Finding the guy/girl who suggested this to me
So some time ago I was playing a ice druid and someone suggested that I tried a fire druid. I remember he/she stated that ice druid is a trap. I am sorry but I cannot seem to find this post. If you can find this post or remember that you said this once please respond. I’d like to thank that guy.


Comparing druid and sorc spells
I have been looking at sorc and druid spells for the last couple of days and fire druid is not that bad on spells.
If you focus solely on fire you have these spells from the druid:
Lvl 1: Produce flame
Lvl 2: Fire trap, (Flame blade)
Lvl 3: /
Lvl 4: Flame strike
Lvl 5: Wall of fire
Lvl 6: Fire seeds, Fire shield
Lvl 7: Body of the sun, Firestorm
Lvl 8: /
Lvl 9: (Anger of the noonday sun)

If we look at endgame we need the most damage for our buck. The two spells I have been using for some time now are firestorm and fire seeds. Granted the fire seeds animation could be sped up, but I still use it. Even when using quicken it is still really slow.
Fire seeds does 10.5 per caster level up to 21 and firestorm does 11.5 up to 20.
If we look at the base damage and compare to fire sorc we have delayed blast fireball and meteor swarm. These both have a max caster level of 20 and does 10.5 fire and 12+10 fire and force damage.
I must say I’ve never really played a fire sorc and therefore I am unsure if the 10 force damage from meteor swarm is even worth taking into account? You tell me?
But if the force damage from meteor swarm is neglect able the two spells from druid are close to the two spells from sorc.
Fire seeds is however a transmutation spell and has a smaller aoe, I think, than DBF.


Choosing race
If we assume a sorc and a druid can wear the same gear for maximising fire damage what we have left is that druid uses wisdom and sorc use charisma. This limits our choices of races and epic destinies.
I guess if you want to make a fire sorc nuker I guess draconic is the option for you. Also Teifling or Dragonborn are good races, both giving a bonus to fire spell power and one can give you 8 crit chance for fire and the other 2 caster levels and some evocation dc. Both of them have a bonus to charisma.
If we choose teifling or dragonborn we loose 2-7 wisdom from races as we could have chosen aasimar or shifter. Both dragonborn and teifling could get +4 to charisma and both of these gives benefits to fire damage, where aasimar or shifter does not.


Choosing epic destiny
Now let’s look at epic destinies. Again we found ourself gimped. The destiny that makes most sense for a nuker is draconic for the 30% crit multiplier. But again there is no bonus to transmutation or wisdom.
So I guess what I am saying is that if you do a fire druid nuker as a teifling in draconic you are loosing 4+6=10 in your main stat from race and epic destiny. The druid as I see it have problems enough getting the wisdom score high enough as it is, but I guess that depends on what difficulty you are playing. Right now I am sitting on 107 wisdom and I did really put an effort into it. I have heard of sorcs and wizards having 130. I am nowhere near that.


Other things and your input
I am really looking forward to the epic destiny pass coming later this year and hope the devs makes it possible to make wisdom based casters as nukers viable in endgame.
Maybe it is ok. I mean the way I play the druid is that is sort of a jack of all trades and thereby none. It can heal, it can cc, it can instakill and do some damage. Maybe it is ok that it is not possible to make a nuker druid that comes even close to a sorc...
Now I’d like to hear your thoughts on this. Is this fine as it is? Is there something I missed? Am I playing the druid all wrong?