Endgame wrote: So, to rephrase, Druid is last place in spell damage, last place in healing, and middle of the pack melee at best, but is overpowered.
Your insistence that the Druid is in last place in a variety of categories where it is clearly not substantially undercuts both your argument, and my desire to attempt productive dialog on this topic with you.
You might have a point here, but "druids are last at X" is hyperbolic and does not advance your position.
Druid is last (3rd place) for spell damage behind both wizards, as no one is actually counting Cleric or Bard as spell damage dealers. Wizards don't have their legendary yet, so expect this gap to increase.
There are 5 damage dealing classes. Druid is 3rd of five. Last place would be 5th of five.
By your logic, Elf Wizard is "2nd to last" in spell damage dealing. If I predicated an argument around Elf Wizard being "2nd to last" in spell damage dealing would you find this a credible or helpful way to make a point?
Mere pole position placement does not tell the whole story.
BiS Druids deal 95% of the spell damage as Wizards while also maintaining an awesome repertoire of spell healing, massive melee damage bonuses and an expanded crit range due to polymorph, and many other benefits.
The Druid is the last place healer, unless you're counting the Bard, (given the effectiveness of Soothe wounds, I'm not certain the Druid exceeds the Bard). Cleric is a better healer, but IF you already have a Cleric and the Cleric isn't enough healing for the group, and you don't use restore spell on Soothe wounds, you can boost the Druid to be better than the Cleric..,.. which you probably don't need because you already have a Cleric. The Cleric does not have it's legendary yet, so expect this gap to increase.
There are 3 healing spell healing classes (I'm not counting 5th level Ranger), you claim Druid is 2nd of three. Last place would be 3rd of three.
With Charm of Spell Swapping 5th level Clerics and Druids get, in terms of max healing:
Cleric: 6 cure minor, 5 cure light, 3 cure moderate, 1 cure serious.
Druids: 7 cure minor, 5 cure light, 4 cure moderate, one of which is doubled.
It is not clear that Druids are not the #1 healer at UR+ gearing levels.
The Druid is the 7th place melee fighter with an optimized poly build (which reduced effectiveness of spells as this thread points out since the +3 and +5 rings of focus don't affect poly). While I won't claim to have the most optimized builds ever in my phone, I have the Poly melee Druid behind Monk, Ranger, Barbarian, 2H Fighters, and 2H Paladin. If the monster needs to be hit by ranged and spells, the GotFF Monk is still hands down better than the poly druid (can the air elemental fly?) and Thor's means most of those classes are actually pretty good at ranged damage. The Fighters don't have their Legendary yet, so expect the melee gap to increase.
You should maybe post some builds.
5th level Druid gets +5 damage and a crit range of 19-20 just for being polymorphed.
Let's compare with Barbarian with +5 Deathcleaver vs. Polymorphed Druid with +5 Drue's Baton.
0. I'm ignoring all a slots where both can equip the same stuff.
1. Barbarian has 6 more strength, so +3/+3.
2. Barbarian gets +4 damage on 2 handers.
3. Barbarian uses Shirt of Blessed Strength for +1/+1, Druid uses Shirt of Focus for +0/+2 (and +2 spell damage and +2 healing)
4. Barbarian uses Gauntlets of Linked Fury for +0/+5, Druid uses Gloves of the Brute for +2.5/+2.5.
5. Druid gets +0/+5 from Drue's
6. Druid gets +0/+2 from Gregors Tome (and +2 spell damage and +2 healing)
7. Barbarian wears Ring of the Eel and Ring of Brilliance for +0/+6, Druid wears Ring of the Eel and Ring of Frost for +0/+5.
8. Druid gets Orb of Might in the melee offhand for +1/+1 (or the can choose +2/+0 or +0/+2 instead).
9. Barbarian gets Redoubt Set for +1/+1.
10. Druid gets Crown of Might for +1/+1.
Netting it all out:
Barbarian is at [tokens both classes can use] and then adds: +5/+20
Druid is at [tokens both classes can use] and then adds: +4.5/+23.5 and a crit range of 19-20
I'm not sure how you're coming up with 7th best melee class, but it's pretty clear to me that if a Druid goes all out on melee they come in 3rd or 4th behind Monk, Ranger, and maybe Barbarian.