A level 30 fissure druid is not one of the strongest LLDers, but it's a fairly uncommon character that can hold it's own against many builds. A fissure druid's battles usually last a long time, especially with the rep life build that I use. If you like these long tacticful rep wars, then this is a great character to build. While some characters will beat a fissure druid every time, he is one of the most effective builds for dueling against hammerdins and necros, which are both abundant LLD builds. I chose to build my druid to maxize rep life and frw, while neglecting block and sacrificing some life as well. IMO, this is the best way to build a fissure druid.

Stats:

19 Fissure
20 Firestorm
1 Molten Boulder
1 Oak Sage

The skill setup is pretty straightforward.

Gear:

Helm: There are a lot of options here. I think the best helm to look for would be:

2elemental/3fissure/2sockets (2x PSkull) with other mods if possible. However, a pelt like this is very hard to find, so you may want to settle for sometrhing else.

My druid uses this circlet since I haven't found the perfect pelt yet: 2elemental/30frw/10rep/15light res (socketed with a PSkull for 15 rep)

Another cheap and usefull option is a PCrown (PSkull)

And the last option is a plain +3 fissure pelt (3x PSkull) However I would prefer a PCrown over this pelt unless it also came with the +Armageddon staffmod.

Amulet: +2 elemental amulet with life and rep. My amulet is 1Druid/10rep/45life/67mana/8res all. I wish it were 2 elemental instead, but at least it gives me +1 to my Oak Sage.

Another good option is a magic +2elemental/15rep amulet.

Armor: Spirit Shroud (PSkull) This is the perfect armor for a fissure druid. +1 skill, CBF, MDR, and rep life. Hitting high res won't be a problem, so there's no reason to use VMagi.

Weapon: Spirit sword. There's really no other option here. Try to get one with perfect MDR.

Shield: Sigon's socketed with a 15 res all/-15 req jewel. An even better jewel would be 10res all/40cold/-req

Belt: FHR/Life/Rep with other mods if possible. My druid's belt is 24fhr/55life/5rep/25cold res.

Rings: Sojs

Gloves: Magefists

Boots: Crafted blood boots with 10frw/10fhr and high rep are your best choice. My boots are 10frw/10fhr/9rep/19life. Other good mods to look for are resistances and slower stamina drain.

Another option is a pair of 30frw/10fhr/dex/res boots.

Sanders won't help you much since you have no need for the stats or AR. The 40 frw is decent but I much prefer blood boots.

On Switch: 15 rep scepter, and an artisans shield of regeneration. I socketed the shield with 3x Sol rune since I couldn't think of anything better to go in there. When you need to rep, this switch will give you another 2 life/second.

Charms:

16x 5frw scs with res or stamina

2x 5fhr scs with res or stamina (you hit the 99 fhr breakpoint exactly)

22x 15 life scs with res or stamina

With this setup my fissure druid has:

1288-1346 Fissure damage
1384-1548 Firestorm damage
1430 Life
120 FRW
54 Rep life (74 on switch)
75 Res all with an extra 80 stacked light and cold res.

While this build only has 5% block, this won't hinder you in many duels. Chargers and Bowzons will be impossible to beat, but they would also be impossible with max block. The same goes for a good WW barb (although you can beat the crappy ones pretty easily). Remember, max block is only a 25% chance to block while running, and you will be running for nearly all of the duel.

I think guides should include dueling techniques aswell as items, would be more helpful

cast fissure on slow things, cast fissure in front of fast things. keep a fissure between you and things that want to hit you, like ww barbs and chargers.

nice guide

i dont understand your choice in boots... imho frw is the key to any non tele druid. thats just my opinion of course, and seeing as no one will really hit you the ++ life rep seems a bit of a waste over the 5 str/dex/frw of sanders. all an opinion of course, you probley know a lot more then me about it so dont flame me if im wrong

9/10

My build is very different from waramps.

The str and dex on Sanders do nothing for this build.

Sanders has 30 more frw than my boots. I am sacfrificing 30 frw in order to get 10fhr/19life/9rep. Blood boots are much better than Sanders.

30 frw = 6 x 5frw scs
10 fhr = 2 x fhr scs
19 life = 1 sc (+4 life)

so 6 scs - 3 scs = 3 scs

so the question is 4 life +9 rep > 3 scs?

life replenishes at 1 life per sec for each +10 rep life you have

so if 3x 15 scs = 45 life

how many seconds would it take to = that?
.9 x 45 sec = 40.5 life then add the 4 life

so if the duel lasts > 45 second than bloodboots are better
if the duel last < 45 secs than sander are better
(opps forgot to add the 15 stats)
well we will only count the 5 str = 10 life

so 60 secs = 54 life

so if the duel last more than less than 60 secs than sanders is better
more than 60 secs than bloodboots are better

but would also like to suggest that have so much life replenish allows u to run off screen and pot and then say "its my replenish"
not that anyone would do that.

LOL

Most duels last around 5 minutes although there is the occasional 10 minute superduel. The replenish adds much more life than 3 scs.



Practically all of waramps gear is different than mine except for the obvious stuff like sojs and magefists. His stat distribution is also very different.