This is my take on a budget fury druid build. Lots of different gear choices so let me know how you guys would change the build. Remember budget. Also I guess I could have casted a valk for a meat shield form harmony as well forgot about that one. Discord join it :) discord.gg/8GXyu7A
Dbrunski125 i like grief and stormshield dungoes for damage and max block max dr with angelic rings amulet or highlords ravenfrost or duel leech ring in other rings bk or crafted rings that's just me i only use fury never use feral rage
I played hardcore on battlenet back in the day and that was my merc setup. I posted it in a comment to your videos before but i don't know if you got it from me. Its awesome and so budget. I can't confirm this but i was told that fade has a secret 1% physical reduction per level. My only confirmation is that i maxed fade and never died. . When i would run ubers i would have my smiter wear treachery and stand in the conveinent fire in Uber Tristram until fade procced and then put his Guardian Angel armor back on. I did lose a smiter to lag. Uber Tristram was very laggy for me. Way too many trash monsters. I made a budget trapsin one season with weapon block (no dex needed) every point into stamina and a rare amulet of teleport i bought for cheap (+2 sins and telport charges but no other useful stats) . Massively strong and didn't cost anything. The teleport charges are massively expensive to repair so you're not a sorc. I ran Nithilak almost exclusively at that point so i needed to teleport once per run for him for some reason. I don't recommend my that trapsin build tho. Its just interesting. Don't build it. Its very demotivating because you can do almost everything the game easily but you don't need anything. You can get rich farming keys with it but i had nothing to spend it on. I couldn't put on enigma and start teleporting around because of the dual claw investment and the lack of cast rate.
I found a tomb reaver only 1 socket bit with a Shael is 80% attack speed mines also 50 all resist so good there my only concern is the fhr but I think if I socket my jalal with 7% fhr and I use duress I’ll be close then I can add a dungos this will get me to 87% is the breakpoint 86? Any advice?
Why do you like fury druid? I'm asking cause I want to make one. Currently I am playing with a frenzy barbarian, and that character is super fast when frenzy is fully "charged". Runs fast and attacks fast, super fun.
@@TheNameTooSexyToShow because it's hella tanky with garbage gear. Where as a barb is hella janky without great gear. Pretty much all the items for Wolfy can be farmed of NM Andy and mephisto.
why are people trashing this guy? social media is destroying games. people are more obsessed with what's most popular. it's people new to the game that are upset they don't get the direct pro route because they have to have their hand held day 1. people don't even use their mind anymore. they just await for someone that does.
Probably the best explanation of a budget build I've seen. You gave some info in here that I had no idea about even though I've played this game on and off for YEARS. Keep up the great work.
This has always been one of my favorite characters. I always go with Heart of the Wolverine instead of Oak Sage though. I'd rather have a bit more damage output then a ton of extra life that I don't really need.
Me too. This build was the shit. It's the only one that ever made my buddy playing his WW Barb take a step back and just watch me kill demons for a bit. Good memories.
Thanks for the vid! I just started a Fury Druid a few days ago and didn't think of the bear as a meat shield, that's great advice. Thanks too for all the tips! I learned a few tricks by watching your stuff such as the Lower Kurast runs for runes. Amazing! Please keep playing & posting.
Thanks dbrunski. Just completed my first ever diablo2 playthrough of single player hell mode without any mod on a fury druid and this guide helped a lot. The only items I was able to pick up from this budget guide was Treachery for merc and Gore Rider. Somehow, I managed to barely beat the game with much less gear.
Ribcracker drops off NM Andy but it can take a while to see. I've only found two since launch of d2r but I don't farm Andy alot either. One was 200%dmg before I learned of the games janky way of saving to the shared stach. So rip perf ribcracker... :'(
Fury Druid is the only kind I have ever played, and you are right on target when you talk about how fun it is. I did not know how important FHR was. I have made sure it was high, but not as high as yours. TY for your video. Gives me a lot to think about. Well done.
I really like your format and explanations of your build videos. They are SUPER helpful, and I have used several of them. I am currently enjoying my own Lightning Magic Find Sorceress. The only things that need improvement are your graphics (which happens anyway overtime as channels grow and get more experienced) and your ability to deliver any updates on your past builds. Maybe a compilation of short updates on several character builds in one video from time to time?
Nice guide. I really like that you made budget version. People dont play these types of builds because they are single target builds. Majority of players will prefer aoe builds. I had fury druid many, many years ago on BN and it was awesome.
Great video! I agree with your assessment that very few of us understand how to build a Shapeshift druid. Deliberately losing block is not something most people would think or want to do. Druid is one of my least-played classes, along with Assassin. This gives me a fun new character to build.
Oh man have you been missing out, assassin traps and windy or fire druid melts mobs through hell. And kicker sin once you farm the gear melts Ubers like it's easy.
DBrunski, I really like this build, I just got my plugy working again, I accidentally delete something and stop working,but now i install it again and is working just great, it i did lost everything I have before, but is ok,I didn’t have that much, from all the guys who post videos on you tube yours are my favorite ones, again thank you for posting.
I used to run something like this in hardcore back in my 1.10 days. Lots of fun, although I would consistently die around 85 and have to restart him. Never really bothered me though.
