I'm having a really hard time deciding what AA's I should be working for next. I still have lots of good options but I dont know which is better. Generally I AA pretty slow, so while getting them all sounds good, it will take a while.

My path so far has been:
Run 3
Metabolism 3
SCM 3
Innate Camo
Radiant Cure 1
SotW 1
Exodus
SCF 3
FoM 1
MC 1
HA 1

The first 7 listed are what I considered the essentials. Then I did a healthy dose of nuke crits and got a cheap pt of FT. But now I'm torn on what to work on next. Now I'm leaning towards the Heal AA (HA / HG), that's why I snagged HA1.


HA / HG - I often group with clerics, although I still feel like I need to improve my healing
SCS - on long fights I have little trouble staying very close to the top of the agro list. I definately need this before buying QD.
FoM 3 / FoMM - I love nuke crits and would love more. Although dimishing returns in this area have me considering other stuff first.
Defensive stuff - ND/CA/LR. I dread the long slog through these AA. Just not fun as a druid. Maybe I was scarred by the ~ 80 tanking AA for my paladin.
Dire Charm - There are lots of places to use this in PoP, but I dont expect it to be very useful in GoD & OoW, especially when the level cap gets raised and DCable mobs go very green. Would be handy in PoE, but I'm worried this will be obsolete in 3 months.


So right now I'm planning to do HA / HG then SCS. Which should keep me busy for a few months. What do you think? Is there a gem that I missed? Or maybe I need to reprioritize my list?

I guess you do not Raid to often else MGB would be important. A lot really depend on your playstyle. (Solo/Group etc)

* RC2 is nice since it cures almost anything however if you often group with clerics/pallies who have it it is less usefull.

* Defence AA are very nice when you solo often and rather (but less) nice in groups but indeed take a lot of AA. I would go for the lightining reflexes first

in total:

Since you often group with clerics i would take SCS first. Will allow you to do more damage without getting summoned and give you a change to surviive if you choose to do patch heals.

SCS would definitely be of benefit if you are seeing high agro now. Consider doing the durability aa too, all 3 levels will probably give you 200-300 more hp, always a nice thing ; ).

I have found HA to be of more use than HG overall. Thats probably because ot REALLY irritates me to pop a crit heal and see a third of it wasted as overhealing tho. Maxing AHA does turn NI into a respectable healing tool.

Filling out sotw2-3 or RC2-3 wouldnt be a bad idea either, depends on where you are fighting most of the time and how often you actually use sotw.

Defensive AA can help a lot, go with the dodge rather than the mitigation route tho. I would go all the way to LR5 before even considering any mitigation aa.


Sliggoth, druid/ tailor of Lanys