Diablo 2, man does the druid suck or what!

[AaronP]

Jeepers, I spent all weekend trying to test out different druid builds and skills, and man they suck.

First off, I made a druid and put points all over the place, a hodgepodge of skills, the summoned wolves were weak as hell, the elemental attacks sucked, and the werewolf form sucked too.

Next, I tried to make a pure werewolf with no other crap. I put a ton of pts into lycanthropy, feral rage, and fury. OK, this combo was ok, but with it, there is NO way to attack monsters that are immune to physical.

Next up I tried an all elemental druid, TOTAL SUCKAGE, the spells are high mana, low results.

So, let's see here
For pure summoning, the Necro owns the druid
for attack magic, the sorc owns the druid
for physical attack, the barb owns the druid

and of course, if a person were to make a hodgepodge of skills, he would totally suck in HELL diff, with any of the classes, you HAVE to specialize in one branch of skills, and frankly, all 3 of the druids branches suck!

I don't feel like playing as an assassin, (I don't really dig playing female characters) so I guess I'm gonna start a new barbarian.

So, can anyone give me any barbarian advice? The way I like to build characters is to build them in such a way that has the most pain early in the game, but the most payoff and power at the end. I don't like wasting points in skills early on, that once I get to tougher difficulty, I will NEVEr use.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

you spread points out everywhere? im no diablo expert, i have like a lvl 60 barb on closed, but i thought it was stick all the points in one section (barb=strength) and all skill to one strong one, save them until you can learn it (barb=whirlwind).

then again i have the xpac and never liked what the druid had to offer.

booty

 

[Shmorq]

Not to mention, the items for a druid are terrible! Who cares about pelts when Paladins get all these scepters and special shields?

 

[Thump553]

For hardcore, at least, the druid is popular. You have tons of life (esp. with oak minion), semi-decent minions and good melee attack. Later on you can cast its neat spells, like volcanos (but it does suck that you can't cast those when in wolf or bear form).

I had a lot of fun with a softcore druid character that I took all the way through normal Act 5.

Survivability is a key factor in hard core, as you only have one death, which may explain their popularity.

My favorites are still the amazon & sorceress, although I no longer play any sorcs since they became so popular.

 

[AaronP]

yeah, Sorcs are in for a real nerfing!

If you look at the Softcore ladder of level 99 people it looks like this


#of level 99 chars per class
Sorc= 139
Druid=11
Barb=6
Necro=3
Pal=3
Amazon=3
forgot what assassin is, but its less than 10.

Sorcs are a joke, 139 of them compared to like 25 of all other classes combined? HAHAHHAA

Also, all this item junk has become really confusing, runes, elites, new uniques, socketed stuff, arrgh, all that got added with LoD and it totally threw the game out of whack. Now it takes about a week to get to level 99 with a Sorc! stupid.

I would like it if they balanced it out and did a character wipe of the whole server. I wouldn't mind losing my level 64 necro.