New Buffed Shred build is insane!

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so doing 1 Billion + damage is fine? or need a nerf?

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95% you mean

the drop is clearly bugged and the devs do not want to admit there is a coding error somewhere and somehow

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He only did 1.8 billion damage because the stars and planets aligned to where he was able to collect on his Crit Damage% accumulation late in Grizzly Rage and also triggered Lupine Ferocity, along with other passives/aspects activating at the same time that contribute

I’m not a statistician to be able to measure the chances of this happening, but an asspull number I can make is perhaps once every 5 nightmare dungeons would this happen and would be likely wasted on a mob that wouldn’t require that damage to oneshot

That damage output is an outlier and cannot be consistently triggered. It’s fine, because it’s RNG of top of RNG to happen

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So you think this is a good game design?

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I think this may end up being one of the strongest builds in the game. Easily the fastest 50+ NM speed clear build in the game atm, and also looks epic for Uber Lilith. It seems there are a couple variants of this shred build, though, so maybe there’s even more potential to be gained. I think there’s honestly more to explore here.

Here’s an uber lilith kill

And here’s Rob doing some speed runs(normal and NM 54) where he gets a 482 million hit. This is a good showcase of how the build functions in practice.

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Just saw your post. In my last post I showed an Uber Lilith video using the Shred build. It seems really strong.

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I don’t think most people don’t know what stats they need. I think most players have to compromise because perfect gear is really hard to find. So when you see certain ineffective stats on gear, they were making the best of a messed up situation. Like I can’t find gloves with lucky, attack speed, crit, and skill bonus or 3 of 4 and the resources to roll what I need. Maybe I will now with good basic build I don’t need to upgrade so often and can build up gold and mats.

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Pfft lol. And I thought my werenado was shredding. That’s nuts. if stormclaw is double dipping into the multipliers I expect Blizz to nerf bat that.

I’m going to guess that ursine strength is a misclick on the keystones?

I will say this build has always been the most fun for nm farming. It’s controlled chaos which is my jam.

edit I was able to reproduce this to some degree. Not a two shot like in the video but the damage is significant.

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I am going to switch to this guys build but my gear isn’t there yet for some of this. I’ll report back how it goes with gear most people actually have that can’t play 24/7.

I have tempest keep and Tornado wolf is freaking insane but a bit squishy until you get Grizzly rage cd down to a decent level with Cool down reduction.

My biggest issue is running outta spirit i guess i need the correct gear for grizz to be low enough cd

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There are a couple of things in the last few posts which may be deceptive:

  1. Blurred Beast was able to stack and multiply, meaning that the base number applied to the enemy was added to the base damage of the weapon prior to any other multipliers. As most of us know, base power of the weapon is huge, so if this is multiplied by 10 or 100 prior to any other multipliers, the damage is insane. This was supposedly nerfed a week+ ago and shouldn’t be happening still, so make sure the youtuber is presenting a recent event to prove that it’s still possible post-nerf.

  2. TR is required for the storm claw build. It is VERY impressive and requires a few skills combined, but can be tanky and wreck up to NM 70 (maybe further). If you have TR and want to run werenado OR shred-stormclaw, you will wreck (assuming you know what you’re doing).

  3. The videos (non-Lilith) I’m seeing above are for very low level enemies (i.e. NM level below character level), so take it with a grain of salt (unless you want to shred low level NM dungeons, which many builds can do). If you’re impressed with the frequent 1mil attacks, I run shred without GR and routinely get 1.5mil with far from a perfect setup. Shred is great for speed runs, but runs into some issues in high-end content.

  4. The 1bil+ shown above is with a SHRINE. The youtuber explains that it’s an effect with stormclaw’s aspect which is boosted in an unnatural manner by the shrine. I’m sure this will be nerfed by Blizzard soon, but even in the meantime, you need the crit shrine to make it work, which isn’t practical for any normal game usage (great if you’re trying to get clicks on your youtube channel though).

I’m a 1-100 (and far beyond) shred build Druid.

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Except every streamer is now playing this and hitting 200-500m in some scenarios. That Stormclaw aspect just straight up seems bugged doing way more than intended in a hard to replicate manner. Im sure Blurred Beast is somehow also interacting with it, saw a video where it appears the proc from that also can set off stromclaw.

Been playing a poison shred build myself since starting Druid and have never rewatched video but this explains why sometimes Butchers just straight melted in NM dungeons.

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I explain this in my post. Please read it and let me know if you experience something that’s different.

FYI - the youtubers appreciate you watching all of their videos where they’re all doing the same thing (getting the shrine buff). They may livestream, but they know how to crop their videos.

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I though the bug was that toxic claw was stacking on top of itself as a multiplier?

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Yeah, it was stacking on itself, then adding to the base damage, which was multiplied by all of the multipliers. Toxic claw doesn’t have a large damage number, but if you keep attacking (especially critting) and can add that number onto itself over and over again, then you can get a number that is WAY higher than any base weapon attack number. Blizzard fixed this, so it shouldn’t be happening anymore, but if it is, or if you can get a huge number without this post-patch, I’d love to know about it (I don’t run BB normally).

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Except its live on stream and hardly any of it was under the shrine buff and it was live today. So stop pretending like they’re cropping and its old video. Its not.

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What you said seems to be the case. I’m testing it on Lilith and consistently getting 8-10m procs.

Edit The set up for this is very specific and very RNG (to some extent). Like if you don’t get crits off BB

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I just watch the video - he had the shrine buff. Why are you arguing? He states that he had the shrine buff and you can see the shrine buff on his screen. If there’s another video which was streamed after the patch where he doesn’t have it, and is putting up huge numbers, please show.

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That’s not the crazy numbers that were coming before, but it’s still pretty darn good.

Is that Grizzly rage w/Lupine Ferocity and Dire Wolf along with toxic claws+high poison? Or do you have something else proccing?

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Dire wolf, poison creeper, and ursine strength. I spam shred until I start hitting in the millions then smack her with SS for vuln then back out of melee and shred dash fishing for crits with BB.

I’m not sure if I’m good enough to work around that 6th hit on lupine for it to work for me.

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Your right, I don’t argue with people but I was playing this and I am one shotting groups of elites in NM dungeons a few levels higher then me with my Pulverize gear. As soon as I regeared to +9 Shred, and added more crit damage and vulnerable this build went insane. I have not tried nado and right now I am working on leveling content for season 1 but I don’t think people realize how broken this shred mechanic is with Stormclaw aspect. Because not only does Stormclaw double dip it seems, it shotguns. The Stormclaw is doing like triple the damage of your Shreds…

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