Peace runeword is supet budget, and with certain setups it outperforms even Fortitude. The Oskill critical strike is massive for a Ribcracker vuild. Without G-face, it is a super solid option, even in a godly setup. It also makes Metalgrid a real contender to Highlords, and can actually result in some awesomely well rounded and smooth build.
It's refreshing to see a budget build; well done. :) I've had a lot of fun with two Fury Druids, one wielding Windhammer, the other wielding an ethereal "Oath" Feral Axe.
Nice thing about an fury Druid, it makes the best use of an eth botd thunder maul. I slapped one together the other day and it popped 398. 1344 printed max on the weapon. I was so excited. It’s on my key hunter barb currently. But once I get a Druid torch it will be moving around I think. Botd tmaul and a nice high defense stone should get the job done quite nicely
Every time in the past I have found a Bonehew (usually exploding a corpse with a necro) I was creating a werewolf druid, except that AFAIR I was no investing many points in feral rage, but more into ghost or bear (do not remember right now). btw, very nice channel, I have found it few days back and watched your other movies that remind me the fun play with Diablo2exp (but for me the fan was always at close battle net). There were also plugins available, but Blizzard did not liked it.
The reason why you don't see a lot of Fury druids is that there is a bug that makes them pretty much useless for PVP. If the first hit misses, the rest always miss too. This is somehow related to the hit recovery animation being triggered when the Druid gets struck after doing the first hit. Because of that, I would prefer doing a hybrid with Rabies and Fury or a Barb with Wolfhowl since he can get to another IAS breakpoint through a Phase blade.
I used to love Fury Druid back in the day - but I got personally sick of it because it wasn't especially fast at clearing and you need to watch the oak sage. I switched to Sorc/Pally as my go-to chars with Trapsin as my go-to budget build because of the speed of clearing areas and nothing to babysit. Furthermore, werewolf druid is mind-numbingly slow to solo-level and in groups he's really, REALLY, not fun to progress with. Kinda like PSN necro; super fun at level 30 but a nightmare before that. Basically, Fury Druid was mad cool - but he got annoying for a casual player like myself. Of course since they've given re-specs it's a whole new ballgame, but back in the day? Yeah, shit got old really fast.
Yeah I agree boring back in the day. But when i found out they were pretty capable of ubers i built a new one this ladder. Ran 10 or so ubers. Its a little slower than a gg smitet but its a whole lot more fun and more engaging.
gotta say i love this video...you explained things so much more clearly and it looked more fun and fast compared to your d2r decked out fury druid build...i actually think this one may be superior than that.as you contradicted yourself between the vids using dracs in the later one..but you have so much life and life steal whats the point in using dracs? my only problem is i cant decide if i should get an eth ribcracker AND a tomb reaver..already have the budget items besides them..might make breath of dying as well
I play a fury druid too. One of my all time favorite builds. My current build is a bit different though as i havent found a good rolled ribcracker yet, that i would want to upgrade. Instead i use Oath in an eth feral axe and Gface to get more CB. Also i dumped all my statpoints in strenght instead of vitality for that Titan Wolf style :D
It might seem a little odd, but try a Buriza on a fury druid. It attacks super fast and freezes everything. Since you're using it as a melee weapon, the freeze works much better than it does as a ranged weapon. The cold damage on it helps with immunes too.
This video inspired me to pick up Diablo 2 again as I've never played the Druid because the builds always seemed weak and disjointed. I have to say, I forgot how PAINFUL it is playing a melee character in Diablo 2 (especially on Battlenet). So much slow, knockback and monsters I can't leech off of. I cleared normal and called it quits I think I'll stick to the Necro and Sorc for my walks down memory lane going forward. :3
Why not try the elemental tree then, all this fire melts through normal real good. Playing it on hc rn and with some felloe wolfs to watch your back it's amazing
i made one of these a few months back for the first time on bnet, had almost the same gear.... the upped ribcracker is a real beat stick. main problem i found was lack of defense as a wolf really hurt my durability in melee engagements, though i could usually kill fast enough that it didn't matter in a lot of situations. wound up going defiance merc to help with that. archer packs wound up being a real problem due to them being unleechable, and with the low defense they were landing a lot of hits
Nice I just reinstalled D2 and Plugy so I can get all the fancy runes ladder would have to offer. But I have to start somewhere so I was looking for a fun budget build to start. I never played a druid and while an elemental druid would be fun that would require me to have proper gear. So yeah this shapeshifter is going to be fun! Thx.
Awesome build! I noticed that the game's graphics looks very clean. Could be youtube? Are you using nGlides's 3dfx wrapper or the original "2D" graphics? Any third party mods to enhance the look of the game? Just curious.
I'd use Eye of Etlich amulet. But it's me.🤔 I can't remember ever finding Reaper's Toll, since 2003, when I started playing D2. It's also me. 😁 Perhaps Lawbringer/Rift/Voice of Reason on switch?
