feral/rabies druid advice

[moiselvus]

hi,
I'm planning on making a rabies//reral rage druid, but I couldn't find a guide to such a build.
i was thinking:
5 werewolf
20 lcantrophy
20 feral rage
20 rabies
20 poison creeper
20 oak sage

as I only play single player hardcore pvm,I wouldn't complete such a build (i never complted hell, always died first, but i think i might reach 80 or so...)

so my question:
where should i put the points and in what order?
thanks,
moiselvus

[Queen Mebd]

For starters you might want to think of an alternative for rabies, it requires a ton of + skills and - poison resistance equipment to be effective in pvm. Fury might be a better alternative here, plus it doesn't require synergy points, which can be spent elswhere.

If you're really wanting a way to deal with physical immunes there are a couple options here. One would be fireclaws with a few synegies. However if you're wanting feral as well as lycanthropy and oak sage for the extra survivability in hardcore, this might be a stretch. There are always weapons like an Azurewrath or Bstar that would work fine for a source of non-physical damage. This will come down to what you have at your disposal.

Lastly, you might not need to max feral rage either there. Even with a single point you can charge up the red ball and switch to fury for a stronger attack and still leech life. Maxing feral rage has more utility for wolves who aim at taking on the triplets. I haven't played through hardcore, but a better skill set may look like:

1-5 werewolf, depending on how much + skills you'll get off gear
20 lycanthropy, survivability
1 feral rage, one point is often enough for leech
1 rabies, prereq
20 fury, you main attack
20 oak sage, though some people don't like it for the life-loss when it dies

You'd have some free points to either go with some summons or fireclaws and some synergies. There have to be tons of questions about going it alone in hardcore floating around the druid forum, be sure to give some of those a search as well.