"Grief" runeword and hunger - any possibilities?

[Dad Daniel]

Hunger is one of the most unuseful options in the druid skill three. The huge damage reduction by default (-75%) is really painful. Furthermore the great hell penalty of life/mana leaching is reducing additionally its efficiency. On lvl 60 you could get 200% life/mana, but these disadvatages are greatly downsizing the outfit.
Maybe there is still hope for the only real bite attack in the game?

Is the +dmg bonus on weapons like the redeemer, and especially Grief, affected by the -75% damage reduction of the hunger

Someone can help to find out the truth?

[JettJagwar]

you want the truth ?

you cant handle the truth.

[LORD NIKON]

IIRC if you charge Maul before hitting with Hunger the ED bonus from the green ball will carry over. Good luck and have fun.

[Valvolux]

Hunger is useful vs Iron Maiden, with crushing blow and open wounds it can still kill fast and you can't get hurt.

Wish i knew about '+xxx damage' mod, to poor to buy a grief to test lol

Rabies is a 'bite' attack btw :P

[Tor]

hunger is so great.

it pretty much neutralizes IM in pvm, so just hunger the deathlords until IM wears off and fury the hell out of them

[peterpaulrubens]

Is the +dmg bonus on weapons like the redeemer, and especially Grief, affected by the -75% damage reduction of the hunger

Yep. You can think of that mod as the same as the equivalent amount of +min and + max damage. So, a 400 Grief is equivalent to +400 minimum damage combined with +400 maximum damage.