Never played a druid before, but loot- and gearwise, it looks like a solid HC candidate to participate in the vengeance of 99-s untwinked competition, will try to go through hell with one once i get the time :)
I really like that this is genuinely a budget build. The mercenary's gear is higher ilvl than the druid's, and as fast as you run, he hardly even gets involved lol
Druids are my favorite class in Diablo! But i am aways torn apart deciding Oak sage or HoW... I know HoW is better for SC but i like to do ubers with my fury and i feel like Oak is better in this case ^^
I just started my self found fury druid on bnet yesterday. Found a Lo rune in NM throne room. Never imagined being able to make fortitude before even entering hell lol. I was hoping to get some ideas on what else to use, this build seems a bit to good for a true "budget" build.
I had Jalal's, Fleshrender, Rhyme grim shield, venom grips, String of Ears, Inferno Stride, a upp'd Silks of Victor ( wasn't my first choice) and decent rare rings & amulet.. he was passable
I'm running a budget fury druid very similar to yours in regards to equipment. Difference is my main is fleshrender upped to tyrant club for +3 to shapeshift with jalals for +2/2, etlich for +1 and spirit monarch for +2 to skills. Question is, would you recommend to farm for ribcracker and respec extra str into vita (and respec wolverine into oak) or socket fleshrender with shael and continue with +10 to shapeshift skills that I have now? I'm kinda anxious about how he'll perform at hell, I'm lvl 57 currently act 5 nm. Notice, I have duress and goblin toe for open wounds, crushing and deadly strike combined with fleshrender
I reinstalled the game after a decade so I could finish it as a fury druid. during my research every one talked about FHR being so important, but during my gameplay I found that other modifiers like open wounds are way more critical specially if you don't wanna die on bosses and have low resistances in bossgroups. I obviously don't have the same gear as you do,even for a "budget", you're pretty stacked imo
well, if you play on plugy then you can get all those items rather quickly with another MF char and then just lvl up ur druid... i guess everyone does that, i started with a sorc.. built a good amount of items in my stash and then I made a paladin, a javazon and a summon necro and finnished the game with 4 classes now :) still thinking what I'll do next.. got a druid and an assassin up into nightmare and just dropped playing with them for now because I aim for some rune finding atm.
You don't need to max Feral Rage. Instead, put those points into Carrion Vine and you'll have passive regeneration from every corpse, with up to 15% of your total HP from each one. Basically, if you have 4000 HP then you'll have 600 HP regenerated from every corpse.
This is awesome and I'm definitely going to be building it. Have you messed around with Dire Wolves instead of Grizzly? I wonder if they are able to survive with max oak sage. It would be really useful for clearing out corpses around Nihilithak.
Joe Shipe I'm going to revisit him with more godly gear. I'm not sure if dire wolves would survive well. They had okay survivability with my wind druid with oak sage and cta buff but they still die occasionally whete the bear like never dies
My one and only build. I tell you why i can't play him in the longterm though. Killing Baal in Nightmare is one thing. But I can't get to hell difficulty. You really need the rng drops. And since I play offline i can't trade a jalals to boost my res....
I'm so mad the last ladder reset killed the best fury druid I had.. someone gave me a PERFECT eth ribcracker and even gave me a friggen zod rune. As long as i respec from elem
Summoners were OP in hardcore. In a way. I always started a season with one because i could start farming hell right away. I'd switch to another char once i got some gear but you could gear them up too. Could solo ubers and farm too.
I think the reason because most people don't play this build is how rare the really good weapons are. Eth ripcracker with zod is the most dmg, but slower and the range is not that great. Eth 3sox tombreaver with good stats is crazy fast and has range and lacks only slightly behind ripcracker , but well, good luck finding one. Botd is quite behind this two, so yeah. Also, please don't pack your inventory with dmg SC, skiller are for this build actually better.
Dbrunski125 only for feral druids. The +skills are more worth in the gain of overall ed in the skill tree than 9max dmg of 3 SC. Well, they would bring more life, that is correct. That's also the reason why jallals is equally good to Guillaumes face. :) but the rest of the guide was quite good, thanks for that.
Dbrunski125 well, for budget druids they are also quite nice, naked skillers should be really cheap. They scale well with weapon dmg, and a upped ripcracker is quite nice. Even on high end, when we talk eth tomb reaver, they still keep up with 3/20/20. But a good mix doesn't hurt, depends on the AR. I prefer to hit monsters than having a bigger dmg number in the sheet. I would also mention the buriza as budget weapon, only thing is it has only 1 range, means the player character must go extremely near monsters. Quite annoying in my opinion, but well.
