help me if this idea is dumb but I think Claw might be the only basic skill you could actually use as your primary attack. Of course this won’t be meta but I’m just wondering if this would work.
So, with Mad Wolf’s Glee, your Werewolf skills get a +3 (mine actually gives +4 for some reason? is that a known bug? I looked through all my skills and every Werewolf skill is at +4 item contribution). With that, your claw gets to rank 8 and deals 37% damage per hit. Pretty bad. But Enhances Claw increases the attack speed by 15% and Wild Claw gives you a 15% chance to attack twice. Blus you can stack +60% attack speed from a legendary aspect on a stave. The eagle spirit boons can also give you either +5% crit chance, +30% crit damage or +10% attack speed, the latter two might be nice.
The whole reason I’m thinking about this is the fact that Claw has incredibly high attack speed and the key passive Lupine Ferocity makes every 6th attack a guaranteed crit with 70% increased damage. Combined with Poison Creeper/Envenom for another +30% crit damage and then crit damage from gear, I just thought it could be a neat way to continuously land crits for no spirit. But the main idea is just thaz it would be pretty funny to push the attack speed to its limit. Is there a hard cap/diminishing returns on maximum attack speed or can you keep stacking it?
With the Crone Staff unique you can do a lot with just claw. I played around with it preseason and I got some crazy damage and attack speed. The room clearing ability isn’t there so you’d have to do it just for the fun of. The only thing you’d have to be careful with creeper is using its ability would pull you out of werewolf so if your defensives are tied to being in wolf form it could get sketchy.
I’m thinking about trying this too when I get a crone staff.
Plan is to stack basic attack speed and damage and take points in Bad Omen for the extra lightning damage to take advantage of the high volume of attacks going out.
Also since spirit may or may not be used, still thinking about that one, the aspect that boosts damage the more primary resource you have could possibly be good.
Still playing with ideas though.
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Pre season i did stormclaw with crones it was crazy strong. I instantly jumped 17 nm levels. I used the maxroll stormclaw build. Basically immortal
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Cool. Good to know it can work.
Dunno if it’d be worth it but may be funny to use with Nature’s Fury and the Earth spike aspect for when it procs too.
50% vulnerable from the storm strike that’s basically always up is too good to pass up
Exploit Glyph exists plus Crone Staff includes Storm Strike with Claw
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I’m using a claw build right now, but there’s no way for claw alone to do enough damage. You still have to pair it with a complimentary core ability.
Exactly … crones staff plus lightning
Nice username btw. I don’t wanna hijack the thread, but I haven’t seen another deadsy fan in like 15 years.
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Love them still hoping for new material lol
stormclaw is a pretty fun build i’m glad i tried it after leveling with pulverise , nice change of pace.