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All summons should be allowed at the same time (expcept maybe two spirits, that would make furydruid too strong imho) and this build will do fine. The good thing is really, that you can recast the wolfs at any time and the ravens can't even be killed.
That’s a really nice use for the act 3 merc. I would give him a lore and a spirit early on for sure. I also like the idea of a hunter druid with a bow. Edge or Harmony could be good options for that while leveling.
It's good on normal, then it slows down too much imo. Not sure just another set of wolves is enough. Needs damage adjusted and especially something to do. Artic blast is begging to be used with spirit wolves.
I don't mind the choice between summons to differentiate itself from a Necromancer, but if it does remain that way then summons still need to be buffed. Also if it remains that way I wouldn't mind seeing some of the synergies adjusted because it doesn't feel great to dump 80 points into 4 skills only to be locked out of 2 of those skills.
I really love how Grim Dawn is balanced so that basically any build is viable through all 3 difficulties with self-found gear, intelligent point spending, and all the respecing you want to do (aside from class choices which are permanent). I'd hope D2R gets there soon. It seems to be getting closer with every patch.
Completely agree on the *"Talic fire sword aesthetic"* bit! I would be willing to use "Enchant-focused" sword builds if I can get a fire sword like him! :D
I'm doing a similar run. I'm level 59 about to do the ancient way in nightmare. Only difference I'm using Wolverine and only put one point in werebear and shock wave. I'm not missing the health too much and am really enjoying the extra damage.
do the 3 auras stack with each other or overwrite each other? aura from act 2 merc, fanaticism from Beast runeword and Heart of the wolverine from druid skill?
ty for this vid Dbrunski! I am currently starting a Summon Druid for ladder (Season 5). With all those "new" changes by now I highly recommend putting only 5 points (til late game) in Spirit Wolf for meat shield and cc purposes. Then everything into Ravens and Dire Wolfs - since putting points in Dire Wolves also increase the SWolves' max.hp. Then at lvl30 ofc 1 point for the bear and so on. Spirit sword is noooice and for Merc I rock the Act I Rogue with the Edge Runeword (Thorns Aura) which is totally busted until hell
I tried going in blind and go with my gut feeling on skill and spec allocation and focus on summoning skills and its quite a breeze thru players 8 nightmare act 1 so far... I'm not knowledgeable so videos like yours will help me through lol thanks
I’m playing a summon Druid on project Diablo 2 and with the ability to have all of the pets out, plus a teleport in our skill tree, it’s a ton of fun and I highly recommend it.
For the devs: Summon druid doesn't have anything to do really. The fantasy of druid being like a Hunter with his wolf pack could be realized if Artic blast became a bow/crossbow skill that launched the blast with the projectile and could be activated as an enchant ability. To help with skills, spirit wolf could be eliminated from the tree and dire wolves up to 5. Solar creeper could implant spores on a corpse to explode for amp dmg curse, but no dmg, and would be clickable instead of passive. For mobility: carrion vine, as a play on words, could CARRY you like the charge ability with its vines along the ground. It's my belief that something like this would make for a very interactive summon druid apart from the necro. I see a lot of people saying they want all summons or corpse explosion on this build but then you might as well play the necromancer.
Almost every time I start a druid since launch of LOD, he starts out as a summoner. I take them through to like act 3 or 4 of NM usually like that. Absolutely love them.
Summon Druid was my main for this season, and it ended up being decent. Not great, but not bad either. It is definitely safe and easy to play. No muss, no fuss. But I went a different way with mine. Part of the problem is low damage output without any curses to help like the necro. Most people I have seen go bear, but I actually put 1 point into the werewolf tree. That way I could equip a Reapers Toll for the decrepify curse to break physical immunities, and using that myself instead of a merc opened up other options. Initially I started with a might merc, but I opted to swap to the new a5 barbarian merc as they are actually pretty good now offensively speaking. Far as gameplay goes, its pretty simple - summon ravens, wolves, spirit, bear, shift, and go in. It is nice having pets that you can retreat behind to pop a potion and go back in again. It was more dash in, get a few hits of fury off until the curse procs, and dash back out again. My job was mostly keeping pets up and making sure everything stays cursed. I would say it's tougher, easier to play, and safer than the necro summoner, but slower. The Bear gets absurdly tough, like twice as tough as the clay golem tough.