What you're saying about the damage is true, %ed from skills is superior to 3max damage scs, theres really no doubt about that but I have to disagree about AR part. Our Fury druid has already really high %AR multiplier but he lacks base AR that could be multiplied by the %AR and i'm goin to prove that using an example: 1 - Skillers scenario (9 skillers) in that case our fury/werewolf are 35 lvl instead of 26 lvl, meaning our %AR multiplier = 848% our base AR = 350 from rings and 450 from 90 dex = 800 AR 800 + 848%*800 = 7584 AR 2 - Scs scenario (27 x 20 AR scs to replace 9 skillers - we need to consider that they can spawn with 36 AR but ill use 20 AR scs because they're already superior) 26 lvl fury/werewolf = 650% multiplier base AR = 350 from rings + 450 from 90 dex + 27 x 20AR scs = 1340 AR 1340 + 650%*1340 = 10050 AR And that is calculated for 20 AR scs while, keep in mind they can spawn with 36 AR, in that case we would have 1772 AR + 650%*1772 = 13290 AR but that's slightly an overkill for pvm since there are no mobs with such high defense to be worth it to push for such high AR but that's including the chance-to-hit formula, i don't want to go to deep into that. There are some scenarios in which skillers would be superior to AR charms, either Fools Prefix weapon or angelic ring + ammy combo. However both Fools mod and angelic combo are inefficient (for pvm obviously). We don't need that high AR because we have 90%+ chance to hit against 99% monsters with 12k AR anyway. Fools mod would require some godly weapon and that would result in huge damage loss against ribcracker or any other weapon really. Angelic rings would make us remove that Highlord's and some rare ring which is also unacceptable because of the 37% deadly strike loss + other useful mods like life/mana leech.
I am currently using obedience on a thresher on my fury druid. I'm not sure, should I keep it or get the ribcracker anyway? I can already run the pit quite well but i'm not sure if the ribcracker is better
DB. Can you run a live stream with a totally jacked up Fury Druid? That would be awesome to watch. Just claw diablo's face off. Tear out his horns and all those good things.
![[GUIDE] Diablo 2 Resurrected - Fury Druid](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uIV-e__qVgA/mqdefault.jpg)
This is my take on a budget fury druid build. Lots of different gear choices so let me know how you guys would change the build. Remember budget. Also I guess I could have casted a valk for a meat shield form harmony as well forgot about that one. Discord join it :) discord.gg/8GXyu7A
Dbrunski125 i like grief and stormshield dungoes for damage and max block max dr with angelic rings amulet or highlords ravenfrost or duel leech ring in other rings bk or crafted rings that's just me i only use fury never use feral rage
It would be nice to see possible upgrades not that it isn't googable thanks for the build.
have you ever gone back and rebuilt your first ever character? It would be interesting to see what you did and how you played that character.
I played hardcore on battlenet back in the day and that was my merc setup. I posted it in a comment to your videos before but i don't know if you got it from me. Its awesome and so budget. I can't confirm this but i was told that fade has a secret 1% physical reduction per level. My only confirmation is that i maxed fade and never died. .
When i would run ubers i would have my smiter wear treachery and stand in the conveinent fire in Uber Tristram until fade procced and then put his Guardian Angel armor back on. I did lose a smiter to lag. Uber Tristram was very laggy for me. Way too many trash monsters.
I made a budget trapsin one season with weapon block (no dex needed) every point into stamina and a rare amulet of teleport i bought for cheap (+2 sins and telport charges but no other useful stats) . Massively strong and didn't cost anything. The teleport charges are massively expensive to repair so you're not a sorc. I ran Nithilak almost exclusively at that point so i needed to teleport once per run for him for some reason.
I don't recommend my that trapsin build tho. Its just interesting. Don't build it. Its very demotivating because you can do almost everything the game easily but you don't need anything. You can get rich farming keys with it but i had nothing to spend it on. I couldn't put on enigma and start teleporting around because of the dual claw investment and the lack of cast rate.
I found a tomb reaver only 1 socket bit with a Shael is 80% attack speed mines also 50 all resist so good there my only concern is the fhr but I think if I socket my jalal with 7% fhr and I use duress I’ll be close then I can add a dungos this will get me to 87% is the breakpoint 86? Any advice?
The fury druid was and will always be my fav D2 character/build.
Wolfhowl helmet on barbarian is mine. ( Barbarian Werewolf ) Shout, BO and passives. Super life and defense :).
@@alphavampire9938 furthest i ever went with a Breath of the Dying
Poison/fury better
Why do you like fury druid? I'm asking cause I want to make one.
Currently I am playing with a frenzy barbarian, and that character is super fast when frenzy is fully "charged". Runs fast and attacks fast, super fun.
@@TheNameTooSexyToShow because it's hella tanky with garbage gear. Where as a barb is hella janky without great gear. Pretty much all the items for Wolfy can be farmed of NM Andy and mephisto.
why are people trashing this guy? social media is destroying games. people are more obsessed with what's most popular. it's people new to the game that are upset they don't get the direct pro route because they have to have their hand held day 1. people don't even use their mind anymore. they just await for someone that does.
what do you mean? he's guides are great who's trashing him?
41k subs, 1746 likes and 94 dislikes on this video. Big trashing on this guy.
@@TheCooderix read the comments. it's nothing but people giving him shit. at least it was at the time I made this comment, a year ago.
Probably the best explanation of a budget build I've seen. You gave some info in here that I had no idea about even though I've played this game on and off for YEARS. Keep up the great work.
This has always been one of my favorite characters. I always go with Heart of the Wolverine instead of Oak Sage though. I'd rather have a bit more damage output then a ton of extra life that I don't really need.
this used to be my character when i used to play D2. it is hella fun to play with. i miss those days. thanks for the upload and memories
Me too. This build was the shit. It's the only one that ever made my buddy playing his WW Barb take a step back and just watch me kill demons for a bit. Good memories.
