Fury druid can be solid (assuming you'll get past immunes later), but pretty slow, like any build which relies on direct melee attacks without AoE. You can make tank werewolf druid, with Fury, Oak Sage, Carrion Vine (you need only 7-10 points to get great boost in health return like 8% from every corpse), then you add Feral Rage (some people max it), and optionally 1 point into Hurricane as crowd control. Some people invest in Grizzly instead of Feral Rage, some people invest all in maxed Carrion Vine. Different variations, but still solid except immunes. Crushing Blow and Cannot be Frozen are essential for any melee.
You should retry fury druid but max Dire Wolf and Oak Sage, while getting the 1 point wonders. It makes for a very tanky and safe fury druid (very tanky wolves and grizzly), which offer many more targets for enemies to hit and allow you to attack with impunity.
This is my first build I've got to hell difficulty! Currently on Act 2. Managed to make a smoke and also found a Jalals off Nightmare Baal! I used Humongous Giant Axe and then Hone Sundan Yari through Nightmare. Finally found a Fleshrender Barber Club from Hell Andariel and could make a Rhyme to not be frozen anymore. Recently found a Titans jav and traded it for a Reapers Toll, so can finally kill those pesky physical immunes! Act 2 here we come. I feel your pain no Hell countess, it is so rough, especially with phys immune ghosts. Don't know how you are surviving at all without bear to tank. I need to farm for treachery but it is suffering so just ignoring it for now and trying to survive xD Keep the vids coming!
Good luck! It only gets harder from there. If you still have the hone sundan I would use it for sure, it's an amazing weapon for a wolf. Reapers toll is also an amazing weapon for a wolf. I just run past the physical immunes. I run past way more things than most people. Survivability was fine with feral rage and 2300 life to be honest. You can always go for oak sage but it's not really necessary I'm very lucky I got treachery for sure. I would have farmed meph nm for something otherwise
Nice playthrough. I am doing ssf sc frenzy barb on Ladder right now. Its similar experience. But its also fun and refreshing to be excited about random blue or rare items too. Currently lvl 60 with bulwark, peace, magic sword, hexfire. Getting better weapons is grindy as hell.
Awesome video. I am just doing the same HC SSF run ! Am just starting the hell countess run grind… did not have your luck on runes though and my res are trash. No treachery. Only good find has been steel driver which I’ve upped. I do have CBF (ghost armor) but still no CB… So got a lot of work to do! Very impressive you’ve managed. As you say one of the harder ones I’ve done so far - though still can’t manage to finish vengeance paladin.
Good luck! This one took me forever so just keep grinding and you'll get there. A bunch of people have mentioned vengeancedin at this point. I should get one going sometime soon
@@thenuclearrabbit well I’ve just started my 6th attempt to vengeadin, as my wolf ripped doing hell countess looking for a couple of Lem runes (treachery and lawbringer) yesterday. I rolled into pally straight away…
Nice going! I'm doing the same thing - I'm playing werebear with maul though. I'm considering going Fireclaw before Act 4 - I can't really find a decent weapon. I'm considering a very fast weapon and just go ham with the Fire claw - should give some free damage through the tree really.
Insight RW is very nice for the fury druid, he is naturally fast with polearms and the damage plus other mods is actually great. Other than getting lucky with a Bonesnap, that is the best progress weapon. Other than that the druid has a lot of potential good weapons, as your video showcases. Two handed weapons have respectable damage, and between uniques, sets and runewords you can easily get something useful. For the CBF the best solution is Death's belt plus gloves. Both are low level items that have a very good chance to drop from Normal Cow king. The combo gives CBF, 15 all res, Life Leech and 30 ias. Now we can upgrade the belt into a demonhide sash to make it actually usable. I go with the oak sage, he will give you up to 5k life. So much stuff in hell is unleechable anyways. Having a big HP pool reduces the amount of hit recovery you get. Ar isn't that big of a problem for the wolf, you got Fury boost plus warewolf boost. If you take a AR-aura merch, you can easily do it. Also also, i too tried doing the solo-wolf route, but found having the bear to tank and scout corridors invaluable. The build has a lot of spare skill points anyways, it is easy leveling the bear to respectable levels.
