Man, I wish you were able to make a guide of this quality for every character. Like you said; most youtuber guides are rushed for the sake of revenue alone, and easily outdated in a month or so when people understand the class. The ways which you describe perks based on easily digestible math perspectives is exactly how I learn best and is much appreciated. Thank you for your efforts and I promise it doesn't go unnoticed. I will see you when you are at the top!
Hey man love the video, I got 400 hours and top 50 druid demi this season playing bear only! I would say there is also a lot of variety in running different bear builds as well. I have 2 that are separate from the straight strength stacking and buying cheaper purples to fulfill the one tap fantasy. I have trios frontline bear build which is 75% pdr, 38 str, 270 HP, it counters double melee comps super well (rogue/pdr), I also have support bear, which was my version of cleric being able to frontline and pump massive heals. It has 21 mag heal, 40 str, 60% pdr in bear and nature's touch heals 3 hp every 3 and dreamfires heal for 30+ this build is super viable for trios or if you have a teammate that wants to run frontline but you want to be able to survive dives. The build you covered is awesome and has been granting me extra kills on wizards/warlocks who are faster than the flash. Love seeing bear getting some content on youtube! Hope you stick with it like me!
@@Kielbasa003 can use jewelry that rolls +3 each (9), then run demonclads which grant +3 (12) and demon grips grant +2 (14) then any chest piece can roll +3 (17) and then a legendary staff gives you +6 (23 total)
Finally decided to swap off fighter after a full day of straight losses in 125+ lobbies. This is such great guide and exactly what I was looking for in a class guide. How to build, how to win match ups, how to deal with pvp, positives and negatives to consider. Great job, appreciate the content!
Amazing guide! Thanks a lot! Learning the ropes of druiding, so on point explanation helps immensely. Managed to figure out 124 lobby blue STR kit myself, but forsaking the book for ball tip is new and cool.
Beautiful vid bro, great information. Currently level 232 and pushing top 20 in Demigod, while trying to pvp as much as possible. Fellow druid brothers - heed the info in this vid. Little ideas I can provide, why not. Action speed can be quite costly, it's certainly handy. An alternative, albeit more expensive at times, if you're confident is to focus on Physical Power where you can, as the multipliers will quickly get your hits absurdly strong, and magic resist, and if you can, a healthy amount of Vigor, as your hardest counters are casters (wiz/locks/rangers). Dexterity certainly isn't bad, but against a good player the situation will become more dependent on survival. Extra health eventually makes your rat be able to actually take *some* ticks, by no means is it a priority stat though in comparison to raw damage. Into rangers, always, always save 1 wall. If you ever step into a trap, a hasty wall right in front of you will create precious space while you can disarm the trap and escape. If you step into a trap while in animal form, swap into human to trigger dreamwalk and get the wall off immediately, it's your best shot. Try and think of chicken as the more mobile class, Chicken can also easily landmine, as when you shift walk as chicken, your steps sound similar to goblins/wolves, and you make no 'clucking' noises. Chicken also makes absolutely no noises ever when standing still. Something to consider. Don't also count out spell-book, as we're in a Wizard meta and being able to run and quickly get heals off with the additional mobility (roughly 5% movespeed) can be a lifesaver. RE Rogues: good rogue will also not move off you while you're dreamwalked, so spell-book actually helps you get a crucial gap while they're in reduced movement during their attacks. In HR lobbies, a wall/tree ent right on you while you're dreamwalked off a landmine will create precious space, else they disable you from transforming with their stickyness. For PVE, rightclick hits as bear if timed correctly will make enemies completely miss while you 1/2tap them. When you've got this handle on PVE, suddenly the reduced move-speed of your likely strength gear + mace/ball can become difficult to manage vs clued in players. When you're pushing around the 40-50% physical power, the multiplier is turning potential 200 hits into 250+, with my current builds getting right clicks of 330. Armor pen is also extremely useful, as PDR fighters in HR can be quite an issue if they're blocking effectively. In 124 lobbies, with moderate kits, you can get to 35-38% physical power and, as mentioned, you are so, so powerful, typically 1tapping people that let you 1 tap them. As mentioned in the video, you play for situations, lure people near walls, attack people near walls & use wall/tree ent, even roots can be handy to create zone. Walls are your friend. Ramps/stairs are not your friend and require a jump transform to actually complete the transform. I would also add that for pve, you almost never, never, unless you misplay hugely and find yourself in a "I'm absolutely dead" scenario, you should never use your spells on PVE. Save the precious casts for PVP. Rooms with water are your friend, sidenote: In Cavern Lake room in goblin caves, chicken moves at full speed in the swamp water, this room also has a shrine of power and is most certainly, one of our strongest positions in GC that doesn't have particularly crazy jumps. Anyhoo, fantastic vid, enjoy druid brothers. Also, buff druid xD
Not even 15 minutes in and love this guide. Going to watch the rest when i get home. Subbed. Would love to see a guide like this for wizard and warlock
Ive always been a wizard guy. Just started playing D&D a couple weeks ago with my crew. I havent touched druid yet. I never do. I just happened to see your link and clicked. This video was so well put together youve convinced me to try druid and am actually looking forward to it. Liked and subbed!
