Edit: I‘am dump , death only works with Axes and swords forget thundermaul

Returning Player sick of porting around with every single char. So I want to Start a fury druid.

Since they fixed ias for shapeshifters I recon that there are a a lot of new ways to build a fury druid.
Read quite a lot about weapon discussions. Most people seem to Go for botd, reapers toll or death.
But how does anything come Even close to death?

After looking at some ias calculators and came up with following Builds:

Build 1:

Weapon: Death Eth thundermaul
Helm: metamorphosis
Armor: Threachery
Gloves: Disciple
Boots: Gores
Belt: Nosferatu
Rings: 2x Ar/Res/leech
Amu: Highlords
Switch: Decrep proc for p8 , Harmony aura for p1-x

Merc: Might with pride weapon

You have 90% crushing blow 100% Deadly Strike, Huge basedamage.

Looking at an ias calculator:

95 ias on gear , 40+ Wolf and Mark of the bear = 3/3/3/3/7 atacks with a thundermaul (!)


So you gain 6.57 atacks/s while using the highest damage Weapon base in the game with 90% cb and 100%ds .

Like how can Botd or anything compete with that?

Is dropping fortitude such a big deal? I like threachery because of the movement speed , wich is awesome without teleport.

If you would want fortitude , Just use a faster base for death.
A great polearm has nice damage + range and you can hit the same frames if you run the same setup from above but with forti instead of treachery.

So what do you guys think ? Thundermaul + threachery or Great poleaxe + fortitude? Wich will deal more damage?

And now it gets weird: Snapshots!

I read that the buffs from Metamorphosis stay active even when you remove the helmet. So you can snapshot your buffs and then switch your helmet, wich opens up a LOT more options because you can gain a Lot more ias.

The best weapon base/helmet combinations I came up with (rest of the gear is the same as above except for raven frost )

1. max damage:

death thundermaul + 3os Helmet with 3x15 ias gems + fortitude.

Either a circlet with 3os and movement speed or a pelt wiith nice adds. 15 ias/15 res for defense, 15ias/40 ed for offense.
This way we gain 45 ias on our helmet wich is the same as treachery allowing us to use forti instead while staying at the same fury speed.

2. defense:

Death decapitator + crown of ages 2os + forti

If we use the slightly faster decapitator we loose a Bit base damage but Need one less ias jewel for the same frames.
This way you could switch to coa socketed with 2x 15 ias and should Never have any problems with our defensive stats again.

3. atmas Setup

Death great poleaxe + gface ias + forti + atmas

With an even faster base we can use gface with an ias jool and Drop highlords for atmas. This way we can proc decrep without using weapon switch. Deadly strike will still be at ~80% Even without highlords.

this was a Lot

But what do you guys think ?

Is snapshotting worth it ? You can switch helmets with a single click and only Need 4 inventory slots.

What setup would be the strongest?

I guess death on a kinda fast base+ gface ias+ atmas and forti.

This way you have nice base damage, ed from forti, 100% crushing blow, ~80% deadly Strike and decrep proc from atma with might and conc on merc while having 6.54 atacks/s and a free weapon switch.

this build has like all the damage modifiers available.

What do you guys think? Is there a better way to build a wolf?

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Jan 11 2025 11:14am

You can consider this for pvm as well:
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/1zejv0m3

You can do it with fortitude as well, but i prefer to have teleport availeble, and the frw.

1-8k fury damage.
1,6k nado damage. (20% ctc)
1,4k nadoes (40% ctc)
180 twister damage and stun (8% ctc)
1k hurricane
lvl 10 static (15% ctc)
1-500 light damage (help vs immune/stoneskin etc)

Max fpa and +2 range adder.
high leech
cnbf
73% CB
52% deadly strike
Redemption
Absorbs

Nado, crushing blow and fury buffed by decrepificy

Edit:
Also, the effects from metamorphosis now runs out after 180 seconds.

This post was edited by gel87 on Jan 11 2025 08:45am

Looks like a super fun build, too!
But death has Like Double the base damage and doubled Deadly Strike. I dont think the procs can compensate that.

Nado has AOE damage and hit each monster 3 times.
Firestorm is AOE as well, and the phoenix subtracts fire damage. Its also very effective vs large enemies such as bosses since all 3 "snakes" hit. So u can tripple this damage vs bosses, and double it vs some normal monsters.
Static helps a lot as well, and is AOE.
Hurricane is AOE as well.

If one run hustle, you can choose infi merc and atma urself for amp proc

Guess i gotta try this! Static is great for sure …also didn‘t take the fire storm into acount. Seems Like a Lot things add up with this build. Awesome! Didn‘t Even think about hustle before but it looks great for a Wolf Build.

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Jan 11 2025 10:36am

At that point you better play a fire claw build.

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/k5a6e0cq

80% ctc fully synergized fire storm
-56% fire res on gear and -85 from infinity merc
Synergized armaggedon
Lvl 30 redemption aura for sustain
That’s already a lot of aoe dmg, but you also get ~120k dps vs single targets, on top of all the previous stuff, so we’re looking at ~160k dps if you add the aoe dmg to your attack (which is as much dmg as a fury build without any aoe)

This post was edited by SinsOfTheSun on Jan 11 2025 10:49am

Nice as well

The dps on the build i mentioned is around:
6,25 attacks per second with 20% ctc nado is 1,5 nado per sec.
So 1600*1,5*3 = 7200 physical (-100% dr if atma’s/hustle build)
Firestorm is 1400dps with -enemy fr(infi and phoenix)
Physical dmg is average 4k * 6,25 * 1,15 = 29k dps
Static and the high crushing blow is very hard to put numbers on, but cb is increased with amp, and static is increased by infinity.
You may run a fire sunder as well.
Damage to demons is not counted.
Hurricane is 1k dps with -85cr from infi.

So its quite a nice dmg, both aoe and direct.
Ofc the atma’s lower ds from 52 to 15, but the gain by amp and infinity nec is inzane.

You guys keep coming up with the nice proc builds, love it ! Double Phoenix Sounds realy good, too.

I like the synergy with fire claw but isn‘t the ias on fireclaw like super bad? Even with a Lot of ias on gear fireclaw sits around 3.5 a/s.

You think it May be good to max firestorm synergies and go for a double phoenix fury build? You could Hit close to 2 times faster compared to fire claw and would proc firestorms like crazy.

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Jan 11 2025 11:58pm

3.57 hits per second
Using fury is a massive dps loss cuz Phoenix Pb has low base dmg.
Fire claw deals massive dmg with all that -res. Fury would do like 10% of that dmg to single targets.
Triggering a bit more firestorm is not worth loosing 90% of your single target dmg.

Just saw it , messed up in the calc. 3.5 Sounds a Lot better . Seems like this might be crazy damage.

You think its worth to keep ravenlore or a flickering flame with 3 fireclaw in the inventory? Could Boost fire damage Even more.
Activate both metamorphosis buffs then switch helmets. Its like 4 slots of space and one click

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Jan 12 2025 12:03am