Bit underwhelmed with Druid Fireclaws

Just hit 88 and respecced from Fury wolf to fire bear and gave Chaos Sanct a try to get a feel for the build. Spec below:

Fireclaws 20
Synergies 40

Maul 20
Shockwave 1
Prereqs 1
2 spirits 1

And I'm starting to add to

Armageddon, think 9 or so points in now. Equipped: +3 fireclaws Metamorphosis, Obedience superior (13% ed)

Thresher, Treachery

Archon Plate,

Laying of Hands, Highlords Wrath, BK ring, don't remember ring#2, Goreriders, Verdungo (Nosferato as alternative for more leach/ias), high roll anni, high roll torch, couple skillers and a bunch of varied resist charms.

Experience so far-
Pros: It seems that

Fire Claws hits nice and hard. Pretty fast when

Maul stacks are up and Marks are active. Bear is cool. Shockwave is excellent.

Cons:

Fire Claws and

Maul only hit one at a time. I suppose this could be mitigated by switching to Fury WW, but then I'm playing a Fury playstyle and not a

Fire Claws playstyle. I thought Fury was slow. This is agonizingly slow. Does not handle density well.

Armageddon doesn't seem like it does much, but perhaps that is b/c it isn't maxed out yet. I still can't imagine it clearing anything in higher Player counts. Perhaps when running dual Phoenix. I basically just

Maul or Claw in a pack while a ton of monsters

Swarm me and hit me from all sides. Sometimes I tank them just fine, but I'm also going through lots and lots of potions. My Act 5 merc does a commendable job, but without me able to hit more than one thing at a time, he gets overwhelmed also. He wears Treachery in

Eth Kraken, Bukwark

Fury Visor with +2

Iron Skin, Mania

Eth

Cryptic Sword and Lawbringer

Phase Blade.

I imagine Fire Bear is a good boss killer, but really bad at clear. I am wondering if it is worth the effort to level into high 90s or not. I may switch back to Fury and work toward eBOTD/eDeath just to "complete the build", because investing into single or dual Phoenix doesn't seem worth it if the character remains super slow.

Am I being too hasty?

thanks for the heads-up. I also thought experience will be like this. I have 3OS fire claw +1Fury head and a

Cham on ladder. I think head will go to

Charsi.

Cham can be used better elsewhere.

Yea, nobody's ever accused Fire Claw druid of being S-tier or even A-tier. That's why you rarely see them around.

As a long-time

Fury: Skill player, yes, you only try

Fire Claws once.

Then you have a story to tell your grandchildren about the time you were bored out of your mind playing your favorite game.

I only use Druid on hardcore.

human_being wrote: 3 hours ago

As a long-time

Fury: Skill player, yes, you only try

Fire Claws once.

Then you have a story to tell your grandchildren about the time you were bored out of your mind playing your favorite game.

Good laugh there. Back to

Fury: Skill for me. I am wondering, is there a point of diminishing returns with

Werewolf: Skill and

Lycanthropy where it would be better to put points into

Summon Grizzly synergies (i.e.,

Summon Dire Wolf)? Or is it pretty straightforward, max both?

No. But regardless, I'd take the smallest increase in damage, attack rating, life, or attack speed over double all of those qualities for my summons (other than your choice of spirit). 1 point is plenty for your furry meat shields.

FerociousTerrier wrote: 2 hours ago

human_being wrote: 3 hours ago

As a long-time

Fury: Skill player, yes, you only try

Fire Claws once.

Then you have a story to tell your grandchildren about the time you were bored out of your mind playing your favorite game.

Good laugh there. Back to

Fury: Skill for me. I am wondering, is there a point of diminishing returns with

Werewolf: Skill and

Lycanthropy where it would be better to put points into

Summon Grizzly synergies (i.e.,

Summon Dire Wolf)? Or is it pretty straightforward, max both?

FerociousTerrier wrote: 2 hours ago

human_being wrote: 3 hours ago

As a long-time

Fury: Skill player, yes, you only try

Fire Claws once.

Then you have a story to tell your grandchildren about the time you were bored out of your mind playing your favorite game.

Good laugh there. Back to

Fury: Skill for me. I am wondering, is there a point of diminishing returns with

Werewolf: Skill and

Lycanthropy where it would be better to put points into

Summon Grizzly synergies (i.e.,

Summon Dire Wolf)? Or is it pretty straightforward, max both?

On P1-P3 I choose to have 80 points invested in the summoning. Left over goes to Fury and Lycantropy.
Then after releasing all the zoo (+4 Skill Arioc sockedted with -physical Stone) I swap to reapers Toll and run right to

Baal.
a2 Merc is having Infinity so our gang almost never miss targets.
Not a perfect build. I was just boring seeing my summoner ravens do the job and doing nothing myself. Never done mush theory crafting on him. Just took stuff from shared stash and it works.

I don't think it will work on higher player counts. But for P1-P3 full shapeshifting Fury druid is overkill.

i've been having this obsessive idea of a fire druid with double Phoenix.. shall i forget it or is there something to it?