im a movement player and absolutely love druid for its movement mechanics. i always slept on bear even though i knew its damage numbers were ridiculous, but i just loved the mobility of panther and playing a backline support esc with a spear until a squishy character makes a wrong step and then two tapping them w panther. since the nerfs its been so much harder to do that but ive been holding onto hope that i could make it work. this vid pushed me to the dark side. i will be running bear tonight with basically your exact build that i stole. bear covers alot of the weaknesses that a panther build has, but you still have that mobility its just not your main damage tool. thanks for enlightening me -fellow druid main since it dropped (lvl 180)
hell yeah brother. This game conditions you from second 1 to avoid getting hit and getting hit even a few times is death. You need to conquer that mental barrier to be good w/bear. Getting hit sometimes is an advantage, like barb throwing axes or rogue daggers. They waste resources which makes rat safer for you.
The reason pve projectiles hit you in cat form is because of your longer body, the projectiles will hit your back haunches or tail. You can dodge them by moving to the side and looking in the opposite direction (i.e. moving left and looking right or vice-versa. Another way to think about it is sidestepping like normal, then watching the projectile go past you)
Ive been learning druid. Looking forward to applying your advice in this guide. If you still need other druids i would definitely be down to rat and bear the dungeons!
This was an amazing video. I never built dex or action speed because I didn't realize it would affect the bear attack so much. Can't wait to start building some loadouts with the new perspective.
bravo, nice solid guide, i hopped off the druid once they nerfed my panther and treant, and went rogue only to get nerfed again. SDF the dev said hes playing druid atm and knows it might got a lil over nerfed and needs tweaks. penguin form incoming for the new water map LOL. im hyped for gorilla tho mostly
@DemoMan0351, You get shot by arrows in cat form because using A and D turns your hitbox sideways so your whole side is facing the enemy even though you're looking forward. It's how a panther would walk in real life if it were waling around its prey.
Demoman? Ayo that’s a tf2 player right here as I spent 3k in there now I am here and my fellow tf2 enjoyer teaching me how to play Druid?? Love to see it!
BEARS UNITE! Great video. And here I thought I knew everything I needed to know about bear form. Gave me a lot to try out and work with. If there's any room for an extra bear boy for a trio I'd love to sign up! :)
So, I love the guide, I'll definitely be a main druid going into this next wipe. They just feel so versatile. Anyone else feel like he sounds like Carth from KOTOR?
Something to note on the perk section. Spirit Magic Mastery actually activated when you START casting the spirit magic spell. it doesn't last for any amount of time after you cast it. Only as your are casting it. So it would affect all 4 dreamfires, not just 3 of them assuming you casted them in succession. Small detail but you can test it easily. Still doesn't make the perk good so the guide is still 99% accurate.
Good to see an MO veteran in these treacherous dungeons! Welcome indeed Demoman. PD: Have you tried Wizard yet? Would be fun to see you at it after your experience as a mage in MO
Yeah, ive played since Playtest one. I've played a decent amount of wizard but the endless nerfs had me pretty turned off to em. I was a cleric main pre-druid. Also thx for the comment :)
I like the video so far, but I just wanted to react at 5:55 when you called me an idiot. :D Using Natural Healing synergizes with Force of Nature, thus if you take a tiny hit, you constantly have 3 extra Strengths until you completely heal up. This also applies to teammates as long as they miss a bit of health and are close enough to you (600 range?). I'm not saying this is the best trait ever, but I pretty much like the extra Strenght. It could mean 1 less hit to kill an enemy. -19:20-- --> "you get only 5 slower" if you have the mace. Last time I checked (and this was a long time ago) both hands counted for slowing down, not the one that slows you down more. This means -20 + -15 = -35 movement speed, not -20 or -15 whichever is higher. Maybe this changed?!- Update: yeah, this was changed. I wasn't even aware of this. The speed penalty is based on the higher of the two items held at the same time. Very informative. I learned a lot. I never focused on Bear as I didn't find it useful, but it looks like a lot has changed and I should definitely give it a go. :) Thank you for this video!
Nitpicking, but - Dreamwalk increases your Magic Power by 5, not your magic damage. Probably not giving you 5 whole points of damage, likely 2 or 3 points (depends on your gear). Spirit Magic Mastery is always active, it just treats your magical power as 10 points higher when casting Spirit magic (still not a very good perk of course). Nice video though, thank you.