I never found a proper base for insight. I had the runes for insight and honor and just guesstimated the sockets at larzuk. Death's would have been good but it just didn't happen. Yeah I mention at the end that I thought the bear would have been better and I later specced into it. Once you get to 2k+ hp you really don't need it though. Just extra safety which can be very nice
@@thenuclearrabbit Also, why didn't you make an Oath? You had the runes. It is true it is best in an ethereal base, but you had access to the pits, you can run them without MF and get a descent base. Big props on your try, I hope it is evident I am a passionate werewolf fan and that my feedback is in good nature :D
@@Tumasch I just refused to give up on the Fal rune. Sheer principle of the thing at that point. After Baal I did end up taking him further and making an oath for my merc
Yes, I thought about giving it to the merc. But I never found a good base before I ended up finding the hammer. Giving him treachery is also a massive boost for him as well. Lem's just have so many good things going for them
@@thenuclearrabbit I'd really like to have you run these SSF HC runs with a timer. I'd like to get a better sense of how many hours it takes to do this. I do SSF runs - but burrow runes that the countess could easily drop from other single-player accounts to mitigate farming time.
@@JJV7243 depending on the build it takes 12-18 hours in total. With exceptions for things like spearazons and fury druids which easily go over 20 hours. Sorc runs take about 9-10 hours. I'm not going to use a timer, because at that point I'm just speedrunning
You probably know this at this point, but you can reliably get cannot be frozen by farming the cow king in normal for the death's sash and gloves (1:76) which also gives you +15% res, 30% poison res and 30% attack speed, which is seriously good. I always do this on my melee characters!
It isn't too bad. My biggest gripe is auto aim is really clunky with things like blizzard, meteor and javalins that you want to throw in the pathing of the monster not at the monster. Gg
I would try to farm some terror zones or mephisto nightmare. You should be able to get something much better. I would use a strength (amn+tir) flail (can shop in a2 normal) over an insight. You could give it to your merc though
Nice job ! For gloves, you should have crafted the blood ones, you can get up to 10% additional crushing blow, some HP and random affixes. With so much grind you had, its impossible to not get at least a decent pair. Same could have been done for belt. Also, game is not really over :D You still need the Ubers.
Love this! Ive already played out twinking and trading. That is no fun. Self found HC slow grind is the way to go and very exciting. But, how vould you not have somehow cubed up to fal with all those runes? An obedience would have owned.
I ended up finding the thunder maul before I could cube a fal. Diablo is a weird game sometimes. I just checked this characters stash. I'm still a Ko short
Im currently doing a ssf werewolf/summoning run. I end up with basicly the same werewolf skills as you, but only 10 points in lycan. The rest goes into the summons and oak sage. It works a lot better without good gear than only wolf!
Another tip. Patch 2.6 introduced the Hearth Runeword for a three socketed headpiece, with Nightmare Countess runes that grants huge cold res and Cannot be Frozen.
I would try to go for strength - rhyme and max block since blocking shield is viable with new patches. I'm gon try it sometime on a sp switch. Also CB gloves may be a good option. Your vids are awesome
Great run. Was always scared, but now eager to try Fury. Hmm... so I guess my style is different, I would used 1x UM rune for Crescent Moon to get some non physical damage (and b/c Static is just generally good). Then the 2nd UM for Duress to get Cold + Crushing. (But Earthshifter & Treachery look good too.)
Duress is probably better. But treachery basically makes you unkillable which is really nice. You can always get cb on other slots but getting fade is not possible otherwise. The earthshifter was a ton of fun, but I wouldn't be surprised if Crescent moon would be stronger. But I'll probably never get a chance to use a ssf thunder maul again so I just went for it
No. Don't have the pvp achievement, don't have a soj and don't have a 99 char. I also haven't done ubers. I just don't care about any of those. *edit* I would go for ubers if it wasn't a massive grind to get there for most chars. I like the idea of super bosses and have done them on plugy during covid. But I don't want to do that grind again
Nice grailfind! I guess that this was recorded BEFORE season 3 and patch 2.6 otherwise you could have made a Hearth (helm: Shael+Io+Thul) for some CBF. Keep the good runs coming!
@@thenuclearrabbit Good to hear that there is more runs coming! Just remember to have fun and be careful of burnout. I’m sure I speak for many viewers when I say I’d rather wait a few more days for a great run than daily videos that feels more like a chore and takes the fun out of the run 👍🏻
@@epicsune oh no worries I am loving doing these! I've been playing this game for 22 years. I won't burn out quickly. I also plan on recording other (similar) games as well with the same concept.
@@thenuclearrabbit I meant decades to gear,with a lifetimes worth of high runes lol. I played ssf for 20 years,didn't get into bnet until after d2r-all the theory crafted builds I'd never been able to assemble in a million years have been a blast lol,having all the items I dreamed about when I was 12 and had no internet.
I get that. I use a few of the chars from the video for farming and sweet builds and stuff :) I could try to ssf some of your theorycrafts if it's not super unreasonable on the runes.
