D2R Skills & Abilities - Fire Claws (Druid Shapeshifting)

[@douglasbaker4562]

The proper term, as I understand it, is a "Haunt" of ghosts. A Haunt of Ghosts, a Horde of Zombies, a Pack of Ghouls, and a Clatter (the sound of bones clattering) of Skeletons.

[@Emperor_x8]

who decides these words

[@Barnewallian]

The shael phase blade made some sense when only weapon speed mattered. Even now, if you have access to a phoenix shield (bis for the build anyway), it's serviceable. Thing is, melee druids really need leech. Waiting for corpses to get your juices back is both risky and annoying. Not to mention all those fire immunes, you explained it pretty well as always. Fast high dmg weapons are the way to go. My fire druid uses death berserker axe and lawbringer phase blade on switch. 8 and 7 fpa respectively, not bad :) As for the build itself it's alright, and quite flashy if you use armaggedon. Fury trumps it though of course, especially in high player games. The issue with fire claws is not damage, now that sunder charms exist and there are nice - res items. It's the attack itself. It maxes out at 6fpa/single target with 2h weapons and even then it feels *nothing* like fury. It's slow-ish, single target and it gets interrupted a lot, especially if you use a shield. Bear in mind however that like most diablo nerds I have played this game way too much, to the point that I'm blind to anything that is not more or less effective at endgame (p5-8 terror). Congrats and thank you if you read my stupidly long comment :)

[@Barnewallian]

​@jahdhdoflkdkwjawhy, thank you!

[@hootsbruh2503]

Thanks for the vid! I like going niche builds, as my main druid is werewolf with windhammer leveling synergies for twister/hurricane while my ladder druid is a werebear with Earth Shifter leveling synergies for fissure/armageddon. Never made a werebear before or used fireclaws so this vid helps :)

[@GGMentor]

Sounds like a fun time

[@ruthlessrog1]

Awesome, im not well versed in the druid class, but got a 3os pelt drop with +3fireclaw/+3volcano. Totally gonna roll a flickering flame and make a FC druid. This helps so much with the ins and outs of the build. Bravo good sir!🤘💯

[@GGMentor]

Sounds sweet grats man

[@harku123]

Thanks for this. Honestly never thought about the fact that maul or feral rage increased physical damage even with fire claws. That just never clicked for me but that would in fact be extremely helpful exactly for the fire immunes like you said

[@GGMentor]

Also as a bear that increases your attack speed.

[@antonmilyutin4489]

Try not filling Shock Wave)

[@beware3586]

Im rather enjoying the bear version of fire claws honestly. Might be a bit slower but a bulldozer doesnt need to get anywhere quickly to bulldoze

[@djmomo5374]

Thanks for doing this video bro because that’s what I’m building rn. I’m trying to farm up sur runes so I can get a Hand of Justice and a Dragon armor to stack w this build

[@GGMentor]

Just a word of warning, holy fire aura does like next to no dage without synergies from paladin or fire Mastery

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@GGMentor forgot that part

[@johanhalvarsson2148]

Used to have a 6shael phase blade bear in 1.10, it was lovely!

[@kevinnitta3576]

Thank you GM. I watch every video as I learn so much per video, I was wondering if you could tell me the runes needed for Rain.

[@GGMentor]

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[@tomswiftyphilo2504]

"godzealer" is a good pun. I approve

[@bulgingbattery2050]

You gotta dig that strange, oblong head of the werebear.

[@debacofzomb9889]

How about something like flamebellow? Will that add +3 to fire skills? Then you could do synergies of firestorm on attack... Not the best example but I'm also thinking things like rising sun, lava gout etc

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Ginger I never really thought about it but I’m assuming holy fire packages nicely with this to bump the melee dmg and give some level of AoE hmmm might try it

[@GGMentor]

Holy fire doesn't really give much damage unless it's synergized. That said hand of justice does have negative fire resistance which could come in handy

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@GGMentor yup yup caught myself on the other post :) Doe’s flickering flame 🔥 with plus skills get a boost to the synergy

[@yarlehnowz]

Grief should pair nicely with the added fire damage

[@kristopherleslie8343]

How about with sunder

[@Droppingtotes]

I initially thought fireclaw was like other abilities where it converts the damage of your attack but it just adds additional fire damage. Which I will say from a leach life/mana perspective it's a good ability. But there's definitely alot better. I specifically built a fireclaw druid in hopes to farm NM Andy. Time wasted? Probably.

[@CZ3P]

Hey GGM can you make a video about Thunder Storm? On one of your streams you wanted to hand someone a Thunder Storm prebuff staff and I also found one myself but it does not seem to do any damage at all. Can you go through it and explain this ability?

[@GGMentor]

Thunderstorm requires synergies and lightning mastery. If you don't have lightning Mastery at the very least it's not going to do very much damage at all. Even maxed out it's not going to be a main source of damage but it is a supplemental source of damage

[@CZ3P]

@@GGMentor ye I know but it wasn't striking at all. I saw one strike once I cast it and then nothing running near enemies. I don't expect it shooting like machine gun but more frequent than one time in eternity. Maybe it's like a recoil dmg like one of the shields that shoots off frost bolt when attacked? I don't know.