I got to say as someone who has over 100 levels into Druid I disagree with big dps. He has a lot of burst but outside of panther the dps isn’t great. When you are human you are basically just a ranger without a bow. The bears burst Damage is good, but it is still very situational and I think at the end of the day no matter how much skill expression you have you can most of the time walk away from bear heavy’s and a lot of the time, even bear light attacks. I think Druid is plenty of fun but I feel that you are over selling it a bit other than that I agree with most of your points. Especially about dream fire. A lot of people never use it and it baffles me
Thanks for being one of very few creators that still made a druid video even after the nerfs that made him way worse without top tier gear lol. This class is trash at the moment sadly. Which just makes it more inpressive that you are performing so well with it. As far as transformation, it needs to be refactored. Demon form on warlock has never given me issues changing forms. Since casting on this class has been absolutely gutted, The only thing that makes the class great is it’s forms. And changing feels 50/50 in alot of situations. Feels so bad to get stuck in cat form against a barb
Fantastic guide, thanks for all of the info! I'm a Druid player myself if you'd like to play sometime. Will definitely be using some of your tips here, especially with how to deal with rogues. Great guide man
sometime it better to turn into a chicken rather than a rat coming out of dreamwalk , you can bait out expolsive bottles , and the triple jump as a small target still makes you slippery can usually tank 1 hit and you can sit in chicken form in the shadow as long as you dont move to many steps at a time you wont make noise.
Look, you might have reservations about Natural Healing, but you are looking at it the wrong way. 1 HP every 3 seconds (10 percent scaling) means that from start of map to finish, whether you died or not (and not even counting going deeper), Natural Healing could potentially have healed you 300 points of health (15 minutes, 1 healing every 3 seconds..do the math) baseline. Thats the equivalent of 15 grey potions. And it just DOES IT. For Free. On top of that, it is the ONLY healing ability that does scale with druid, currently. Imagine actually buying a set of gear to boost that healing to 3 hp per tick, which would be 1 hp per sec. All of a sudden, what was once "weak" is now a permanent Nature's Touch cast on yourself (almost, NT is actually 1.25 hp per second). OH, and its aoe...and it just got an increase to its range. Imagine having a permanent natures touch on ALL THREE players...Imagine making a god tier kit to get it even higher, to like 4 or even 5..i wonder if thats even possible with 10% scaling (+ to magical healing, +to magical power, + to mag power bonus) Id say you might want to reconsider Natural Healing, DemoMan Some math. With an epic Ceremonial staff you get +5 magical Healing. With the right gear you can currently get up to +14 magical healing on various pieces of clothing via enchantments. Demonclad leggings give 2-3 (and 4 strength) Demon grip gloves give 2-3. (and 4 strength) Just did a quick market search, with just demonclad and demon grip you can get 6 mag healing, 8 strength, 4 vigor, and 4 magic power and 1.9% max health bonus for around 900 gold. THATS PERFECT FOR A BEAR RUNNING NATURAL HEALING! If my math is right thats 23-25 + Magical Healing. With JUST THAT modifier you are approaching 3.5 healing per tick. Throw in + Mag Power and + Mag power bonus modifiers, and you can likely get over 4. Now, unfortunately, Ceremontial Staff stats do not transfer over to animal forms. However, other gear does.
So many points where to start: 1. I'm never using trash ass ceremonial staff 2. You have to be damaged for it to get value, so in an imaginary round where youre damaged the second you load in and until you extract you could get that 15 pot value. 3. Its not free its literally a perk slot. 4. 90% of your deaths will be to burst damage. You will take an entire healthbar of damage in under 10 seconds MOST of the time. Things that allow you to survive an extra hit will always supersede a few extra health. 5. Ive played around with it, its bad. Its even worse with today's patch where meds all got buffed. 6. The range is shit even w/the buff. 7. Oh and dreamfire is a heal that scales, so magic power is just straight better. 8. I only run demon on budget builds, wolf + rivets are better on actual kits. *Edit* Literally would take sun and moon over that trash perk lol.
DemoMan is definitely looking at this from the perspective of a well versed, late game player with plenty of skill where money isn't much of an issue, nor is PvE. When you aren't worried about those things, health pots don't matter and you build to maximize effectiveness against PvP. However, I can see how this would be nice to deal with chip damage sustained throughout casually playing the game on trios. It would help keep people topped off as a QOL feature from little PvE damage here and there. I don't think it would be worth it at all to go out of your way to build for it though. The only way I could see using it is maybe if it gave 3hp per tick base, then it might justify its perk slot as a QOL perk since druids 4th perk is usually just a meh tossup for me anyways.
@@JonathanGeb As I said, you have to build for it, but once u do it becomes one of the best perks available. And its only going to get better when they release more Druid content. Imagine a perk that said "you get 1 hp every second". It would be an instant pick. Oh and if 3 hp per tick is too expensive for you to reach (its not for anyone with decent time and skill) then even 2 hp per tick is acceptable. PARTY WIDE. Combined with Natures Touch cast on yourself, you will be gaining 1.25 + 1 every second (with the 1 hp per sec natural healing) 2.25 HP per second is INSANE HPS. Throw in a health pot (we will use grey since is the most common) and that 2.25 becomes 3.25. Also, this isnt just for PVE chip damage. What usually happens in pvp? People sling arrows, sling spells, and CHIP away at the others before pressing the W key, unless ur a buff ball barbarian group, which isnt as popular as it once was.
The question I have is: does Force of nature proc with natural healing ? if so in trio and duo does the free heal and the always proc force of nature any good or does natural healing is still weak / useless ?
