Wondering if there are any numbercrunchers out there willing to lend their minds for a second (No need to reply if you arent at either elite or ultimate difficulty yet… already am half into elite myself :P)
With Devotions grabbing Blizzard (best on Storm Totem), Tsunami (On Storm Devil) and Whirpool (Probably Trozans Skyshard)
(ps. using cold dmg gear with sacred strike as main gem (duh) and 1h gun+offhand for ton of cold/lightning dmg and freeze effect)
Started off as a cookiecutter cold druid build and changed some things when stuff happened during elite difficulty and it became clear what it was lacking.
Now to start off… things people will probably criticise first and why i still set them into this build:
Leveled up Flash freeze… basically i did this for 2 reasons i thought were legit enough… range and duration. Nothing more.
Leveled up Mirror… basically at high difficulty with a druid build, stuff will 2-shot you or even kill you with 1 DoT when Nullification is down. Mirror seemed an amazing choice
Leveled up Arcane will… no clue why i did this… seemed a god idea at the time. Hopefully this is the main point people will find something better for XD
Those are probably the main choices that will be criticized, but i dont care because i want criticism … on the entire build.
So… did i fuck up alot with this build? Did i miss an entire powerfull mechanic or combo i didnt see? Would it be better to put certain points somewhere else? I sadly am an horrible theorycrafter/buildcrafter myself XD
Do comment
= What i want to see:
If you put X points from X into X instead you can see you get X% more damage for that skill and thats why its better
= What i prefer not to see:
HERE IS MY GUIDE LOOK THERE!! (<- aka… not helping at all)
Overload is pretty bad, at least for this kinda build. So I’d remove all the points spent there.
Mirror is good with 1 point, so is Arcane Will unless you get to proc it constantly and sort of build around it.
If you are using the Wind Devils you might as well pick up Maelstrom.
I’d also max the Sphere and put some points in or even max Shattered Star.
Edit:
Mental Alacrity might be good if you have points left and energy problems; casting speed is also nice.
And the buff from the Briarthorn is pretty decent as well, at 12 points it gives you 60% all damage among other things although in total it makes more sense for pure melee characters but you could give it a try.
Hmm, Even with Overloads 80% Elemental dmg? If thats the case… isnt Iskandra’s Elemental Exchange just not usefull in general then? so… not even take that worthy and spend all 14 points somewhere else worthy?
Also, is Sphere worth maxing knowing that i will probably get some gear with arcanist skill (or perhaps even sphere itself) on it anyway? Heard it doesnt scale to well after 12?
Maelstrom is a good idea and will probably pick that up and put some stuff into Shattered Star if i end up with enough points.
Do wonder if there is any specific skill/gearpiece/component you would advice to make sure i dont get instakilled seeing as even with amazing position, you will get hit eventually and 40 seconds cd on mirror and nullifcation is quite a while
So far you have given some good idea’s i could start with though so thanks for that.
edit: Briarthorn does look visually pleasing yeah and will certainly make some kind of build with that some time but as you said yeah… unsure about how amazing it ends up being for a ranged skilled user instead of the 2handed lets fuck stuff up shaman builds ;D
Looks like I got things confused … Overload is % Elemental so yeah, take it
Briathorns buff should be decent enough even for ranged because you still need some resists. You get +20% Bleeding and Physical Resistance and especially the latter is really hard to come by. In addition 60 OA and 60% All Damage and all that for 14 points. Seems decent enough if you have points to spent
Just make sure you go 1-1-12 in that line, the rest is not worth it unless you play a pet build I guess.
You by any chance know wether Briarthorns health goes up with levels because if that thing keeps lying dead on the ground because its only rank 1 im not sure how usefull it is XD
I have a devil/storm totem/Trozan Druid in elite right now. I call it a Kermit flail build, because you will spend a lot of time running like your hair is on fire, but it works very well.
I think most people 1-pt frozen core since it doesn’t increase the freeze and I would move those to shattered star. As already mentioned, you can 1-pt mirror. Personally, I would take the points from there and IEE and pump up wind devil. While the bonuses for IEE are great, wind devil is going to do a staggering amount of damage for you over time, but the points aren’t there right now.
… on the entire build.
