Setup for Fury Druid: Weapon, Runeword + Merc

After my

Frenzy barb turned out amazing - running dual BA with Grief and LW and Hustle and Lawbringer on Merc I am trying to gear my Fury Druid who is 52 now and coming of item bearing age.

What I gathered is that Mauls or Axes is what I want:

Thunder Maul: 33-180 - avg. 106.5 - Speed 20 - only BotD

Decapitator: 49-137 - avg. 93 - Speed 10 - only Death

Glorious Axe: 60-124 - avg. 92 - Speed 10 - Death, BotD

Silver-Edged Axe: 62-110 - avg. 86 - Speed 0 - only Death

Champion Axe: 59-94 - avg. 76.5 - Speed -10 - Death, BotD

BotD brings 60 IAS, 375 ed on average
Death brings 0 IAS, 342.5 ed on average, 50% cb and ~40% ds

I understand that I want to reach 4+(3)+5 with all weapons if possible.

IAS needed: Max IAS I managed to come up with on gear was 75: andy+IAS, highlords, gloves - as Fortitude seems a given.
Merc options there are basically 3: Pride+might,

Frenzy Hustle+Lawbringer, Faith.

the table below states the base damage percentage from 18 frames

Thunder Maul
So now the question becomes what it makes sense to

Sacrifice for

Thunder Maul IAS requirements.
Since base damage get's multiplied by all ed% factors we only need to look at Merc opportunity costs for now.
Now I will try to revisit the first table for prohibitive/best setup
Okay - now I will try to translate the setups into average dmg with the following assumptions:
1. only 18 frame setups considered (else it gets too messy)
2. ed without merc is assumed as: 1442% --> 300% forti, 746% from 39 Fury, 200% str, 196% from 26 HoW
3. weapon ed 342.5% for Death and 375% for BotD
4. DS I assume 45% for Death and 33.75% for Highlords and 15% from Gores, 10% from gloves
Now total average damage per strike with 18 frame setups:
Presuming I didn't do major mistakes for me that would mean Champion's

Axe and

Silver-Edged Axe don't need to be considered.
Max dmg. would be a eDeath on a

Thunder Maul closely followed by a eBotD on a

Decapitator with a Pride/might merc.

What I have not considered is

Decrepify you get get with a Hustle/Lawbringer setup - you lose

Life Tap and 225% ed but win 50% total dmg - probably preferable (and cheaper). With

Decrepify you can either choose eBotD in a Thundermaul or eDeath in a

Decapitator - I guess it is a question of style.

As a bonus as I like LW I will do GA and

Thunder Maul for LW

Thunder Maul will need Faith Merc - so does GA - only guy that can do it without is Champions

Axe.
... and to have it all complete at last a Grief / Phoenix - though I haven't figure out yet if shield block will break your Fury:

avg dmg: 393 --> 14823 with might/Pride and 12552/18828 with Hustle/LB (LW/LB doesn't make much sense)

There are of course more possibilities for example TM on 19 FPS with Pride + Might running a respectable 18033 dmg - would even allow you to wear atmas or draculs - not sure how relevant 5% are on such a small area though.

You can always nudge IAS a little bit with something like Sigon gloves +

Boots/

Belt (and have +30 instead of +20), Death's Disguise gloves+

Belt (30 IAS + 15 all res + CBF) or even push it further with something like Sigon gloves +

Boots +

Nosferatu's Coil (+40 IAS) which can make a difference for those kind of builds with not-that-much-loss on other stats.

If you play P1, everything works. I tried most of the weapons that are considered private BiS and I like eDeath Decap and

Eth

The Reaper's Toll best. If you really are obsessed about ias then making Hustle on a

Thresher and use it on swap to get

Burst of Speed could be good idea. Also Hustle armor is perfect for that matter.

well ... my wall of text basically says eDeath Decap or eBotD

Thunder Maul with

Frenzy Hustle/LB Merc are more or less the same damage-wise.

just rolled my Death in a

Decapitator and officially have my first 4 digit weapon - no merc at all yet and it melts things ... a lot of fun. Thanks to whoever suggested eDeath.