2nd project

[Oxy]

Alright, the fury werwolf has been played through. No kills, but it was a hell of a lot of fun.

However, I just dueled a level 66 werewolf druid, too, and it was rather surprising to see myself almost die to the weapon he was using.

That's right. 6s shael Naga. And I have 4.4k life. I left with 100 :]

Naturally, this current druid was only to play around with.


So anyways, a fireclaw druid. How to deal? 2 x Dwarf's? Yeah, probably.

But then my evil mind went...



























click.

Who wears two dwarfs in NM baals, anyway?

*flash feral grin*

That's right, boys and girls, time to make a level ~56 fireclaw druid.

Gear:

Jalal's (prubied)
Stone in Wyrmhide (84 str) (molten boulder bug)
6 shael phase blade (-150 speed)
3 x fire facet AToD
Bloodfists (not sure, all they really add is +40 life, cause I have 4 frame attack anyways with just -150 phaseblade and 6 frame FHR with 60 FHR from stone and 30 from Jalal's - bp is 86)
Angelic jewelry
Raven (+20 dex)
String
Waterwalks

Stats:

65 str for jalal's.
+str from Jalal's for Wyrmhide.
92 dex for Phase Blade. (+20 raven, +10 angelics, +15 dex waterwalks)
Rest in vitality.

At level 58, that will mean:

60 x 5 = 300 stat points (15 from Lam Esen's tome)
57 + 12 = 69 skill points (again, skills)

300 - 50 - 72 = 178 points in vitality.

4 skills in werewolf, feral rage, werebear, maul (prereq).
20 fire claws
20 firestorm
20 lycanthropy
5 in sage
(+16 Molten Boulder from Stone)

With prebuff (fleshrender/sigon's):

+5 druid skills/+7 SS skills (3 x skillers)

= Level 32 lycanthropy (prebuffed)
= Level 10 sage (prebuffed)

Without prebuff:

+4 druid skills/+5 SS skills

= Level 29 fireclaws
= Level 24 firestorm

Hopefully quite a bit of life.

This is PvP, obviously.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Check out my ISO list in the trade forum btw!

:]

Later.

[Sip]

minor correction for you

Phaseblade req is 136 dexterity, so 91 dex plz.

for gloves I'd say you have 3 choices:

Magefists (+1 fireclaw), Lava gouts (enchant for ar/fire damage and extra fire damage) or bloodfists (40 life)

I'd probably still go bloodfists since wearing magefists would sort of give you away.

[Oxy]

Thanks, Sip.

By the way, all credit to Sip for helping me with all my gear and stats/skills :D

EDIT:

Lavagouts are 88 str.

No thanks :O

And Magefists aren't worth it.

Gogo Bloodfists.

[PhatTrumpet]

Using Angelic jewelery at lvl 56 seems almost foolish when you could be using a +3 SS ammy and another Raven.

[stevethatsmyname]

ya... what phat said... just keep angelics in your stash in case someone has mad defense.

You might want to boost to 10 skillers if you can afford em. Shape shift = life + damage + defense + AR. GG.

[Oxy]

Hmm, okay. Well, I was thinking of a shapeshifting ammy, but I'm not sure. I get a total of +95 life and +10 dex from Angelic's, not to mention the mad AR.

Steve'er: I can afford 10 skillers easy. But I prefer having 4.5k+ life. I mean, I have seventeen vita scs, and i'm aiming for more. Vita scs > skillers, though not cheaper. Still deciding, but I'd really prefer life over damage. I also have cold resist SCs in my stash for cold sorcs (maxed cold resist in NM).

I have a single skiller now, and will replace two sust GCs with another two skillers and the third +27 life/+22 mana GC with four vitas. Hopefully I can get a total of six more vitas and have SS GCs with +life.

Perhaps I could use Cat's Eye + Dwarf Star? You're suggesting another Raven, hrm. Well, I don't see why. I'd prefer Dwarf over Raven, cause Dwarf gives +40 life, and even a 20 dex raven would only be +20 more into vita, and thus only 40 more into life, which comes even to a Dwarf. I guess I could use it for vs. cold sorc duels, and use the dwarf when I'm fighting fire-related beasts.


A +33 SS ammy would only add ~60 max fire damage. I prefer Cat's eye to that, because of the +25 dex (50 life), the f/rw speed (:D) and the def. vs missile.

Thoughts?

[PhatTrumpet]

A +3 SS ammy would only add ~60 max fire damage.
That can't be right... do you mean considering PvP penalty and maxed resists?

And I only suggested another Raven because you seemed overly concerned about AR.

[Oxy]

Shape shifting only adds to Fire Claws in terms of fire damage.

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/skills/druid-shapeshifting.shtml#fireclaws

It adds on average 1.1 x the max damage of the previous skill.

Perhaps if you stack on top of the level 29 fireclaw, it will add a total of 270 max fire damage, in comparison to the 405 life I'd be getting from Cat's eye saving my dex and the +life from dwarf.