Yay, fury druid!!! My first chracter played in D2, when I was just a student and dun have resources to play all I want.
Thanks for the vid! I just started a Fury Druid a few days ago and didn't think of the bear as a meat shield, that's great advice.
Thanks too for all the tips! I learned a few tricks by watching your stuff such as the Lower Kurast runs for runes. Amazing!
Please keep playing & posting.
Thanks dbrunski. Just completed my first ever diablo2 playthrough of single player hell mode without any mod on a fury druid and this guide helped a lot. The only items I was able to pick up from this budget guide was Treachery for merc and Gore Rider. Somehow, I managed to barely beat the game with much less gear.
Ribcracker drops off NM Andy but it can take a while to see. I've only found two since launch of d2r but I don't farm Andy alot either. One was 200%dmg before I learned of the games janky way of saving to the shared stach. So rip perf ribcracker... :'(
Outstanding build, also you brought back my old memories. Maybe I will come back to Diablo 2 to play this build. Subbed. Have a nice day!
Fury Druid is the only kind I have ever played, and you are right on target when you talk about how fun it is. I did not know how important FHR was. I have made sure it was high, but not as high as yours. TY for your video. Gives me a lot to think about. Well done.
This build is gonna be SICK with the new 'Metamorphosis' runeword, can't wait to play it this upcoming ladder :D
I really enjoyed the budget build video, so many character tutorials will simply point you to the same well known overpowered runewords
I really like your format and explanations of your build videos. They are SUPER helpful, and I have used several of them. I am currently enjoying my own Lightning Magic Find Sorceress. The only things that need improvement are your graphics (which happens anyway overtime as channels grow and get more experienced) and your ability to deliver any updates on your past builds. Maybe a compilation of short updates on several character builds in one video from time to time?
...aaaaannddd now I want to make a Fury Druid. Thanks Dbrunksi! >:(
Lol, me too 😁 and found a shape 12 fhr skiller yesterday. Destiny?
Currently making a fury druid and learned a lot here. Looking forward to making a couple of gear tweaks now.
Nice guide. I really like that you made budget version. People dont play these types of builds because they are single target builds. Majority of players will prefer aoe builds. I had fury druid many, many years ago on BN and it was awesome.
Great video! I agree with your assessment that very few of us understand how to build a Shapeshift druid. Deliberately losing block is not something most people would think or want to do.
Druid is one of my least-played classes, along with Assassin. This gives me a fun new character to build.
Oh man have you been missing out, assassin traps and windy or fire druid melts mobs through hell. And kicker sin once you farm the gear melts Ubers like it's easy.
The Druid is a very underrated character.
DBrunski, I really like this build, I just got my plugy working again, I accidentally delete something and stop working,but now i install it again and is working just great, it i did lost everything I have before, but is ok,I didn’t have that much, from all the guys who post videos on you tube yours are my favorite ones, again thank you for posting.
I will try this build. Getting so annoyed on my druids small windattackthings going the wrong way all the time lol
Your channels going to blow up once resurrected drops. Awesome content!
In my own experience mana leech and resists are the essentials for this build. And mana burn bosses are this build's Achilles heel.
Great upload, DB! I'm a huge fan of the fury druid, myself. Great to see a more budget friendly build.
I used to run something like this in hardcore back in my 1.10 days. Lots of fun, although I would consistently die around 85 and have to restart him. Never really bothered me though.
Peace runeword is supet budget, and with certain setups it outperforms even Fortitude. The Oskill critical strike is massive for a Ribcracker vuild. Without G-face, it is a super solid option, even in a godly setup. It also makes Metalgrid a real contender to Highlords, and can actually result in some awesomely well rounded and smooth build.
Idk why p eople never use Metalgrid, its insane
This used to be my favourite build ever, with a Tomb Reaver. Glad to see it still gets some love.
Cb or tr
One of my favorite builds!!!! 👌👍💪
It's refreshing to see a budget build; well done. :) I've had a lot of fun with two Fury Druids, one wielding Windhammer, the other wielding an ethereal "Oath" Feral Axe.
fury druid was only char in d2 I got to 99 before 1.10, got some nostalgia watching this video. good times! def playing a fury druid in resurrected
yo were the first d2 youtube to watch and i still love ur videos. thanks for the video. i sure will try this build out! thanks
Nice thing about an fury Druid, it makes the best use of an eth botd thunder maul. I slapped one together the other day and it popped 398. 1344 printed max on the weapon. I was so excited. It’s on my key hunter barb currently. But once I get a Druid torch it will be moving around I think. Botd tmaul and a nice high defense stone should get the job done quite nicely
Nice vid! Love fury druids. Someday you should do a follow up with fort and an inventory and stuff. Good stuff db
U looked really sad, when u say that nobody is playing the build - i felt that 😅🙏❤️
Every time in the past I have found a Bonehew (usually exploding a corpse with a necro) I was creating a werewolf druid, except that AFAIR I was no investing many points in feral rage, but more into ghost or bear (do not remember right now).
btw, very nice channel, I have found it few days back and watched your other movies that remind me the fun play with Diablo2exp (but for me the fan was always at close battle net).