For real. Excited to see if new Sin telekick feels even like 1/2 a sorc teleport. Sin looks really amazing, and it was already good. But give a ladder date already. We halfway through the first quarter. I wanna schedule some time off for it :)
@@michaelpants Yeah I was hoping to schedule some time off too so a little advanced notice would be nice. I thought every new ladder season would bring a few new runewords and changes so I feel like this is enough for now. New changes and tweaks to 2.4's ideas could always be added later.
Yeah, looks safe enough but otherwise pretty abysmal. I never understood why Druid is restricted to only one type of animal, and I don't see the Summon Druid becoming viable (effective end game farming) until that changes, and even with all the animals I don't think he'll be as good as Summon Necro. But that's just my take on the build and I'd love to be proven wrong, the more builds the better!
Hey bro big fun here and Just wondering long time now... We were playing summ druid in pd2 and he was Just amazing... Now to the ladder in d2r how similar will this build be with pd2 ( if We know yet) will it be that valid to do all the contempts in the game like uber trist or dclone? What do We know about all these?
Yeah, but that's the thing with druid, once you use elemental skills you realize the summons do jackshit so you just ditch them and go full elemental with maybe one summon, wanna guess which summon that is? lol
Anybody know when these changes will be implemented on D2R console really wan a make a hydra sorcerer got her all ready for respec and feel like I have been sat just waiting for ages now..... Also have a strafazon a druid a barb and an assassin just waiting to try out the new changes regarding the skill tree's can anybody shed any light on this please
I like it. As long as you can get through all 3 difficulties solo self-found, I'm happy. I don't need uber-duper builds for farming the same mega-bosses for 1000's of hours to have fun. Just make every build viable for a full playthrough.
I'll call it like it is, the mods got it right. Two bears, two spirits, both dogs and up the damage on raven so we can cast raven like an actual skill so we dont just stand around doing nothing. Raven can be the thing we cast to help dps too. Like Druids version of Corpse Explosion. Then balance the damage.
And be real at 10:56 that slow, is not playable. If you were running that slow killing that trash you would go back to NM and farm up more. That- is not playable for a seasoned D2 veteran player.
#IWANTMYZOO! All summons out at the same time! 5 Ravens/5 Spirits/3 Dires/1 Grizzly/1 Vine/1 or 2 Sages! Sum Druid clear speed is rather slow and needs a bit of a boost. Nice vid Dbrunski and I hope sum Druid becomes even better overall! I love to play summon builds sometimes and I'm tired to see Necro being the only viable one!
I've taken the new summon Druid to Nightmare so far and it's pretty fun although to be able to have ALL summons you'll need a lot of points🤔 like 80?? Then you'll want Oak sage or Wolverine 🤔
Agreed. I hope they re-work and budf the vines and allow all 8 wolves along the bear. The sumoning tree will become strong enough to stand on it's own that way , along with some buffs .to the summons
I really hope they allow druids to summon everything. It’s always been strange to me that the necro can get a huge army going but the Druid is limited to 1 or the other.
damn, summon druid play style really sucks...i think its difficult to fix this since it lacks the buff/debuff mechanics of a necro. 20 years ago we always saw the summon druid doing the most damage with with the summons as support, the opposite of a necro. dont know if thats still the case.
It's playable but still looks slow and underwhelming. Personally I like the idea that summoner druid is different from necro but this still requires far more improvements eg. bear in addition to one of the wolf packs, all wolfs of specific type being summoned at once, additional synergies in shapeshifting and/or elemental skill trees, maybe skills for summons etc. Dunno what would be best but for sure it lacks something.
