Several questions here regarding my respec into earth (I’ve tried tornado, lightning and pulverize…all fun if you have the aspects you need )
First off, about the basic skill choice for spirit generation. Virtually everyone I’ve seen running Druid is using Storm Strike; it’s fast, it chains, good spirit generation and immobilize/vulnerability possibilities. Pretty awesome with a build that’s mobile, maybe not so much if you’re trying to stay a few steps out of AOE’s or holding still to get the +30% damage from Inner Calm.
I love Wind Shear → I’m used to shooting ‘through’ enemies (thanks Rogue Penetrating shot training!), and the Calm Breeze aspect to fully fill spirit is pretty awesome. And it’s great to shoot and scoot with if you don’t want to try face-tanking an unexpected Butcher. I’d pick this automatically with the things I’ve tried, with the possibility of using the lightning from Storm Strike for a Lightning Storm/Cataclysm type build.
Now I’m into an Earth Build and trying out Earth Spike/Landslide. With the spirit generation on Earth Spike, Wild Earth Spike can often generate a second Earth Spike when it hits. Does that also generate spirit with the extra hit (I can’t remember if Storm Strike does with multiple hits)? I do have the Seismic Shift aspect to throw a line of Earth Spikes out with each cast, and additional enemies hit with that definately generate extra spirit, just like if you had cast it multiple times (unlike Wind Shear which gives 3 each for enemies past the first). The 40% Lucky Hit chance with what my gear adds also works really well with Earthen Might to fill spirit and proc crits, btw.
Last question (I promise…at least for now ) → Trample Cooldown is slowing me down a bit. What are most people using to reduce this? Nature’s Fury with a Storm Skill to set off Trample (w/Trampled Earth aspect)? Or something else…?
Earth spike generates spirit with every spike, even all the additional ones from the passive and the aspect.
For trample, yes people use nature’s fury passive and the aspect for it to reduce the cooldown. It’s been buffed recently and it’s even better.
It also helps with resetting earthern bulwark, you can have it up permanently.
To be honest, even when going mainly earth, having either storm strike or another storm skill to trigger passives and aspects is probably better.
Im a lvl 82 druid, and i don’t feel like playing a shapeshifting build.
Until i was lvl40 i was playing pulverize build with Storm Strike just like the majority of druids i guess, but then i went for a fast attack/lucky hit build, and later on (around lvl75) went BoulderCore/Nature Fury/Lucky hit build.
An option that you have, that im using since i picked Natures Fury, was:
Lvl1 WindShear with the Movement Speed branch
Lvl1 Earth Spike with the Fortify Branch
You put the aspect that makes Earth Spike cast in a line, and with the combo (WindShear as Basic Skill, EarthSpike will proc and it does decent damage and refill spirit with ur Attack Speed %++) You dont have to waste a Skill slot with earth spike, it will turn into a “passive, possible proc” ability.
That way you can still use WindShear, and with fast attack speed you won’t have problems with lack of spirit to cast ur spells (in my case BoulderCore).
But…Nature’s Fury only reduces cooldown on a cast, and only of the same category skill. I’ll have to go look at aspects that could help with skills of another category…
Forgot to mention, when you use the skills the way i said (WindShear as main basic attack, and EarthSpike as a passive proc) the cooldown of the Earthspike aspect doesn’t affect it (2.0-1.0sec), so you will be spamming WindShear and a lot of times you will have an avalanche in front of you.
Quick question about this…and if it works as I hope, it’s a game changer!
The aspect which procs the line of Earth Spike can have a wicked long cool down timer for the skill, which becomes problematic if you need spirit in a hurry.
Does the proc cooldown on the aspect using earth spike as a passive proc via Nature’s Fury cause your Wind Shear to have a cooldown
It’s true, it says that. But maybe it’s weirdly worded. Because storm strike definitely reduces trample cooldown.
I was running a pulverize/trampleslide build with just storm strike to trigger nature’s fury until my recent switch. Had great success in nightmare dungeons and all the other content on WT4.
Oh yep, sorry, i was answering that as you were typing.
You will have no cooldown on Earthspike, its insane lol.
When you deal with Elites that cast the Wind Barrier, they block WindSher, but you can keep on spamming it cause you will proc EarthSpike and can easily kill through the barriers.
Try to get a Fist of Fate and Butcher’s Cleaver, you will have a lot of fun lol.
Im still looking for my Fist of Fate, but with the Butcher’s Cleaver is insane already. You will be spamming WindShear, proc EarthSpike, also make ur enemies flee and slow lol.
Gotcha! Of course it would help if I switched out my Earthen Might for Nature’s Fury, haha!!
I’m only lvl 52 on my new Druid…but as fast as this build is killing stuff, I should be moving up quickly now! I’m about to switch out Bulwark for Hurricane because I’m rarely hitting Bulwark to soak up damage because things are already corpsified.
I won’t make you follow my build exactly, but keep in mind Earth Bullwark is insanely good, as you become a ranged druid, it will save you from close encounters and if u branch it to when it expires it explodes and do dmg, it will help not only for survival but to deal high dmg, it helped me to take 50%hp from elites that surround me (and i only have 1lvl on it).
Have fun and try different stuff that might work for you.
Im using an Xbox Controller and like, 90% of the time, my EarthSpikes goes on the direction i choose, sometimes they spam different directions when there is no enemy nearby.
Yes i guess you dont need to spend points on Earthspike just for them to proc, i have it branched for the fortify effects tho, and i recommend for the 10% chance for stun at least, if you go att speed build it will proc at times.
And yep, i guess it should proc with storm strike as well.
Landslide is proc’ing Tornados and Lightning Storm too…and since I have gear on giving a couple of levels of those, stuff is dying as fast as I can roll through the dungeon.
I’m using a M+KB… Being a member of the PCMR (some people will read that and not know what it means), I’ve never learned to use a controller, lol!
Wow…just, wow. Amazing. You should post a video showing it with different skills! I’ll pump up some Earthen Spike for the stun and fortify!
I would love to, but not only my setup is not capable to play the game and record at the same time, also have no video editing skills. (Rtx 2060 samsung odyssey notebook, medium settings).
Im a very casual player lol, and i dont know what PCMR means. But to be fair, portuguese is my main language and i can barely express myself in english, so thats that xD.
Your English is great! Much better than my Portugese, lol!
PCMR = PC Master Race, haha! It goes way back, when the console players first got to play with PC Keyboard & Mouse players…and got slaughtered in shooters because their aim wasn’t as precise using controllers. So…that’s when auto-aim and/or snap-to-target got enabled for controller/console gamers in order for them to be able to compete.
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Oh Em Gee!!
Symbiotic Aspect is what I need!! Every time Nature’s Fury procs from any skill, your cooldown timers are cut down.
Of course the D4 RNG Gods will now ensure that I never find that aspect, ever
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) → Trample Cooldown is slowing me down a bit. What are most people using to reduce this? Nature’s Fury with a Storm Skill to set off Trample (w/Trampled Earth aspect)? Or something else…?