There were also plugins available, but Blizzard did not liked it.
this was my first d2 char ever played will never forget this good old druid times. best time in my life
The reason why you don't see a lot of Fury druids is that there is a bug that makes them pretty much useless for PVP. If the first hit misses, the rest always miss too. This is somehow related to the hit recovery animation being triggered when the Druid gets struck after doing the first hit.
Because of that, I would prefer doing a hybrid with Rabies and Fury or a Barb with Wolfhowl since he can get to another IAS breakpoint through a Phase blade.
I still run this build to this day,its always fun to play,like the tiger strike assassin.
I used to love Fury Druid back in the day - but I got personally sick of it because it wasn't especially fast at clearing and you need to watch the oak sage. I switched to Sorc/Pally as my go-to chars with Trapsin as my go-to budget build because of the speed of clearing areas and nothing to babysit. Furthermore, werewolf druid is mind-numbingly slow to solo-level and in groups he's really, REALLY, not fun to progress with. Kinda like PSN necro; super fun at level 30 but a nightmare before that.
Basically, Fury Druid was mad cool - but he got annoying for a casual player like myself. Of course since they've given re-specs it's a whole new ballgame, but back in the day? Yeah, shit got old really fast.
Yeah I agree boring back in the day. But when i found out they were pretty capable of ubers i built a new one this ladder. Ran 10 or so ubers. Its a little slower than a gg smitet but its a whole lot more fun and more engaging.
Thank you man. Just got back into the game and I can't wait to try this out.
gotta say i love this video...you explained things so much more clearly and it looked more fun and fast compared to your d2r decked out fury druid build...i actually think this one may be superior than that.as you contradicted yourself between the vids using dracs in the later one..but you have so much life and life steal whats the point in using dracs? my only problem is i cant decide if i should get an eth ribcracker AND a tomb reaver..already have the budget items besides them..might make breath of dying as well
The most advantage of using Ribcracker is that it makes the satisfying blunt sound when you hit the enemy.
I Think Tombreaver for weapon is the greatest, but it's also one of the hardest items items to find in the game. Especially with nice stats.
I want to make a fury druid and I have a tomb reaver, what would be best in the weapons sockets?
Another awesome vid thanx dude! Druid runs through those mobs like a meat grinder.....
I play a fury druid too. One of my all time favorite builds. My current build is a bit different though as i havent found a good rolled ribcracker yet, that i would want to upgrade. Instead i use Oath in an eth feral axe and Gface to get more CB. Also i dumped all my statpoints in strenght instead of vitality for that Titan Wolf style :D
It might seem a little odd, but try a Buriza on a fury druid. It attacks super fast and freezes everything. Since you're using it as a melee weapon, the freeze works much better than it does as a ranged weapon. The cold damage on it helps with immunes too.
I used to use my Feral/Fury Druid to do ubers back in 1.13 on Battle.net. It worked fine as a replacement for a Smiter.
This video inspired me to pick up Diablo 2 again as I've never played the Druid because the builds always seemed weak and disjointed. I have to say, I forgot how PAINFUL it is playing a melee character in Diablo 2 (especially on Battlenet). So much slow, knockback and monsters I can't leech off of. I cleared normal and called it quits
I think I'll stick to the Necro and Sorc for my walks down memory lane going forward. :3
Why not try the elemental tree then, all this fire melts through normal real good. Playing it on hc rn and with some felloe wolfs to watch your back it's amazing
i made one of these a few months back for the first time on bnet, had almost the same gear.... the upped ribcracker is a real beat stick. main problem i found was lack of defense as a wolf really hurt my durability in melee engagements, though i could usually kill fast enough that it didn't matter in a lot of situations. wound up going defiance merc to help with that.
archer packs wound up being a real problem due to them being unleechable, and with the low defense they were landing a lot of hits
ranged attacks and elemental damage is a problem. Hence the easy pit runs, which i don't really enjoy tbh
Nice, finished season 18, back to D2 :D
Nice I just reinstalled D2 and Plugy so I can get all the fancy runes ladder would have to offer. But I have to start somewhere so I was looking for a fun budget build to start. I never played a druid and while an elemental druid would be fun that would require me to have proper gear. So yeah this shapeshifter is going to be fun! Thx.
Awesome build! I noticed that the game's graphics looks very clean. Could be youtube? Are you using nGlides's 3dfx wrapper or the original "2D" graphics? Any third party mods to enhance the look of the game? Just curious.
Im think is genius build, great work dude 👍🏻
Hi D, thanks for the video. Do u think this will be a good league starter when D2R hits?
you can use feral rage and fury both. the life steal works on the 5 consecutive hits.
I'd use Eye of Etlich amulet. But it's me.🤔
I can't remember ever finding Reaper's Toll, since 2003, when I started playing D2. It's also me. 😁
Perhaps Lawbringer/Rift/Voice of Reason on switch?
I'm a huge fan of druid. I remember staking pre bufs on it :)
Good stuff man. Are you looking forward to Torchlight Frontiers?