Offline I don't think there is Tele staffs I have yet to ever see one lol I sat at the shop trying all day before not one ever spawned so idk even in Hell they don't seem to spawn.
Quite possibly the most boring build in D2. You literally do nothing except resummon. At least necro has curses and corpse explosion. IMO would be better if the synergies were with Elemental tree or Shape Shifting tree so you can actually do something instead of sit, wait, resummon, sit, wait, resummon, sit, wait, resummon.
Here's what I'd change: -Artic blast would be a bow/crossbow skill -Get rid of spirit wolves on skill tree, up dire wolves to 5. -Carrion vine works like charge for mobility -Solar creeper explodes corpses for amp dmg curse, but no damage -Poison creeper mesh also slows This would give lots to do as a summoner and create some more variety.
Even they allow summon everything and improve damage, I can’t imagine myself playing such boring spec. Also there is no advantage to play it over necromancer :/
Yeah so clearly the summon Druid is ok in normal a1-3. Bad in a-4. Unplayable in a5. And beyond that who would ever be that crazy to try. God pray for the (anything except elemental) Druid
I don't see how summoning all the pets at once is going to make this build fun or interesting to play. It's still just going to be a dogshit, passive, boring build you play with one hand while you sip your coffee... If you wanna play like that, why not make a summon necro? Don't think it's worth the devs time to work on this to be honest... Fire and wind druids use summons too, you can't buff summons without buffing wind druids indirectly... What about a poison Creeper build? You get some AoE at least that way... Also, you are showcasing builds with 0 +skills... The strength of the summon druid is he is the only class that benefits from soft points... showcasing a build like this without +skills (at least lore and double spirit with a cheap-ass torch) is biased...
They need to spice this game up man… level improvements… spontaneous dungeons and challenges whilst doing play through a and also for late game playability.
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Hey man,
Do you have any idea when they'll reveal the new PTR balance changes ?
Im especially excited about the summoner druid
All summons should be allowed at the same time (expcept maybe two spirits, that would make furydruid too strong imho) and this build will do fine. The good thing is really, that you can recast the wolfs at any time and the ravens can't even be killed.
How does the oak sage up the damage ? I'm still learning this game and I'm confused
I love the idea of early game build videos. It will be especially helpful as everyone prepares for the ladder start.
I agree
That’s a really nice use for the act 3 merc. I would give him a lore and a spirit early on for sure. I also like the idea of a hunter druid with a bow. Edge or Harmony could be good options for that while leveling.
It's good on normal, then it slows down too much imo. Not sure just another set of wolves is enough. Needs damage adjusted and especially something to do. Artic blast is begging to be used with spirit wolves.
What's your thoughts on this Enchant merc vs an act 2 Might merc?
I don't mind the choice between summons to differentiate itself from a Necromancer, but if it does remain that way then summons still need to be buffed. Also if it remains that way I wouldn't mind seeing some of the synergies adjusted because it doesn't feel great to dump 80 points into 4 skills only to be locked out of 2 of those skills.
That's like the creepers need work as well. Like I don't think I have ever seen anyone using them.
I really love how Grim Dawn is balanced so that basically any build is viable through all 3 difficulties with self-found gear, intelligent point spending, and all the respecing you want to do (aside from class choices which are permanent).
I'd hope D2R gets there soon. It seems to be getting closer with every patch.
Completely agree on the *"Talic fire sword aesthetic"* bit! I would be willing to use "Enchant-focused" sword builds if I can get a fire sword like him! :D
I'm doing a similar run. I'm level 59 about to do the ancient way in nightmare. Only difference I'm using Wolverine and only put one point in werebear and shock wave. I'm not missing the health too much and am really enjoying the extra damage.
do the 3 auras stack with each other or overwrite each other? aura from act 2 merc, fanaticism from Beast runeword and Heart of the wolverine from druid skill?
yes they do
ty for this vid Dbrunski!
