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Gear= Grief
Dream Shield
Dream Helm
Enigma
Maras
Bk ring
Ravenfrost
Draculs grasp
Goreriders
also i have gface and cerebus bite stormshield and some other stuff


What build would something like this be viable for .....I want a melee character like a fury wolf or were bear i guess. are these wolf and bear builds better than a zealer?
 
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Gear= Grief
Dream Shield
Dream Helm
Enigma
Maras
Bk ring
Ravenfrost
Draculs grasp
Goreriders
also i have gface and cerebus bite stormshield and some other stuff


What build would something like this be viable for .....I want a melee character like a fury wolf or were bear i guess. are these wolf and bear builds better than a zealer?

You seem to be new to druids. Build a tornado druid and work the rest the points into oak sage. I can give you more advice about the build. They are the best druids to start out with. They are my most favorite character btw.


 
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Sounds like you've got alot of mele items ready for a mele char. A tornado druid would have zero Faster Cast Rate/FCR and would be swinging a grief - damage wep. You're asking if its viable for mele like a Paladin. Answer - Fury Wolf.

Questions I have: (to better answer your question)
Is this a player vs. monster or player vs. player your building?
Is the grief a phase blade or berserker axe?
What belt do you have?
Do you already have any skill charms? are they shape shifting?
Do you already have some small charms, Druid Torch or Annihilus?
What are the stats on your Cerberus helm?
Do you have any items with Faster Hit Recovery /FHR?
 
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Ew, dreams >.>.

What's the grief in?
 
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Ew, dreams >.>.

What's the grief in?


Agreed!
Yep, I looked at the dreams as trades for something that would work for the guy. Putting the cerberus helm on and using the storm he's got and using the dreams for trades would be a winner.


 
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Is the Grief a PB?

I'd switch the Dreams for Jalal/Cerebus and Moser's/Gerke's/Stormshield.
 
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Sounds like you've got alot of mele items ready for a mele char. A tornado druid would have zero Faster Cast Rate/FCR and would be swinging a grief - damage wep. You're asking if its viable for mele like a Paladin. Answer - Fury Wolf.

Questions I have: (to better answer your question)
Is this a player vs. monster or player vs. player your building?
Is the grief a phase blade or berserker axe?
What belt do you have?
Do you already have any skill charms? are they shape shifting?
Do you already have some small charms, Druid Torch or Annihilus?
What are the stats on your Cerberus helm?
Do you have any items with Faster Hit Recovery /FHR?

1. pvm
2. phaseblade i also have a buriza and ribcracker i hear those are good
3. arachnid
4. anni dont have a druid torch but could get one easily enuff
5. all i remember is 4 to shapeshifting
6. just the ribcracker i guess..

i do have gface and stormshield. fury werewolf would be ideal but still confused


 
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Sounds like you've got alot of mele items ready for a mele char. A tornado druid would have zero Faster Cast Rate/FCR and would be swinging a grief - damage wep. You're asking if its viable for mele like a Paladin. Answer - Fury Wolf.

Questions I have: (to better answer your question)
Is this a player vs. monster or player vs. player your building?
Is the grief a phase blade or berserker axe?
What belt do you have?
Do you already have any skill charms? are they shape shifting?
Do you already have some small charms, Druid Torch or Annihilus?
What are the stats on your Cerberus helm?
Do you have any items with Faster Hit Recovery /FHR?

I did not specifically say make a tornado druid with grief lol. Of course starting out your first tornado druid is using hoto, enigma, 2/3 pelt, etc. Starting out melee with a druid is not the best idea because melee druids require a lot of knowledge about druids.


 
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Od Yard -- Just seems like we both know our favorites.


TheRubberGuard This is the best I can do at the moment:

Speed Fury Build

Skills
20 Werewolf
20 Lycanthropy
1 Feral Rage
1 Rabies
20 Fury

1 Ravens
1 Oak Sage
1 Spirit Wolves
10 Dire Wolves
20 Grizzly

95 Skill Points total. With the skill quests, Level 84 build or so.

Mercenary
ACT 2 MERC (Nightmare Offensive) Guilimane's Face and Equipment you have for now - may work out good.

