Use Feral Rage, Fury will target surrounding minions which is pointless.

So I definitely see the utility of ribracker. Still doing tests on ribracker vs my ebotd gpa.

I also tried having an eth reapers on switch for baal's phys immune minions. Not sure it did a whole lot.

1. I have also been using Fort, but I'm wondering if COH may be better?
If switching to CoH, would you switch from Jalal to guillames?

2. What about metalgrid vs highlords? I feel like Highlords is BIS with the IAS.

3. I currently use 2 raven frost + highlords. Sometimes I swap out 1 raven vs natures peace for poison vs Lillith. Any ring suggestions?

I like playing around with this build. Just looking for some opinions.

What % does he hit vs Ubers? I'd appreciate higher AR: fewer hits means lower dmg.

Besides, I'm not sure if I use eth upd Ribcracker: much slower attack speed than non-upgd one.

non-upgd: base 0 and Shael = -20
upgd: base 10 base and Zod = 10

10 is too slow to my taste.

BTW, which Ubers are the toughest?

Thanks for all your replies. So would you use just non eth ribacker? Non upped?

Honestly, the only one I struggle with is baal. Lilith's poison get's me, but baal and his minions are the only struggle.

*edit* I'd have to look at the numbers. Without spirit and merc, my AR is usually around 15-17K. I think his hit percent is like 75-80

This post was edited by germantank22 on May 26 2022 07:27am

Sorry, I missed 50 ias on Ribcracker.

I gotta check IAS calculator

I honestly feel good about the weapon choices I have.

My current set up:

Um Jalal, highlord, 2x raven (natures peace swap), dracs, gores, dungoes (t god swap at meph), fort, ebotd GPA/eth up ribby/ eth reapers, assorted max/ar/life and frw/ar/life


Considerations:

Swap fort for COH?

Swap highlords for metalgrid + mana each/dual leach ring?

Attack Speed
GPA: 6 frames,
Ribcracker + Shael: 6 frames
Upgd Ribcrackerb+ zod: 7 frames
Tomb Reaver+ 15/40 x 3: 5 frames
eth Tomb Reaver + 15/40 x 2 + zod: 5 frames

So TR offers 20% more attacks than GPA.

DMG
GPA: 15ed(sup) + 50ed(eth) + 400ed(botd) = 465ed
eth TR: 280ed + 50ed(eth) + 40ed x 2(jewels) = 410ed
So GPA offers 13% more dmg than eth TR.

(GPA has Str which adds dmg, while TR has up to 230% dmg to undead)

Why do we use Ribcracker in the first place? CB.

Then non-eth TR with 15/40 x 2 + Ber might be an option.

TR offers below effects as well btw:
Resistances +30-50 (varies)
10% Reanimate As: Returned

And for armor, Duress is my favorite choice vs Ubers:

+40% Faster Hit Recovery
+10-20% Enhanced Damage (varies)
Adds 37-133 Cold Damage
15% Chance of Crushing Blow
33% Chance of Open Wounds
+150-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)
-20% Slower Stamina Drain
Cold Resist +45%
Lightning Resist +15%
Fire Resist +15%
Poison Resist +15%

Amazing!

I'd go with non-eth TR with 15/40 x 2 + Ber and Duress: 35 CB in total. And + 15 from Gorerider= 50 CB is enough with faster attacks.

Yes, I can use CTA comfortably then.

VS uber Baal, mana burn is the most annoying thing to me, so faster attack speed is always welcome.

As for ammy, HL, Metalgrid and Mara are all 👍

i mean.... im surprised you cant just google it but.... okie...

http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/elite/umaces.shtml



granted doing uber trist on a fury druid is stupid in the first place
( honestly uber trist itself is also stupid in the first place)

wolf has low resists.. which makes mephies aura suck
fury will randomly target monsters, so u would need to use feral rage anyways
feral rage will also not leech from mephy or his skelies becuase they have no leech value so u need life tap
and u would need to rely on dracs to proc life tap because you cant use a life tap wand in wolf form.

also...

2.4 ias calc
https://chthonvii.github.io/d2r_24ptr2_wereform_calculator/

This post was edited by Furry_fury on May 26 2022 06:00pm

people have shared their opinion in this topic, now here's mine:

Last Wish PB is a more defensive weapon than the other options. It has lower damage, but it front loads most of your defensive stats onto 1 item which leaves more flexibility on the rest of your gear. It also allows the use of a shield.

If you are on HC, not confident about your survival for some reason, then LW will make sure you are covered. It will make the last 1% of the boss hp take longer to push down, but that's the only problem. for the first 99%, the crushing blows do all the work anyway.

Druid suffers slooow block recovery, so shield is not good in general.

That said, my Fury/Tornado Druid uses Dream KITE shield with Stormlash, which has low block rate and def.

LW PB = 9 frames, which I won't enjoy myself