For everyone's consumption - Which focus effect(s) do you currently use and which focus effects do you think are essential for a 61+ druid?

It may be helpful to readers if you state whether you're a casual or hardcore EQ player.

Mana Pres. 4
Imp. Heal 4
Ext. Range 4
Ext. Duration 4
Burning Affliction 4 (if you root/rot)
Imp. Damage 4
Spell Haste 4

Those are the 7 that I could think of.
Mana Pres and Spell haste are the most useful to me.
Next would be improved healing and improved damage.
After that Ext. Duration, for buffs.
I'd rate Range and Burning Affliction the worst, but that's because I never use a dot other than epic and I'm rarly if ever in a situation where I need to have longer range.

Improved Damage IV
Summer's Anger
Spell Haste IV
Improved Healing IV

Those are the ones I use. I'd like to get Extended Enhancement IV but as a casual player I can't find an item that is both decent and has that effect.

ER 4
MP 4
IH 4
Summer's Anger
BA4
AE4
8th shawl (extended buffs)

My guild raids 6 out of 7 days for couple hours each evening. I do solo and group otherwise.

Improved Healing, 8th shawl, and Mana preservation for obvious reasons.

Extended Range to avoid nasty AE and keep someone healed or get in the nukes during raids.

I like to root/dot so I use Burning Affliction and Affliction Efficiency in those situations.

Effects I currently have/use:

Improved Healing IV
Zephyr of Brell
Mana Preservation IV
Anger of E`ci
Conservation of Solusek

What I don't have yet, but will hopefully get soon:

Improved Dmg IV
Spell Haste 4
Extended Range 4

In order of importance for me would be IH4, Mana Pres, ID4 and spell haste. Everything after that is a bonus.

My guild raids prob 4 times per week, sometimes more.

Tuda, not interested in doing the shawl quest?

Uh, I'm a raider, I'd guess I'm probably a hardcore gamer too.

Mana Pres4 (hopefully upgraded to Preservation of Xegony soon)
Speeding Thought (18% spell haste to all)
Chill of the Umbra (Cold nuke focus, 26% I believe)
Marr's Gift (IH4 25% instead of 20%)
Summer's Vengeance (25% cheaper mana cost for Summer's Flame)
Enhancement Haste3 (freebee with Emp ring)
Zephyr of Brell (8th Shawl, 20% Buff Duration)
Imp Damage4 (20% to all nukes)

And I trade out:
Ext Range4

In order of importance:
Mana Pres
Spell Haste
Imp Healing
Ext Range (for certain fights)
Imp Damage
Buff Duration
Imp Damage on specific type of nuke
Mana Pres on specific spell

I raid lots ...

Fury of E'ci (30% cold nuke focus)
Fury of Ro (30% Fire nuke focus)
Druzzil's Distance (20% range)
Speed of Solusek (18% detrimental haste)
Quickening of Mithaniel (30% beneficial haste)
Summer's Vengance (25% Summer's Flame mana conservation)
Preservation of Xegony (15% mana preservation)
Improved Healing IV (20% heal focus)

Of these, I love the Fury of Ro + Speed of Solusek + Summer's Vengance focuses. I can nuke hard, I can nuke fast and I can nuke pretty much forever.

Getting summoned and squished on raids is always a problem, but soloing in PoV with a DC pet and KEI ... With these three focuses, I can pretty much clear inner and outer caves before I need to med.

I have

Fury of E'ci (30% cold nuke focus)
Druzzil's Distance (20% range)
Contemplative alacrity (15% spell haste)
Summer's Vengance (25% Summer's Flame mana conservation)
Preservation of Xegony (15% mana preservation)
Marr's Gift (26% heal focus)
Focus of Mediocrity (15% longer duration to everything lasting 24 seconds or more)
Pernicious focus (30% mana preservation on detrimental spells lasting more than one tic)


The most important I think are improved healing and spell haste on beneficial spells.. These are the ones who will save your butt, the others are just for convenience.

I am still missing a few of the ones I consider very important but...

ATM I have:

Extended Enhancement III (item i got for stats for cheap in ST)
Zephyr of Brell (20% buff extension)
Mana Preservation IV (2 of em, cuz the ornate boots came my way cheap)
Wind of the Nightcrawler (30% beneficial haste...LOVE this focus)
Starfall Symbol (15% range on all spells)

The things I am most acutely missing that I think are important for all druids over 61 are:

Heal 4 type focus
Damage focus (preferably cold and fire)

The foci I should be getting soonish (in no particular order) are:

Gift of Marr (my heal focus natch)
Focus of Mediocrity (really want this one) Hehe - check!
Fury of Ro (or perhaps the VT Flamewarding one)
Fury of Ec'i (or perhaps that VT earing cold dmg focus)
Summer's Vengeance

The one I really want but don't expect any time soon:

Burning Afflication 4 (we are done with Torment pretty much)

/shrug. Sometimes i think I should just go buy cheap versions to have the effects but I get by fine without em and will just look forward to having the items I really want rather than earning up some plat to buy stop gaps).