@@thenuclearrabbit hhmmm...most of mine are pretty rune intensive, like dual phoenix firestorm/maul bear, beast iron golem 2h Edeath telewhirlbarb with brand for Amp on switch....but seer recently did a poll for s3 build ideas-the winner was unfortunately plain old poison dagger necro but the runner-up was melee only 2h mace sorc-alot of us were p disappointed he didn't do that. I can imagine quite a few ways to do a viable run of that; insight staff would be a good budget weapon, as would passion ogre/thundermaul,especially with plenty of cb/ds stacked up. Lesser used runewords like black or famine could fit here nicely,the latter has alot of elemental damage you could synergize with mastery.The build would probably be a split between energy shield and enchant. If you had access to more expensive stuff,a pheonix thundermaul with maxed fire mastery would be pretty cool,buff firestorm, enchant and use blaze to get around as much as possible. Something similar could be done with hoj,as well as doom thundermaul,but for cold. Fortitude might be good here as a weapon for once,safer than other options. Beast would be sick for obvious reasons, one never gets to see it used as the main weapon,let alone a 2h. A lawbringer hammer on switch would be great for decrepification. I really would love to see someone try this lol,I'm tempted myself but I've already got my vengeance kingslayer decapitator sorc
Yeah the runewords are a bit much for ssf. But ng+ is always an option. 2 handed melee sorc. Man that is a combination of words I never expected to hear. I'm kind of intruiged now though
Thank you! It differs on the build a lot. Fast characters take me 10-12 hours (think sorcs and stuff) grindier builds clock in at about 17-19 hours. Although this fury druid went over 30 hours because of all the farming I needed to do. I got very unlucky in not finding a fal rune in so many countess runs
Also, I had worse luck... Wanted a Pul rune to upgrade my Softcore SSF WW Barb's Bonesnap to elite. Ran Hell Countess from lvl 72 to Lvl 82. Got two Lem runes dropped, 5 Fals, 2 Mals, 1 Ist and 6 Kos... But never a Pul Rune. I cubed two Lem and 3 Fals for that Pul Rune. 2 runs later, Physical Bowazon. Got a Pul rune dropped from Nightmare council member on Durance Lvl3, and a Lo rune from a boss mob on Hell Tower lvl 5.
One tip to get a good weapon early is to gamble a maul. It starts appearing at level 17, it just crushes act 1 and 2. once you get to level 30+, you can cube a Savage Polearm (66-80%ED) with the following recipe: diamond (any) + belt + kris + staff. If you get a partizan or a bill, you're good to go.
lol how i missed this video xD you can do new runewords in offline single player. one gives cannot be frozen in helm. you only need shael io, easy to farm. but yeah melee characters are painful without good gear. well i did found vex on nightmare when i was going to nihlathak XD
after two ladder seasons of doing a rabies druid, would like to see you give that a run for its money! would be dope seeing how it goes from 0 to the end, especially since psn creeper lvling is a thing in normal
I had never in my life played a Rabies druid and I could not get it out of my mind. I currently have a Rabies druid in act 3 normal. So far so good! Thx for the suggestion
@@thenuclearrabbit been thinking of how this build would work better if you could put points in the summons and get a wolf pack going with a bear. Seems like you were struggling at times because you were often the main target and pulling a lot of the aggro. Having the wolves and bear will break that up and give you a lot more breathing room. I probably wouldn't spend that many points in lycanthropy. SSF makes this a lot more difficult tho. Like I've got a Summoner druid who I'm thinking of respeccing to a Summoner/Fury wolf hybrid because I picked up Jalal's (lucky!) and two Fleshrenders (druid club with +2 to shapeshifting and just +1 to Druid skills and bunch of other goodies). I'm not strictly SSF tho, I play solo but stuff I find I share between all my other characters. My ladder character is currently SSF tho. A point - just a point - in carrion vine could go far as well! It's a one point wonder. Noms on corpses and converts that to life for you, albeit not a huge amount without a few +skills.
i played a HC solo self found fury druid last season. NM Andariel dropped me a Ribcracker and that pretty much made the rest of NM a joke. Hell was pretty rough though. accidentally slapped a few dolls in A3 and died
Oh man I farmed my ass off for a Ribcracker but never got one. Although I genuinely loved the Thunder Maul, Ribcracker would have been much, much stronger. Dollslapping is not a wise thing to do, it has cost me many characters as well. RIP
Andariel Has much lower chance of droping them only farm cow king for efficenty this ladder i need around 20 runs to get them that's about 1 hour also found other Items like Sander boots, Twitchthrone, cow King armor, bonesnap rattlecage
And yes its obvious its gonna be hard doing IT with melee char But i się IT with zerk barb using ith el eth in flail Howl makes it easy for other melee char i recommend using nadir runeword for cloak of shadows
Wow you are absolutely right. I didn't know the difference was that big. (I just checked Silospen) thx for the tip! Definitely something to remember for me
I'd never play shifter druid in normal on HC since fissure is so busted. You had like the perfect nm run with 2 early lems. Druids take an attack speed penalty with spears btw.
