Vouch, It's all about a balance that YOU want for your druid. Atm I'm experimenting with a MLD version of this character and already without any of my gear faceted IE 4 in armor, 6 in sword and 3 in shield for switch I hit 25k rabies damage AND I am also missing 2 charms.

so thats basically +2 skills into rabies missing, AND 65% more poison damage missing and I hit 25k which already has been eating away even HLD'rs health (but this is ladder so most PvP HLD are garbage as well)

i can vouche that on his mid lvl dueler. it hits hard on my barb. but i still kill you one hit there bullseye . you take losing like a man. :-P

but i think ill make me one of these beasts.

We'll see what happens when I finally find enough gear to make my HLD version

nice guide i might make 1

nice

meh no one makes melee characters nowadays

O_O

This might sound arrogant of me to type, but when I'm reading most guides, I feel like I pretty much already have most if not all these answers for myself. However, when it comes to wolves, I'm of two minds. I've been trying to think of whether I should just go with a pure fury druid (as I always have in the past) due to the huge amount of physical damage he dishes, but feel limited to mainly only dueling other wolves (and some other meleers), or go with the fury/rabies build as you have here. The question was which will do well versus all (for the most part).

In any case, I wanted to know why you value an eth Tomb Reaver over an ebotd Polearm. My old wolf used an ebotd Great Poleaxe, and I loved it, but can't decide whether going with the eTomb is better because it has (assuming zod/2x 40/15s) a total of 90% ias (that's a 4 fpa, isn't it?) and up to 50 res all, with around the same if not slightly higher damage output. The ebotd has the obvious stats and dual leech (at least for pvm) and a higher range (5 versus 4, right?). Your clarification as to why you prefer the eTomb, if you would?

Also, what is your view or experience with pure fury druids versus all?

eTomb hits my FPA breakpoint and still dishes a Hall of alot of damage And rabies/fury is better vs all but the weaknesses of this character are basically the same as the fury druids but this character handles them alot better.. I've never joined a pub game with my druid and been completely dominated. EVER.

I see 1 issue with your build and that is your BK ring. Druids do not get much life from +life per lvl. Don't you think you would get more benifite from a 60life/25str/hi resistance crafted ring?