So, there I was minding my own business, just slowly doing a ball run with my summons druid and the first wave didn’t spawn trash, rather the Dclone!
So, I figured I would have a go? However much to my dismay my full summon druid with 42 points in all pets, and 2/3 maxed HOTW, utterly failed, miserably so, not being able to do 1 mm or more dmg to his health bar.
The regular wolves, all die in 1 shot, I mean they are kinda grateful they get to see more than just normal only now, I guess, but nope they were not going to cut it, the merc also fell over dead immediately, he does this on a regular basis tbh, bosses, champions, mobs, bad tempered cows, its all the same, I regularly have to go back to town and res him then refit his crash helmet and velcro shoes.
Next up were the maxed dire wolves, same at lvl 41, they lasted about 50% longer, so 1.5 seconds and all dead. Shame. I was dispatching more dogs that PETA at this point, with the sole aim maybe I could just bury him under an ever-growing pile of canine corpses and hope he didn’t notice me.
The bear with 7.3k hp lasted a bit longer, nearly 3-4 seconds at times before becoming a new throw rug. And as for the HOTW that just seemed to die on its own, maybe out of depression watching all this occur while the sentient weeds, either poison or life, just rolled around on the floor before being sautéed.
This led to me being chased around the pillars in my bear form stopping to just have time to throw a few more deeply disturbed pets into the hulking angry BBQ chasing me.
Meanwhile the ravens did what ravens do best, which is to say not very much, on paper at 4k damage each x 5 at 55 hits should be 1.1m damage – alas they either don’t hit, or he blocks them, or I suspect merely ignores them as although ravens can be a threat to new born lambs, rodents and trash cans they are it seems less effective against 20ft of enraged hell brute.
So, before I got a visit from sanctuary’s animal welfare officer and a small series on Netflix I decided to quit, which leaves me to wonder, how or can a pure summon build defeat the end game bosses? – a Necro can, by using Udars with crushing blow, and tele stomping (I have no enigma yet) though I suspect it will make no real difference. And the usual top 3 meta builds – yawn, all can, easily.
Other than this menagerie of rag tag animals I have via +skills 16 in w’bear and lycan for the hit points. – sure I could cut back on pets and add elemental, but then I might as well just do an ele build, or I could invest more in shapeshifting, but then why not just go full fury furry, the issue at hand is that while the druid summon can at least now do hell on players 1 its still not gonna cut it versus end game and even then its boring, the pets with no AOE and iffy AI (you know ur attacking a target and half your pets and just stood there sniffing themselves or staring cross eyed at the battle) and don’t get me going on the phy immune/cold immune mobs, just bypass as quick as possible.
Not saying all builds should be uber slaying speed freaks, but at least have a chance to do all end game, currently by collection of dogs, bears and vegetables would have a higher survival rate in a wet market. Perhaps give the bear some crushing blow? Or some open wounds or something while a bit of synergy from the poison or solar noodles could help? But if anyone has some great tips on defeating dclone or even ubers with a pure summon let me know
