Hey all, I recently created another Fury Druid for Ladder Season 8 softcore, and I realized that I have never really gotten into end game with a Shape Shifter mainly due to the fact that they cannot teleport. (Every season again i make a new Fury Druid as a secondary character and deck him out mostly by farming with my primary character which always happens to be a caster.)
I wanted to break this vicious circle this season and finally farm with my SS Druid. As a result I ran numerous p1 cow runs and found out that a well equipped Werewolf is quite capable to dominate the cow level. I even joined p8 cow runs, but it turned out I’m ill-equipped for high player counts (but that is another story, I guess).
However, the cow runs came to a halt as I created a Trav Barb to earn enough Jah runes to deck out my Werewolf with 10-76-7 Grand Charms. I feel like I have failed and that I will never truly grind myself to the top with a Shape Shifter.
So I would like to hear your story of success/failure regarding the end game of your Shape Shifters. What places do you farm, what equipment do you use, and do you support your Shape Shifters with gear found by other chars?
As for my setup, I’m running a Stormlash Fury Druid (char lvl 91), so I centered my build around that unique Scourge. My setup goes as follows:
Weapon: 300ed eth Stormlash (I’m very proud of this item as I gained it from a very fortunate deal with a very nice person on Traderie)
Shield: 375ed Phoenix Monarch
Armor: Fortitude
Helmet: rare Earth Spirit with +2 to Druid, +2 to Fury, 39 to Life, 2os (Socketed with Cham and Thul)
Gloves: Laying of Hands
Boots: Gore Rider
Belt: rare Demonhide Sash with 17 Fhr, 20 Str, 41 to Life, +20% Lr, +28% Pr
Amulet: Highlord’s Wrath
Ring 1: Carrion Wind
Ring 2: Blood Ring with dual leech and some other useful stats
Skillpoint allocations go as follows:
Fury: 20 points
Werewolf: 10 points
Lycantrophy: 5 points
Cyclone Armor/Twister/Hurricane: each 20 points (to synergize the Tornado procs from Stormlash)
Arctic Blast: 4 points so far (to synergize the Twister procs from Carrion Wind)