Its a mix with summons and fury druid in werewolf form, it’s quite cheap and the most optimal farming for the build is Travinical farm with everything on player 8.
takes around 70 seconds to spawn in summon minions, and run over and kill the council, for a lvl 90 (for drops p7 and p8 makes no difference p8 just gives more exp).
So gear will be
Jalal’s Mane helm with 15Ias/40Ed jewel (cheap option 15increased attack speed jewel)
Hustle armor rune word
The Reaper’s Toll Ethereal Zod rune it (cheaper option non ethereal with Shael if you don’t have Ias jewel yet, or then Eth rune, Ber rune for crushing blow is best but it’s more expensive then Ethereal Zod Reapers)
Gore Rider boots
Nosferatu’s Coil belt
Laying of Hands gloves
Highlord’s Wrath amulet
Raven Frost ring
Rare ring 1% mana leech and whatever (if you don’t have the mana leech Jala’s helm 5 pr mana per kill is fine on its own for Travinical p1)
total IAS 105 with the IAS jewel in helm.
Merch Act5 Frenzy
Crown of Thieves ethereal socket whatever damage jewel (or Cham rune really not important for him at all, just a waste of anything good)
Hustle ethereal armor rune word
Hustle phase blade rune word main weapon under gloves
Lawbringer phase blade rune word in offhand
Your weapon switch from Reapers toll
Heart of the Oak flail rune word (cheap option spirit weapon rune word)
Spirit monarch shield
always turn into werewolf form with your +skill weapons, for more attack speed, were form has lower FCR (faster cast rate) requirements too for summoning your minions and turn on Quick Cast Skills in options, gameplay menu.
Grand charms 1+ summon skills preferred + is %runspeed, extra life isn’t that important. Small charms use to top out Fire resistance or close to 75.
Lightning, cold and poison aren’t that important, but preference is Lightning resistance if farming other places then cold and poison not being -resists.
With 10 resistance torch and anni the character has 30 Fire resistance and 15 Lightning.
Call to Arms weapon wont be used or even needed, Decriptify from Reapers Toll keeps you plenty safe even with health around 2000 in wolf form, the main power creep comes from getting a Reapers Toll (even non ethereal), so even if you don’t have all the things listed Travinical should be easy on players 1.
Reapers Toll has great damage and defensive, with lower health then true fury druids it really shines compared to Death, Breath of the dying, Beast, as lower health makes it easier for enemies to interrupt you taking 12% of your health in a hit, which Decriptify helps mitigate and good offense too.
for your merch act 5 is chosen because of so much higher survive ability, the act 2 merch are too dumb and slow also turns on their auras super slow.
reason to not pick Arreat’s Face helm its less survive ability for him, and with Heart of the Wolverine out he has less problems with hitting stuff and no matter what he does terrible damage, except for the flying ghost’s cause of salvation aura.
act5 merch best killing Clone Diablo is like 10 miniutes if you need more info on the merc then here’s a very long video with lots of information.
https:// www.youtube .com/watch?v=dma9T2e0lmU
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Stats will be
Strength just enough to use Monarch shield but depends on your torch and anni.
Dexterity around 100 while Reapers toll has ignore target’s defense it doesn’t work on the named council members, only council minions have to find a balance between life and being able to hit stuff.
Health rest in life. around 2000 under/over in wolf form is fine
Energy nothing.
Skills
20 Summon Spirit Wolf
20 Heart of Wolverine
20 Summon Dire Wolf
20 Summon Grizzly
5 Werewolf important with all +skills that you hit lvl 14 or higher werewolf, when weapon swapped to the skill weapons.
5 Lycanthropy
Rest in Fury
https:// warren1001 .github.io/IAS_Calculator/
make sure you picked Druid class
Form Werewolf
Skill Fury
and level Werewolf to correct level
Thresher for weapon = The Reapers Toll Unique
this build is not good until you hit around level 80 so pick the stats and skill differently until then, also Raven’s wont be used only the 8 Wolves, Grizzly and the Heart of Wolverine, the Heart dies a lot in so recommend just re summoning it again without switching to your skill weapons, at least for Travinical.
The Feral Rage attack is not needed to be kept up just use it when you want movement speed increase, you have plenty of life leech without it to run straight in on p8 travinical, just watch out for conviction aura, don’t care about might, fanatasim or being cursed, and target the council minions first.
There’s no magic find, not that important as mf doesn’t help on runes, charms and jewels, while Travinical feels like the most optimal farm compared to anything else you can do with this build there’s still lots of other places you can go and not farm that efficiently, but at least it mixes it up.
This site track terror zones and tells the next one without having to log in
https:// www.d2emu .com/tz
if you press the offline mode you can see different zones with different colors blue means bad zone.
some good on options I feel on players8 terrorzoned farming mobs are Pit super easy, Sewers, Tal Rasha tombs, Cathedral and Catacombs, Chaos Sanctuary, hardest is Worldstone keep the minion combos can be really annoying.