Equipment:


Grief Pb for now or forever - Up’d Ribby with Shael if you want to go 2 hander
Stormshield - Um'd or Perfect Diamond
Enigma - because you got it - fortitude works better
Arachnid Belt - ok for now (get a Verdungo's when you can)
Goreriders - great for this build
Dracs Gloves - works very good
Jalals because of resists needed with wearing nigma with 15res/100 AR jewel - or Um'd
Ravenfrost/Ravenfrost for now if using PB
Mara’s Amulet is solid - keep it

Torch/Anni 2x FHR Shape Shift charms, F R/W charms. AR/Life grand charm. your gonna need some fhr to get to 86 breakpoint. FHR charms work good.

You don't need everything now but it's nice to know what your setup is so you can stat to wear all of it.

Most Shifters have Dungo's on and Tgod in stash. Don't stat around the nigma - nigma is good but you may decide to get a COH because of 65 resist or a Fortitude because of 300% damage and 25-30 resist. Lite armor like dusk is best so you block and move better. If your going for Ribcracker later - statting for a phase blade is 136 dex that could go into life. 2 Ravens give AR and Dex to prevent that a little. This was a quick rambling but I have 2 wolves and like em. I also have 2 bears and one windy. Lets face it - I'm a druid lol. take care and hope this helps.


RE: My SpeedWolf Build

Read the mini guide. Putting a few elemental: fire, cold, lightning sc's on fury dru would be fine. No extra poison needed just a small lightning or fire charm. The wolf example I put on the previous page can take down physical immunes not in 2 seconds- but it can. Putting a Bstar in stash would cure anything immune of their will to live.

Grief has 35% CTC level 15 Venom = 305-325 Venom twice a second -- you got poison already! 610-650/sec
2 X Ravenfrost 15-45 cold damage x 2 = 30-90 cold damage
Tgod had 1-50 lightning damage
Torch = CTC fire damage

Thats 640-760 non physical damage a second already on Speed Wolf, Man!!!!
Man up and build a wolf and then start talkin!!!! Yeeeaahhhh!!!! can you hear me now?
JK man - its cool!

But common sense from experience tells me that Rabies Blows in PVM. I can Kill with Fury before the 10 second wait time for Rabies is over most of the time. PVP is diferent - Rabies is cool when: that health bubble bursts on Barbs and Pally's and they realize that the cure is death:)



Fury Wolf only has one attack ( left click fury) so you put Grizzly on Right Click and drop a thousand pound Griz on Foes. Wolf can't tele but I can throw a Griz on top of anything the full length of the screen and run and kill em. Cuz I'm Speed Wolf :)with a Nigma/Gores lol and I'm Superwolf,, cuz I throw da Bears :/

But I shouldn't be tell'n you that. Now you know why Speed Wolf always chooses da Bears.
 
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Orion I disagree with your fury build. Here would be the skill distribution I would choose for a fury druid:
20 fury
20 lycan
20 oak sage
20 rabies
rest into werewolf

For the gear, there would be big changes I would make comparing to what you just mentioned. Eth tomb reaver is generally better than ribby because of ias.
 
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20 Rabies without 20 in poison creeper would only weaken the build not help it.
With the gear he has - which would only be -20 to -25 poison resist - Rabies would be a weak secondary attack. The gear he has doesn't support that build. Like you said Mele SS builds are more difficult - a mistake like that can really hurt your build.

He doesn't have an Eth Tomb 3 socket.Which btw is more spendy than the rest of his equipment. He asked what he could build with what he has. TheRubberGuard has decent Fury equipment.
 
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Get him Orion get him.

Ya od if you made a fury wolf....

From what you showed if you made a fury wolf you wouldnt get past act 1 norm.
 
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Guys I never made a wolf. I make more elemental than wolf. And if that is so then you tell me a fury guide. I thought rabies would help kill immunes but I suppose I should work the rest into poison creeper or work the rest into oak sage. Im not sure about fury druids but I know elemental more than anything.
 
