It took me 98 levels to realize…my companions are doing crap damage, wolves and raven specifically. Unless im blind or ignorant to something, they aren’t buffing me in any way, or debuffing anything, or poisoning, or making vulnerable… they are just pecking away doing 300 to 15,000 damage which is nothing.
Wouldnt swapping out wolves and ravens for something more useful, such as blood howl or and/or an ultimate?
Like most skills, the Companion branch needs to be focused to be useful at endgame. My Wolves are hitting for ~2.3M active, Ravens are 1.1M/6s plus adding Vulnerable. However, I also have all the relevant Aspects and the Glyph.
Yah im clearly not specced for wolves. Not trying to be, just werenado. Not really following any guides but I glance at them and they all use creeper (I understand why), raven and wolves. I dont understand why raven and wolves.
That I could not tell you, I’ve only recently returned to the game and not kept up with current builds.
Well, it may be for the Shepherd’s aspect. Core skills do 20% more damage per companion with it.
Without that aspect, I probably wouldn’t use them.
It’s 100% for the Shepherds aspect, put it on the 2h weapon and its what a 180% multiplier for the Tornados (on top of the Thunderstruck multiplier).
Ah yes, duh. Youre right.
you will be surprised how good triple wolves are in pit dungeon when you are using them as meat shield to tank incoming projectiles that 1shot you 
WT4 my wolves are keeping me perma fortified, my other pets are masacring everything while i’m afk.
If i actually start playing the game things just melt on screen, especially creeper/ravens activation, golly golly gosh
Keep one point in wolves just to have them. They can tank/aggro pit bosses really really well with 0 invested in their abilities.
It seems like this is mandatory to make any half-decent druid build?
I don’t even want companions on my bars for this Lightning Storm build I’m trying to make.
Just been getting all the lightning-based aspects I can find and whatever seems good for Lightning Storm.
I fear though, that all these aspects that shoot out random bolts with flat dmg numbers might not be as good as ones that give x% multipliers.
Does the extra wolf aspect count towards shephards aspect, where you get a multiplier per companion?
Somewhat true for most classes this season, need a massive multiplier and a good temper for builds that can pus to 100 in pit. It’s also why grenade rogue has to go CQC rather than using the unique ring or exposure.
bone crossbows penetrate trough wolves and still hit you for 95% hp at 60 pit tier
Idk about you guys tho, but the struggle on tier 60s was merely just half a day upgrade for my werenado. I pushed through that pretty easily after some masterworking on a decent base, now that I’m near the min maxing, I’m still able to handle early 100s without too much of a problem. The only problem I have is not enough dps to clear efficiently. But essentially, Tier 80s is already my playground to farm neathiron and yes, I cleared all the tormented bosses, lilith and tier 100s solo already, so, it’s just a matter of farming for perfect gears to push even deeper into the pit.
i dont even think that masterworking plays a role in progression. GA item gives way more stats than high roll 8/12 masterwork. And I haven’t seen a single 3 GA item yet after ~100 hours of farming.
I don’t even have GA items when I cleared tier 100 pit and uber lilith except for my weapon, chest which doesn’t add damage and boots which also doesn’t add damage.
I’m not exactly sure what kind of problems you guys are having but it is all essentially dps check/gear check. Keep upgrading and that hurdle will become nothing. Also, after tier 100pit, monster damage stop scaling but only their hp pool becomes larger so tankiness just play a small part of it instead, dps is the actual thing that we really lack I guess.
Diablo 4 Season 4 Tier 80 Pit Playground Werenado (youtube.com)
survivability is extremaly important on pit, i couldnt even hope for neatherion without GA hp on weapon and chest + full royal ruby socketed
yeah but those that you’ve mentioned is just part and parcel which you will achieve while leveling through helltides. Socketing is of cuz required, I do have 60k hp atm and I do stack hp on my gloves, boots, pants, amulet, and ring. Yes, sometimes of cuz you will still die to 1shot mechanics, but that is normal unless you play a thorns barb where you have like 300k over hp and nothing can literally kill u.
If you don’t believe me, look at my gears when I first beat uber lilith. Even my weapon doesn’t have GA but it’s +12 masterworked.
Diablo 4 Season 4 Uber Lilith Werenado - YouTube
Diablo 4 Season 4 Werenado skill/gears/paragon build - YouTube
My gears however is 200% better than it was before so, it’s not a fair comparison anymore. But I was able to clear pit80ish when I cleared lilith btw.
its for sheperds aspect. the pets themselves are fairly useless although the wolves will tank