I am currently starting a Summon Druid for ladder (Season 5).
With all those "new" changes by now I highly recommend putting only 5 points (til late game) in Spirit Wolf for meat shield and cc purposes. Then everything into Ravens and Dire Wolfs - since putting points in Dire Wolves also increase the SWolves' max.hp. Then at lvl30 ofc 1 point for the bear and so on.
Spirit sword is noooice and for Merc I rock the Act I Rogue with the Edge Runeword (Thorns Aura) which is totally busted until hell
I tried going in blind and go with my gut feeling on skill and spec allocation and focus on summoning skills and its quite a breeze thru players 8 nightmare act 1 so far... I'm not knowledgeable so videos like yours will help me through lol thanks
I’m playing a summon Druid on project Diablo 2 and with the ability to have all of the pets out, plus a teleport in our skill tree, it’s a ton of fun and I highly recommend it.
For the devs:
Summon druid doesn't have anything to do really. The fantasy of druid being like a Hunter with his wolf pack could be realized if Artic blast became a bow/crossbow skill that launched the blast with the projectile and could be activated as an enchant ability.
To help with skills, spirit wolf could be eliminated from the tree and dire wolves up to 5. Solar creeper could implant spores on a corpse to explode for amp dmg curse, but no dmg, and would be clickable instead of passive. For mobility: carrion vine, as a play on words, could CARRY you like the charge ability with its vines along the ground.
It's my belief that something like this would make for a very interactive summon druid apart from the necro. I see a lot of people saying they want all summons or corpse explosion on this build but then you might as well play the necromancer.
Almost every time I start a druid since launch of LOD, he starts out as a summoner. I take them through to like act 3 or 4 of NM usually like that. Absolutely love them.
I still prefer the old setup. Just seems simpler to grab amp damage for the animal buddies and then add complexity by doing your own thing
Summon Druid was my main for this season, and it ended up being decent. Not great, but not bad either. It is definitely safe and easy to play. No muss, no fuss. But I went a different way with mine. Part of the problem is low damage output without any curses to help like the necro. Most people I have seen go bear, but I actually put 1 point into the werewolf tree. That way I could equip a Reapers Toll for the decrepify curse to break physical immunities, and using that myself instead of a merc opened up other options. Initially I started with a might merc, but I opted to swap to the new a5 barbarian merc as they are actually pretty good now offensively speaking.
Far as gameplay goes, its pretty simple - summon ravens, wolves, spirit, bear, shift, and go in. It is nice having pets that you can retreat behind to pop a potion and go back in again. It was more dash in, get a few hits of fury off until the curse procs, and dash back out again. My job was mostly keeping pets up and making sure everything stays cursed.
I would say it's tougher, easier to play, and safer than the necro summoner, but slower. The Bear gets absurdly tough, like twice as tough as the clay golem tough.
Imagine a unique item that gives you + 1 to corps explosion. Like enigma dies to teleport. You could use this in so many builds 😯
Corpsemourne unique armor has corpse explosion
@@themelodicgamer191 That's charges though, not +1.
@@Paaraadox I know
I believe that you should get all 8 wolves and the bear out at the same time, but only 1 spirit and 1 creeper. However, the creepers need a big boost.
Isn't hurricane a really good skill to use with a summoner druid? You literally stand there and it does nice damage.
do wolf receive enchant because they have no weapons i assume and the tool tip says it adds fire damage to weapons
I appreciate the devs taking their time on 2.4 but is there any kind of timetable for release? I am slowly losing interest at this point.
For real. Excited to see if new Sin telekick feels even like 1/2 a sorc teleport. Sin looks really amazing, and it was already good. But give a ladder date already. We halfway through the first quarter. I wanna schedule some time off for it :)
@@michaelpants Yeah I was hoping to schedule some time off too so a little advanced notice would be nice. I thought every new ladder season would bring a few new runewords and changes so I feel like this is enough for now. New changes and tweaks to 2.4's ideas could always be added later.