I try to switch things up. Fissure is obviously insane but that would result in every video having the same first few minutes. I basically start using a skill once I reach the lvl requirement for it. Yeah those early lem's were insane. So I've been told. But I was very happy where I ended up with this
14:36 man. When that BFG Division hit, I just about lost it. The Doom 2016 soundtrack is one of my all time favorite albums.
I even bought and then didn't play the game because of that soundtrack. It's so good
Thank You for your services playing a ruff painful character grind
It was my pleasure!
"Wolfly holding on, I dunno" AHAHA!! XD (17:12)
:D
Earth shifter in use, what a blessing for the eyes!
Yeah it's such a cool item
Fury druid can be solid (assuming you'll get past immunes later), but pretty slow, like any build which relies on direct melee attacks without AoE.
You can make tank werewolf druid, with Fury, Oak Sage, Carrion Vine (you need only 7-10 points to get great boost in health return like 8% from every corpse), then you add Feral Rage (some people max it), and optionally 1 point into Hurricane as crowd control. Some people invest in Grizzly instead of Feral Rage, some people invest all in maxed Carrion Vine. Different variations, but still solid except immunes.
Crushing Blow and Cannot be Frozen are essential for any melee.
Fun to hear about little variations like that. Agreed on the Crushing blow and Cannot be frozen for sure.
You should retry fury druid but max Dire Wolf and Oak Sage, while getting the 1 point wonders. It makes for a very tanky and safe fury druid (very tanky wolves and grizzly), which offer many more targets for enemies to hit and allow you to attack with impunity.
Cannot be frozen is a tough ask, but the cold pots do help reduce freeze duration a ton.
Yeah thawing pots would have helped a ton. But I just never thought of them in my earlier runs
This is my first build I've got to hell difficulty! Currently on Act 2.
Managed to make a smoke and also found a Jalals off Nightmare Baal!
I used Humongous Giant Axe and then Hone Sundan Yari through Nightmare. Finally found a Fleshrender Barber Club from Hell Andariel and could make a Rhyme to not be frozen anymore.
Recently found a Titans jav and traded it for a Reapers Toll, so can finally kill those pesky physical immunes! Act 2 here we come.
I feel your pain no Hell countess, it is so rough, especially with phys immune ghosts. Don't know how you are surviving at all without bear to tank.
I need to farm for treachery but it is suffering so just ignoring it for now and trying to survive xD
Keep the vids coming!
Good luck! It only gets harder from there. If you still have the hone sundan I would use it for sure, it's an amazing weapon for a wolf. Reapers toll is also an amazing weapon for a wolf.
I just run past the physical immunes. I run past way more things than most people. Survivability was fine with feral rage and 2300 life to be honest. You can always go for oak sage but it's not really necessary
I'm very lucky I got treachery for sure. I would have farmed meph nm for something otherwise
Have you tried the werewolf Armageddon build?
Not yet. It's on the to-do list
I remember my friend back in the day, original release, mained a paladin and sorc until LoD came and had made a druid with this spec as well.
Did you consider making an Oath runeword? That's what I like to use before I get Grief on melee characters.
Yes. It is my go to melee weapon before Grief as well :)
that jackpot holy moly
Fury druid was the first character I've beaten hell with
Grats! Such a sweet character
Nice playthrough. I am doing ssf sc frenzy barb on Ladder right now. Its similar experience. But its also fun and refreshing to be excited about random blue or rare items too. Currently lvl 60 with bulwark, peace, magic sword, hexfire. Getting better weapons is grindy as hell.
Once you get that weapon it's so satisfying though. Gl on your run!
Awesome video. I am just doing the same HC SSF run ! Am just starting the hell countess run grind… did not have your luck on runes though and my res are trash. No treachery. Only good find has been steel driver which I’ve upped. I do have CBF (ghost armor) but still no CB… So got a lot of work to do! Very impressive you’ve managed. As you say one of the harder ones I’ve done so far - though still can’t manage to finish vengeance paladin.
Good luck! This one took me forever so just keep grinding and you'll get there.
A bunch of people have mentioned vengeancedin at this point. I should get one going sometime soon
@@thenuclearrabbit well I’ve just started my 6th attempt to vengeadin, as my wolf ripped doing hell countess looking for a couple of Lem runes (treachery and lawbringer) yesterday. I rolled into pally straight away…
Rip. Good luck
diablo gameplay and persona soundtrack just goes together nicely. well done.
Thank you :)
Why dont you play as elemental till 60-70, then respec to fury?
Cause that's not the point of the video :)
08:15 i thought that shape shifting druid only benefitted from weapon ias, not armor or others?
