Cataclysm Druid early end game advice

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I recently was lucky to get the uniques for Cataclysm Druid as well as reach full resists and armor for T IV. The issue is survival that I didn’t notice back in T I through T III. Basically, my best advice to survive in Torment Four as a Cataclysm Druid, is prioritize getting into Bear form at all costs. Most of your skills will take you out of Bear form so immediately after every spell cast follow it up with a bear generator or spender (even though they don’t do any damage).

That being said, I don’t have the overpower crit META online yet, so while this is excellent advice for early end-game, I’m willing to bet this rotation will mess up the snapshotting.

Even without the META overpower crit I can decimate T 4 but even with full resist and armor cap you do need to get back into Bear form immediately after every spell. For example Cataclysm itself will put you into wolf form so immediately go back into Bear.

Thanks.

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I’m not at T4 yet, nor I play Cataclysm, so just some general advice.

  1. If you play seasonal then take defensive powers. I myself use Life Link and Vengeful spirit servant. But there are more.

  2. In tree: Iron fur, Mending, Vigilance, Defensive posture, Heightened senses. Weave in one or two defensive skills to proc Vigilance.

  3. Smal things: build fortify, +20% life elixer, wordly fortune temper freeze or stun, Spirit boons: an Offensive for defensive, Raheir as mercenary.

  4. Paragon: remove some offensive for defensive.

  5. At higher Paragon you have so much +% life, that those +max life affixes on gear give a lot of return, while +damage has diminishing return.

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How much health do you have?

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I have 6,941 HP
Sometimes I die haha.

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LMAO I think you found the problem, How do you even have that little? I would highly suggest you focus on getting more life, and using life buffs

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For instance my chest piece is Willpower, Armor, GA Poison Resist. No Life roll on my chest, pants. I only have one Witch gem in a ring and I believe getting all three witch gems would help balance armor and all res.

Edit: Finally got Shroud of False Death and went back to T3 because my resist and armor are no longer capped lol. Not complaining, I’m so happy I got that mythic. Although I need to tinker and tweak different options to get cap again for t4.

Edit 2: Dear diary,

My armor is once again capped and my all res will be capped soon after Masterworking crits on all res, only need a few more % res so it should be easy to reset the tier 1 Masterworking

Edit 3: Dear Diary
I have Max resist and Armor in T4 now. GG.

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What are you running for legs? Tassets of the dawning sky can really help with resistance cap

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My legs are Ancestral Willpower, Life, and All Resist. With the aspect for Hurricane gives 5 stacks.

I am fully capped and full armor. Although I have Max armor % on my amulet which hopefully eventually I can replace that. Edit: actually my amulet is Willpower, Armor, and All res. Otherwise I can’t cap resist too.