Is Earthshifter a practical weapon to use?

[akwan50]

Is Earthshifter a practical weapon to use for some sort of elemental Druid? I've never used any sort of Druid before but I recently acquired this item and was wondering if it was practical because despite the highly attractive +7 to Elemental skills, it's strength requirement is very high at 253.

[logger120]

Is Earthshifter a practical weapon to use for some sort of elemental Druid? I've never used any sort of Druid before but I recently acquired this item and was wondering if it was practical because despite the highly attractive +7 to Elemental skills, it's strength requirement is very high at 253.

elemental prolly not. fire claws bear on the other hand would meet the str easier and i could see some usefullness...... someone will surely have some experience and input

[TheGreatDivorce]

Too much strength, it brings the suck all day long.

[jordy666]

glass cannon fire druid.
titan charger
titan booyaka barb

-jordy :king: <--- :(

[riplix]

to prebuff armageddon but the strength req usually isnt wort it. especially now with spirit shields around.

other wise glass cannon. however i think it's playable but not the most effective way. far more stuff is playable (and fun) than ppl think. take a look at bnet chats and you'll notice that the game degenerated around very few items and noone dares to use alternatives because of "no alternative to skako/tal/enigma/botd/grief/...".

[LorveN]

Pros
+7 elemental !! (enough said!)
Cool looks!
Loads of damage, and 33% CB (if you feel like hitting something)

Cons
High Str. (Socket with Hel, try find an eth one (found myself one yesterday )
No shield


Make a glasscannon, its the only way to enjoy it.
A druid can get high life even if you waste some points on strength because of OakSage.

Jordy, plz explain Booyaka Barb for me. sounds interesting! :P

[Inuyasha]

The "Flying Booyaka Barb" is a barb that uses leap and leap attack as it's main skills, and uses Primarily Mauls. Here's the link.

I actually think that I may try using Earthshifter on my Windy now. I'm sure that if socketed with hel and using enigma, I won't need much other str boost for it :xrollseye: <----Why do smileys not work yet?

Great answers!
-Daman

[Tor]

hmm prebuffing geddon..interesting..

i could get a +3 geddon hat and use earthshifter and some + skill stuff and get a free lvl 15 geddon on my titan wolf..

[Liberator]

A n00b question...

What the hell is the Glass Cannon? I've never heard of it before.

[Cudgel]

a build that puts no points in vit and maxes out either strength for doing big damge with melee weapons or dex for big missle weapon damge.
So they hit hard but will crumple if hit usually.