They changed that in resurrected
Melee needs splash damage and druid souls must be immortal.
Great run. Really enjoyed this one. What a nice find in the pits. Congrats on finishing Hell, Artorias would be proud.
I never went hollow
What is that background song ( the first one ) I know I've heard it somewhere but can't pinpoint it.
I would have to check. But I believe it's from persona 5
Is that music from Persona by chance?
It most certainly is
@@thenuclearrabbit haha nice, such a good soundtrack
Nice going!
I'm doing the same thing - I'm playing werebear with maul though. I'm considering going Fireclaw before Act 4 - I can't really find a decent weapon. I'm considering a very fast weapon and just go ham with the Fire claw - should give some free damage through the tree really.
Oh.. I saw the final notes now :)
Haha it's ok :) no worries!
I've done 6 shael with a bunch of CB before. It wasn't pretty but definitely got the job done
Insight RW is very nice for the fury druid, he is naturally fast with polearms and the damage plus other mods is actually great. Other than getting lucky with a Bonesnap, that is the best progress weapon.
Other than that the druid has a lot of potential good weapons, as your video showcases. Two handed weapons have respectable damage, and between uniques, sets and runewords you can easily get something useful.
For the CBF the best solution is Death's belt plus gloves. Both are low level items that have a very good chance to drop from Normal Cow king. The combo gives CBF, 15 all res, Life Leech and 30 ias. Now we can upgrade the belt into a demonhide sash to make it actually usable.
I go with the oak sage, he will give you up to 5k life. So much stuff in hell is unleechable anyways. Having a big HP pool reduces the amount of hit recovery you get. Ar isn't that big of a problem for the wolf, you got Fury boost plus warewolf boost. If you take a AR-aura merch, you can easily do it.
Also also, i too tried doing the solo-wolf route, but found having the bear to tank and scout corridors invaluable. The build has a lot of spare skill points anyways, it is easy leveling the bear to respectable levels.
I never found a proper base for insight. I had the runes for insight and honor and just guesstimated the sockets at larzuk.
Death's would have been good but it just didn't happen.
Yeah I mention at the end that I thought the bear would have been better and I later specced into it. Once you get to 2k+ hp you really don't need it though. Just extra safety which can be very nice
@@thenuclearrabbit Also, why didn't you make an Oath? You had the runes. It is true it is best in an ethereal base, but you had access to the pits, you can run them without MF and get a descent base. Big props on your try, I hope it is evident I am a passionate werewolf fan and that my feedback is in good nature :D
@@Tumasch I just refused to give up on the Fal rune. Sheer principle of the thing at that point. After Baal I did end up taking him further and making an oath for my merc
I do fucking love the doom soundtrack!!!! You should use this more often❤
I have used more of Mick Gordon's music in some other video's :D
Did you consider making a lawbreaker with the 2nd lem rune for decrepify procs (as a swap?)
Yes, I thought about giving it to the merc. But I never found a good base before I ended up finding the hammer. Giving him treachery is also a massive boost for him as well. Lem's just have so many good things going for them
@@thenuclearrabbit I'd really like to have you run these SSF HC runs with a timer. I'd like to get a better sense of how many hours it takes to do this. I do SSF runs - but burrow runes that the countess could easily drop from other single-player accounts to mitigate farming time.
@@JJV7243 depending on the build it takes 12-18 hours in total. With exceptions for things like spearazons and fury druids which easily go over 20 hours. Sorc runs take about 9-10 hours.
I'm not going to use a timer, because at that point I'm just speedrunning
You probably know this at this point, but you can reliably get cannot be frozen by farming the cow king in normal for the death's sash and gloves (1:76) which also gives you +15% res, 30% poison res and 30% attack speed, which is seriously good. I always do this on my melee characters!
I've been told once or twice yes. Thanks for watching ,:)
@@thenuclearrabbitBurden of being a RUclipsr, being told about the same information over and over again
I used to work in customer support and I was a teacher for a few years. I'm used to it :)
Definitely totally worth it though
i did not know this. thank you
love your playtroughs its fun to watch and cool that your playing on console
Thank you! I prefer playing on console by a lot. I'm already on a computer so much I'm just happy to not be behind one to record
@@thenuclearrabbit yeah the controls are decent too only thing is inventory management gg man
It isn't too bad. My biggest gripe is auto aim is really clunky with things like blizzard, meteor and javalins that you want to throw in the pathing of the monster not at the monster. Gg
You could have made a CTA. Were you holding out for something else?
Never found a good base to put it in
For normal diablo, I wonder if a triple tal flail on the switch would be useful to swap with malice back and forth when he isn't green.
