I was very happy with all the buffs given to the werewolf, my first and almost only class in Diablo 4. The werewolf Poison/Crit Lupine build took two days to perfect with the new aspects, items, and everything. It was good, hard because squishy, but good and I was really happy. Then, I played with a barbarian friend who was just testing a build. Now, I feel sad. I realize this class will never be as good as the others.
Depends what build exactly : Not every skill/aspect/paragon combitation will work past Torment 4 (Pit 65+). Also, if your Barbarian friend was using one of the busted skills (e.g. Earthquake/HoTA), it’s normal to see your damage be relegated to a NPC status as there are currently 3 or 4 skills that hit for something like 100x more than the rest.
I, for one, tried a build that looked strong enough on paper and worked well enough. It was not OP (as in, it couldn’t delete a T3 boss in a group as soon as it spawned), but it had a strong potential… and it worked well in T4, until I had every aspect and Temper completed and ready for the Dire Wolf Aspect and perma Grizzly Rage and low cooldown. This is when I started seeing how my damage ticks were lower the longer I was in Grizzle Rage.
As such, it works very well for the first 10 seconds after you change form…but then you lose the 75% damage multiplier, even if you’re still stuck in Grizzly Rage for another 10-20 seconds. It’s not written on the tooltip that the damage increase only last for 10 seconds regardless of the overall duration: In fact, it’s written that you receive a 60% [ x ] damage increase, plus 3% [ x ] per second while you’re in Grizzle Rage up to 75% [ x ] total. As such, it’s pretty much a 75% damage increase after 5 seconds in Grizzle Rage, and should stay that way until you lose Grizzle Rage.
It doesn’t. The 75% damage increase only lasts for the original duration of the skill, and doesn’t follow when you add duration through kills or overpowers. As it is right now, it’s a very bad skill and a waste of Aspects, due to Blizzard ineptitude towards finding and correcting bugs.
Werewolf got some love (see Lacerate / critical build), but for me, many potential poison builds will fall short due to Dire Wolf/Grizzle Rage being a bugged mess.
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The legendary occult gem Voice of the Stars stops working after 10 secs as well. Not ideal.
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Just saw your answer, sorry to be late. don’t have any notif. Grizzly Rage is kinda good yeah, but not enough. Im currently playing lvl80 Pit. I can do it but its hard. And cant go upper as werewolf Crit/pois. Im pixel on everywhere, and i repeat its hard, cause i’m squishy. And maybe u gonna say, WOW, pit 80 is awesome. No it’s not. With all hours i put on this build, this is sad. Forgive my english
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Pit 80 would be awesome if most builds only stopped at 80-85. It’s decent though, and it’s clearly not related to your skill level : It’s due to Blizzard poor balancing and bugs that bring the overall power level of that build down.
On my end, I stopped at Pit 75 with my Werewolf/poison Grizzly Rage build, but that was my first character this season, when I was Paragon 150 or so, with no legendary runes, no legendary gems, non maxed witch powers and no mythics. I’m pretty sure I would go over 85 with all that now, but I don’t think it would reach 90, not in its current form. Maybe with perfect masterwork triple crits and with max glyphs.
Sadly, even Pit 85 doesn’t make it incredible when a lot of skills can hit Pit 90-100 with the same time played and gear level, and that obviously some builds meta) manage to go over Pit 110 with very little effort and time.
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