[@GGMentor]

@@CZ3P it's like every 1.5 seconds to 3 seconds I think. Also has a radius which should be listed on the tool tip

[@CZ3P]

@@GGMentor yep but it's not so i don't know still I doubt you have video on this so maybe one day I will see it coming :D

[@Rhialto]

21:14 Are you sure Twister synergies bonus apply to the Carrion Wind ring?

[@GGMentor]

absolutely I built an entire character around it. Synergy bonuses apply to the skill at the level on the item. If you have max synergies, and lvl 13 on an item it is a fully synergized lvl 13 version of the skill. Also Synergy bonuses can be Verifiably tested with skills like Enchant.

[@Rhialto]

@@GGMentor That was quick! :-) Then also good to use a Rain armor at the same time. Will have a look. Thanks.

[@heyzeus1110]

Do you life steal on the physical damage from Armageddon?

[@GGMentor]

No because it's a spell

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Lol that lifetap wand fixes things

[@arth8265]

You forgot about Carrion Vine as source of life steal. You don't need to put more than 1 point into it, and you'll get pretty good life steal with skillers. It'll give you 8% life replenish on level 7 and 9% on level 10. Yes, it's fragile, but it can be resummoned for cheap, and it's free life replenish in background.

[@GGMentor]

I don't consider it life steal. Life steal keeps you alive, even if nothing dies. Carrion vine requires bodies to heal. Which means it's often useless when it's needed most

[@richwoodcutterbro8581]

Why do all builds forego building up the werewolf skill? It adds attack speed etc

[@GGMentor]

Depends on the build, also depends on if you need the attack speed, or if the attack speed gets you to a new breakpoint or not. Because breakpoints are specific levels of attack speed that have to be reached to see a change often times you will achieve the best Breakpoint you can and forgo anymore attack speed because it's worthless. I.E. lets say your breakpoint was 200% and the next is 400%. You can easily reach 200% but cap out at 335%. That means that 135% of your attack speed is wasted doing nothing in this scenario. It's better to remove that 135% and focus on more useful stats.

[@PrimeInChina]

Yeah, the most damage you can do is bear form and 6 shael sword. Yes, it leaves you with only fire damage.. but the swing speed is insane. It makes being a wolf worthless at that point. Sure, you only do fire damage.. but look at the gear you are already using. If that's a big deal then just getting an infinity merc would be easy for you.

[@ToMuchFreeTime420]

Life tap wand on swap works well with this

[@lftr_react]

What happens if you equip a ranged weap on the FireClaws? If you equipped the Demon Machine would your claw swipes explode?

[@GGMentor]

Any bow/crossbow weilded before transformation into a werewolf or werebear becomes melee weapons in shape shifted form. Unfortunately the exploding arrows only work with ranged not melee.

[@Xenozfan2]

Buriza-Do Kyanon is a brilliant Fury weapon: IAS, ED, cold damage, Freeze, Defense, and Dex.

[@antonmilyutin4489]

Snowden, we love you! need Nagelring

[@Boogenhagen100]

I’m confused. As a Druid, when you shapeshift and attack as a werebear or werewolf, your equipped weapon still affects your damage dealt?

[@GGMentor]

Yes your weapon becomes your paws, even a crossbow works as paws 🐾

[@bigboycampa]

how are you able to reset your stats?

[@GGMentor]

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[@bigboycampa]

Thank you so much this will save me so much time 😅 I really enjoy your content

[@VERGILDEVILL]

i wish D4 werewolf is looking like this,, they made it like a skinny stripped dog

[@flamerollerx01]

That's weird, I use hunter and it works fine, provided the mob can be stolen from, so no skeletons etc.

[@GGMentor]

us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/hunger-druid-skill-only-registers-every-other-attack/18860 us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/druid-hunger-bug/8961/3

[@Sivarius]

This still visable? I was thinking of building werebear

[@GGMentor]

Fire claw druid has only become more viable with recent patches

[@Sivarius]

@@GGMentor this is my first diablo 2 playthrough as i never got around beating it on pc back in the day. I always had too many rts games. Is fireclaw or the stun attack better for all around attack?

[@dannykoorevaar1574]

Fire faceted upper aldurs set tutudududu

[@richardhaw9757]

draculs is mandatory for fire claws druid.

[@GoranSvettlund]

you sound like morgan freeman but white

[@GGMentor]

Thanks I guess lol 😂

[@Prey099]

u need a phasenklinge 6os 6 sheal

[@GGMentor]

I talk about that during the video, and why it's not a great option

[@Cornholers]

This skill is fucking broken af 😳best weapon for fireclaws is a 3 os eth tomb reaver, or cheaper is 4 os Gris caddy. U want fast hard hitting weapon, and the sockets in those should not be shaels... 15% ias 15 ias or 120+ atk rating jewels

[@Cornholers]

Combine it with armegeddon and u got a big bootied bear

[@GGMentor]

@@Cornholers "Big Bootied Bear" 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻

[@Cornholers]

Eh since the change to the synergies there is so much more customization u can do. Before it was literally only 3 gear setups you could of used, and max block is preferable over two hander... Cept maul change makes it more appealing since it gives huge ias boost now also. I run one of these rn, there sick af and can kill anything in the game faster then a foher or even a hammerdin if u got a Merc running lawbringer/headstriker combo