If everyclass can shapeshift, what is the point to release new class druid?

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

Every class is able to use any skill or weapon. HOWEVER shapeshifting should NOT be a weapon. Its a power and that power should be for the druid. OBVIOUSLY. Otherwise Druid is pointless. They could just release the shapeshifting weapon and be done.

no, shapeshifting are spells just like summons. Druids are a class that can use every other skill in the game, just like all the other classes.

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eye_356#2542 wrote:

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

Every class is able to use any skill or weapon. HOWEVER shapeshifting should NOT be a weapon. Its a power and that power should be for the druid. OBVIOUSLY. Otherwise Druid is pointless. They could just release the shapeshifting weapon and be done.

no, shapeshifting are spells just like summons. Druids are a class that can use every other skill in the game, just like all the other classes.

But its not a spell. They made it a weapon.

No you can't use any ability in the game. There are abilities locked to ascendencies. Shapeshifting is a very specific ability that should be for druids.

Very much agreed. I prefer unique classes to just blank avatars with little to no thematic elements.

Having said that, I’ve been generally pleased with the game until now.

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

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eye_356#2542 wrote:

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

Every class is able to use any skill or weapon. HOWEVER shapeshifting should NOT be a weapon. Its a power and that power should be for the druid. OBVIOUSLY. Otherwise Druid is pointless. They could just release the shapeshifting weapon and be done.

no, shapeshifting are spells just like summons. Druids are a class that can use every other skill in the game, just like all the other classes.

But its not a spell. They made it a weapon.

No you can't use any ability in the game. There are abilities locked to ascendencies. Shapeshifting is a very specific ability that should be for druids.

If it was an ascendencie what skill gems would there be? Do you see how it would effectively be a cosmetic skin with no real skills behind it if it was done that way? What you want there to be only spell gems for the druid? How would you build a class around it if say one ascendencie per form? That also eliminates swapping between forms since one form per ascendencie. Sure it's nice in concept to keep the druid distinct, but I don't think it would work at all with poe2 game mechanics.

Every class can use two handed maces and shouts, every class can use es/evasion armor and staves, every class can use spells and infusions, every class can use bows and summons. What is your point? This is the weirdest thing people have been whining about since the launch of the beta.

Druid is an archetype which includes these things, that's it. There are no real "classes" btw. The only thing that is unique to any class and have ever been is a starting position on the tree and ascendancy choices. If anything you should be complaining about skills that ARE locked behind ascendancies, not clamoring for more of it.

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aragornknt#3629 wrote:

Every class should be special, and so is druid.