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i pref just telestomping makes the clearspeed a little faster. I mostly use my summoner for trav runs and key running now since its really relaxing and the many summons prevents my merc from being killed by the hydras. Im a huge fan of druid and just made a Earth Shifter build for running everything else it has a lot better clearspeed and oneshots pretty much all mobs with 17k max damage fury and completely maxed synergies for fissure procs from my weapon. Made it cause i got a 299ed Eth Earth shifter and gave it a Zod rune
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i dont use full inventory skillers too since have a cube to pick up items,hoto3skills spirit2skills shield when summoning = 5skills when summoning. decided to not use beast +pride +might combo anymore since the animals Ai + movespeed is terrible.currently using act5 frenzy merc with lastwish/grief/lawbringer and grief+lawbringer is the best result even though my lastwish is perfectly rolled and grief junk roll or using a harmony act1 merc is fun too and improves the animals way more then beast +pride+might does, u can use +3summon amulet / + 3summon+3bear+3wolf magic helm or+5deliruium for lvl52+summons, seen people did that but i decided to stay on shako for mf for now and usually my summons are 47-49 which is way enough rather then lvl50+ summons
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I tried act 5 merc grief lawbringer too but went back to act 2 might with reaperās toll. The reaperās toll decrep proc is far more consistent than lawbringer and u wont be pushing away undead all the time. Pushing them away lowers ur clear speed and this gets very anoying in chaos sanctuary where u can actually push the storm casters over the edge and thereby loosing the drops. They are the ones with the highest rune drop chance
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for storm casters u can stay at seal and direct ravens to the superunquie or telestomp it in 1hit so wont knock it off map, sancutary aura is actually useful in meph to knock dolls away to keep that c/e which sometimes kills in 1hit with 3-4 c/e same time,if i sometimes switch to act2 merc i rather prefer the prayer heal over might so that dont need to pot at all,ALL offensive auras are quite useless to the animals UNLESS harmony bow self welding due to the clueless animals AI unlike nec skeles.With harmony vigor aura the animals are finally doing something and killing becos they run fast now,go try it its quite fun with u shooting as the 5th damage dealer trying to be a little bowazon ,bearwolfs will be damagedealers only with vigor which i seen alot other druid threads testers said too, might merc is pretty useless unless combo with vigor for the animals or just use a faith bow on youself to be a slightly bigger bowazon
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Well all the other storm casters gets pushed away too i find it kind of annoying since they will be pushed over the fire and loosing their drops besides the summons will spend more time killing them since they have to chase them every 2 sec. I can however see the benefit for mephisto running vs dolls those things are deadly as fā¦ My merc does from 1468- 9468 damage now with eth reaper and might and using a chamāed Gface + forti so he seems to do like most of the damage on his own If i was to do the harmony i would probably go WW fury and wear the reaperās toll my self and ofc max all the summons and rest is 1 point wonders and leftovers go to fury or HoW then i would put the harmony on a act 1 fire merc and maybe use a demon limb for prebuffing her
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is fun doing harmony vigor or faith fanst on yourself too/weapon swap cta for summons/Bo and have a act5/act2 merc pretending you are a little bowzon so u have more things to do espically in act4 CS
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Try hamony in a crossbow if u want to wield it urself and switch to WW fury does decent damage with it and u can have act 2 merc with reapers for phys immune
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take a demon crossbow for fast attack speed
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A lot of post to go over so sorry if this was asked before. Is the Beast runeword helpful with the build other than saving 6 shapeshifting skill points? Do the animals benefit from the Fanaticism aura?
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Just tested act 1 freeze arrow with harmony and maxing summons +switching to WW fury with self wielding reaperās toll this build is indeed a lot faster than pure summon and the ignore target def on reaperās means i dont need to focus so much on attack rating. Besides i run fast as fā¦ now killing most trash before summons even catch up but they provide great support vs larger groups and tougher enemies. Think ill rock this setup for a while very fun
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Not really waste of money in my opinion since the ravens do most of the damage and dont benefit from the aura. As for the other summons it really doesnt seem worth it and if u want to go hybrid with WW and fury or some other skill there are far better options.
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You do max Ww/Fury with max Bear/DireWolves?
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It all depends on how much u want to focus on either elemental damage, physical damage or summons. If u want max damage ravens u have to max all summons. if u want more elemental damage u ofc want to max ur skill and the synergies and use the leftovers for summons. Just finished trying some different variations myself. One was a Earth shifter WW in this variant i primarily focused on maxing my synergies for fissure procs from my weapon and for armageddon + as many points in fury as possible and one point wonders for bear. For my pure summoner i maxed all summons and rest in HoW. My current setup is a WW shapeshifter with self wielding Reapers Toll in this variant i maxed all wolves and bear+ fury and skipped the ravens. Rest of my points went in to WW. With this setup u can however choose to max ravens too and put remaining points in HoW since u only need 1 pointers in shape shifting skill. This is because Reaperās Toll has ignore target def which means u dont really need much attack rating for trash mobs i just chose to focus more on my own dps since i kill alot faster my self than the summons As for merc im currently using an act 1 freeze with harmony this provides me and my summons with good CC and a huge movement speed buff from vigor which really helps those peg legged wolves. If i want more boss damage i can switch the merc for an act 2 merc with some crusing blow like infinity or gface however this is not needed with my current setup better have the movement speed. U can also choose act 5 he is really fun and kills pretty fast too.
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Of course it dependsā¦ but whats the best kill speed? Shapshifter with support summons or pure Summorer.
I dont like the elemental skills because the fuā¦ā¦ missing hits and cooldowns.
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If u want clearspeed shapeshifter+ summons definitly faster than pure summoning. I personally use WW + fury atm. Pure summoner is more of a lazy build and even with bis gear the clearspeed is kinda meeh but its pretty ok for just teleporting and killing bosses
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Atm im using a reaperās toll on my druid and have an act 1 freeze merc with harmony for the vigor aura. this provides me and my summons with high movement speed and i have no issues with phys immune and no need for attackrating due to reaperās having ignore target def and decrep proc
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curious why you keep picking act 1 ice over act 1 fire. the wolves already do cold damage. the fire would benefit more?? Or you using for additional slowing?
Actually i tried both and really the act 1 freeze beats the extra bit of damage from the fire merc in my opinion. My wolves survive better when mobs are frozen and my spirit doesnt die very often either + i dont have to worry about my merc dying if i decide to chase another group of mobs while she keeps the remaining mob surrounding her and my wolves slowed and frozen. This and the fact that i really didnt see much of a difference in clearspeed since i kill most mobs myself anyway. Oh and by the way im using reaperās toll so no problems with phys immune
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1 Skillpoint in Werewolf and Fury (Zeal), equipped with Lawbringer (Phaseblade) and crafted 10% cb gloves (+20% ias) plus 25% cb goblin toe everything melts down superfast even without all the summonings. Having cb on gloves and boots is nice cause it doesnāt interfere with +skills.
Lawbringer mainly for Decrepify. I donāt like the merc version of it cause its short on level 1 and has limited control and the act5 merc who could wear Lawbringer is missing Might Aura. Otherwise the mace with +2 druid skills/25% cb would be an option. Just talking of low budget gear.
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I donāt use any shapeshifting skills. Staying in caster form for teleport. I also just have 1 in Raven and use my bear on rightclick instead as a ānukeā to disable stuff like shamans or other annoyances over the frontline.
What does make an enormous difference is my A1 fire merc with a Wrath bow and a lot of IAS, spreading Decrep everywhere. This is also the reason I didnāt skill Ravenā¦ they overwrite the Decrep with Blind.
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