I'm on my final shifter life, druid caster, pretty fun as expected. I try to make each life play a bit differently so I've been running with a pack of hirelings out and the pet and a summons, just for flavour. As expected they have done very little of use.

That is until I hit late teens, with the owlbear, lioness, panther and shield guardian out they are all so chunky that they seem to just get in the way of anything trying to hit me. They rarely seem to die as they don't get agro, they just kind of get in the way.

Then I hit lvl 23 and got that tier in primal avatar and it got ridiculous. Because of the shared mantle and spellpower, they are each hitting for 3x 1k-2k procs every 5 seconds. I just tried Lords of dust R1 casting nothing but mass regenerate and it was an easy completion - this is with the heroic hirelings, only epic one was cassandra the rogue. I got one kill by mistake by hitting the wrong button and had to rez the lioness after a nasty deathknight champ, but otherwise I did very little.

I took some screenshots but can't work out these image tags. Thought it might interest someone anyway, an extra 10k ish dps is pretty nice.

I wonder if its occurred to anyone at SSG how the most effective way to play druid is solo. In an MMO.

Head-Meat wrote on Jul 31^st, 2022 at 10:23pm:

With what spell?

Core 5.

Nomoreo is still dumb as a fucking post.

That is all.

Standing Stone Games wrote on Aug 1^st, 2022 at 10:43am:



I can almost count.

Yes. Core 5.

You can avoid the need for salt by leading with BogW - that'll helpless freeze for the added 50% helpless image the build has. Then your tsunami will knock down anything that doesn't get frozen (if it doesn't kill it outright) Dragon breathe might be needed afterwards, I find ice flowers is enough and on a shorter timer.

You can cc the orthon.

End boss I find debuffs make a noticeable difference - blood rage clicky, affirmation proc, the SH HP buff will start the fight with a little over 5k HP. Wave clicky and keep moving. That divine wrath is really the only thing you need to worry about on r10.

Heroic Feats
Maximize - empower - PL Wiz - completionist - enlarge - quicken - heavy armor
Epic Feats
Well spring - burst - ruin - greater ruin
Destinies
Spell power cold - spell power force - spell power positive - crush weakness
Legendary
Water

The swap is ruin/greater for intensify/embolden? Where's the 8% Crit chance?

I've run both - intensify/embolden is a little easier but the ability to ruin/greater reapers to delete them at a bit of range is very nice. Depends on who I'm running with.

I was curious and spent time breaking these down and testing things:

Current Chance: 93%

25% Howl
Clouded dreams 5%
magic training: 5%
PL stance energy crits: 9%
Wave/lore item: 21%
8% SH Enh tree
Frozen Wanderer 2-piece: 5%
Hruits: 6%
Ice attunement 2%
6% univ. elders set
wave: 1%   (not sure why this is. I tested to confirm.)
Total: 93%

Now I want to breakdown my crit damage multiplier. I currently have up to 190 on cold:

15: Epic Cold Spell Power
5: Epic Force SP
5: Epic Pos SP
5: Epic Elec SP
25: Water Scion
50: Howl
20: Wellspring
15% elder set
35% LGS
15% Filigree (dragon soul set 10%, Coal Magic set 4%, Coal Mag fili 1%)
Total: 190


Interestingly, it seems the 5% dmg from Wave + Elemental Form is NOT working. I tried a bunch of setups to make it work incl relogging, changing forms, etc. I'm going to ask around to see if it's just me

gibbon wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2022 at 4:32pm:




Oooohh Good call. I'll see if I can get that. I MIGHT have enough runes for that! I didn't know about the augment thing.

My other ring is Shattered Onyx.