Hello, long time I did not post anything so I am back with nice Druid build. He use combination of highly cold->lightning converted Trozan Sky Shard and 5 totems for nuking and DPSing enemies so Crucible results are good. Totems makes it possible to kite slower bosses in very high sr staying basicaly offscreen if we need and very high CDR + hourglass + mirror help survive.
I’ve tested a lot of items - Ugdenbog Stormstrife, Trozan Scepter, Rolderathis Tome, modifiers for Trozan etc. but this one happend to be best.
About devotions - I found it better to use Turtle with lower DA than Solemn Watcher. This proc can save kiting build more times.
Resistances may be problem but there are a lot of viable options for this build to still be decent - if you want to use this build and got troubles ask me, we will find solution for everything. Not using any real set (except Eastern) make itemization various.
Performance
SR 100 -> Reaper almost fully facetanked with just aether cluster and mirror resets. I forgot to put recording on Moosilauke but there is screenshot at the end of the video. Nothing really to watch, just stayed off screen, totems did the rest with some trozan on the edges and occasional mirror.
Crucible 5:03
Crate kill
SR 80 all bosses pulled -> I still suggest to agro-abuse, something like Iron Maiden + Reaper may be unpleasant.
Thanks! DA seems be not so usefull not only with retals but with either hourglass arcanist, just do not get hit and correct mistakes with mirror
Going to try these devos, damage seems be a little bit higher, I wonder only about bat vs behemoth performance, even with vitality->lightning conversion.
Tsunami could works for sure but where to put it in devotions to still balance with some defense? I tryied something like this: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/bVAm8LBV - but it happened to be a little bit slower not because of less damage but less defense. I couldn’t facetank boss waves on mirror and dps them down fast with Chain Lightning without moving, it lost me some time and build was much less comfortable to play.
i have some items actually, got my first char to lvl 100 today, farmed some nemesis and dungeons, but I got frustrated af when i got extremely owned by the crate ;-; i was going to farm the amulet to level up a totem build, oh well
@holografik as Ulvar said, you need to start with some beginner guide, this one works after you got all items (and there are more possibilites).
From my experience you can level really with anything, just cap resistances, focus on one skill, copy some good devotion route and you should be able to stomp whole campaign without troubles.
I agree with but sometimes using a skill from the get-go is very cumbersome. I really dislike leveling with different skills other than my final ones for immersion reasons but when I started from scratch (no stash) with Cold Drain Essence at it was painful due to energy regen / single target. I don’t mind i.e. Flames of Ignaffar / Bone Harvest leveling which are not optimal but this was next level. Sure with +energy on everything it’s doable but why bother. I’m switching to it fully from Empowered Lightning Nova after I get Bard’s Harp (so I don’t need to wear trash gear with Energy Regen) and more skill points for giving Drain Essence AoE.
yeah, i totally agree with you, when i first played GD I quitted real quick, i didn’t found a build that was made for beginners and it made the game look kinda boring, but well, this happened to me when i tried PoE and today i have almost 5k hours in it, and what you said about being able to level with anything got my attention, i was asking myself if the game get really hard if you try to level up with the skill you intend to use as the final skill, independent if you have all the legendaries and etc, what i wanted from this build “guide” specifically was a devotion path for me to follow, some rare or epic items that i could use to get to the end game and be able to farm port valbury, and from there try to get the legendaries I need to the final set (and try to get the f***ing Decree of Aldritch that i tried like 20 times for my spellbinder lvl 100 and still got none)
ps¹: sorry for the wall of text
ps²: sorry for my bad english, not my native language