Hello all
Diablo 2 pvm has pulled me in once again. This time I'll be making a druid who largely focuses on summons/merc for his main DPS. The druid himself will be playing more of a support role, using Shockwave for crowd control and a weak Fireclaws as a slow PI solution once I have the gear for it. I will also be able to speed up boss kills with Fireclaws by equipping some CB.
Rules:
-Hardcore
-All areas and bosses must first be played through on /players 8. Any re-runs of bosses or areas can be done on any player setting. This is simply because I hate long/slow MF runs, and I can imagine act boss runs being slow on a summon druid /players 8.
-Must complete all quests
-Must acquire all waypoints
-Ladder runewords enabled but normal size stash.
Goals:
-Kill hell Baal
-Find Jalal's Mane
-Get Fireclaws to a point that it can take care of most PI monsters.
Plan:
I plan to start Normal as a melee druid, saving my points for Dire wolf/Heart of Wolverine when I become level 18. I will remain in melee gear helping my wolves along for most of normal until I can make Spirit and Insight runewords. At this point I plan to take the backseat and simply play as support, shockwaving crowds for my summons for pretty much all of NM. By the time I get to hell I will start to pump into Fireclaws. It will likely be low damage and barely even help vs PIs until I can find a decent amount of +skills gear. I don't expect to be able to put Fireclaws to much use until the middle-end of hell.
I plan to max Dire Wolf, Summon Grizzly, Heart of the Wolverine, Fireclaws, 1 to Shockwave/Lycan and the rest to Firestorm as a Fireclaws synergy.
He's already been through act 1 and I'll be uploading the first pics shortly!