 |
| Bloodshrike |  |
|
| 3. Zealot Elummoner build.
| 3/29/2004 8:24:43 AM PST |
|
|
"Hit me, I like
it" :)
Bloodshrike
v 1.10
Zealot Elummoner build.
No, I'm not into S&M. However, that's the philosophy
you should take when thinking of a summoner druid. A Thorns
Merc is your friend.
I wouldn't go pure summoner, instead, go with melee/summoner/and
1 elemental attack.
Essential Equipment:
Passion runeword weapon - A Phase blade would be good for
this, since it's indestructable, and most of your damage
will come from crushing blow. You need + 3 to all skills
to get a 5 swing Zeal.
Q u o t e:
Passion
4 Socket Weapons
Dol + Ort + Eld + Lem
+25% Increased Attack Speed
+160-210% Enhanced Damage
50-80% Bonus To Attack Rating (varies)
+75% Damage To Undead
+50 To Attack Rating Against Undead
Adds 1-50 Lightning Damage
+1 To Berserk
+1 To Zeal
Hit Blinds Target +10
Hit Causes Monster To Flee 25%
75% Extra Gold From Monsters
Level 3 Heart of Wolverine (12 Charges)
This is one of the sweetest runewords they've come up with.
With this weapon, ANY character class can play melee if
they want. Bonus to AR means a character with 1000 AR would
have 1800 after the 80% bonus, while the Berzerk allows
you to deal with Physical Immune monsters. This will allow
you to get off crushing blows really, really fast, so you
can take down monsters even though you’re only doing about
300 damage in Hell.
You think you’ll have AR issues?
My melee summoner druid has 4492 AR, and usually about 70-75
percent chance to hit in Hell, without AR skill enhancers
like Penetrate.
This is with 286 points in dexterity (equipment makes up
41 of those dex points), 387 attack rating from Raven frost
and charms, and a perfect 80% AR bonus Passion. You also
get 10% AR bonus for every + to skill item you have, and
it's important to have at least +3 to all skills anyway,
for a 5 hit Zeal.
Sigons shield - +1 to skills, good blocking (64%
for druid). Socket with a P diamond.
Highlord's Wrath ammy - + 1 to skills, 20% IAS, Deadly
Strike, lightning resist...SWEET
Naj armor - 45% Damage Taken Goes To Mana/+1 To All Skills
/All Resistances +25/+65 To Life. I socketed mine with a
P ruby, for 103 life for Oak Sage to more than double. Use
Skin of Viper Magi while leveling.
Duriels shell is another option. The resists/scaling life
are very nice, and cannot be frozen could free up Ravenfrost
from a ring slot. However, scaling life and + to Vitality
items won’t be acted upon by Oak sage, so Naj armor is
very attractive.
Ravenfrost ring – AR/Dex/cold damage/cold absorb/cannot
be frozen. You have pathetic physical damage, so don’t
worry about life leach.
Dwarfstar ring – 15% Fire absorb/life. Good to have on.
Blood crafted gloves - Get 20% IAS, 10% Crush blow gloves,
and the life leach doesn't matter much.
Goblin Toe/Gorerider boots - Gorerider has 15% crush blow,
so between Gorerider and Guillaumes, you have 50% crush
blow. The deadly strike is meaningless to this build, but
the Open Wounds helps out.
Guillaumes Face (Orphan set) – 35% crush blow/15% deadly
strike/15 Strength/30% FHR. Go with Jalal’s Mane if you
use Goblin Toe boots. You can make up the run/walk with
charms, and you’d have 35% crushblow between Goblin Toe
and your gloves. You wouldn’t have a crushblow every other
hit like with 50% crushblow, but 35% is still 1 every 3
hits. This would allow more + to druid skills, and a lot
more resists.
Merc:
2 to consider. Since we're not putting many points into
Spirit wolves, Dire wolves will have lower defense (not
that they'd have very much in Hell anyway..). You could
use a Might merc to boost the damage of the wolves and yourself,
or you could use a Thorns merc. http://www.diabloii.net/townsfolk/warrior-combat.shtml
Hired in Nightmare, he reaches his cap of level 17 Thorns
by level 55.
Helm: I recommend a P Rubied Tal Rasha helm for 98 to life/good
resists/10% life leach
Armor: Hwannin's armor is nice for the 100 to life, 10%
chance to cast lvl 3 Static Field on being struck. With
those 2 pieces of equipment, and a level 24 Oak sage, my
Thorns merc has 4512 life at level 81. If using Duriels
Shell on your merc, be aware that items with scaling life
don’t get the life multiplied by Oak Sage. You’d get
more of a life bonus from Lionheart than Duriels, since
Lionheart gives you a flat 50 to life.
