Druid

[dubl]

Do someone play as Druid and maybe have some useful tips for me?

[KoUJkoDeBo4ka]

Ice shards all the way up, plague all the way up, Whisp all the way up, stormshield all the way up, heart of oak all the way up. Never use basic attack, spam Ice shards and plague bosses (or huge crowds of enemies) for -39% elemental rez and slowdown. Also put 1 point in storm nimbus and max out it's synergies. You're set.
Never invest in str, obviously, get dex enough for items, invest heavily in intelligence for elem damage and put some point in hp. Some people say it's preposterous to up hp on mages, but believe me, when draconians will run you over, having extra 1k hp might be the difference that brings your salvation.

[dubl]

But when i am using only Plague or Ice Shards i don't have any energy after some seconds of throwing spells bc that spells costs a lot of mana. What about Wolfes? Bc i am maxing them. I have maxed ice shard and Hearth of Oak. I am at the half of the last act (normal diff) with 34 lvl and i have about 3500 HP with active Hearth of Oak. Is it ok?

[Terotrous]

If you want to use Ice Shard as your primary you'll need a fair amount of mana regeneration. This shouldn't be too much of a problem lategame with decent mage rares, but in the early game you may want to try to find some yellow items with extra regeneration. Also, obviously, anything that increases Ice damage is useful. I wouldn't worry too much about poison damage, plague is mainly useful for the debuffs.

As for wolves, they will start to fall behind later in the game if you're not willing to dedicate some of your gear to them. Unlike, say, the Core Dweller, they're not especially tanky on their own and won't be able to hold aggro from powerful enemies for long without a little help. You could try to support them with some control effects, like Squall, or you could use an amulet with the Convocation suffix (though these are somewhat rare). Also, obviously, max Heart of Oak as well, the extra health and resists will help them live a lot longer.

If the goal is for the Wolves to tank while you sling spells, I wouldn't put many of your points into HP. With Heart of Oak maxed you should have a decent HP pool even with no points invested, I'd just put most of your points into Int so that your spells do more damage. The faster you burst enemies down, the less damage the wolves take.

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Originally posted by dubel1986:

But when i am using only Plague or Ice Shards i don't have any energy after some seconds of throwing spells bc that spells costs a lot of mana. What about Wolfes? Bc i am maxing them. I have maxed ice shard and Hearth of Oak. I am at the half of the last act (normal diff) with 34 lvl and i have about 3500 HP with active Hearth of Oak. Is it ok?

Ice Shards is pretty energydraining when spammed. If you can get energy cost reduction on gear. Golden Fleece relic can be socketed into torso armour to reduce energy cost. It's not a huge problem for Druid through as you can use the Tranquility of Water synergy skill of Heart of Oak to reduce energy costs.

Wolves are okay in normal and better in higher difficulties where they scale better but to be really useful you really need to equip some items that boost pet damage to make them good. Otherwise they're just more of a distraction.


FYI, here is a steam guide I made for Ice Sharder druid.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1898745823


Here's a summoner build by Algahzor
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=764409002&searchtext=druid

Lightning Bolt build by letsrock (this will be very dependent on CDR I assume as LB has a short cooldown so you'd want 80% capped CDR so you can rotate between Plague and LB)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2298426897&searchtext=druid

[KoUJkoDeBo4ka]

Concerning mana usage, in early game I used Storm Nimbus offensively and attacked by hand, and rushed ice shards to max out then re-specked into shards, then trnaquil of water and plague, then whisp, which means maxing out storm column to 40 for his new perk. In the meantime you can one-point in such things as stormshield. I invested some points in mana, but not a lot, like, not more than 15. Just chug dem potions. Money should not be that much of a concern. Plus, for that reason we max out Tranquill of Water from Nature, so that You have chance for 50% mana usage reduction for each cast. And also You can consider some equipment that provides -mana cost, if it is an issue. Wolves I have skipped because you need to invest into growth to keep them alive, because re-summoning both of them takes a lot of time. The build I use is made for dps only, whisp set to agressive drags agro on himself quite allright if you let him get the first hit, and as he has 99% dodge, it can sustain itself for long enough that resummoning it is not an issue.
In current state (ended Epic yesterday) I have fully maxed ice shards, fully maxed whisp, fully maxed plague, some points in storm shield and maxed out damage reflection from it, max heart of oak and it's column, one point in storm nimbus and max in it's synergy that increases frost damage. Next on the line is to max out Nymph and her elemental arrows, and maybe her passive that grants flat meat shield. The only 2 types of creatures that caused me some concerns on epic difficulty are ice demons from act 3 and those pesky Jotuns in Ragnarok, because they have tons of hp and high frost res. There is where damage reflection, poison and vit damage step in to compensate.