That is a really good idea. That would definitely work. Just switch up open wounds with the poison. Very smart I like it
Hi it is good idea repect point and use war scyhte as insight ? i am lvl 50
I would try to farm some terror zones or mephisto nightmare. You should be able to get something much better. I would use a strength (amn+tir) flail (can shop in a2 normal) over an insight. You could give it to your merc though
Nice job !
For gloves, you should have crafted the blood ones, you can get up to 10% additional crushing blow, some HP and random affixes. With so much grind you had, its impossible to not get at least a decent pair. Same could have been done for belt.
Also, game is not really over :D You still need the Ubers.
I had 10% cb fire res life gloves. I like cleglaws more. They are really good if you have cb somewhere else
Yes, my favorite gloves for HC SSF play.
Love this! Ive already played out twinking and trading. That is no fun. Self found HC slow grind is the way to go and very exciting. But, how vould you not have somehow cubed up to fal with all those runes? An obedience would have owned.
I ended up finding the thunder maul before I could cube a fal. Diablo is a weird game sometimes. I just checked this characters stash. I'm still a Ko short
Im currently doing a ssf werewolf/summoning run. I end up with basicly the same werewolf skills as you, but only 10 points in lycan. The rest goes into the summons and oak sage. It works a lot better without good gear than only wolf!
I'm recording another wolf based build currently and I was thinking of not maxing lycan this time to get summons. Glad to see someone saying it works.
Congratulations hero! Pro tip: a row of thawing potions = the poor man's Cannot Be Frozen.
Yeah, I totally should have done that. Still think the mod is to rare though :)
@@thenuclearrabbit yeah it def is, needs to spawn on more items maybe as a random roll or somethin
Another tip. Patch 2.6 introduced the Hearth Runeword for a three socketed headpiece, with Nightmare Countess runes that grants huge cold res and Cannot be Frozen.
@@psychofury6485 I would love for it to roll on rare armor. They should roll + skills as well
@@thenuclearrabbit yeah that would be cool
Fury Druid or Throw barb which is over all best late game?
Finding good gear is a bit easier with the fury druid cause your not only limited to throwing weapons but both are pretty hard runs.
oh :() guess i just try javazon then, Ive heard they can kill a lot of stuff with super, super budget gear.@@thenuclearrabbit
Fury druid and throwbarb are totally doable. But javazon is one of the best builds in the game so it'll do well.
I love your videos!
Thank you!
I would try to go for strength - rhyme and max block since blocking shield is viable with new patches. I'm gon try it sometime on a sp switch. Also CB gloves may be a good option. Your vids are awesome
Those would work for sure. I really like how it ended working out. Thank you for watching :)
Great run. Was always scared, but now eager to try Fury.
Hmm... so I guess my style is different, I would used 1x UM rune for Crescent Moon to get some non physical damage (and b/c Static is just generally good). Then the 2nd UM for Duress to get Cold + Crushing. (But Earthshifter & Treachery look good too.)
Duress is probably better. But treachery basically makes you unkillable which is really nice. You can always get cb on other slots but getting fade is not possible otherwise. The earthshifter was a ton of fun, but I wouldn't be surprised if Crescent moon would be stronger. But I'll probably never get a chance to use a ssf thunder maul again so I just went for it
Just curious, do you have the platinum trophy for this game?
No. Don't have the pvp achievement, don't have a soj and don't have a 99 char. I also haven't done ubers. I just don't care about any of those.
*edit* I would go for ubers if it wasn't a massive grind to get there for most chars. I like the idea of super bosses and have done them on plugy during covid. But I don't want to do that grind again
Nice grailfind! I guess that this was recorded BEFORE season 3 and patch 2.6 otherwise you could have made a Hearth (helm: Shael+Io+Thul) for some CBF. Keep the good runs coming!
Thank you! Yes I have a few more runs that were recorded before patch 2.6. I'm way behind on editing because playing is much more fun :)
@@thenuclearrabbit Good to hear that there is more runs coming! Just remember to have fun and be careful of burnout. I’m sure I speak for many viewers when I say I’d rather wait a few more days for a great run than daily videos that feels more like a chore and takes the fun out of the run 👍🏻
@@epicsune oh no worries I am loving doing these! I've been playing this game for 22 years. I won't burn out quickly. I also plan on recording other (similar) games as well with the same concept.
On what Player Setting was this played?
I switch it up depending on what I think the build can do. Mostly p1 though
Sweet.
I love shifter druids,my endgame hybrid proc specs would probably take decades in ssf lol
Most builds should be able to get through in a reasonable time.
@@thenuclearrabbit I meant decades to gear,with a lifetimes worth of high runes lol.
I played ssf for 20 years,didn't get into bnet until after d2r-all the theory crafted builds I'd never been able to assemble in a million years have been a blast lol,having all the items I dreamed about when I was 12 and had no internet.
