There is some discussion on class powers here too: http://www.adom.de/forums/project.php?issueid=1321

Iron rations from corpses is a classic. :-)

Actually I consider double/triple carrying capacity to be a really great class power... probably because I'm a packrat, but hey, I can assure you that for many of us, it's a great power.

Lesser shop prices used to be quite useless, but let's see what happens to the Casino balancing (a balance fix was intended, but players have reported not noticing the effect). If the Casino were fixed and gold were relevant in the game again, then these powers would be quite nifty. Maybe they could be buffed a little bit (-30%, -50% and -70%) but I don't think they need more than that.

On the rest I agree with you, especially on druids.

It should be mentioned that class powers don't always have to be compared to each other - classes should be compared (assuming there's supposed to be balance).

Simply being a caster/semi-caster is already a great advantage, so the druid's somewhat pointless class powers are alright if you consider that druids are fairly strong as it is.

Merchants, however, are considered a challenge class.

So? Does it mean, that his class powers are useless on purpose? Then just delete them, if it makes no difference.

Are merchants really considered a challenge class? You learn something new everyday huh. I just play them because I love them. The carrying capacity skill is exceptional, definitely nothing needs to be done about that.

Definitely agreed on the case of druid though, this extends to rangers as well. But with rangers I guess it's a tradeoff for having the best starting skillset by far.