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Od Yard -

RE: My SpeedWolf Build

Read the mini guide I put on the previous page. Putting a few elemental: fire, cold, lightning sc's on fury dru would be fine. No extra poison needed just a small lightning or fire charm. The wolf example I put on the previous page can take down physical immunes not in 2 seconds- but it can. Putting a Bstar in stash would cure anything immune of their will to live.

Grief has 35% CTC level 15 Venom = 305-325 Venom twice a second -- you got poison already! 610-650/sec
2 X Ravenfrost 15-45 cold damage x 2 = 30-90 cold damage
Tgod had 1-50 lightning damage
Torch = CTC fire damage

Thats 640-760 non physical damage a second already on Speed Wolf, Man!!!!
Man up and build a wolf and then start talkin!!!! Yeeeaahhhh!!!! can you hear me now?
JK man - its cool!

But common sense from experience tells me that Rabies Blows in PVM. I can Kill with Fury before the 10 second wait time for Rabies is over most of the time. PVP is diferent - Rabies is cool when: that health bubble bursts on Barbs and Pally's and they realize that the cure is death :)



Fury Wolf only has one attack ( left click fury) so you put Grizzly on Right Click and drop a thousand pound Griz on Foes. Wolf can't tele but I can throw a Griz on top of anything the full length of the screen and run and kill em. Cuz I'm Speed Wolf with a Nigma/Gores lol :) and I'm Superwolf cuz I throw da Bears :/

But I shouldn't be tell'n you that. Now you know why Speed Wolf always chooses da Bears.
 
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Od Yard -

RE: My SpeedWolf Build

Read the mini guide I put on the previous page. Putting a few elemental: fire, cold, lightning sc's on fury dru would be fine. No extra poison needed just a small lightning or fire charm. The wolf example I put on the previous page can take down physical immunes not in 2 seconds- but it can. Putting a Bstar in stash would cure anything immune of their will to live.

Grief has 35% CTC level 15 Venom = 305-325 Venom twice a second -- you got poison already! 610-650/sec
2 X Ravenfrost 15-45 cold damage x 2 = 30-90 cold damage
Tgod had 1-50 lightning damage
Torch = CTC fire damage

Thats 640-760 non physical damage a second already on Speed Wolf, Man!!!!
Man up and build a wolf and then start talkin!!!! Yeeeaahhhh!!!! can you hear me now?
JK man - its cool!

But common sense from experience tells me that Rabies Blows in PVM. I can Kill with Fury before the 10 second wait time for Rabies is over most of the time. PVP is diferent - Rabies is cool when: that health bubble bursts on Barbs and Pally's and they realize that the cure is death :)



Fury Wolf only has one attack ( left click fury) so you put Grizzly on Right Click and drop a thousand pound Griz on Foes. Wolf can't tele but I can throw a Griz on top of anything the full length of the screen and run and kill em. Cuz I'm Speed Wolf with a Nigma/Gores lol :) and I'm Superwolf cuz I throw da Bears :/

But I shouldn't be tell'n you that. Now you know why Speed Wolf always chooses da Bears.

Ok thanks for your advice. But from reading the earlier comments I prefer 50% dr on melee chars so my gear setup would be different from yours. I was thinking of a fury/rabies build like kiba made. So I suppose I could use some sort of amp or decrep instead of lifetap but that all depends on the build. I think I will look up a good fury build so I get more familiar with shapeshifters.


 
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Rabies is awful PvM.
 
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Od Yard

Your probably on your way to finding a new favorite build. Sound thinkin on the 50- DR. SS + Nigma has 43 < 50. 50 is more solid. Good Luck.
 
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Od Yard

Your probably on your way to finding a new favorite build. Sound thinkin on the 50- DR. SS + Nigma has 43 < 50. 50 is more solid. Good Luck.

Hell no windy will always be my favorite. Sorry to say it that way on the forum but no character subs my windy :)


 
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