Are you sure the act 3 merc enchants the wolves n minions? I've only seen him enchant my druids main hand weapon
This thing actually shredded. Love to see it
Yeah, looks safe enough but otherwise pretty abysmal. I never understood why Druid is restricted to only one type of animal, and I don't see the Summon Druid becoming viable (effective end game farming) until that changes, and even with all the animals I don't think he'll be as good as Summon Necro.
But that's just my take on the build and I'd love to be proven wrong, the more builds the better!
Good news! Check the newest update 🤘
Have you seen a wolf and a dire wolf together in the wild? They'll turn on their master if there are no bears around.
So would act 3 fire merc enchant necro summons? Might be good on summon necro until you can get might merc
What are the attack and defense based on? I have looked but never been able to find out
Hey bro big fun here and Just wondering long time now... We were playing summ druid in pd2 and he was Just amazing... Now to the ladder in d2r how similar will this build be with pd2 ( if We know yet) will it be that valid to do all the contempts in the game like uber trist or dclone? What do We know about all these?
Maybe a mix of an elemental/summon druid would fair better. Max hurricane/tornadoes with summons as support
Yeah, but that's the thing with druid, once you use elemental skills you realize the summons do jackshit so you just ditch them and go full elemental with maybe one summon, wanna guess which summon that is? lol
Do ravens benefit from auras?
Does +skill armor/weapon attributes affect mercenary skill levels?
Anybody know when these changes will be implemented on D2R console really wan a make a hydra sorcerer got her all ready for respec and feel like I have been sat just waiting for ages now.....
Also have a strafazon a druid a barb and an assassin just waiting to try out the new changes regarding the skill tree's can anybody shed any light on this please
I like it.
As long as you can get through all 3 difficulties solo self-found, I'm happy. I don't need uber-duper builds for farming the same mega-bosses for 1000's of hours to have fun. Just make every build viable for a full playthrough.
Just go full poison creeper for leveling. I think i made it to/through nm meph before i got bored.
i think wolf + bear make more sense. Since they are not even the same animal type spirit are the same ''type'' if you get my drift
Really hoping the teased changes to summon bring this build to the next level!
the menagerie druid is the most fun i've had in d2 for a long time xD
Hi u can make a vadeo sorc hydra/orb?????
I'll call it like it is, the mods got it right. Two bears, two spirits, both dogs and up the damage on raven so we can cast raven like an actual skill so we dont just stand around doing nothing. Raven can be the thing we cast to help dps too. Like Druids version of Corpse Explosion. Then balance the damage.
And be real at 10:56 that slow, is not playable. If you were running that slow killing that trash you would go back to NM and farm up more. That- is not playable for a seasoned D2 veteran player.
I had a summon druid on classic LOD, but hell dificulty maggot lair made me quit
I'm an animal lover, and the summoner druid/ summoner necro are my favorite builds. Is that a coincidence?
#IWANTMYZOO!
All summons out at the same time! 5 Ravens/5 Spirits/3 Dires/1 Grizzly/1 Vine/1 or 2 Sages! Sum Druid clear speed is rather slow and needs a bit of a boost. Nice vid Dbrunski and I hope sum Druid becomes even better overall! I love to play summon builds sometimes and I'm tired to see Necro being the only viable one!
I've taken the new summon Druid to Nightmare so far and it's pretty fun although to be able to have ALL summons you'll need a lot of points🤔 like 80?? Then you'll want Oak sage or Wolverine 🤔
Oh my god my dream became true, a summon druid that is hell viable and can summon all pets at the same time.
I LOVE summon druid but still weak as hell.... in hell... :( Let's hope all summon will be enuff to make the build viable!