Never played a druid before, but loot- and gearwise, it looks like a solid HC candidate to participate in the vengeance of 99-s untwinked competition, will try to go through hell with one once i get the time :)
Did it work out for you in hc with a werewolf? I think the issue with werewolf will be reaching the 75% resistances ^^
I really like that this is genuinely a budget build. The mercenary's gear is higher ilvl than the druid's, and as fast as you run, he hardly even gets involved lol
Druids are my favorite class in Diablo! But i am aways torn apart deciding Oak sage or HoW... I know HoW is better for SC but i like to do ubers with my fury and i feel like Oak is better in this case ^^
Thank you for the build, for the common player.
I just started my self found fury druid on bnet yesterday. Found a Lo rune in NM throne room. Never imagined being able to make fortitude before even entering hell lol. I was hoping to get some ideas on what else to use, this build seems a bit to good for a true "budget" build.
The other drawback of fury is that when you get mana burned, fury does nothing. You are suddenly doing nothing when you want to be attacking.
My favorite, and first toon I ever got 99 and max gear on, was a PVP Rabies Druid. It was amazing. I'd love to see a video about that!
I had Jalal's, Fleshrender, Rhyme grim shield, venom grips, String of Ears, Inferno Stride, a upp'd Silks of Victor ( wasn't my first choice) and decent rare rings & amulet.. he was passable
I'm running a budget fury druid very similar to yours in regards to equipment. Difference is my main is fleshrender upped to tyrant club for +3 to shapeshift with jalals for +2/2, etlich for +1 and spirit monarch for +2 to skills. Question is, would you recommend to farm for ribcracker and respec extra str into vita (and respec wolverine into oak) or socket fleshrender with shael and continue with +10 to shapeshift skills that I have now? I'm kinda anxious about how he'll perform at hell, I'm lvl 57 currently act 5 nm. Notice, I have duress and goblin toe for open wounds, crushing and deadly strike combined with fleshrender
How do you handle immunes?
I reinstalled the game after a decade so I could finish it as a fury druid. during my research every one talked about FHR being so important, but during my gameplay I found that other modifiers like open wounds are way more critical specially if you don't wanna die on bosses and have low resistances in bossgroups. I obviously don't have the same gear as you do,even for a "budget", you're pretty stacked imo
well, if you play on plugy then you can get all those items rather quickly with another MF char and then just lvl up ur druid... i guess everyone does that, i started with a sorc.. built a good amount of items in my stash and then I made a paladin, a javazon and a summon necro and finnished the game with 4 classes now :) still thinking what I'll do next.. got a druid and an assassin up into nightmare and just dropped playing with them for now because I aim for some rune finding atm.
slayerem twinking feels like cheating to me but gl on your gaming endeavors
you're very harsh on yourself, even on battlenet you have the option of mulling :)
I'm ought to try this! Thanks for showing us this build. You earned a new subscriber!
You don't need to max Feral Rage. Instead, put those points into Carrion Vine and you'll have passive regeneration from every corpse, with up to 15% of your total HP from each one.
Basically, if you have 4000 HP then you'll have 600 HP regenerated from every corpse.
Is leveling the character early with no gear enjoyable or only after you've leveled and geared up
This is awesome and I'm definitely going to be building it. Have you messed around with Dire Wolves instead of Grizzly? I wonder if they are able to survive with max oak sage. It would be really useful for clearing out corpses around Nihilithak.
Joe Shipe I'm going to revisit him with more godly gear. I'm not sure if dire wolves would survive well. They had okay survivability with my wind druid with oak sage and cta buff but they still die occasionally whete the bear like never dies
Nice build guide ! But i have to say my all time favourite druid wolf weapon is Eth Zod'ed Tomb Reaver with 2 x ED/IAS jewels :)
Far from budget though i'm afraid.
Looks really fun. Can't wait to play on d2 resurrected
@Dbrunski125 Thank you for the content.
What's your take on Heart of Wolverine vs Oak Sage?
Oak sage is better because it raises the chance of surviving vs just a little bit more of damage and AR, you can get the AR with two angelics.
Ok, now i have to make fury druid character...
Same
My one and only build. I tell you why i can't play him in the longterm though. Killing Baal in Nightmare is one thing. But I can't get to hell difficulty. You really need the rng drops. And since I play offline i can't trade a jalals to boost my res....
What’s your opinion on headstriker vs upped butchers pupil? I run a budget fury Druid with stormshield but looking for the best budget 1 handed weapon
I think this druid can easily and fast kill ubers, if you use draculs. Ribcracker is really strong weapon with very high crushing blow chance.
I'm so mad the last ladder reset killed the best fury druid I had.. someone gave me a PERFECT eth ribcracker and even gave me a friggen zod rune. As long as i respec from elem
I always liked summon necros. Just lots and lots of skellies. Always pissed off a bunch of people on bnet, haha. Good times.
Summoners were OP in hardcore. In a way. I always started a season with one because i could start farming hell right away. I'd switch to another char once i got some gear but you could gear them up too. Could solo ubers and farm too.
People got mad because their game started lagging so much back when PCs and most guys' internet were shit lol
im that asshole that boneWalls people from pathing into baal etc, goooood tiiiimes
I remember doing full Immortal king on my werewolf druid for budget and I could clear everything but ubers. Felt really strong.
