Dungeons & Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark Druid Class Profile, Video, and Screenshot

With only three months to go before the Forgotten Realms makes its MMO debut in Dungeons & Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark, Turbine has released a few more details about the expansion’s druid class, as well as the very first screenshot depicting a druid using his shapeshifting ability in the Ruins of Threnal. I’m very partial to my sorcerer, but I’ll at least be giving the class a try when it’s released:

At last, players can challenge the Drow of the Underdark as a Druid from the wilds of Eberron. Starting with Menace of the Underdark, DDO’s first shape-shifting class, the Druid, will be available as a premium playable class — and free to all VIPs!

Proficient with staves, daggers, clubs, sickles, and more; the Druid is a powerful caster who is able to fill a variety of party roles.

Take the Druidic oath and get closer to nature. Shed your heavy metal armor in exchange for resistance to the harsh aspects of nature like entanglement, poison, and other natural dangers.

Harness animal instincts to transform yourself into a vicious Winter Wolf, or defend allies as sturdy Dire Bear. Expand your physical limitations and rain down lighting as the Water Elemental, or incinerate the foes of nature as the Fire Elemental. Each wild shape has its own specialized set of spells to cast!

And let’s not forget their proficiency with scimitars.  I have a couple of Kron’zek’s Cruelty blades in the bank ready to go Epic just in case I level one to 20.

UPDATE: We now have a video of the druid’s shapeshifting in action: