Hello,
I’ve been enjoying druid a lot overall and honestly I don’t have a ton of major complaints about how the class plays mechanically. The only thing I’m not really liking so far is you’re really shoehorned into shapeshifting into a wolf or bear forever. I find the act of shapeshifting between human form and your animal forms to be visual candy for how seamless it is and it’s just really well done but, like, a wolf limply patting the air to throw tornados at stuff…? not so much.
To that end I’m just suggesting something that’s a cosmetic choice that wouldn’t impact build functionality. Could we get a sort of toggle that lets us cosmetically change shapeshifting to be something like a spirit silhouette of the beast form we’re assuming when using a certain ability (e.g. pulverize would summon a spirit of a werebear to smash the area in front of you, no mechanical change purely cosmetic)?
For me personally I am enamored with the fantasy of an earth/storm caster. I would prefer to be human sometimes but based off of the LA’s and uniques we have I feel like I’d seriously be gimping my character if I omitted any of it (especially grizzly rage with perma unstoppable and infinite cd scaling)
Thoughts? I feel like a lot of things are more important for them to look at right now but I’d like to see something like this down the road
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Well earth bear is human a small amount of time even with true form, because you are encouraged to use a storm basic attack to force form swaps. There is multiple talents that synergize with constant form swapping and storm/earth alternating. This also helps a lot with resetting earth CDs if you are using symbiotic aspect along with nature’s fury. I wish there was a way to get symbiotic to work with debilitating roar but I don’t think there is. It should work with trample when you have trampled earth legendary.
Until you get either the unique head or the ursine horror legendary you’ll be mostly in human form. The true form unique chest is actually not extremely important to the build as far as I can tell.
How are you form swapping with bear build? You always wanna run grizzly rage for unstoppable + damage scaling and loop it with calm before the storm procs, and during grizzly rage you can only use skills that are considered bear skills (or wolf skills, if you have the LA that converts it to a wolf ability) which means you are staying in bear/wolf form
Good point. I forgot about grizzly restriction. Kinda the downside to it. If only unstoppable wasn’t so valuable. Still collecting gear on my 56 druid.
yeah just to be clear my post is not referring to the leveling process. The “feel” and visuals of druid without the shapeshifting LA’s is actually fantastic IMO, I enjoy them a lot at that stage of gameplay. It kinda boils down to grizzly rage being way too strong to pass up once you have the proper setups and you will literally stay as a bear or wolf forever lol
Just wanted to reply to say I agree with you on this one. I’m disappointed that right now the main endgame builds all revolve around Grizzly Rage uptime. I think it may be a more global issue around CDR than the Druid in particular, but I’d love to see some other caster builds come to the top.