I just started expermenting with spinning around real quick to prevent head shots in bear and panther. Im not good so I can't say the strategy is good but im curious what it's value is in skilled hands
Yo! I basically exclusively play in sub 24 lobbies. I find my bear form really doesn't do much damage! I hear about one shotting rogues and 2 tapping with strength builds and stuff, but it doeant seem to be as effective at my level. Of course im new and its a skill issue, but any advice for low lobbies? Are there any tips for me? I find people can just backpedal away from my bear because im so slow and they are so fast! I can maybe get 1 right click if i get a sneak attack, but then get absolutely smashed by someone spacing me out
So the main problem I'm having is even in the easy match ups. When i right-click, they just walk backward. Then, come back in and hit me after my attack ends.
Is there a valuable panther build after nerfs? I've been playing mostly panther builds with agi, but without Rubysilver in higher gear score lobbies it seems to be totally useless cuz everything one-shots you.
My experience isn't any diff. You die in 2 hits and they slow you and you don't slow them when you hit them which means if you don't have dash up you die 100% of the time
10:30 you say bark skin gives 20% armor, as does the tooltip but I'm almost positive it gives a flat 20 AR which is not great. I'll test this tomorrow though.
Well, Natural Healing + Force Nature isn't bad. It gives you 3 phys power always when you have less than 100%hp. Maybe not always best in slot, but it's okay I suppose.
How loud is the rat squeaking that happens automatically? I played tarkov like a ghost and just avoided / negotiated past fights and I'm wondering if I can just hide as a rat against not so aware plaeyrs?
Can you spec out to where bear is viable in under 25gs? That's where friends and I play and bear felt really underwhelming but I was running mostly knowledge base squire gear
Stacking buff duration for the druid heals doesnt work does it? It heals a flat amount that doesnt scale with Mhealing so making the duration longer would just make the heal worse or have i fallen off the deep end?
I undestand why you don't like the Natural Healing perk and play without it myself. But it has a cool synergy with Force of Nature. Natural Healing+ Force of Nature = permabuff for u and ur allies with Physical Power. In this case, this perk has a right to life, i guess
That makes it even worse because its 2 perks instead of one :P but yes ive heard that argument. Aoe Restore/heals pots etc also basically make it a perma buff in actual fights.
I just use it as a comfort perk, Its not great at fights but can save some heals and let you keep moving as you will eventually heal small hits. All in all what he said is not wrong tho, its a glorified health pot
Waited forever and ever for druid to come out. Finally took a break from the game right before steam release. Come back, check out the druid, and wow was I disappointed. It felt like I did nothing at all. Turning into an animal wasn't fun and none of them did any damage. Lost 6 LR in a row and I think I'll pass on the druid. Whole game probably. Sucks to suck I guess.
I just get tired of dropping to people with 800 gearscore while im at 200. Fighting it out most of the duration of the game to wear them down and then popping bear just to be beat by someone head to head is downright terrible
Animals dont drift like a car when moving to the side why does every other druid i play with not understand this ? The hit boxes arent the problem its that no one has made this simple connection
"You have NO range" here I am bringing in 10 drums.....
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Man, I wish you were able to make a guide of this quality for every character. Like you said; most youtuber guides are rushed for the sake of revenue alone, and easily outdated in a month or so when people understand the class. The ways which you describe perks based on easily digestible math perspectives is exactly how I learn best and is much appreciated. Thank you for your efforts and I promise it doesn't go unnoticed. I will see you when you are at the top!
Maybe I will! Its really a time investment barrier tbh
Hey man love the video, I got 400 hours and top 50 druid demi this season playing bear only! I would say there is also a lot of variety in running different bear builds as well. I have 2 that are separate from the straight strength stacking and buying cheaper purples to fulfill the one tap fantasy. I have trios frontline bear build which is 75% pdr, 38 str, 270 HP, it counters double melee comps super well (rogue/pdr), I also have support bear, which was my version of cleric being able to frontline and pump massive heals. It has 21 mag heal, 40 str, 60% pdr in bear and nature's touch heals 3 hp every 3 and dreamfires heal for 30+ this build is super viable for trios or if you have a teammate that wants to run frontline but you want to be able to survive dives. The build you covered is awesome and has been granting me extra kills on wizards/warlocks who are faster than the flash. Love seeing bear getting some content on youtube! Hope you stick with it like me!
I'd like to see you do a video on solo bear in normals an HR. ^^ I'm new on druid and need to get better.
I thought 14 magical heal was the max
@@Kielbasa003 can use jewelry that rolls +3 each (9), then run demonclads which grant +3 (12) and demon grips grant +2 (14) then any chest piece can roll +3 (17) and then a legendary staff gives you +6 (23 total)
@skjold_ oh, I forgot craftable gear had magical healing. I was just thinking about the random enchantments. Thanks for the reply
try dex str bear, goes off
there's a weird loud beep at 26:46 and it made me laugh; great video!
Hahahaha
Finally decided to swap off fighter after a full day of straight losses in 125+ lobbies. This is such great guide and exactly what I was looking for in a class guide. How to build, how to win match ups, how to deal with pvp, positives and negatives to consider. Great job, appreciate the content!
