The powers for druid are extremely underwhelming and don’t really make that much sense to be honest. A lot of them revolve around using barkskin to do some damage or use entangling roots? I mainly play balance druid for these and it’s really disappointing when you have about 0 good choices to pick from.
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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Guardian and combining increased barkskin duration with barkskin causing X damage to attackers while pulling en masse. The damage you rack up in larger pulls is actually nuts.
That said I can totally understand why a laser chicken would be kinda bored in there. As far as I can recall the only power I’ve seen that would have a direct effect for a chicken would be the reduced CD on CA, and that’s just boring.
Entangling roots… damage, less chance to break it’s pretty damn funny having it tick for 6k every 2 seconds and they can’t escape from it.
What?
Entangling roots damage is crazy.
I’ve hit 21k regrowth crit with the boosted anima
25% damage from stealth equals deleted mob before the rest of the group gets to me.
I felt really strong with some of those anima
I run boomkin with treants for elites and emergencies and it’s worked well so far, cleared Layer 3 yesterday (highest available currently).
The powers that have worked well for me are any to do with boomkin spells, and of course the affinity ones. Having every affinity passively + 100% effectiveness is great, that’s passive 30% move speed from FA, 8% life per second from RA, and 12% DR from GA. The mobs with moonfire do 20% less damage is great for bosses as well.
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The moonfire one that calls down New Moon is freaking Amazing. Get that on a large pull with the double moonfire talent, and youll see 5 moons come crashing down and melt packs.
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I cheeses with entangle buffs - and moonfire buffs on lower levels whenever possible.
Barkskin dmg on higher
Also clear out your level…dont do torghast if you’re in a pinch for time. You’re gonna have to think before pulls on higher difficulties I bet. Because looks like the powers are less available.
Hope that helps.
Also it starts out slow - but you SHOULD feel so strong by the highest floors that your momentum will help you breeze through it all.
Also entangle works on the elites and mini bosses - def use it.
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There are some that are bad, but even ones I thought were bad at first are amazing when used correctly.
Lycara’s Sash is a great example. Then, last night, I found out I was totally wrong on it. It ignores all cooldowns on it. If you spam between no form and bear form, you will have FR and barkskin 100% of the time. Get the barkskin AoE skill and you have non-stop damage from it. If you have moonkin form available, go into to it and Starfall will be on 100% of the time as well. Want to move fast? Go into cat form and you will do stampeding roar EVERY time you go to cat form.
Lycara’s Bargain is also strong, just annoying as all heck. That said, just shapeshift to get rid of the slow. So it is almost a free 50% damage increase.
All of the proc’able abilities are extremely high damage if you have them and the Night Fae covenant. So many hits cause so many procs. I was killed the layer 3 level 5 enhanced mod in less than a second, as a bear, because of that.
So, yeah, some may look pretty lame, but if you abuse them correctly, they can be stupidly powerful. Like that damn mage who his second highest damaging skill last night was “Exploding Sheep”.
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This - even putting aside the secrets, there are often anima powers tucked away in the corners too, and of course Phantasma (which you can use to buy even more anima powers, extra lives, skip pots etc.) We full-cleared every floor and ended up doing 3x dps to when we entered once all the powers were taken into account. I was able to hit 9k on several packs.
Lycara’s was great! I took one look at it and was like “OMG they modernized powershifting!”
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This
Just tried it out as guardian and its pure god mode.
Pair that with galactic guardian and any arcane or moonfire anima power and you melt everything with ease.
Did my first Torghast this morning before work. Cleared layer 3 on the first one so far and I think on layer 2 I got this power.
Oh
My
Lord
It’s beautiful. Like you said it’s just… instant everything. I’m a boomy so I’m going cat in between pulls. Shift out for skin. Back into boomy for free starfalls. Bear if I really needed to I mean… that power alone is almost all you need. It’s pure god mode.
Energy Focusing Crystal makes boomy convoke sick, especially if you also have Conflux of Elements in your soulbind. Mix with String of Fangs and Talons from the vendor and Incarnation/Convoke will practically erase a boss.
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That it does…that it does. Took well over half of layer 3’s boss’ hp.
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Some of the Adaptive Swarm powers in Torghast really need to be conduits or baseline. Adaptive Swarm splits to two targets every time it jumps, or it applies moonfire/rejuvenation automatically if it lands on an enemy/ally, feel so damn good.
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