Patriarch Druidus

[HolyPade]

Meet Mr. Druidus, a "Rainbow" Druid, my 6th Pat (no Mats) in 1.10 and 2nd druid. It was the first druid that I ever started way before my SPF times and I had to try everything; wait until you see the skill placement... :D

Surprisingly easy to Pat though, with upped Ribby (+275%) and a big Grizzly everything except the physical immunes weren't too much of a problem. Even Hell ancients fell with 2 re-rolls and one big purple potion. This only goes to show that you really don't have to have a perfect build to finish the game.
Best find would be a Pul from one of the icy caverns in A5 Hell. Can't remember what HF gave, this character has been sitting and waiting for retirement for a looooong time.

Ok, here goes (laugh or cry at will):

Game version: LoD 1.10 vanilla
Character name: Druidus
Character type: Druid
Character level: 82
Character exp: 831166118

Strength: 110/133
Dexterity: 103/133
Vitality: 220/220
Energy: 67/97 (!!)

Life: 1558
Mana: 478

Fury Damage: 3585-5244
Fury AR: 7075
Defense: 2818

Resistances: 85,56,75,80

Skill are shown with hard points/+skills (or prebuf) for the skills that I really used, otherwise only hard points are shown.

Elemental:
Firestorm 2
Molten Boulder 5
Fissure, Arctic Blast, Cyclone Armor, Twister, Tornado, Hurricane 1
Volcano 2
Armageddon 3

Shape Shifting:
WW 8/15
Lyca 3/10
Fury 19/24
Fire Claws 2
Fera Rage, Rabies, Werebear, Maul 1

Summoning:
Raven, Oak, Poison Creeper, Carrion Vine, Solar Creeper, Spirit of Barbs 1
Spirit Wolf 2
Dire Wolf 3
Grizzly 20/27
HoW 8/15

Gear:
Jalal's Mane (Jeweled +30 %ED, -15% Req)
Raven Frost
String of Ears (108 Def, PDR 10%, 8% LL)
Infernostride
Venom Grip
Ribcracker (Upped, empty socket)
Switch: Dark Clan Crusher (for prebuffing of summons & WW)

Rune Torc
Amulet
Required Level: 30
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 40
Fingerprint: 0xcd11d823
+3 to Mana
+2 to Minimum Damage
Poison Resist +13%
Poison Length Reduced by 50%
+2 to Summoning Skills (Druid Only)

Smoke
Dusk Shroud
'NefLum'
Defense: 680
Durability: 20 of 20
Required Strength: 77
Required Level: 49
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 69
Fingerprint: 0xf0920da5
+10 to Energy
+75% Enhanced Defense
+280 Defense vs. Missile
All Resistances +50
-1 to Light Radius
20% Faster Hit Recovery
Level 6 Weaken (18/18 Charges)
Socketed (2: 2 used)

Stone Finger
Ring
Required Level: 48
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 75
Fingerprint: 0x1cba44e8
+3 to Mana
+94 to Attack Rating
+2 to Minimum Damage
All Resistances +11

Lot's of +res and +life charms, two skillers.

Mercenary: Leharas, lvl 82, A2 Might
Life: 1647
Damage: 293(IIRC)-3003
Def: 3032
Res: 75,75,66,46

Mercenary Items :
Rockstopper
Leviathan (1626 Def, empty socket)
The Reaper's Toll (196% ED, empty socket)

I seem to have a lot of empty sockets waiting for something worthwhile. Next one to Pat will probably be my FrostZealot called FrozenSolid, he's mid-A1 in Hell. Did I forget something?

[Hrus]

Yeahhhh! OMG pwnzor dr00d.
BTW - I played in some random tournaments too. Or wait a moment ... it wasn't random skill alocation? :)

[DeathMage]

Congrats on the pat :xmas30:

As you said, it goes to prove that you don't have to have a perfect build to beat the game :xmas9:

[HolyPade]

Yeahhhh! OMG pwnzor dr00d.
BTW - I played in some random tournaments too. Or wait a moment ... it wasn't random skill alocation? :)

:lol:

No, it wasn't random. I just wanted to try most of the skills and changed the "build" a few times. Let's call the build a Jack of all trades, master of none!

[Hrus]

:lol:

No, it wasn't random. I just wanted to try most of the skills and changed the "build" a few times. Let's call the build a Jack of all trades, master of none!
Yes, I understand. When I was starting to play this game, I had several "screwed" characters too. You just have to try several skills and see how they work.
My "screwed noob characters" made their retirement around lvl 30-50, bringing such a character to pat/mat status deserves THUMBSUP :thumbsup: :clap: :thumbsup: .

[Duke HD]

Meet Mr. Druidus, a "Rainbow" Druid, my 6th Pat (no Mats) in 1.10 and 2nd druid. It was the first druid that I ever started way before my SPF times and I had to try everything; wait until you see the skill placement... :D

Surprisingly easy to Pat though, with upped Ribby (+275%) and a big Grizzly everything except the physical immunes weren't too much of a problem. Even Hell ancients fell with 2 re-rolls and one big purple potion. This only goes to show that you really don't have to have a perfect build to finish the game.



Maybe this is the perfect Druid Build ? Suggest it to Logger120, who was looking for an unusual Druid build !

Great job to beat the game with this char - don' you always love the old ones ?



(Makes me think about rebuilding my first Party-Pally for Lan, he was a hell to play solo and only got the Ancients killed with the team, no matter how often I tried. Max: Concentration, Conviction, FOH, other Skills: 5 Zeal, 10 HShield, 10 HolyBolt, rest in Salvation. He was surprisingly OK to play as support Character, but alone he suckzzored !)

[Kefir-Tribe]

:thumbsup:


Reminds me of the time I played classic. Awww miss my barb with 10 points in bash.

[Manolios]

bringing such a character to pat/mat status deserves THUMBSUP :thumbsup: .

QFT :thumbsup:

My first characters had skill distribution like that and I found it tough to progress very far into NM even. And that was back in the 1.09 days!

Congratulations! :clap:

[Cormallon]

Well done!

your skills look quite similar to my very first 1.10 char (werebear...) who is sitting at the beginning of A2 hell for quite a long time now. Those lighning bugs are a pain for him. He does good damage but dies evenly fast, hehe. I thought bonehew + draculs would fix him, but still he's very difficult to play.

[HolyPade]

Thanks for the comments guys! It's fun to read about all those wacky first builds (or try-to-be-builds) that people have had.

I like to finish all the characters that I start, even if I mess them up completely like this one. It was a real challenge to get to lvl 75 by running NM Baal and through end-A1 in Hell, after that it was much easier (got Ribby & Smoke).

@Cormallon, Don't give up, you can do it! :) Well, if I could, anyone can...

[EnerSense]

Congrats on your Pat! At least you were able to beat Hell diff even though there are a couple points in each skill. The first character I tried was a sorc with a couple points in each skill. I got as far as Hell Tristram before I remade her. Congrats again! :thumbsup:

-ES

[Jek]

More stylish than my first barbarian back when D2 was new - leap attack/frenzy/Stun barbarian. ;)

edit: oops, forgot date - was reading through the unsual pat/mats. :-P

[howdidigethere]

:jig:

Congrats!