fun druid build?

the only char i never tried........

O_o

You mean you play this game for fun!?

Gross!

Anyways, I don't have something to recommend but rather something to recommend against. My first Druid in twenty years was Bear druid, and it has not been fun.

Hope you have fun with whatever build you decide.

I have a

Werewolf Druid with a perfect

Ribcracker as weapon! 50% crushing blow on this thing!
I don't have much fun with this build...

New user here Site looks really good so far. Is there a general chat forum or introduction forum?

If you want a fun druid build, try the

Ribcracker Fury wolf. It's damn fun. You use Fury (the skill, not the runeword) and

Feral Rage alternately, building up

Feral Rage to the maximum effect, then using Fury to maximize damage. Then switching back to

Feral Rage to reset the timer every now and then. 20 seconds is a long enough time to do that without getting too stresseed.

With

Ribcracker, you can reach really high ias breakpoints and hit at about 5 fps, dealing massive damage with the 50% crushing blow, and high damage on the staff. You run super fast, deal big damage, and bosses crumble within 20 seconds. You leech life like a sonofagun, and as long as you keep hitting enemies, you stay alive very well, making it an adrenalin-fueled experience in hardcore (which i play exclusively). That cracking sound from the staff hitting is really satisfying ^^

Bear in mind it has a 200-300% enhanced damage range, so remember that when trading. It can be upgraded, and also etheral, though needing a

Zod rune if one chooses to use that.

Taurean wrote: 1 year ago

New user here Site looks really good so far. Is there a general chat forum or introduction forum?

Not really, but you do have various guides on each section giving TONS of info on the site, and on tips and cool stuff about D2 / D2R.

And if you have questions left, well, the forum is here for you.

Welcome around !

As for druids, I would probably try either Wind or Fire druids for fun stuff with lots of things happening on screens... but I have not really tried them yet. And really depends on what you find fun.

If you are looking for fun, but not necessarily the best performance, try

Rabies. Fury is OK, but you still need to approach every monster to shred it with your claws.

Rabies, on the other hand, works differently. You just infect one enemy and can watch the entire pack dying, as the disease spreads between them. Works the best in high density areas, like the cow level.

Fire druid is also fun, especially after cast delay changes in 2.4. The gameplay is much more smooth.
However, both elemental builds rely on a random factor, which can be frustrating (when, for example, standing next to a boss and casting

Tornado which misses it).

I had a lot of fun with my Fire Claw-druid (in wolf-form) and would highly recommend it. You get a lot of AoE-damage from

Armageddon, and deals very well with high enemy density (which can be a problem for melee), while also having high single-target damage on it’s strikes.

You get ok mobility with

Feral Rage (no

Teleport, but then that also saves you the cost of Enigma), and ok life from the shapeshift. You get very good sustain from the

Redemption-aura (Phoenix-shield).

I recently went all-in on a

Tornado &

Hurricane build. Wearing Enigma I could easily mow down everything in

Chaos Sanctuary. Honestly, it was only seconds slower versus a standard Hammerdin build and in some ways more fun because

Hurricane operates like a Sorc shield and you can then aim the Tornados without much accuracy required.

Taurean wrote: 1 year ago

If you want a fun druid build, try the

Ribcracker Fury wolf. It's damn fun. You use Fury (the skill, not the runeword) and

Feral Rage alternately, building up

Feral Rage to the maximum effect, then using Fury to maximize damage. Then switching back to

Feral Rage to reset the timer every now and then. 20 seconds is a long enough time to do that without getting too stresseed.

I second this. Fury druid is really fun and can be powerful for melee. I use ebotd in a

Champion Axe and Death in a

Decapitator but

Ribcracker will do just as good.