here's how it compares to a regular windy in P8 chaos
note I wouldn't actually recommend using 20 HoW, oak is probably better, I was just testing it out and didn't bother to respec

Yeah that’s a noticeable difference, definitely going to make one, just might be a challenge hitting a decent fcr bp, maxing res and keeping the damage up. Thinking of this for now:

3ele/3cane/10/-10 pelt
Maras
30/-30 cs
Enigma
Spirit
Trangs
Soj
Spider
Soj
Wartravs (I suppose I could switch these for tri res mf boots but those won’t be an easy find)

That gives me a pretty good balance, more damage would be nice though

the only resistance you need to care about is poison, you could just use life/poison resist charms
you have 3140+ cyclone armor, the only way you can die to elemental damage is by going afk

its possible to hit the 68 fcr bp using a crafted ammy and fcr ring, losing you -2 skills and gaining some affixes
but FCR is really not that important here. Tornado and Hurricane are both restricted to their interval frequencies; 20 frames for hurricane, 26 for tornado collisions and 15 for tornado pulses. You can spam the nados a little faster and cover more area and increase the collision rate a bit for random connections, but it doesn't scale your dps like it would a fireball or hammer. Its really just teleport speed.

you are posing yourself as a power builds fan, but not using might merc... hmmm...

also you almost died @diablo, thats not good build already

shoulda picked up potions
I was testing the different combinations of might vs hf merc, oak vs how, and hf + how was the last one I did
hf + oak is the most practical imo

in this case you are losing like ~2k phys dmg approximately from both merc and bear



and the reason why standard nadodu is superior to his cold and fire brothers is because he is not dying like a rat in diablo's fire

i still dont know why you are so sceptical towards him

In the video he is showing max dmg more or less builds, a few minor tweaks and you’d have a build that’s much more durable while still putting out increased damage. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the regular Nadia Druid, but in pvm it kind of just leaves you wishing he had a bit more damage. I think this build seems like a decent alternative to the standard build

actually it is not

because you are losing such imba items like hoto and reapers (and spirit/storm as well, if you go 20/20 monarch)

also hurricane ticks are relatively slow and coldy has significant fcr/survivability problems



there are few reasons why this build is not so common

there's not much difference in survivability between the normal wind druid and hurricane druid, and if anything the hurricane druid has more
they use mostly identical gear, have mostly identical stats and skills.
any wind druid can use HoW instead of oak to help their merc damage, and there would be no difference between those two chars if I had statted oak on the hurricane druid

they both have the same cyclone armor, same hp, same dr. The wind build has 1 frame faster cast rate and higher FHR from spirit, but the hurricane build actually has a somewhat significant advantage in survivability because as you can see, the hurricane both permachills and FHR locks monsters unlike the very short chill-only on the normal windy.

the permachill+fhr lock is far more effective at mitigating damage you take than reapers procs from merc
you can actually teleport right into packs of doom knights in players 8 and go afk and take no damage at all because they're 100% locked up from hurricane + slows alone. so much for "relatively slowly"
its one of the reasons I was more interested in a HoW build, maybe even might+how build, over oak. Windies can already get away with it because oak is such overkill survivability to begin with, and this build has another edge on top of windies
but I think in team play its better to have the oak just for everyone else, and the bonuses to your merc are just too marginal for it to matter. Heck, if it keeps your merc alive once or twice I'd already prefer it
And the holy freeze really complements that hurricane slow to lock up mobs.

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