Agreed. I hope they re-work and budf the vines and allow all 8 wolves along the bear. The sumoning tree will become strong enough to stand on it's own that way , along with some buffs .to the summons
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More summons and another sage would be op if you're stomping. If I can do pretty good P1 with my level 24 on switch, anyone can do ok lol.
I really hope they allow druids to summon everything. It’s always been strange to me that the necro can get a huge army going but the Druid is limited to 1 or the other.
Or just more than what they can atm
That A3 Fire Merc would be so much better if it could use Leaf...
Looks pretty awesome actually
damn, summon druid play style really sucks...i think its difficult to fix this since it lacks the buff/debuff mechanics of a necro. 20 years ago we always saw the summon druid doing the most damage with with the summons as support, the opposite of a necro. dont know if thats still the case.
It's playable but still looks slow and underwhelming. Personally I like the idea that summoner druid is different from necro but this still requires far more improvements eg. bear in addition to one of the wolf packs, all wolfs of specific type being summoned at once, additional synergies in shapeshifting and/or elemental skill trees, maybe skills for summons etc. Dunno what would be best but for sure it lacks something.
I belief you need some TipS from TheIceTOAD on how to pronounce the word DROID correctly! o_O
Other than that thanks for the vid!
ALSO: First
I really hope the just give us the bear in addition to a single pack of wolves. Two pairs of wolves just makes it into necro nr2
wooo! thanks!
Offline I don't think there is Tele staffs I have yet to ever see one lol I sat at the shop trying all day before not one ever spawned so idk even in Hell they don't seem to spawn.
Quite possibly the most boring build in D2. You literally do nothing except resummon. At least necro has curses and corpse explosion. IMO would be better if the synergies were with Elemental tree or Shape Shifting tree so you can actually do something instead of sit, wait, resummon, sit, wait, resummon, sit, wait, resummon.
Here's what I'd change:
-Artic blast would be a bow/crossbow skill
-Get rid of spirit wolves on skill tree, up dire wolves to 5.
-Carrion vine works like charge for mobility
-Solar creeper explodes corpses for amp dmg curse, but no damage
-Poison creeper mesh also slows
This would give lots to do as a summoner and create some more variety.
I'm fearing this guide is quite useless because of the last revelations from the community manager (this build will be tweaked a lot)
Doubt it. I would imagine at most its little more dmg and multiple summons at the same time
i just respecced on my single player druid just to realize the update has not been put through on xbox??? wtf blizzard..
No one knows how annoying these guys in pvp as town huggers lmao
Summon viable?! What a world
lawl stun bear gg
Even they allow summon everything and improve damage, I can’t imagine myself playing such boring spec. Also there is no advantage to play it over necromancer :/
Holy shit it was slow in hell lmao, never would I ever play this, summon necro is still miles a head
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Yeah so clearly the summon Druid is ok in normal a1-3. Bad in a-4. Unplayable in a5. And beyond that who would ever be that crazy to try. God pray for the (anything except elemental) Druid
I don't see how summoning all the pets at once is going to make this build fun or interesting to play. It's still just going to be a dogshit, passive, boring build you play with one hand while you sip your coffee... If you wanna play like that, why not make a summon necro? Don't think it's worth the devs time to work on this to be honest... Fire and wind druids use summons too, you can't buff summons without buffing wind druids indirectly... What about a poison Creeper build? You get some AoE at least that way... Also, you are showcasing builds with 0 +skills... The strength of the summon druid is he is the only class that benefits from soft points... showcasing a build like this without +skills (at least lore and double spirit with a cheap-ass torch) is biased...
Two Spirits? How progressive.
This looks like cancer. Nobody will ever play this in this state It's taking a minute to kill a pack of Zombies in act 1 hell...
22 min vid, for half good normal build 👍
pretty bad IMO
They need to spice this game up man… level improvements… spontaneous dungeons and challenges whilst doing play through a and also for late game playability.