Am I reading this right? Isn't that like gg meltmode or am I missing something? About to hit the druid hard and find out on hardcore!

Druid is my next project after the warrior but I do believe that 0 cooldown is correct

Yeah.. zero cooldown. It's pretty wicked. Easily takes out dozens of enemies in a few seconds with just that skill alone. The hardest part is trying to spam next pull and tornadoes at the same time.. generally, the tornadoes kill so much faster than you can pull especially if hurricane and earthquake are up as well. The cooldown on pulling doesn't really help either. It takes good timing with kills and pulling hordes to keep the chains going. The amount of aoe destruction the druid has is ridiculous.

Sounds pretty awesome. Probably will wait for pull mechanics to change but really excited to give druids a go

It's hilarious fun right up to the point where the RNG hates you and sends out a series of 1 tornado to tickle the mob instead of melting it

It is awesome for leveling.

I found the damage lacking once I started
getting into hell champions. Though, I didn't
have really good gear.

Up until that point it wrecks 5-pulls.

Druid is pretty solid, not the most powerful class, but is far better than the worst classes. I'd say its leaps and bounds better than Shadow Knight, Wizard and Magician. I think its better than Shaman, Ranger, Paladin as well. IMO its a mid-high tier class. I place it under Monk, Enchanter, Warrior, Necromancer.

33k DPS in a 40 chain. But for longer chains my DPS falls between 25-30k. But the DPS readout is underestimating Druid's killing speed, because most of Druid's DPS is AOE, and DPS readouts don't properly take that into consideration. The DPS varying a few K here and there is due to the randomness of tornado mostly.

Some things to note about Tornado's DPS:

Higher damage weapons don't necessarily boost the DPS of Tornado over a 1H + Orb/shield. The damage value on the weapon is irrelevant. Only its stats matter. Warlock's nemesis gives a higher DPS boost than a Singed Cudgel, and that's with 1h blunt skill maxed out & considering druid doesn't gain skill levels with piercing weapons.

+15% physical and +15% magic upgrades on the same weapon give the exact same damage boost. Although the later boosts the DPS of his other skills.

Intelligence raises Tornado & Earthquake damage.

If you upgrade weapons for Druid, upgrade magical damage.

If you're thinking Staff of Sentoth + warrior set on a Druid for crazy tornado damage, you'll be disappointed. The strongest gear setup is full set of Sorcerer's + 5 pieces of Warlocks + 2 pieces of Phantasmists + Archmage shoulders.