Weapon: Your choice. Bonehew, Crescent Moon, even an Honor
weapon would be good, since the + 1 to skills would boost
his Thorns aura.
Oh yeah, about the Thorns Aura. At level 17, it returns
890% damage taken(and since this is 1.10, there's
no 50% global physical resist in Hell). The monsters take
back all that damage. This is why I titled the build "Hit
me, I like it."
Amp Damage…….Be thankful when you get cursed. When you
get cursed, your wolves take double damage. Thorns returns
a % of the damage dealt. So monsters will quickly
kill themselves on your wolves.
Skills
20 Oak Sage - Obviously :)
1 in Raven (with + skills, this is nice because it blinds
monsters occasionally)
1 in Spirit wolf
1 in Poison Creeper
1 in Carrion Vine (useful for life, and clearing away enemies
so they can't be resurrected)
5-20 in Dire Wolf (for more Dire wolf Life). With 6x + to
summon Grand Charms, even 5 points is enough.
1-20 in Summon Grizzly (for more Dire wolf damage/Bear damage).
I’d advise going with only 1 point though, since the wolves
are just there to soak up damage. I do advise 1 point though,
for special situations where there’s one big monster that
kills your wolves too quickly to deal with (Duriel is a
notable example of this.)
Optional: going with around the minimum I put on summon
points, you could max out Hurricane and synergies.
You could go all summons, but you'd have to load up on hella
elemental damage in your equipment and inventory, and Hurricane
is just so darned helpful anyway.
If you maxed Dire Wolves and Summon Grizzly
http://66.98.154.13/Skills.html
with + 3 to skills, and 6 summoning Grand charms, you'd
have a Dire wolf that does 567-619 damage, with 1105 life
in Hell. Unlike a Necro though, you only have 3 of them.
I prefer to have them serve as a spiky meat shield.
1 Arctic Blast
1 Cyclone Armor (Hurricane will last for 12 seconds with
1 point in Cyclone Armor. Pointless to put points in to
increase duration, when you can just recast). Although it
does have a synergy with Tornado.
20 Twister
20 Tornado
20 Hurricane
Leveling tips
Get Oak Sage up to level 10 asap.
Dire Wolves up to level 5
5 into Twister
5 into Tornado
All before level 30
Reasons for Hurricane....It's another type of damage,
so when you go up against a physical immune, you're not
screwed. The Berzerk on Passion will help out against PI's,
but I like having at least 3 different types of damage.
It also slows down all the enemies around you, allowing
you and your wolves to attack more freely.
Tornado is a nice skill to have when your merc and wolves
are getting hit hard by Claw Vipers, and Hurricane won’t
do anything to them (cold immune). Back off while the Vipers
are entertaining your wolves, and pummel them with a few
Tornadoes.
Edit: Actually, you’re doing about 300 physical damage,
so Berzerk won’t do that much. J
Enjoy. :)
BTW, this character finished Hell solo at lvl 78. No rushing
whatsoever. I played straight through, and didn’t really
stop anywhere to level.
Comparisons of elite weapons to put Passion in
Character Druid
Weapon War Spike / Kriegsdorn
Skill Standard
IAS Frames per attack Attacks per second
0 % 19 1.3
2 % 18 1.3
8 % 17 1.4
16 % 16 1.5
27 % 15 1.6
42 % 14 1.7
60 % 13 1.9
92 % 12 2
142 % 11 2.2
Character Druid
Weapon Scourge / Geißel
Skill Standard
IAS Frames per attack Attacks per second
0 % 19 1.3
2 % 18 1.3
8 % 17 1.4
16 % 16 1.5
27 % 15 1.6
42 % 14 1.7
60 % 13 1.9
92 % 12 2
142 % 11 2.2
Character Druid
Weapon Phase Blade / Phasenklinge
Skill Standard
IAS Frames per attack Attacks per second
0 % 16 1.5
3 % 15 1.6
13 % 14 1.7
24 % 13 1.9
44 % 12 2
72 % 11 2.2
Character Druid
Weapon Conquest Sword / Erobererschwert
Skill Standard
IAS Frames per attack Attacks per second
0 % 20 1.2
7 % 19 1.3
13 % 18 1.3
20 % 17 1.4
30 % 16 1.5
44 % 15 1.6
63 % 14 1.7
86 % 13 1.9
129 % 12 2
200 % 11 2.2
A discourse with Frreddy3,
regarding this build.
My "Websites..." post http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?FN=d2-gameplay&T=16934&P=1&ReplyCount=29#post16934
|
|
|
|
|
|