I get that. I use a few of the chars from the video for farming and sweet builds and stuff :) I could try to ssf some of your theorycrafts if it's not super unreasonable on the runes.
@@thenuclearrabbit hhmmm...most of mine are pretty rune intensive, like dual phoenix firestorm/maul bear, beast iron golem 2h Edeath telewhirlbarb with brand for Amp on switch....but seer recently did a poll for s3 build ideas-the winner was unfortunately plain old poison dagger necro but the runner-up was melee only 2h mace sorc-alot of us were p disappointed he didn't do that. I can imagine quite a few ways to do a viable run of that; insight staff would be a good budget weapon, as would passion ogre/thundermaul,especially with plenty of cb/ds stacked up. Lesser used runewords like black or famine could fit here nicely,the latter has alot of elemental damage you could synergize with mastery.The build would probably be a split between energy shield and enchant. If you had access to more expensive stuff,a pheonix thundermaul with maxed fire mastery would be pretty cool,buff firestorm, enchant and use blaze to get around as much as possible. Something similar could be done with hoj,as well as doom thundermaul,but for cold. Fortitude might be good here as a weapon for once,safer than other options. Beast would be sick for obvious reasons, one never gets to see it used as the main weapon,let alone a 2h. A lawbringer hammer on switch would be great for decrepification.
I really would love to see someone try this lol,I'm tempted myself but I've already got my vengeance kingslayer decapitator sorc
Yeah the runewords are a bit much for ssf. But ng+ is always an option. 2 handed melee sorc. Man that is a combination of words I never expected to hear. I'm kind of intruiged now though
Man I like your runs.
How long does it takes you each run.
Thank you! It differs on the build a lot. Fast characters take me 10-12 hours (think sorcs and stuff) grindier builds clock in at about 17-19 hours. Although this fury druid went over 30 hours because of all the farming I needed to do. I got very unlucky in not finding a fal rune in so many countess runs
Never found a Fal rune...
Meanwhile, dude had 3 Ko Runes sitting in his stash for swagger... 😎😎😎
Really nice vid!
I need 4 to do obedience. That's why I even kept 3 in the first place :)
Thank you!
Hahah, fair point!
Also, I had worse luck...
Wanted a Pul rune to upgrade my Softcore SSF WW Barb's Bonesnap to elite. Ran Hell Countess from lvl 72 to Lvl 82. Got two Lem runes dropped, 5 Fals, 2 Mals, 1 Ist and 6 Kos... But never a Pul Rune. I cubed two Lem and 3 Fals for that Pul Rune.
2 runs later, Physical Bowazon. Got a Pul rune dropped from Nightmare council member on Durance Lvl3, and a Lo rune from a boss mob on Hell Tower lvl 5.
One tip to get a good weapon early is to gamble a maul. It starts appearing at level 17, it just crushes act 1 and 2.
once you get to level 30+, you can cube a Savage Polearm (66-80%ED) with the following recipe: diamond (any) + belt + kris + staff. If you get a partizan or a bill, you're good to go.
Wow I had never heard of that crafting recipe. Thank you!
I use the cranium basher...keep up the good work
Cranium Basher is sweet for sure. Thank you will do!
Can you do hammerdin?
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You made treachery and said you got ias but, ss Druid only benefits from ias on weapon.
They changed that in resurrected
10:43 "smooth" :)
lol how i missed this video xD you can do new runewords in offline single player. one gives cannot be frozen in helm. you only need shael io, easy to farm. but yeah melee characters are painful without good gear. well i did found vex on nightmare when i was going to nihlathak XD
This one was recorded before the patch happened :)
Gratz on the Vex!
@@thenuclearrabbit oh ok :) i didnt even know vex is possible a5 nightmare lol
@@Mangakadenizgaming neither did I, but makes sense when you think about the monster levels
@@thenuclearrabbit yeah most high runes have low ilvl
4:42 this long Diablo footage makes me nervous 😬
Yeah the fight takes really long with some builds. But we made it through
after two ladder seasons of doing a rabies druid, would like to see you give that a run for its money! would be dope seeing how it goes from 0 to the end, especially since psn creeper lvling is a thing in normal
I had never in my life played a Rabies druid and I could not get it out of my mind. I currently have a Rabies druid in act 3 normal. So far so good! Thx for the suggestion
Cant wait to see the vid!! Hope the run goes well!
@7:32 oof you got down to 7 hp here :0
Yeah it got pretty close
@@thenuclearrabbit been thinking of how this build would work better if you could put points in the summons and get a wolf pack going with a bear. Seems like you were struggling at times because you were often the main target and pulling a lot of the aggro. Having the wolves and bear will break that up and give you a lot more breathing room. I probably wouldn't spend that many points in lycanthropy. SSF makes this a lot more difficult tho.