Not possible my friend. Full Ik is Barb only
Except for the helm, of course! I had a similar build and it was just so much fun! That IK experience on the mad wolfie
@@iamrubenmes Yes right, no helm. Jalals in its place. I just need jalals and the IK chest on PlugY right now and I'll have that build complete!
Wow this build is absolute good!!! need to build like one
Bout time aome9nw did a fury druid guide....keep up the good work
Tyvm dbun great vid. Druids get too much hate
I'm kinda surprised you didn't go for Angelic ring n amulet here
The nostalgia is real.
My characters going very well in the current ladder Dbrunski, I have to ask what items would you use late game?
I think the reason because most people don't play this build is how rare the really good weapons are. Eth ripcracker with zod is the most dmg, but slower and the range is not that great. Eth 3sox tombreaver with good stats is crazy fast and has range and lacks only slightly behind ripcracker , but well, good luck finding one. Botd is quite behind this two, so yeah. Also, please don't pack your inventory with dmg SC, skiller are for this build actually better.
skillers are better?.... my understanding is max dmg ar life charms are superior. interesting
Dbrunski125 only for feral druids. The +skills are more worth in the gain of overall ed in the skill tree than 9max dmg of 3 SC. Well, they would bring more life, that is correct. That's also the reason why jallals is equally good to Guillaumes face. :) but the rest of the guide was quite good, thanks for that.
Markus Wittmann interesting ty for the feedback. Positive feedback always welcome :)
Dbrunski125 well, for budget druids they are also quite nice, naked skillers should be really cheap. They scale well with weapon dmg, and a upped ripcracker is quite nice. Even on high end, when we talk eth tomb reaver, they still keep up with 3/20/20. But a good mix doesn't hurt, depends on the AR. I prefer to hit monsters than having a bigger dmg number in the sheet.
I would also mention the buriza as budget weapon, only thing is it has only 1 range, means the player character must go extremely near monsters. Quite annoying in my opinion, but well.
What you're saying about the damage is true, %ed from skills is superior to 3max damage scs, theres really no doubt about that but I have to disagree about AR part. Our Fury druid has already really high %AR multiplier but he lacks base AR that could be multiplied by the %AR and i'm goin to prove that using an example:
1 - Skillers scenario (9 skillers)
in that case our fury/werewolf are 35 lvl instead of 26 lvl, meaning our %AR multiplier = 848%
our base AR = 350 from rings and 450 from 90 dex = 800 AR
800 + 848%*800 = 7584 AR
2 - Scs scenario (27 x 20 AR scs to replace 9 skillers - we need to consider that they can spawn with 36 AR but ill use 20 AR scs because they're already superior)
26 lvl fury/werewolf = 650% multiplier
base AR = 350 from rings + 450 from 90 dex + 27 x 20AR scs = 1340 AR
1340 + 650%*1340 = 10050 AR
And that is calculated for 20 AR scs while, keep in mind they can spawn with 36 AR, in that case we would have 1772 AR + 650%*1772 = 13290 AR but that's slightly an overkill for pvm since there are no mobs with such high defense to be worth it to push for such high AR but that's including the chance-to-hit formula, i don't want to go to deep into that.
There are some scenarios in which skillers would be superior to AR charms, either Fools Prefix weapon or angelic ring + ammy combo. However both Fools mod and angelic combo are inefficient (for pvm obviously). We don't need that high AR because we have 90%+ chance to hit against 99% monsters with 12k AR anyway. Fools mod would require some godly weapon and that would result in huge damage loss against ribcracker or any other weapon really. Angelic rings would make us remove that Highlord's and some rare ring which is also unacceptable because of the 37% deadly strike loss + other useful mods like life/mana leech.
Good D2 content, gj mate!
I am currently using obedience on a thresher on my fury druid. I'm not sure, should I keep it or get the ribcracker anyway? I can already run the pit quite well but i'm not sure if the ribcracker is better
DB. Can you run a live stream with a totally jacked up Fury Druid? That would be awesome to watch. Just claw diablo's face off. Tear out his horns and all those good things.
Etheral tomb reaver with 2*ed/ias jewels + zod. Gets you about 16k fury damage with sick IAS and 10k+ life
Super expensive but godly yea
how do you get 10k life? :/
more options over all would be nice. most of this is the same as your main fury build
I did have one of these I forgot about it thanks for reminding me
Is there a good Runeword to use while lvl’ing on reset, or just hope for a good unique drop?
I bet xtimus must be pissed because he thinks only his greedy ass can do build videos...
Hahahah like I said this loser thinks only he can do drop and build videos.... Get over yourself
xtimus is a kind of guy who's doing video on mephisto moat trick in 2018, plays the game so much and can't even pronounce Mephisto xD
Yup I hate how he pronounces it and a bunch of other things
Xtimus oh yeah you invented the wheel 😂😂
So much salt In x's comment
Would have been better to use angelic ammy and ring with the Raven frost. Try it and watch what it does to your attack rating.
My first fury druid ended up with an BOTD ebugged thunder maul and he would kill uber d in one maybe two left click of fury