WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Nov 6^th, 2018 at 12:55pm:


I looked into this for you.  The tool tip says:

"Stun vs Reflex DC: 10 + Druid Level + Highest of Wis/Dex/Str + Stun Bonuses"

I think Deadly Instinct stun bonuses (50% of wis) must be applying. The tooltip DC it shows me is 44 which is clearly not right as that is lower than 10+ my Druid level + my wis mod.  I think it is a display error and it is applying the dc formula listed above as I'm freezing stuff at a pretty good clip.

What ED are you playing in?

Ulysses wrote on Nov 7^th, 2018 at 4:50pm:


PA has a straight line of 6 wis, and taking the 6th tends to rule out some of the better t6 options (of course Avatar of Nature is now junk so maybe this is easier) so I'm curious where you got your 7 wiz?

Justanotherlurker wrote on Nov 11^th, 2018 at 7:38pm:


That's it.  Since you're not worrying about spirit for Avatar of Nature (not even taking that) you have plenty of spirit to keep Spirit Boon up 24/7.  The 12s dodge clickie is awesome too as well as the other stance that gives you plus 30 to hide which directly increases your sneak attack with Ethereal.

Amended op with 17/2/1 split.

Edit:  Wtf is the forum thing where I said "the f1rst p0st " and it kept putting in "boobies" instead. Hilarious.

Falconry with favor is tentatively scheduled for next week (I say tentatively because it has been dropped from its intended release a couple of times now).

does bluid have acceptable DPS with high DC?

what is the dps rate? 15k? 20k?

I enjoyed it too probably my favourite build to date as it could do everything - (Dodge)Tanking/Trapping/CC/Heals/Dps/Instas though its not top tier in anything. I didn't follow the build as written but I totally stole the idea and changed some things based on my preferences (eg I added a rogue level before the OP).

The bird portion of the attack is always ranged doesn’t matter if you take the ranged or melee version of the attack.

oh I see very interesting. I'm so used to always having a target for IPS I never thought about swinging in the air with someething far away targeted. Also didn't realize the attack would go off without connecting on the actual attack. Cool stuff

Sounds like i probably missed some good exploits on this when I wasn't playing and it first came out

But no AoE? I can't play heroics without AoE. How is this faster than a sorc to kill stuff? Or than the traditional barb wolves?

Vaultaccount wrote on Feb 18^th, 2019 at 5:17pm:


Ya AoE dmg is nice, especially for R1-3. This build I would say excels in the R3 to R5 range in heroics.

Every powerful class has spikes where it excels like Sorc at level 6 when it gets fireball et cetera.  Some classes are also better in specific difficulty ranges.

This build, however, feels strong the entire way up. Maybe not "the absolute strongest" but steadily strong the entire way from 1- 30.  The single target dps is so high I never regretted not having AoE dmg.  I thought about taking cleaves but realized it would slow me down as they don't doublestrike and have a long animation compared to your usual attacks.  I can say this, the speed at killing things was not at all a problem. Even if, as a build, it is behind a Sorc at killing a group of mobs the massive run speed makes up some of that as you move on to the next encounter.

Also want to point out that druids get a AoE persistent dmg spell at level 5 in spike growth which does nice dmg if you have force spell power boosted up.  At higher levels if you want to AoE through R1 or R2 you can always just take Body of the Sun and be a walking Wall of Fire. It also gets Icestorm, Wall of Fire and the new Acid Aoe Dots as well. The problem is your single target dps is so high you end up not using the AoE spells as like 2 or 3 mobs die in the time it takes you to do the spell casting animation.

Nevermind i just realized it was the cinnamon candy.