Like I've got a Summoner druid who I'm thinking of respeccing to a Summoner/Fury wolf hybrid because I picked up Jalal's (lucky!) and two Fleshrenders (druid club with +2 to shapeshifting and just +1 to Druid skills and bunch of other goodies). I'm not strictly SSF tho, I play solo but stuff I find I share between all my other characters. My ladder character is currently SSF tho.
A point - just a point - in carrion vine could go far as well! It's a one point wonder. Noms on corpses and converts that to life for you, albeit not a huge amount without a few +skills.
I ended up going into summons and mentioned wanting a bear as well. Shapeshift summon hybrid is something I want to try as well.
1st time grind with a druid can be hard. But as soon as you get just the right mix of gear it's starts spanking.
Stack crushing blow however you can.
I always make sure to carry a poison charm. Some builds need it to kill Lister.
Good call, I need to do that
i played a HC solo self found fury druid last season. NM Andariel dropped me a Ribcracker and that pretty much made the rest of NM a joke. Hell was pretty rough though. accidentally slapped a few dolls in A3 and died
Oh man I farmed my ass off for a Ribcracker but never got one. Although I genuinely loved the Thunder Maul, Ribcracker would have been much, much stronger. Dollslapping is not a wise thing to do, it has cost me many characters as well. RIP
Tip for all melee chars.
Farm cow King on normal difficulty he drops death belt and gloves which gives you 30ias 15all res and cabnnot be Frozen
I would rather farm them from andarial or something to be honest. Melee cows is such a trainwreck
Andariel Has much lower chance of droping them only farm cow king for efficenty this ladder i need around 20 runs to get them that's about 1 hour also found other Items like Sander boots, Twitchthrone, cow King armor, bonesnap rattlecage
And yes its obvious its gonna be hard doing IT with melee char
But i się IT with zerk barb using ith el eth in flail
Howl makes it easy for other melee char i recommend using nadir runeword for cloak of shadows
Wow you are absolutely right. I didn't know the difference was that big. (I just checked Silospen) thx for the tip! Definitely something to remember for me
dude HC self found characters is THE way to play.
Yeah it's awesome to do these runs
Wait is Cleglaws good on this build?!!!!!!!
Cleglaws gloves are slow and crowd control available on lvl 4. They are insanely powerful. Even used to be banned in certain pvp groups.
I tried it out last night and boy you are right. Just can't believe I've had them in my stash from normal to hell and never tried em 😂
@@LOZARATOR they are very underrated. Enjoy them!
lekker bezig jonge!
Dank je
gamble large axe. it's very fast attack speed for druid. can carry through normal. Congrats on finding that maul.
Good to know! Thank you
Was just playing the video while playing and found a cranium basher as you found earthshifter
Gratz! That's one I haven't found yet
@@thenuclearrabbit you'll probably get more earthshifters before a cranium basher unfortunately
I have 7 templar's might. I know what I'm in for :')
well done
Thank you
I'd never play shifter druid in normal on HC since fissure is so busted.
You had like the perfect nm run with 2 early lems.
Druids take an attack speed penalty with spears btw.
I try to switch things up. Fissure is obviously insane but that would result in every video having the same first few minutes. I basically start using a skill once I reach the lvl requirement for it.
Yeah those early lem's were insane.
So I've been told. But I was very happy where I ended up with this
im coming over
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Go necro summoner next time pls)) like you man
Added it to the queue. But I'm pretty backed up. I never expected these to be so popular. But I'll get to it!
When u respected with tmaul u should of went with Armageddon secondary it gives build good wave clear
I could have done that but the thiught of speccing into a caster with 200+ strength stopped me
can i borrow your rune luck? lol
Sure here you go
@TheNuclearRabbit Send some my way please.
Played old d2 (softcore)and one of five items which miss Shifter (others Deathweb, Mangsong, Tyrael, shadow dancer). 😂
I'm missing Tyreal's and death web from those :). I'll get them some day
foof that health bar fluctuated like mad on this build. druid melee needs some big D(efense)
Druid can take it though!
@@thenuclearrabbit I should have watched the whole video before commenting...the lack of offense was way more of an issue than a lack of defense
Haha no worries! I don't mind. But yeah on melee the problem usually is damage. Survivability not so much of a problem unless things go really poorly
lawbringer + treachery + rhyme + bear would have solved a lot of problems. Less raw damage output but more effective damage overall.
Probably, but I really liked how this turned out in the end :)
@@thenuclearrabbit Loved it as well. Looking forward to more meele hc competions. Potentially even ubers.
Тут на аду лем не падает а тут на кошмаре упала
I got really lucky on the Lem rune
do MA sin dude
Will do!