Venomancer

Theme

"The broodmother comes."

Venomancers are a collection of druidic peoples devoted to Shadra, the Loa of Spiders. A Loa to some, and a Wild God to others, Shadra is a powerful entity that allows her followers to take the form of a giant Spider or Scorpid, as well as imbuing them with healing and defensive magics.

Ability Schools

Venom

Poison your enemies by invoking Shadra to grant you offensive Nature magics, healing power, and the ability to conjure spider webs.

Stalking

Take the form of a giant spider to skitter through the shadows and assassinate foes with fangs, poisons, and impressive speed.

Fortitude

Transform into an armored Scorpid, allowing you to sustain massive amounts of damage and protect your allies from harm.

Gameplay

The Disciple of Shadra is a druidic caster class that is devoted to the spider loa Shadra. The prominent theme of this class is transforming heal-over-time and damage-over-time effects into other ones with certain abilities - for example, upgrading your basic heal over time into a shield, then upgrading that shield into an even more powerful heal over time.

The Disciple, or Spider Druid can take the form of a spider and stealth around, taking out enemies quickly with their fangs. While in Spider Form, the Disciple has a Rage bar which is built up in combat and used to afflict enemies with poison.

This class can be very interesting for players who like having to think about which abilities to use, and in which order. There is no simple rotation for playing this class optimally.