Thorough and helpful video. Druid looks strong and fun. I will have to try them. Thank you
Amazing guide! Thanks a lot! Learning the ropes of druiding, so on point explanation helps immensely. Managed to figure out 124 lobby blue STR kit myself, but forsaking the book for ball tip is new and cool.
Much appreciate your guides on the druid its been my favorite class but it has a decent learning curve
I appreciate the detailed guide! Really helps me get in the headspace of playing a druid.
Check out version 2 in the description bro
Beautiful vid bro, great information. Currently level 232 and pushing top 20 in Demigod, while trying to pvp as much as possible. Fellow druid brothers - heed the info in this vid.
Little ideas I can provide, why not. Action speed can be quite costly, it's certainly handy. An alternative, albeit more expensive at times, if you're confident is to focus on Physical Power where you can, as the multipliers will quickly get your hits absurdly strong, and magic resist, and if you can, a healthy amount of Vigor, as your hardest counters are casters (wiz/locks/rangers). Dexterity certainly isn't bad, but against a good player the situation will become more dependent on survival. Extra health eventually makes your rat be able to actually take *some* ticks, by no means is it a priority stat though in comparison to raw damage.
Into rangers, always, always save 1 wall. If you ever step into a trap, a hasty wall right in front of you will create precious space while you can disarm the trap and escape. If you step into a trap while in animal form, swap into human to trigger dreamwalk and get the wall off immediately, it's your best shot.
Try and think of chicken as the more mobile class, Chicken can also easily landmine, as when you shift walk as chicken, your steps sound similar to goblins/wolves, and you make no 'clucking' noises. Chicken also makes absolutely no noises ever when standing still. Something to consider.
Don't also count out spell-book, as we're in a Wizard meta and being able to run and quickly get heals off with the additional mobility (roughly 5% movespeed) can be a lifesaver.
RE Rogues: good rogue will also not move off you while you're dreamwalked, so spell-book actually helps you get a crucial gap while they're in reduced movement during their attacks. In HR lobbies, a wall/tree ent right on you while you're dreamwalked off a landmine will create precious space, else they disable you from transforming with their stickyness.
For PVE, rightclick hits as bear if timed correctly will make enemies completely miss while you 1/2tap them. When you've got this handle on PVE, suddenly the reduced move-speed of your likely strength gear + mace/ball can become difficult to manage vs clued in players.
When you're pushing around the 40-50% physical power, the multiplier is turning potential 200 hits into 250+, with my current builds getting right clicks of 330. Armor pen is also extremely useful, as PDR fighters in HR can be quite an issue if they're blocking effectively. In 124 lobbies, with moderate kits, you can get to 35-38% physical power and, as mentioned, you are so, so powerful, typically 1tapping people that let you 1 tap them.
As mentioned in the video, you play for situations, lure people near walls, attack people near walls & use wall/tree ent, even roots can be handy to create zone. Walls are your friend. Ramps/stairs are not your friend and require a jump transform to actually complete the transform. I would also add that for pve, you almost never, never, unless you misplay hugely and find yourself in a "I'm absolutely dead" scenario, you should never use your spells on PVE. Save the precious casts for PVP. Rooms with water are your friend, sidenote: In Cavern Lake room in goblin caves, chicken moves at full speed in the swamp water, this room also has a shrine of power and is most certainly, one of our strongest positions in GC that doesn't have particularly crazy jumps.
Anyhoo, fantastic vid, enjoy druid brothers. Also, buff druid xD
Not even 15 minutes in and love this guide. Going to watch the rest when i get home. Subbed. Would love to see a guide like this for wizard and warlock
Man, love this kind of content. Keep up tbe good work, feels like I can confodently learn druid slowly.
Ive always been a wizard guy. Just started playing D&D a couple weeks ago with my crew. I havent touched druid yet. I never do.
I just happened to see your link and clicked.
This video was so well put together youve convinced me to try druid and am actually looking forward to it.
Liked and subbed!
comprehensive yet digestible, thanks!
Hands down the best Druid guide on youtube. Thank you for your efforts in crafting it.
im a movement player and absolutely love druid for its movement mechanics. i always slept on bear even though i knew its damage numbers were ridiculous, but i just loved the mobility of panther and playing a backline support esc with a spear until a squishy character makes a wrong step and then two tapping them w panther. since the nerfs its been so much harder to do that but ive been holding onto hope that i could make it work. this vid pushed me to the dark side. i will be running bear tonight with basically your exact build that i stole. bear covers alot of the weaknesses that a panther build has, but you still have that mobility its just not your main damage tool. thanks for enlightening me -fellow druid main since it dropped (lvl 180)
hell yeah brother. This game conditions you from second 1 to avoid getting hit and getting hit even a few times is death. You need to conquer that mental barrier to be good w/bear. Getting hit sometimes is an advantage, like barb throwing axes or rogue daggers. They waste resources which makes rat safer for you.
Great video, as you were going over gear I felt like i was in the movie theater with the music
Impressive piece of work. Thanks for the video, keep them coming!
wildly detailed video exactly what i was looking for not like the others, thanks a ton
Wildly.... druid guide... nice.
