Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Druid class: fun, versatile, underpowered

Look, that's my point. Every class can cheese with the same Larianisms, so in order to do a baseline comparison, you have to basically eliminate the common denominators and compare what remains. If you want to restrict yourself to the actual class and attempt some semblance of playing the game as if it were a 5e campaign, the druid is not very good, and moon druid is unquestionably way worse than the land druid due to the choices Larian has made. It's not fun to feel like you're totally handicapping yourself, and if anything, it's even worse when you're already sort of doing that by playing normally. Put another way, do you want to play a class that absolutely has more pressure to cheese because its class features are that much weaker? I don't. I want to be able to play as the class with success using the primary tools of the class itself. Something the power gaming videos shows you absolutely should not do.

Now, you may say my complaint is premature. It may be, or it may not, hence it's important somebody point out how and why the current trajectory is poor. Hopefully somebody at Larian realizes I'm talking sense and then it never does become a problem for the final game. Otherwise, I'll just point to this topic in a year when people say, "Druid is left in the dust at level 5, what the hell?"