I feel like Jeremey made sure when one class got a new subclass the others were not forgotten with him gone we have gone several uas with zero druid subclasses , honestly they aught to be ashamed. where is the dino druid or the new Shepard ? give us some subclasses . also more offense every new subclass is tranky or focus on utility give us some damage and flavor options . mabye a monstrosity or elemental wild shape druid or a true strom druid .
Shepard is not going to come, I'm afraid. They're moving away as far as they can from summons. Martials hate them, the digital platforms hate them, some DM hate them. I love them But looking at the Necromancer and Summoner Wizards I'm almost sure we won't ever see them back in 5e. Druids have always been in this strange place between clerics and wizards. And WotC doesn't know what to do with casters in 5e. Especially not casters who can be summoners, healers, damage dealers and melee. They're afraid of offending players who play more popular classes.
I've also come to this conclusion, especially with the changes to all of the conjure abilities we had prior. Shepard druid, if we were to ever get it back, would either be a neutered multi-pet class or an awkward variant of an artillerist artificer.
I'm personally expecting them to do a UA for circles of Spores and Wildfire at some point, but even spores I'm expecting them to dummy down the necromancy aspect of it. We got our summons fantasy in Baldur's Gate, but doubt we'll see it on tabletop. I have hopes they'll toy with some tropes, with a shamanistic/elemental circle or even some type of witch doctor/hermit type, but that's because I think they are unsure on what direction to take the druid in and those character fantasies help sell themselves.
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I feel like Jeremey made sure when one class got a new subclass the others were not forgotten with him gone we have gone several uas with zero druid subclasses , honestly they aught to be ashamed. where is the dino druid or the new Shepard ? give us some subclasses . also more offense every new subclass is tranky or focus on utility give us some damage and flavor options . mabye a monstrosity or elemental wild shape druid or a true strom druid .
Reading this was very difficult.
Shepard is not going to come, I'm afraid. They're moving away as far as they can from summons. Martials hate them, the digital platforms hate them, some DM hate them. I love them But looking at the Necromancer and Summoner Wizards I'm almost sure we won't ever see them back in 5e. Druids have always been in this strange place between clerics and wizards. And WotC doesn't know what to do with casters in 5e. Especially not casters who can be summoners, healers, damage dealers and melee. They're afraid of offending players who play more popular classes.
I've also come to this conclusion, especially with the changes to all of the conjure abilities we had prior. Shepard druid, if we were to ever get it back, would either be a neutered multi-pet class or an awkward variant of an artillerist artificer.
I'm personally expecting them to do a UA for circles of Spores and Wildfire at some point, but even spores I'm expecting them to dummy down the necromancy aspect of it. We got our summons fantasy in Baldur's Gate, but doubt we'll see it on tabletop. I have hopes they'll toy with some tropes, with a shamanistic/elemental circle or even some type of witch doctor/hermit type, but that's because I think they are unsure on what direction to take the druid in and those character fantasies help sell themselves.