Once a build nerd always a build nerd 🔥
The reason pve projectiles hit you in cat form is because of your longer body, the projectiles will hit your back haunches or tail. You can dodge them by moving to the side and looking in the opposite direction (i.e. moving left and looking right or vice-versa. Another way to think about it is sidestepping like normal, then watching the projectile go past you)
Excellent video mate. Thanks for the long Form guide and gearing descr
Ive been learning druid. Looking forward to applying your advice in this guide. If you still need other druids i would definitely be down to rat and bear the dungeons!
Best Druid guide out. Earned a subscriber
Holy shit, I just stumbled on your channel again. I remember i used to watch your MO2 guides! You have great taste in games.
Great video, phenomenal and outstanding info for all aspects of this game as a druid. Thank you.
This was an amazing video. I never built dex or action speed because I didn't realize it would affect the bear attack so much. Can't wait to start building some loadouts with the new perspective.
Great video. ASMR voice + great info. A true druid
bravo, nice solid guide, i hopped off the druid once they nerfed my panther and treant, and went rogue only to get nerfed again. SDF the dev said hes playing druid atm and knows it might got a lil over nerfed and needs tweaks. penguin form incoming for the new water map LOL. im hyped for gorilla tho mostly
All hail the arch druid. Pvp wise my skills have gone up from tuning into ur vids thanks man
Excellent video! Thanks for this!
best dark and darker video i’ve watched
@DemoMan0351, You get shot by arrows in cat form because using A and D turns your hitbox sideways so your whole side is facing the enemy even though you're looking forward. It's how a panther would walk in real life if it were waling around its prey.
Demoman? Ayo that’s a tf2 player right here as I spent 3k in there now I am here and my fellow tf2 enjoyer teaching me how to play Druid?? Love to see it!
The best druid guide ive ever seen
Level 160 druid usually always running bear build these days and have perfected the movement would love to run some druid duos
I'm DemoMan0351 on the official DnD discord shoot me a PM lets rat!
BEARS UNITE! Great video. And here I thought I knew everything I needed to know about bear form. Gave me a lot to try out and work with. If there's any room for an extra bear boy for a trio I'd love to sign up! :)
I added a discord invite for the Druid mains to congregate in the description. See you in the dungeon!
Sick
Best guide I’ve seen
Solid video, I wish cat from felt more viable but its nerf in dmg doesn't bold well when trading with anyone in melee.
So, I love the guide, I'll definitely be a main druid going into this next wipe. They just feel so versatile. Anyone else feel like he sounds like Carth from KOTOR?
Something to note on the perk section. Spirit Magic Mastery actually activated when you START casting the spirit magic spell. it doesn't last for any amount of time after you cast it. Only as your are casting it. So it would affect all 4 dreamfires, not just 3 of them assuming you casted them in succession. Small detail but you can test it easily. Still doesn't make the perk good so the guide is still 99% accurate.
Good to see an MO veteran in these treacherous dungeons! Welcome indeed Demoman. PD: Have you tried Wizard yet? Would be fun to see you at it after your experience as a mage in MO
Yeah, ive played since Playtest one. I've played a decent amount of wizard but the endless nerfs had me pretty turned off to em. I was a cleric main pre-druid. Also thx for the comment :)
I like the video so far, but I just wanted to react at 5:55 when you called me an idiot. :D Using Natural Healing synergizes with Force of Nature, thus if you take a tiny hit, you constantly have 3 extra Strengths until you completely heal up. This also applies to teammates as long as they miss a bit of health and are close enough to you (600 range?). I'm not saying this is the best trait ever, but I pretty much like the extra Strenght. It could mean 1 less hit to kill an enemy.
-19:20-- --> "you get only 5 slower" if you have the mace. Last time I checked (and this was a long time ago) both hands counted for slowing down, not the one that slows you down more. This means -20 + -15 = -35 movement speed, not -20 or -15 whichever is higher. Maybe this changed?!- Update: yeah, this was changed. I wasn't even aware of this. The speed penalty is based on the higher of the two items held at the same time.
Very informative. I learned a lot. I never focused on Bear as I didn't find it useful, but it looks like a lot has changed and I should definitely give it a go. :)
Thank you for this video!
Nitpicking, but - Dreamwalk increases your Magic Power by 5, not your magic damage. Probably not giving you 5 whole points of damage, likely 2 or 3 points (depends on your gear). Spirit Magic Mastery is always active, it just treats your magical power as 10 points higher when casting Spirit magic (still not a very good perk of course). Nice video though, thank you.
Fair points, good comment thank you
I got to say as someone who has over 100 levels into Druid I disagree with big dps. He has a lot of burst but outside of panther the dps isn’t great. When you are human you are basically just a ranger without a bow. The bears burst Damage is good, but it is still very situational and I think at the end of the day no matter how much skill expression you have you can most of the time walk away from bear heavy’s and a lot of the time, even bear light attacks. I think Druid is plenty of fun but I feel that you are over selling it a bit other than that I agree with most of your points. Especially about dream fire. A lot of people never use it and it baffles me
Great content!
I aint even through the into and im into it.
