| If you'd use those eyeball things and look down a few threads you'll see that I've posted one recently. Your recommendations for skill point allocations as well as items need a bit of adjusting...
You don't need an eBoTD T-Maul to do good damage; Mine uses eBoTDz and does 7.5k damage and is able to hold a shield, which blocks 3 out of 4 hits (and, in my case, reduces damage by 43% as well as gives some good resists). Soul Drainers are horrible; if you're going for leaching you should be using Dracul's Vampirebone with 10% life leach. They give a 5% chance to cast Life Tap which is like life leach on steroids, as well as a 25% chance of open wounds; like poison, except it works well. Gore Riders are ideal over Treks... unless you're really into saving points for vitality. I can't see why you would use Jalal's over a Cerebrus' Bite, either. The Cerebrus' gives +4 to Shapeshifting skills, 10% life leach, 120% bonus to attack rating which more than doubles your AR and negates the dependancy on Angelics, as well as a 33% chance of open wounds and +2 to Feral Rage! That helmet is a Shapeshifting Druid's dream, in my opinion. In place of the Angelics you can go the leaching route, as I did, and use a perfect Eye of Etlich amulet and two Carrion Wind Rings (if they are 9%), or you can use two BK rings and a nice Mara's. You were right about the CoH, in my opinion, because it gives good resists and 8% life leach, but Fortitude is to be preferred over it.
I agree with you on the main skills but my ideas differ on the minor skills and the amount of points that should go into each. After maxing out Fury, HoW, Lycanthropy and Werewolf...
(In this order) Place points into the following...
1 Cyclone Armor (This is utter crap if you're a Shapeshifter (you can't max the synergies). One point is enough, let +skill items do the rest.
1 Raven (Once you get a lot of +skills you'll be able to summon five Ravens that serve as good distractions, basically, add to what I call the "meat shield")
1 Spirit Wolves (Five of these tend to be a great addition to your meat shield and they also buff up other summons)
1 Dire Wolves (Pre-Req for Bear and gives bonuses to other summons)
1 Bear (Useful to have in certain situations, bonuses to other summons)
1 Poison Creeper (pre-requirement for Carrion Vine)
1 Carrion Vine (Adds to meat shield, gives occasional life if you don't have adequate leaching)
All remaining points go into Cyclone Armor. Or, you can keep Cyclone Armor at level 1 and put all remaining points into Feral Rage to use as a right-click skill.
Why use Spirit wolves and not a single Bear? Five Spirit Wolves can keep more enemies off of your back than one Bear can. They can't tank as good as one Bear can, obviously, but these can spread out and cover a large area, serving to distract more enemies while you go about killing them. Five Spirit Wolves works just as well as one Bear when facing a single Boss (Hell Baal, whatever). When combined with your HoW, their five weaker hits will balance out as if you had a single Bear, but they will hit more often, thus, interrupting the creature more often. If you really would rather use a Bear, you'll have the same amount of points into it as you will in either of the Wolves, so you can choose whichever you wish to use.
Why use Ravens? They don't do much damage, but monsters will attempt to hit them. They can't take damage, however, so they add to your meat shield, and will continue to attack until they are spent (in terms of attack limit). Five Ravens hitting at once will also interrupt a monster's attack, which proves very useful at times.
Why use a Carrion Vine? It adds to your meat shield, heals you a bit and destroys bodies. It doesn't give you any massive advantage, but one skill point is worth it, by far.
These are just my opinions. Of course, it is all based on experience... none of it is theoretical. There are many paths a Werewolf Fury Druid can take, which can't be said of a Zealer. This is why I think more people should get into this build... |