And yet druids remain one of the rarest classes. You see a lot more paladins than druids. You see a lot of rangers too, so it's not like the wilderness thing is putting people off.

Druids definitely are strong, but meh, they're not *that* strong. What in your mind is the point of an exp penalty? Is it to skew the pk range? Because I don't feel like I really see druids sitting around abusing lowbies or anything.