For Chaos Sanctuary an amulet with teleport charges to get over the lava river isn’t bad and doesn’t take up a lot of space in cube afterwards.
if your looking for Base things to socket Lower Kurst is really good but it does need +players for good runes, and this build will always do terribly slow in Cows.
Diablo clone, Ubers Duriel, Izual, Lilith, Diablo and Baal, are super easy to kill, but Uber Mefisto wrecks the build that conviction aura the -resists and -defense counters the build hard.
Even more expensive gear
Enigma instead of hustle armor so you go from 105 increased attack speed in character stats to 65, with it you can’t hit max attack speed anymore with Fanatasisim aura level 1, but make sure Werewolf is level 18 or higher now.
Merch equipment
Andariel’s Visage ethereal with a 30+Fire resist/damage preferred jewel this is only worth it once he’s level 95 or higher with the jewel, at 95 he still be at 73 fire resistance.
Options that aren’t worth it even if their may seem it.
Plauge phase blade seems fine, but lower resist proc are annoying and struggles to find anywhere where its worth it over hustle/lawbringer combo which is even more true when you get Enigma.
Grief phase blade he still does terrible damage with it, it does give him more survive ability then Hustle in mainhand, but costs yourself attack speed, and replacing lawbringer in offhand with grief is less survive ability for him.
Last Wish dual wielding 2 Last Wish and using Ethereal Zod’ed Reapers Toll yourself, with Enigma, seems to be the best damage but so overly expensive, 1 Last Wish isn’t good enough has to be 2, and its hardly better…
instead of getting expensive gear for your merch, switching to a Act1 Ice or Fire merch and get them expensive gear is far better.
Faith rune word in Matriarchal Bow can have 3+ to Bow and Crossbow skills in base weapon
Circlet random rare, 30% faster run walk, up to 8% life leech + whatever else 2+ Amazon skills for extra Evade is nice (put a Cham rune in it)
Hustle ethereal rune word armor still
A Circlet with 2 sockets and the 30% faster run walk, and some % life leech would be best, then instead of Cham rune use 2 15Ias/40ED jewels so Grand Matron Bow base becomes better for Faith, but I wouldn’t recommend it without enough IAS.
Act1 merch does have less survive ability then act5 merch, the AI can be kinda dumb on her and walk her right into mobs, and with Unique/champions and bosses doing 6x damage or something to mercenaries she can end up dying real quick.
but if your rich and looking for all the damage that Fanaticism aura really helps out a lot, can even go Flickering Flame for act1 merch helm instead, for Fire resist aura then your summons become immune to fire, kinda nice in Sanctuary but unneeded and kinda bad for Travincal, with the AI standing on Hydra’s and mercenaries also taking extra damage from Hydra’s compared to the player.
with the Flickering Flame helm the life leech is lost but life leech doesn’t do so well on Act1 merch compared to act5 merch, but there are some good options to pick between, but overall a good Circlet feels the best.
Circlet Rare for general use Flickering Flame helm Wisdom 33 piercing helm for p1 Valkyrie Wing cheap option for faster/run walk
If your merch rolls a 14 or 15 Fanaticism aura on the bow can go for better gear for yourself, aura 12 or 13 are kinda sad.
Metamorphosis rune word in a good druid pelt, can roll is 3+ 3+ 3+ to random skills, so you go from 65 IAS to 50 IAS, replacing the Jalal’s Mane
Death rune word in a two handed Axe, there’s quite a few options.
Champions Axe is the fastest will be max attack speed with the Aura, lowest damage.
Silver-edged Axe would need level 27 Werewolf to hit max attack speed quite a lot of points, but you do get 17 from equipment with torch and annihilus +extra from the helm with whatever +skills the base had.
Decapitator is the most damage need level 24 Werewolf to hit the second best attack speed.
Glorious Axe, same speed as Decapitator has a bit less damage then Decapitator but has 1 extra range over all the other Axes.
For Decapitator or Glorious Axe you could go lvl 26 Werewolf and keep mark of the bear up on yourself, then you be at max attack speed, but not recommended.
Personally I like the Glorious Axe best and not bothering with mark of the bear, you can now replace your mana leech ring with whatever, and I would recommend to keep either a Atmas Scarb amulet or Bone Break grandcharm in cube when you run into physical immune mini bosses.
If doing Countess just use the Reapers Toll such a good weapon it still have some use, she’s also worse to do at over 5 players or something.
Maybe Enigma seems like an odd choice, with no teleport while shapeshifted, but it’s just really efficient having teleport, time to kill council on p8 is now around 50 seconds with all the good gear and act1 merch.