Thanks for being one of very few creators that still made a druid video even after the nerfs that made him way worse without top tier gear lol. This class is trash at the moment sadly. Which just makes it more inpressive that you are performing so well with it.
As far as transformation, it needs to be refactored. Demon form on warlock has never given me issues changing forms. Since casting on this class has been absolutely gutted, The only thing that makes the class great is it’s forms. And changing feels 50/50 in alot of situations. Feels so bad to get stuck in cat form against a barb
Fantastic guide, thanks for all of the info! I'm a Druid player myself if you'd like to play sometime. Will definitely be using some of your tips here, especially with how to deal with rogues. Great guide man
sometime it better to turn into a chicken rather than a rat coming out of dreamwalk , you can bait out expolsive bottles , and the triple jump as a small target still makes you slippery
can usually tank 1 hit and you can sit in chicken form in the shadow as long as you dont move to many steps at a time you wont make noise.
great video keep it up
Wait wait wait... you're saying BEAR TRAPS kill bears?! That's Wild
Thanks sir :)
Look, you might have reservations about Natural Healing, but you are looking at it the wrong way. 1 HP every 3 seconds (10 percent scaling) means that from start of map to finish, whether you died or not (and not even counting going deeper), Natural Healing could potentially have healed you 300 points of health (15 minutes, 1 healing every 3 seconds..do the math) baseline. Thats the equivalent of 15 grey potions. And it just DOES IT. For Free. On top of that, it is the ONLY healing ability that does scale with druid, currently.
Imagine actually buying a set of gear to boost that healing to 3 hp per tick, which would be 1 hp per sec. All of a sudden, what was once "weak" is now a permanent Nature's Touch cast on yourself (almost, NT is actually 1.25 hp per second). OH, and its aoe...and it just got an increase to its range. Imagine having a permanent natures touch on ALL THREE players...Imagine making a god tier kit to get it even higher, to like 4 or even 5..i wonder if thats even possible with 10% scaling (+ to magical healing, +to magical power, + to mag power bonus)
Id say you might want to reconsider Natural Healing, DemoMan
Some math.
With an epic Ceremonial staff you get +5 magical Healing.
With the right gear you can currently get up to +14 magical healing on various pieces of clothing via enchantments.
Demonclad leggings give 2-3 (and 4 strength)
Demon grip gloves give 2-3. (and 4 strength)
Just did a quick market search, with just demonclad and demon grip you can get 6 mag healing, 8 strength, 4 vigor, and 4 magic power and 1.9% max health bonus for around 900 gold. THATS PERFECT FOR A BEAR RUNNING NATURAL HEALING!
If my math is right thats 23-25 + Magical Healing. With JUST THAT modifier you are approaching 3.5 healing per tick. Throw in + Mag Power and + Mag power bonus modifiers, and you can likely get over 4. Now, unfortunately, Ceremontial Staff stats do not transfer over to animal forms. However, other gear does.
So many points where to start:
1. I'm never using trash ass ceremonial staff
2. You have to be damaged for it to get value, so in an imaginary round where youre damaged the second you load in and until you extract you could get that 15 pot value.
3. Its not free its literally a perk slot.
4. 90% of your deaths will be to burst damage. You will take an entire healthbar of damage in under 10 seconds MOST of the time. Things that allow you to survive an extra hit will always supersede a few extra health.
5. Ive played around with it, its bad. Its even worse with today's patch where meds all got buffed.
6. The range is shit even w/the buff.
7. Oh and dreamfire is a heal that scales, so magic power is just straight better.
8. I only run demon on budget builds, wolf + rivets are better on actual kits. *Edit*
Literally would take sun and moon over that trash perk lol.
DemoMan is definitely looking at this from the perspective of a well versed, late game player with plenty of skill where money isn't much of an issue, nor is PvE. When you aren't worried about those things, health pots don't matter and you build to maximize effectiveness against PvP. However, I can see how this would be nice to deal with chip damage sustained throughout casually playing the game on trios. It would help keep people topped off as a QOL feature from little PvE damage here and there. I don't think it would be worth it at all to go out of your way to build for it though. The only way I could see using it is maybe if it gave 3hp per tick base, then it might justify its perk slot as a QOL perk since druids 4th perk is usually just a meh tossup for me anyways.
@@JonathanGeb As I said, you have to build for it, but once u do it becomes one of the best perks available. And its only going to get better when they release more Druid content.
Imagine a perk that said "you get 1 hp every second". It would be an instant pick.
Oh and if 3 hp per tick is too expensive for you to reach (its not for anyone with decent time and skill) then even 2 hp per tick is acceptable. PARTY WIDE.
Combined with Natures Touch cast on yourself, you will be gaining 1.25 + 1 every second (with the 1 hp per sec natural healing)
2.25 HP per second is INSANE HPS.
Throw in a health pot (we will use grey since is the most common) and that 2.25 becomes 3.25.
Also, this isnt just for PVE chip damage.
What usually happens in pvp?
People sling arrows, sling spells, and CHIP away at the others before pressing the W key, unless ur a buff ball barbarian group, which isnt as popular as it once was.
ur the man for this
The question I have is: does Force of nature proc with natural healing ? if so in trio and duo does the free heal and the always proc force of nature any good or does natural healing is still weak / useless ?
