Rename Shaman To Druid

And they look surprisingly similar!

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Either way, Shamans use sacrifices for power, we don't

 

The way I always looked at this, is that the totems do exactly what the lore of Order Of The Grook describes: They trap mobs and extract their life force (damage them) to heal and buff the user.
Yes, gameplaywise there is no direct conversion from 'damage dealt to mobs' to 'positive effects for the player' (because it would probably make the gameplay worse), but thematically, the Shaman perfectly fits the lore.

 

Shaman's totem heals and buffs you even if there are no mobs around, so there isn't enough proof to fit this description, also wouldn't that technically be Life Steal? Also Shamans kill the creature to extract their life source (UGH, I THOUGHT I POSTED THIS, GUESS I'M A HOUR LATE)

 

Grass

Also game mechanics, the same reason why assassins don’t use bows and totems too

 

Because like I said, there is a difference between gameplay and theme. Making the healing and buff not dependend on the damage dealt by the totem means that there is a second class which has reliable healing outside of combat (which is preferable balancing-wise), makes boss fights vs fights against large amounts of weaker mobs easier to balance and overall simplifies the game. There are reasons to not take the lore 100% serious when designing the gamplay, which doesn't mean that the class can't fit the lore thematically.

 

So why not classify Shaman as a Druid? Also lore is best to not be as confusing as possible, because either way, Uproot and the normal click spell don't really need sacrifices and Druid would fit the description better, but designing gameplay is more important overall, but lore should be taken seriously stand-alone.

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Because of the several reasons that have already been pointed out in this thread:
- Totems are being associated much more with shamans than with druids, not just because of other games, but also because of their real-world background.
- Thematically, the shaman fits the lore (although this might be subjective, as we don't have a canon explanation on what exactly the different spells do lorewise, so its up to our interpretation).
- Even if the points above wouldn't apply, it would be absolutely absurd to rename a whole class just because of one small sidenote in one single quest. Just changing a few lines in Order Of The Grook would require much less effort and would cause much less confusion. (I don't count Slykaar as he is just a single individual.)

 

Hey man, there’s a lot of it and it’s basically everywhere. Just saying, if you wanted to drain a lot of life essence quickly, it’d work.

Let us life steal the floor

 

Well you could life steal the floor if Wynncraft was animistic

 

but like

Shaman is more fun to say than d r u i d
and Skyseer too