Yes

Yes

So ele druid just got a 25% dr buff because blizzard has no clue as normal.

This post was edited by gel87 on Mar 24 2023 01:22pm

This some insane stuff. Also means people can prebuff with Beast and new runeword?

Yes I guess.
Total lack of blizz understanding their own game.

I run fury with metamorph helm in hc and don't usually bother prebuffing bear mark, hard to die anyway. As another class it would be quite annoying to buff both and then swap helms to get a 3 min buff... but it does work and some features run longer.

Only life% last 3minuts, the other seems to last until you die or leave game or smt.

So u use a beast and a morph helm and tada, 25% dr, 25% sias. Barb can get the ar bonus as well via wolfhowl. Hp% will run out.

Thats quite strong. Immagine assas, smiters, bvcs etc which are kitted for fcr and u get those adds! Pretty sick, cause such 63fcr barbs etc usually lack dr, and u get less ias issues and even ar bonus on top!

Barb already has beast, and can put methamoprh helm in cube.

This post was edited by gel87 on Mar 25 2023 11:21am

feeling kind of bullish on og d2 again for some reason

Yepp, Imagine ur a bvc in tvt.
U go CP with ur 3bo metamorph helm, quickly change to bear and hit a monster. Teleport to team and bo them with ur cube bo.
Tada u now have that 63fcr eq ready to go, only u have 25% more dr and 25% more sias to stack vs those necs etc ^^

Also, the good old 4 fpa double throw barb is back, ofc u cant do it with 700dmg ghost glaive, but skills are buffed and now pierce and quanti is a none issue.

Warshrike eth + lacerator eth
beast + bo wep(3 slot to swap with demon limb)
Hl
20ias/kb/adds gloves
20fcr/3 x 40ed/15 ias jool's
Raven
Wisp
Arach
Gores or shadows
Eni

Torch
Annie
Max/ar/life
Remaining needed scs
Cube:
3bo metamorph
Demon limb
2 sojs/Bk
3wc ammu

Now 4 fpa/36% dr/40fcr

Then suddenly pretty viable.

or a stacked out 163 druid with near max dr. More or less fade prebuffing except it won't be obvious.