Need help! Is Rabies/Fury viable for PvM?

[vane505]

Well I haven't played D2 since 1.09 and began a few days ago. I now play as a Druid and I read some posts that said that the Fury/Rabies is a viable build. I then noticed that it was directed to the 1.1 version of the game when the Carrion Wind bug was still working.

I have now made my druid to lvl 26 and chose Rabies and I'm wondering if it's still viable in Hell? I play LAN with two of my friends so I don't play any characers on battlenet. I heard that Rabies can damage ALOT if you get +poison-damage equipment.

Appreciate answers!

:sunny:

[stoutewolf]

Well I haven't played D2 since 1.09 and began a few days ago. I now play as a Druid and I read some posts that said that the Fury/Rabies is a viable build. I then noticed that it was directed to the 1.1 version of the game when the Carrion Wind bug was still working.

I have now made my druid to lvl 26 and chose Rabies and I'm wondering if it's still viable in Hell? I play LAN with two of my friends so I don't play any characers on battlenet. I heard that Rabies can damage ALOT if you get +poison-damage equipment.

Appreciate answers!

:sunny:
y it can damage big packs when played without to many people in hell, so rabies is viable for you :wink3:

[Proxyi]

when u play PvM then u must choose pure Fury! It's viable an GODLY for PvM!

[vane505]

Thank you both for your replies.

when u play PvM then u must choose pure Fury! It's viable an GODLY for PvM!

Yeah but then I have to have a secondary element against Physical Immune monsters as well. Otherwise that looks great :). The thing is that I could have chosen Fire Claws instead but went with this because I saw that you could do up to 60k damage. Is this correct?

:sunny:

[remsy]

Don't rely on rabies as a reliable secondary option past blood moors.

Deal with PIs using gear. And anyway, almost nothing is so PI that you can't kill it eventually.

[stoutewolf]

lacerator kills physical immunes and so does reapers toll on merc for most pi's :grin:

[olwe]

shaeled azurewrath works great for PI's

[stoutewolf]

shaeled azurewrath works great for PI's
shaeled baranars star even better i think :wink3:

[vane505]

Thank you all for your replies. Only one concern now; Should I reroll my druid? I have allready put nine points into Rabies and three points into Poison Creeper. If the Rabies is not worth the skillpoints as a health-drainer in PvM what should I spend my points on otherwise? I have looked through the forums but really can't decide on what. As said before it's for pure PvM.

Thank you for your help.

:sunny:

[Kirah]

There are lots of ways around the physical immune (lacerator axe, toll reaver, glimmershreds, baranars, etc.etc.etc.). Don't forget about your merc. Havin' friends around who can cast amp damage. At what level is your druid? How many skill points did you put into other areas? I've wasted a few points learning and haven't had too much of a difficulty in PvM. PvP is a totally different story. PvM the computer isn't what I call brilliant so you have a lot more room for error. Good hunting! Kirah

[olwe]

shaeled baranars star even better i think :wink3:

Shaeled bstar is 9/5/5/5/5 fury
Shaeled Azurewrath is 8/5/5/5/5 fury

Bstar extra average damge is 100+100+100 = 300
Azurewrateh extra average damage is 375 + 375 = 750

How is bstar better?

[stoutewolf]

Shaeled bstar is 9/5/5/5/5 fury
Shaeled Azurewrath is 8/5/5/5/5 fury

Bstar extra average damge is 100+100+100 = 300
Azurewrateh extra average damage is 375 + 375 = 750

How is bstar better?
y my bad sry, ah well maybe gimmershred is better though, lacerator breaks the immunity so thats also better i think and so is. famine looks pretty good for it aswell btw:laugh:

[olwe]

Stoute you know what - I was just looking at arreat summit for the azurewrath stats, and for the cold damage - it says "250-500 cold damage 10 sec. duration (Normal)"

What does that mean? Does that mean the 250-500 cold damage is spread out over 10 seconds? Does that mean every time you hit someone it adds new cold damage or "resets" the cold damage?

Maybe bstar is better...