Fire Claw

[Captain_Straydum]

Hey, I'm makin a fire claw bear, and before you get fire claw should you focus on using the werebear skills in battle, like maul and feral rage?
Or just be a fire elemental until you get Fire Claws?
-Straydum

[Tor]

feral rage doent wrok with werebear

im no pro at werebears though

[Forcefeedback]

If you tweaking heavily(khalim's will etc) you are better off using 1point maul for killing, if you don't twink use the fire skills. Depends what kind leveling equipment you have available.

[Captain_Straydum]

If you tweaking heavily(khalim's will etc) you are better off using 1point maul for killing, if you don't twink use the fire skills. Depends what kind leveling equipment you have available.

I have no real great lvling equipment, just a poor veteran here.
Other than that, he seems to have trouble staying alive in human form, do you know any low level items that would remedie that?
FireStorm works wonders :D, with 1 pt into fissure and synergies that is.
-Straydum

[Forcefeedback]

Good low level items:
Bloodfists, life and fhr.
Sigons boots+belt, life, resists, ar and leech(add gloves if you need str or OIAS, helmet if you need ar and armor if damage reduced)
Anglic amulet+rings, life and ar(add armor if you need mf)
Cathan's seals, leach
Duskdeep, damage reduced, resists, damage
Twitchroe, OIAS, blocking, fhr and stats
Nokozan relic, fhr, max fire resist, fire resist

I usually use sigons gloves+belt+boots and angelic amulet+rings+armor since I like mf. :drool:

For early fighting items with x damage reduced and fire resistance help very well, at act 2 you might also need lightning resists and antidotes. Before act 3 you will probably already have shockwave and all is well in the world of PvM.

[Evil B]

Hey, I'm makin a fire claw bear, and before you get fire claw should you focus on using the werebear skills in battle, like maul and feral rage?
Or just be a fire elemental until you get Fire Claws?
-Straydum


I am making one myself now, and he is level 46. I did (and still do) use fissure quite a bit. Not a bad skill. I did use Khalim's will with really good effect at low levels in bear form. Put sig gloves on with another piece and you get pretty decent attack speed. I used full sigons until I hit 28 and started switching my gear to peasant crown, spirit shroud, etc. I kept the sig belt, gloves, and shield until 42. I used a blood crescent sabre (req level 7) because it had a fast attack and life leech, but any fast attack weapon is ok because you are doing mostly elemental damage.

At 42 I switched to an aldur weapon, and at 45 I got a nice surprise when I put on the aldur boots. I didn't realize that 2 aldur pieces gave 150% bonus to ar. Helps a lot. With 1 angelic ring and ammy my AR is 8.5k, and I still haven't invested heavily in dex yet, as I have a stormshield waiting in stash and I will put enough dex in to get max block with it.

I use mostly fireclaws now, but fissure is great for crowds and the occasional cow level.

[Evil B]

Hey, I'm makin a fire claw bear, and before you get fire claw should you focus on using the werebear skills in battle, like maul and feral rage?
Or just be a fire elemental until you get Fire Claws?
-Straydum


I am making one myself now, and he is level 46. I did (and still do) use fissure quite a bit. Not a bad skill. I did use Khalim's will with really good effect at low levels in bear form. Put sig gloves on with another piece and you get pretty decent attack speed. I used full sigons until I hit 28 and started switching my gear to peasant crown, spirit shroud, etc. I kept the sig belt, gloves, and shield until 42. I used a blood crescent sabre (req level 7) because it had a fast attack and life leech, but any fast attack weapon is ok because you are doing mostly elemental damage.

At 42 I switched to an aldur weapon, and at 45 I got a nice surprise when I put on the aldur boots. I didn't realize that 2 aldur pieces gave 150% bonus to ar. Helps a lot. With 1 angelic ring and ammy my AR is 8.5k, and I still haven't invested heavily in dex yet, as I have a stormshield waiting in stash and I will put enough dex in to get max block with it.

I use mostly fireclaws now, but fissure is great for crowds and the occasional cow level.