I just started expermenting with spinning around real quick to prevent head shots in bear and panther. Im not good so I can't say the strategy is good but im curious what it's value is in skilled hands
I have no idea how you get that action speed with so much strength. I am always in the 30's when I try.
Druid fights are so silly. I remember fighting as one and a barb was attacking me and we both ganked him and continued our fight. 😂
that kit is like 3x more than your "1500" gold speculation.
other than that, nice guide
Yo! I basically exclusively play in sub 24 lobbies. I find my bear form really doesn't do much damage! I hear about one shotting rogues and 2 tapping with strength builds and stuff, but it doeant seem to be as effective at my level. Of course im new and its a skill issue, but any advice for low lobbies?
Are there any tips for me? I find people can just backpedal away from my bear because im so slow and they are so fast! I can maybe get 1 right click if i get a sneak attack, but then get absolutely smashed by someone spacing me out
Cleric guide: any ranger, is just going to shit down your neck 🤣
So the main problem I'm having is even in the easy match ups. When i right-click, they just walk backward. Then, come back in and hit me after my attack ends.
Take a rogue six hits to kill you or a ranger a single shotgun especially on such a big target like a bear.
Is there a valuable panther build after nerfs? I've been playing mostly panther builds with agi, but without Rubysilver in higher gear score lobbies it seems to be totally useless cuz everything one-shots you.
My experience isn't any diff. You die in 2 hits and they slow you and you don't slow them when you hit them which means if you don't have dash up you die 100% of the time
10:30 you say bark skin gives 20% armor, as does the tooltip but I'm almost positive it gives a flat 20 AR which is not great. I'll test this tomorrow though.
Well, Natural Healing + Force Nature isn't bad. It gives you 3 phys power always when you have less than 100%hp. Maybe not always best in slot, but it's okay I suppose.
How loud is the rat squeaking that happens automatically? I played tarkov like a ghost and just avoided / negotiated past fights and I'm wondering if I can just hide as a rat against not so aware plaeyrs?
charity torch :)
I've been thinking of switching from warlock to druid but how do they fare in pve? Are they decent against cyclops and troll?
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watching this a month later and green pants being 300 gold consistently :(
Can you spec out to where bear is viable in under 25gs? That's where friends and I play and bear felt really underwhelming but I was running mostly knowledge base squire gear
theres a screenshot of squire gear in description. You gotta do quests though
Too bad panther druid is pretty bad now, was my playstyle. Good video btw
is rondo a la turke just playing in the background the whole time or am I going insane?!? :P
Stacking buff duration for the druid heals doesnt work does it? It heals a flat amount that doesnt scale with Mhealing so making the duration longer would just make the heal worse or have i fallen off the deep end?
Could you show how to door jump as a druid?
Poshy has a video on it but simply put; Have rat menu open as you approach. Let go and instantly jump. Play around until you get the spacing.
DOES DEX SCALE WITH THE ANIMAL FORM ATTACK SPEED ALSO?
yes
I undestand why you don't like the Natural Healing perk and play without it myself. But it has a cool synergy with Force of Nature. Natural Healing+ Force of Nature = permabuff for u and ur allies with Physical Power. In this case, this perk has a right to life, i guess
That makes it even worse because its 2 perks instead of one :P but yes ive heard that argument. Aoe Restore/heals pots etc also basically make it a perma buff in actual fights.
I just use it as a comfort perk, Its not great at fights but can save some heals and let you keep moving as you will eventually heal small hits. All in all what he said is not wrong tho, its a glorified health pot
It’s good if you’re doing like high roller pve for sure. Pvp there are just better options
This video has sex appeal
ARROWS HIT CAT BECAUSE OF YOUR ASS, IF YOU ROTATE AS YOU DODGE AND MOVE YOUR BUTT THEY WONT HIT YOU
Waited forever and ever for druid to come out. Finally took a break from the game right before steam release. Come back, check out the druid, and wow was I disappointed. It felt like I did nothing at all. Turning into an animal wasn't fun and none of them did any damage. Lost 6 LR in a row and I think I'll pass on the druid. Whole game probably. Sucks to suck I guess.
Running natural healing with 10 MH on my druid. fuck
37:10 you accidentally healed him lmao
Don’t be like f****** Anakin is funny 😭
I just get tired of dropping to people with 800 gearscore while im at 200. Fighting it out most of the duration of the game to wear them down and then popping bear just to be beat by someone head to head is downright terrible
as a new player trying to get into druid... the "cant transform" part killed the class for me. sooooo annoying.
Comment for ref. Diserved
Animals dont drift like a car when moving to the side why does every other druid i play with not understand this ? The hit boxes arent the problem its that no one has made this simple connection
Where is the spirit bond thing?
I kinda wish you didnt just keep going "everyone knows" bc im trying to learn the game brand new- so I dont
Druid is dumb and borken
Summary: Druid DOES NOT Work
Too much talking not enough gameplay
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Good looking out ill fix. I think vid 2 has one that works