Vs pure phys, whitsans is probably bis since it only requires 100 dex for max block and it can be shaeled for faster block animations cause druid block frames are bad. But if these guys manage to get mld tvts going, hes going to want the res stack.

I see all of your points bud, and yeah the build lacks life no doubt about it.

VS bowas 1v1 my best option would probably be whitsans paired with shaftshop in terms of survival. That would get me 87% chance to block, nicer block rate, lower dex investment required to reach MB on shield, 30 DR, 60 life, and 22 points saved in str to invest in vitality from shaft.

It comes down to deciding if shaft is worth taking over 100 life / 4x faceted jewelers armor.
That is huge damage loss and negative resists gone, which is no good on timer delay skills. And with bowas, I need to approach and end the duel as fast as possible before getting mowed down.
That in mind is why I went with Gerke's. I get to keep on my 100 life 20/-20 jewelers for damage while maintaining some DR, MB/74% CTB, as well as 24 fhr / 9 str / life from my belt.

I could just use whitsans with everything I have on and invest all the saved str points into vitality, but then I lose the DR from gerke's. Which would then force me to have to wear string of ears to get back some DR which would cost me fhr/str/life on rare belt.

In summary, Gerke's is a great all around shield for every single match-up and I typically only need to change my grand charm ratio up.
I hope some of my logic makes sense, and that it's generally not easy to have a pretty life pool while maintaining damage, max block/dmg reductions especially at 49.

This post was edited by 00apacolypse on Dec 3 2019 08:48am

49 is hard

Use skillers, lose life
Use sc’s, lose massive damage

Things like barbs, bowas have an advantage here since they can use all sc’s instead

49 is weird to me, same life as alot of lvl 30’s but huge damage difference

i really dig the Gerke's setup, but might i suggest SoE and Iron pelt as well. could facet or Sol the ironpelt.

Agreed. Although I have yet to have an issue with any melee build that requires getting close to me even with gm fire sorb. I can eat heavy up close melee damage longer than someone can survive standing in a fissure.

I need to find someone with a 49 bowa to really test this build out.

This post was edited by 00apacolypse on Dec 3 2019 09:04am

I’m a big fan of weird builds

I’ll show off me and snipas dumb Druid when it’s ready

Interesting choice. That could be an option but again that's still going to be huge damage loss. I was also under the impression that DR was capped at 30 for GM, but if more is allowed that could work in terms of survivability.



Looking forward to them, we can braid each others hair in the swamp.

DR would be capped at 30 im sure for GM duels, but might help if u want to PK hlds. or if someone's BMing you.

Oh yeah in that case the options would be endless. I've hurt many feelings in pubs with just running around before I found a tele amulet lol. If I had them I'd throw on hybrids and BM pubs all day

DR is capped for certain matchups in europe (like hdin vs barb, or bowa vs pretty much any physical damage build for example) but not on a druid. Youd be eaten alive otherwise.