Spell Selections and Gear Optimization is the key to unlocking the true potential of a Druid in Project 1999. As one of the most versatile Classes in EverQuest, the Druid is not locked into a single rigid playstyle; instead, your effectiveness relies heavily on your ability to curate the perfect eight-spell lineup for the task at hand.
This guide will break down the best Druid Builds: the Quad Kiting Build, the Animal Charming Build, and the Group Support Build, each with different spell selections.
Quad Kiting Build (Solo)
The Quad-Kiting Build is the power-leveling strategy for a Druid, designed to safely destroy four outdoor monsters at the exact same time. Your gameplay revolves entirely around speed, distance, and high-efficiency area-of-effect (AoE) damage.
Spell Selections
This build lets you kill four enemies at once using Area of Effect (AoE) spells.
Ensnare: Keeps all four targets moving very slowly.- Lightning Strike: Damages all four targets simultaneously.
- Camouflage: Drops agro safely if a pull goes wrong.
- Spirit of Wolf: Keeps you moving faster than the outdoor monsters.
- Chloroplast: It heals you over time to fix any small mistakes or stray hits you take while setting up the pull.
- Skin like Diamond: A Buff that increases your Hit Points and Armor Class..
- Superior Healing: Emergency heal if you take damage.
- Gate: Your escape spell.
Animal Charming Build (Solo)
The Animal Charming Build is the highest damage-producing strategy available to a Druid, allowing you to melt high-health monsters by weaponizing the local wildlife. Your gameplay hinges on high-risk, high-reward pet management, where you find a powerful native animal, reduce its movement speed with Snare, and dominate its mind using Allure of the Wild.
Spell Selections
This build turns local wildlife into your personal pet to kill other monsters.
- Tunare’s Request: Turns an animal of the wild into your pet.
- Snare: Applied to both your pet and the target to control breaks.
- Flame Lick: Cheap spell to grab agro so your pet takes less damage.
- Entrapping Roots: Keeps the wild target away from you while your pet fights it.
- Invisibility versus Animals: Covers your skin in a light veil that renders you invisible to most animals.
- Superior Healing: Keeps your animal pet alive during tough fights.
- Savage Spirit: Buff your pet, increasing his attack speed, strength, and armor class.
- Winged Death: Speeds up the kill process.
Group Support Build
The Group Support Build transforms your Druid into a highly flexible utility machine capable of filling multiple vital roles within a dungeon party. While you are rarely chosen as a dedicated main healer in high end groups due to the superior mana efficiency of Clerics, this build allows you to act as a stellar backup healer or main healer for casual groups using powerful heal spells like Superior Healing and Chloroplast to keep the group stable.
Spell Selections
This build is for when you are invited to a group as a Healer or Support.
- Superior Healing: Your main tool for keeping the tank alive.
- Protection of the Glades: Buffs the group’s survivability.
- Chloroplast: Reduces the amount of direct healing you need to cast.
- Entrapping Roots: Cast on running monsters.
- Harmony: Pacifies groups of monsters outdoor so the puller grabs only one.
- Breath of Ro: Adds efficient damage on long boss fights.
- Succor (or Evacuate): Teleports the entire group to safety if you are wiping.
- Legacy of Thorn: Surrounds your group in a shield of spikes that causes damage to anything that strikes them.
The Best Gear Build For Druid
| Gear Slot | Item Name | Key Stats Provided |
|---|---|---|
| Weapon | Luminescent Staff | +7 Wis, +35 HP, +35 Mana, Enhance your  Lightning Strike spell |
| Head | Circlet of Summer | +10 Wisdom, +70 Mana, +70 Hp |
| Face | Akkirus` Mask of Warfare | STR: +10 DEX: +10 STA: +10 CHA: +10 WIS: +10 INT: +10 AGI: +10 HP: +100 MANA: +100 |
| Chest | Twisted Nature Chestguard | +5 STR, +15 Wisdom, +15 INT, +90 Mana, +50 HP |
| Back | Cloak of Thorns | STR: +12 DEX: +12 STA: +12 WIS: +15 HP: +100 MANA: +50 |
| Shoulders | Shawl of Perception | STA: +10 WIS: +10 INT: +10 HP: +30 MANA: +30 |
| Waist | Belt of Dwarf Slaying | STR: +15 WIS: +15 INT: +15 HP: +100 MANA: +100 |
| Arms | Rowyl’s Metal Armguards | +5 STR, +15 Wisdom, +75 Mana |
| Hands | Do`Vassir`s Gauntlets of Might | STR: +20 DEX: +15 STA: +15 CHA: +15 WIS: +15 INT: +15 AGI: +15 HP: +100 MANA: +100 |
| Wrist | Camii`s Bracer of Vigor | STR: +15 STA: +20 WIS: +15 INT: +15 HP: +50 MANA: +50 |
| Legs | Elder Spiritist’s Greaves | +6 STR, +6 Wisdom, +55 Mana, Enhance your  Skin like Diamond spell |
| Feet | White Dragonscale Boots | +17 Wisdom, +17 INT, +110 Mana, +85 HP |
| Neck | Medal of Deep Thought | +9 Wisdom, +9 Intelligence, +75 HP, +30 Mana |
| Rings (x2) | Ring of Destruction | STR: +7 WIS: +7 INT: +7 HP: +100 MANA: +100 (per ring) |
| Earrings (x2) | Golden Leaf Earring | STR: +10 STA: +10 WIS: +15 HP: +80 MANA: +100 (per Earring) |
Final Thoughts
Playing a Druid successfully on P99 is an exercise in resource management and situational awareness. While choosing the correct spell builds will save your life, pairing those spells with wisdom heavy gear and crucial click effects like the Luminescent Staff, elevates your gameplay from a standard caster to an efficient killing machine.