Questions on my first Druid (Fury Based)

[bmathew]

Ive been wanting to build a Titan Fury based Druid. Ive seen that the druid can output a great deal and all but I ahve a question.

How do these druids deal with Physical Immunes and iron Maiden. Do you have to have a Lacerator on switch or something which casts Amp? . Will the the poison damage from Rabies be able tot ake care of these?

How does this character do untwinked?

Could you point me to the one point wonders of this class.
Thanks

edit: Forgot to mention that this build is mainly for PvM.

Main targets are Baal and Mephisto.

[Verashiden]

Lacerator, Atma, or a high elemental damage weap (Azure Wrath) on switch.

One point wonders are:

Carrion Vine
Feral Rage
WW

[TheBassman]

Lacerator, Atma, or a high elemental damage weap (Azure Wrath) on switch.

One point wonders are:

Carrion Vine
Feral Rage
WW

If he's going pure fury and titan Werewolf should be maxed, IMO.

[Tor]

usually have an elemental switch just in case, and massive life leech is your friend. charge up your 1 point feral rage and watch like 22% of 10k damage go back to your hp per hit

[Verashiden]

If he's going pure fury and titan Werewolf should be maxed, IMO.

Why? What's he gonna do with all that AR? 10k is enough to hit pretty much everything in the PvM world.

[Kirah]

If he's gone pure titan & fury then his dex will be pretty low. He might need a few points into WW so that he can actually hit something. Of course a few charms of +AR would help greatly (if they have +life all the better!).

good luck and good hunting!
Kirah

[Verashiden]

True. I was assuming AR Charms though >.>

[bmathew]

Few more questions if you all dont mind.

1. I hear that Druids get a huge Hp bonus? Could anyone please explain this? How much does a druid get per level (Not talking about the 5 stat points :laugh:, but do you get an increment of 1-2 hp every level)?

2. Why does everyone seem to like 2 handed weapons and not single handed weapons?

3. What is the max bonus life you could get if I were to max the skills for a fury based build. Example for each level lets say I get 1 hp. Then if I were to become a werewolf this 1 would become 1.25..

4. How do you manage resists :/. Although the damage for a 2 hand weapon is always nice and most people are packing AR charms how do you get resists? Is there a skill that increases it?

5. Would you get anythign back as leach if you were fighting a Physical immune? Do they eventually die even if you dont case Amp?

6. Read one of the guides that IAS doesnt actually work like IAS for druids. Forgot the authors name. his guide is the most recommended one I think for startign a Rabies / Fury druid. COuld someone please explain this for me.

Thanks in advance.

[Tor]

1) wereform/lycanthropy + oak sage allows for massive hp% boost
2) you're a pvm titan, 2 handed is teh way to go. max damage = max life leech = lots of dead things
3) eh use a calculator
4)no, druids have poor resists. As i said before massive damage + massive leech = 100% hp all the time
5) no, i dont think so. pull out an elemental weapon or something just in case
6) unless you're swinging really ****ing slow, ias outside the weapon itself is negligible. Your attack speed is based on the ias on teh weapon itself, that's why all good druids you see have shaels and ed/ias jewels in their weapons.
examples:
http://www.geocities.com/buffalo_bob38/eresh.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/buffalo_bob38/cgtoq.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/buffalo_bob38/mscoq.jpg

[InDubiousBattle]

for pvm use eth lacerator ;)

[Tor]

way too slow

IK gear is nice.

hammer gets str damage bonus and you get AR and life and elemental damage for having multiple parts.. Ik hammer + shael = 5 fpa too

[bmathew]

unless you're swinging really ****ing slow, ias outside the weapon itself is negligible. Your attack speed is based on the ias on teh weapon itself, that's why all good druids you see have shaels and ed/ias jewels in their weapons.

Ok so let me see if I get this right. The IAS break points for a druid in Werewold form = IAS of the weapon only? What about the speed increase in Werewolf form? Does that affect my attack breakpoints? Is there a table i can refer to in this case.

Im following an untwinked approach for this character so are runeword weapons (not the high ones) an option?

Im still curious about how you all deal with Iron Maiden. Even with high elemental damage only. The Enhanced damage from skills is most likely going to kill me :/. Does the huge amounts of leach also take care of this?

With this buildwil I have enough points left if any at all for any crowd control spells? I hear the bear is very strong and shockwave has a nice duration of stunning things. Any of this viable?

[Mythatic]

Eth Reapers Toll, High Leech + Decrypfy = GG?

[Tor]

See sticky.

idk about reapers toll's speed.

[Nightwright]

It's quite easy to get max resists.
Jalal's (with um) - 30 (45)
Metalgrid - up to 35
Torch+Anni - up to 40
+some resists from armor (Forti or Duress)
so now you need only some res all charms - gc with 30+life is perfect :flip:

[Tor]

Untwinked, makes it hard