Trying to contain my FURY!!!Follow

That spell list contains a few errors (probably spells that have been moved around at end of beta). For a more accurate list, take a look at this thread:
http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=17&message.id=1194

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I'll try to make a small contribution to the thread by sharing what I've learned about Fury/Druid from personal experience(up to Fury27).

[They are random thoughts and not really organized since I'm at work and do not have time to make it more structured. This is mostly group-oriented thinking, too. I solo a LOT but when I make a permanent upgrade to my spells/stats, I keep the groups in mind.]

We are healers but we are neither shaman nor clerics and trying to play Fury as if we were one of those will only lead to frustration.

We have the best defense buffs out there. We can increase our group's AC/AGI and resists so that the group takes much less damage. Since the group takes less damage, we don't need the big heals a cleric would need and regens are often enough to keep our tank in the green.

The 2 most important spells that define a druid(if you can get tier2 adept3 spells, get these first):
- Willowskin: +300AC(adept3), big AGI boost and divine/mental/magic resists to the whole group. This is probably the best thing we can bring to a group especially if there's already another healer.
- Regrowth

These 2 spells are still my most important spells at level27.

The best use of concentration slots, from my experience, is to cast the following spells in that order:
- Willowskin (group ac/agi/resists buff)
- Wild Spirit (group agi and arcane resists buff)
- Vigor (self, power buff)
- Verdure (group health buff, elemental ward, increased power regen outside of combat)
- Peerless predator (self, health, power, extra melee attacks/damage buff)

Things to do after/between/before fights(usually while tank looking for something to pull):
- heal everyone to full
- damageshield(nettleshield or bristlebest or later version) on tank(sometimes on myself if tank can't hold hate)
- ferocity of the eel on any melee using crushing weapons(staves,hammers,maces,etc...)
- savagery(str,agi buff and chance of extra slashing damage) on everyone that melees. My app2 gives +12str and +13agi(or the other way around) and just for that, it's worth to keep it up on all the melees.

Things to do during fight:
- engage. No reason not to. I do poor damage but it's free damage and I don't have to pay any attention to it. Like a small DoT. Also helps you keep your crushing/slashing skills capped for when you solo.
- weaken the mob to reduce it's damage output (feral intimidation or weakness before level21)
- regrowth on tank
- DoT the mob (stinging swarm, cyclone). Stinging Swarm has the added effect of lowering the mob's defense, which means your group will do more damage to it.
- recast damageshield, regrowth, savagery when they go down (pay attention to maintained effect window to know when)
- if tank's health goes down to half or lower, cast bloom, maybe effloresce or if it's going down REALLY fast then the emergency heal is SylvanTouch(long recast time so keep it for emergencies) to gain some time while you cast bloom/effloresce
- recast mob debuffs and DoT when they wear off
- nuke. Only if your tank can hold hate or the mob is almost dead and only if you would still have enough power to handle any add or the next fight without downtime.

Nuking/DD spells: We are not damage dealers. Our DD spells are the least important spells we have, when grouping(the last to upgrade if you have a choice to make). Buffing your group and debuffing the mob will help kill the mob as fast as if you were nuking and it won't get you as much hate.

Equipment and stats:
- Keep your armor and jewelry up to date (yellow/orange), as everyone should.
- My preferred stats boosts are +WIS and +AGI. Our spells are WIS based and the AGI allows to dodge more attacks and land more hits in melee.
- Keep both a slashing weapon(scimitar, etc..) and a crushing weapon(hammer,mace,staff,etc..) with you so you can keep both your Slashing and Crushing skills capped.

ALWAYS have something to drink(the summoned food and drink are worthless) for increased power regeneration.

Character traits: Personally, I picked power regeneration and WIS boosts everytime I could and I find this helps a lot.

This probably does not need to be said but upgrade spells as soon as possible. Personally, I buy app2 as soon as I learn as new spell. I also take a look at market/blackmarket for app3/adept1 and rares to make adept3 when I logon and before I logoff.

My priority when deciding on which adept3 to make:
1) group buffs (willowskin, wild spirit, verdure, ...)
2) regens (regrowth, winds of renewal, bloom, ...)
3) mob debuffs (feral intimidation, stinging swarm, ...)
4) group single-target buffs (savagery, ferocity of the eel, ...)
5) self buff (peerless predator, ...)
6) direct heals (effloresce, sylvan wind, ...)
7) DoTs (cyclone, ...)
8) nukes (chill, strike of thunder, ...)

im thinking about making an alt character and fury's sound pretty darn cool...can they solo ok? im not big on being a support character when it comes to groups so if i can keep that to a minimum then i'm totally gonna make this my alt.

FURY ARMOUR QUEST VI (BREASTPLATE) + Extra Quest for a good helm

The sixth and final armour quest from Selwyn Oakheart (under tree in South Quetnos, but ytou'll knwo that already lol), like the one involving the Calorine Acolytes and the Mobs in Stormhold can be fairly problematic so I shall attempt to debugg some of it for you.

The mobs are all in Thundering steppes but some are easier to find than others and for some of them, especially the named Griffon Shadow Dash you will need quite a healthy party.

THE STEELHOOF MYSTICS
ou'll need a reasonably strong party to take these comfortably in the Low twenties (levels). They can most reliablly be found between towers 3 and 4 and the safest place to pull them too that i found was the low stone ledge jutting off the mountain that faces the road near tower 3. Don't let anyone but puller step off the ledge as all the mobs have a fairly large aggro range here and a badly timed add can really ruin your day. The dead end canyon to the left of this ledge (when youre on it anf facing out) has groups containing the mystics but i would strongly advise you leave these alone unless you have a very strong group. You need 12 of the mystics if memory serves.