I am a 250 potterer, so have made most of the focus items that don't come on armor for myself and switch out as needed (since only fit primary/secondary/range slots). I am also typically a nuking druid - specialization is evocation and I'm maxed on nuke haste and fury of magic. I have the following focus effects. My favorite two are improved damage and mana preservation, followed by spell casting haste.

Anger of E'ci - may switch out for ID4 in future
Mana Pres. 4 - ornate boots
Imp. Heal 4 - ornate sleeves
Ext. Range 4 - ceramic pottery item, only use on raids
Ext. Duration 4 - shawl
Spell Haste 4 - ceramic pottery item
The mana reduction item on Summer's Flame

Tuda:

You should at least get a ceramic shield of valor. At pottery cost if I buy parts in bazaar, its about 5-6k depending upon price of metallic liquid. Stats aren't uber, but could at least put it on when you do your Po9 buff.

They are fairly popular - I sell 1-2 a day on Tunare.

The focus items that I use are as follows. FYI -- I am a pre-Elemental druid relatively balanced between nukes and heals (although tipping toward nukes lately with LDON).

Range:
Anger of Eci (Ceramic Rod of Storms) LDON as fake wizard
Spell Haste IV (Ceramic Totem of Xegony) general use
Extended Range IV (Ceramic Sword of War) raids
Affliction Efficiency IV (Ceramic Gavel of Justice) -- root/dot

Shoulder:
Zephyr of Brell

Gloves:
Summer's Anger

Boots:
Mana Preservation IV (Wanderer's Sylvan Boots)

Arms:
Improved Healing IV (Wanderer's Sylvan Arms)

The question becomes whether or not to invest the time and effort into shifting the Extended Range IV and Spell Haste IV items to a new LDON item (mask, ring, etc...) or even to replace my epic with the Ritual Claws of Scion (Imp Damage IV + one type 3 slot).

In the future, I would love to get a burning aflliction IV item, but that seems unlikely given how buggy the stomach event is. 1/2 of my raid was trapped in the tummy last time while the rest were ported out to fight....

I wouldn't replace your epic - there is a belt with ID4 that apparently drops pretty commonly in the same trials as you need for GRC. 2 in one night for my guild. That way, you don't give up the epic stats.

I don't personally see a lot of use for Burning Affliction at the post 60 levels. I dot so rarely, and killing fast is so important in LDoN. Haste much better IMO.

what i use, in order of importance

improved healing 4
conservation of solusek
speed of solusek
druzzils distance
summers vengence
chill of the umbra
focus of flame
pernicious focus (30% mana saving on DoTs)

really need a beneficial mana pres that includes heals, and beneficial spell haste

I raid frequently; I'm in Vex Thal, but expect to be in the elemental planes soon.

Priorities for me:
1) Spell haste
2) Mana preservation
3) Improved healing
4) Extended range
5) Improved damage (DD)
6) Extended duration (higher priority if it includes detrimental spells as well as beneficial)
7) Improved damage (dot)

Fulltime focus effects:
Wind of the Nightcrawler (Nightcaller Leggings; 30% beneficial spell haste)
Blaze of the Lightbringer (Lightbringers Earring; 20% detrimental spell haste)
Contemplative Alacrity (Book of Contemplation; 15% spell haste, to fall back on when I swap out other spell haste items)
Improved Healing IV (ornate arms, soon-to-be-replaced Polished Smoothmetal Torque)
Starfall Symbol (Bracer of the Silent Star; 15% extended range)
Zephyr of Brell (8th coldain shawl; 20% extended buffs)
Improved Damage IV (Dusty Girdle of Reformed Sand)

Situational focus effects:
Anger of E'ci (Ceramic Rod of Storms; 23% to cold based nukes)
Insidious Dreams (Boots of Silent Dreams; 26% to magic based nukes, great in takish)
Mana Preservation III (Crystalline Torque, for ancient nukes)
Affliction Efficiency IV (Ceramic Gavel of Justice)

Must gets....

Preservation of Mithaniel (20% mana savings on heals)
Marr's Blessing (Increase healing +30%)
Druzzil's Range (Spell range +25%)
Conservation of Xegony (Mana savings 20% on spells)
Wrath of E'ci (ICE DD damage +35%)
Wrath of Ro (Fire DD damage +35%)
Quickening of Druzzil (Spell haste +23%)

There are others... but those are the 'nice' ones... =)

Sea!

Here's what I got...

Darkened Preservation ( 20% Mana Preservation buffs only )
Speeding Thought ( 18% spell Haste )
Summers Anger ( 20% Mana Preserve on Summers Flame )
Chill of The Umbra ( 26% Improved Damage cold only )
Zephyr Of Brell ( 20% extended buffs from 8th Shawl )
Marr's Gift ( 25% Improved Heals except for Incomplete Heal )
Mana Preservation IV ( up to 10% Mana savings on all spells )

I swap in a Ceramic Sword of War for the Extended Range IV needs.