Druid

"Switch between 4 animal forms and human form!"

—Specialized Adventuring! Description

Druid (or Druidess for females) is a class. It is only available during Expert Mode games in which the amount of money donated collectively by the players in the game at the time Round 1 begins is at least €15 or in Expert Mode games during Party Time.

Passive

 * Man Of The Wild is listed under Board Game Info as this class's passive, though this is not an in-game Buff. Its description is "You move forward 1 space whenever you shift into a different form." This description has already been incorporated in the below Shapeshift skill description.

Standard Use

 * Choose a form out of Human, Bear, Snake, Crow, or Wolf. You move 1 space forward, then you transform into the chosen form. (If you're already in the chosen form, you don't move or transform, and this skill goes on cooldown.)

Passive Effect

 * While Human: You have the Human Form: Entangling Roots skill.
 * While Bear: You have the Bear Form: Maul skill and the Thick Hide Buff. Also, if you would encounter The Bear!, it is replaced by Bear On Bear Action, in which you receive the Skip A Turn status, and the event ends without any of the normal The Bear! options available.
 * Thick Hide: When another player tries to use one of the following items or skills on you standardly, with Power Gloves, or with Auto Hammer, if you are alive you won't be affected by it and will instead move 2-3 space forward: (Non-Holy) Hammer, Hammerhead Shark, Sword, Swordfish, Serrated Shiv. Also, if you attract a (Holy) Hammer, Sword, or Serrated Shiv with an ACME Magnet, you aren't ever affected by the side-effects. (Note that you won't move 2-3 spaces forward for the Magnet use.)


 * While Snake: You have the Snake Form: Venomous Bite skill and the Poison Immunity Buff.
 * While Crow: You have the Crow Form: Soar skill and the Floating Buff.
 * While Wolf: You have the Wolf Form: Growl skill and gain 1 temporary Speed.

Inherent Effect Tooltip

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! Thick Hide Tooltip
 * You have a Thick Hide. You don't take damage from basic Hammer, Sword and Serrated Shiv attacks.
 * You have a Thick Hide. You don't take damage from basic Hammer, Sword and Serrated Shiv attacks.

Category: Buff
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Human Form: Entangling Roots

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! Entangling Roots (Debuff) Tooltip
 * Roots are growing dangerously rapidly under your feet! They will shoot up from space X in your next turn, entangling anyone in a 5 space radius and causing them to become Rooted for 1 turn!
 * Roots are growing dangerously rapidly under your feet! They will shoot up from space X in your next turn, entangling anyone in a 5 space radius and causing them to become Rooted for 1 turn!

Category: Debuff
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Standard Use

 * Target any player; they gain the Entangling Roots Debuff locked onto their current space.
 * Entangling Roots: During your next Effects Phase, all players within a 5-space radius of the locked on space gain 1 turn of Rooted. Entangling Roots can stack under different Debuffs.

Standard Use

 * Target another player.
 * If they are within a 3-space radius: Move to their space and Incapacitate them.
 * If they are not within a 3-space radius: Nothing occurs besides this skill going on cooldown.

Related Effects

 * Spiked Protection

Event Use

 * Use against the Lv 2 or 3 Small Golem of the Archaeology Dig.

Standard Use

 * Target another player.
 * If they are within a 4-space radius: Move to their space, also they gain Slowing Poison with -2 Speed for 2 turns.
 * If they are not within a 4-space radius: Nothing occurs besides this skill going on cooldown.

Related Effects

 * Poison Immunity

Event Use

 * None

Standard Use

 * Move 4-6 spaces forward.

Event Use

 * None

Standard Use

 * Target another player.
 * If they are within a 7-space radius: Move to their space, then they move 3 space back if they are alive.
 * If they are not within a 7-space radius: Nothing occurs besides this skill going on cooldown.

Event Use

 * None

Standard Use

 * If you have at least 10 Concentration: You lose 10 Concentration and all of your Druid-related skills have their cooldowns reset. (Even if no skills are on cooldown, you can use this skill and lose 10 Concentration.)
 * If you have less than 10 Concentration: Nothing occurs.

Passive Effect

 * This skill begins with 0 and and can store up to 15 Concentration. You gain 1 Concentration during each of your Effects Phases.

Event Use

 * None

Strengths

 * Druid is versatile, able to change to adapt to the situation with relative ease and haste.
 * Can affect other players at close range and at a distance.
 * Able to pounce on an unfortunate opponent with the ferocity of nature.

Weaknesses

 * Druid's actives can be a bit difficult to use for killing other players. Only the Bear/Snake actives can land you on a nearby player's space, and you have to get really close (within 2-4 spaces).
 * Constant changing of forms is required to get the most out of Druid, which may leave the player stuck on cooldowns when they need to adapt to a situation on the spot.

Strategies

 * If an opponent is going to skip their next turn, you can usually chain the effect for the turn after that with Human: Entangling Roots.
 * Crow and Wolf forms are generally used alternately for optimal space gain, whereas the other forms are more aggressive towards opponents.
 * A well-timed Energize and/or Nature's Swiftness can result in a surge of spaces gained.

Dual-Class Synergies
(to be done later when other classes have their own pages)