend Ravesden's druid guide instead of Xerise's for new druids. Xerise's guide is very, very outdated, as it's years old now and a lot has changed (most notably, the 60/70 elites and the D/S Camellia Flower fix). Xerise's lowbie guide is good for lower levels, but it's mostly redundant now, as no one runs 1-50 content anymore.

Ravesden's guide gives a very good idea of how each druid combo plays out in terms of healing. They're all very different with very different specialties.

D/S is as effective. Im not a personal fan of D/Wd even tho the buffs are pretty sweet.

Overall, depends on your style of healing and what skills you like.

@Thread title: Answer is yes.

In a word, yes.

I mainly play a d/wd and p/s. I have run with every combo of d/x and p/x(except p/ch), and can verify that they all work great. Since this game is so gear reliant, equally geared means that all are effective for healing. As for familiarity, most stick with d/s,wd,w and p/k,s.

I know that p/w is the battle monk, and normally geared differently. However, since the OP asked "equally geared", the p/w is still a priest and has access the the priest heal skills that are the priest's 'bread and butter'. I agree that a p/w would do way better as a battle monk, but it will do just fine as a healer when healer geared. This is similarly holds true for the d/r and p/r. In fact, I know there are a couple of really good p/r healers out there.

Druides are just as usefull as priests - it all depends on what your preferences are in RoM.
- do you want to do just pve or also pvp?
- do you prefer a heal that can provide good buffs for their party?
- do you care to cleanse a max. of debuffs by yourself?
- which heals are already in a guild & which would provide advantage to your raid-buildups?

pve: all priests and druids could heal everything well geared and well buffed
(some combos provide a lot of elite-skills to make your job easier, some dont... if not playing "all-heals-elite"-combos one is better of to "at least" provide nice buffs for your raids dps [certain buffs might seem nice but not all can be stacked on other nice buffs and just replace them -> d/wd is loved by mages since the mdmg-buff stacks with the m/p+p/s-matt-buffs / d/w used to be loved by dps, after all it cant be stacked with priest-patt-buffs since some chapters and got quite useless, p/r + d/r can provide nice buffs for p-dps+m-dps] - just check whats most needed in your guild or/and what u like)

pvp:
p/k is op when it comes to rush with a party - nice pdef + selfheals
d/wd got nice pdef, using elite60 it also got "sort of selfheals", the nicest advantage of d/wd is the use of briars on castlegates or being used as portable aoe-heals for dps. no combo can healup gates as well as a good d/wd after all.

others already talked about different pros&cons - siege war made me swap from d/s to d/wd and by now i really love being d/wd as well in pve

Above poster - not sure if you meant to, but it came off as you alluding to the notion d/s was not effective in SW as the other combos - it is.

D/S Shines in large-scaled fights whereas d/wd, p/k are better off in skirmishes of 5 or so people.