GRIFFAWNS AND HIGHLAND HUNTRESSES
Happily these mobs can be hunted together (as can the named griffon Shadowdash but more of him in a minute) and are best fought with a small group (just a couple will, do for these lionesses (highland huntresses) and the baby griffons (griffawns) can even be soloed if your itching to get started straight away). Both can be found on the road that leads south from Tower 2. Near the end where it peters out is best. The highland huntresses are the rarer of the mobs and can be a pain to get hold of so a ranger or similar class with track ability is a great asset. If you join a griffon hunting party here and just ask them to pull the griffawns and huntresses you should be able to sort these pretty quickly. 10 of each required as I remember it.

SHADOWDASH (The named Griffon)
This is the last and hardest thing standing between you and your "Sun Touched Breastplace" but is found in roughly the same place as the huntresses and griffawns. You will want a strong party with a good tank (24-25th lvl for preferance) who has a high level taunt skill and a second healer if you can manage it so that your regens/heals dont draw the aggro too soon. When he pops he's double up yellow and has a pair of mean hawks accompanying him. Needless to say everyone assist tankl and drop Shadowdash first. When i went for him getting him to pop was the most infuriating thing about this whole quest, but the answer is infuriatingly simple. The first time he popped the group wasn't all together and the poor person who got blamed for pulling him when we weren't ready I managed to save, but I died in the attempt (and didn't get credit for the kill...DOH!!!)He claimed he never pulled him he was just innocently hopping on som erocks beside the road and Shadowdash attacked him. This turned out to be true, but i spent 4 days trying to get shadowdash to pop again before someone pointed out the obvious to me which is that hopping on these rock IS what spawns him (DOH, DOH!!!). The rocks are found two thirds of the way along the road leading south from tower 2 (just off the road to the left) next to the lip of a crater. (Loc: 1, 133, -102). Make sure you're healed and buffed up to the full and all of you are assiting and assembled next to these rocks before anyone walks behind them or jumps on them because this will be a scarry fight if not. I was solo healer when I did him and managed well enough, but it was a close run thing and another healer to keep aggro off me longer would ahve been nice.
Now return To Selwyn to get your chest!!! While you're in town though why not pick up an easy quest to get a helm that pretty much matches the stats of your new armour set and is really easy by comparison to some of the official FURY armour quests.

SPINDLECOGS HELM QUEST
Spindlecogg the Tinkerer is found in the bank in baubelshire imediately to the right of the banker, but is a gnome so assuming you are not you'll need to get the Gnomish Language Primer from one of the vendours in the local scribes shop in Baubelshire first before talking to him to get this quest (price 12sp). He will send you after 3 sets of 10 mobs after each of which youll have to return to him to update the quest. The first two sets can be soloed quite happily if youre getting alittle sick of the company of others, and a couple of other only are required for the last mobs.

FLEDGLING ANTELOPE
Find these roaming about the roadside from Tower 1 to Tower 2 and beyond it on the road southwards, theyre dead easy.

GRIFFAWNS
Yes more baby griffons have to suffer I'm afraid. You can always dedicate a few prayers to them later. These can be found as above in armour quest VI but if youre soloing and having problems pulling safely from the road there is a single pop in a small glade just to the right of the road as you enter the griffon valley (go off road to the right as soon as you see the mountain there) If youre finding the griffawns are not very abundant becaus ealot of people are on, wipe out al lthe ones you can find including the single pop i just mentioned and run back to the TD gate and zone out and back in to a different instance of the thundering Steppes. (Cheeky, But effective)

TIDE OCTIPI
Far and away the best place I've found to hunt these is at the Docks in Thundering Steppes. You may be itching to use your enduring breath and Eel spells here but I recommend you just send a puller in to collect them from the waters edge and pull them back. They can multi-spawn and add here and the third dimension (you can also now be too high/low to a character to assist them properly in water) and general scarryness of the way they attack can disorient a party that isn't experienced in underwater combat. Don't trust your rangers track ability here either our ranger said there were none about but we all saw them regularly within a few moments swimming about, before we realised we should pull to shore). Their fairly tough critters but a couple of decent tanks is all you'll really need. Kill 10 of these and go get your helm from Spindlecogg. Really easy considering it's a helm that is the equal of your other armour and makes for an unofficial 7th armour quest. This addition to your armour should see you happily through to 30th when you start armour quests all over again.

Hope this is of use to you all. If you're having trouble with some of the earlier armour quests ask me here and I'll tell you what I can remember about them. This was freshest in my mind so I thought I'd put it here, in full, the way I wish others would tell me about quests.

All the best to you all,

Bodecea Sangreal (Antonia Bayle)

Sory Zandee,
Bodecea is Queynos based so thats where most of my info comes from. The reason I started this was a lack and/or bias of information so I would hate to be guilty of it myself if I can help it. Why not ask specifically what you need to know or whats getting you down and maybe I, or somone else out there can find out for you. All I've found so far about Freeport furies is that their initiation NPC is Mizzog the Sighted N. Freeport near the potion shop, and their 20th level armour quests begin with Vassi Darkscale in North Freeport aswell, or so I'm told. I suspect you know these things already, so ask all who look here what you need to know specifically, and who knows...

All the best mate,

Bodecea

Um, ever try the site dedicated to druids?

The Druids Grove

The druids grove site SUX! There's no useful info in there. I looked. The fury class is the least revealed of all the classes in eq2.