Why is your druid gameplay so frustrating?

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1578463105#5750 wrote:

In the new season, I played the Druid Wolf playstyle that you designed.

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staytuned2k#6008 wrote:

The Wyvern heavy stun mechanic is completely ridiculous. It's my first time playing a Melee build, and heavy stun is probably the least fun mechanic I've ever had to deal with.

If you don't get stun into exactly the correct range for prime, Wing Blast won't heavy stun
If you overshoot into regular stun, prime is gone, can't heavy stun
If you don't heavy stun, you don't gain charge
If you don't gain charge, you don't empower your attacks...

If you regular stun, the boss is now less likely to be stunned for a while


Meanwhile, other classes:

Press X to delete screen.

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justgivemeafuckingaccou#1081 wrote:

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Ondrugs#1147 wrote:

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justgivemeafuckingaccou#1081 wrote:

I am playing werewolf Druid and even with 5k hours in poe one this is my favourite thing GGG have ever come up with. I freeze everything, I kill super quick, I move super fast, I can animation cancel every wolf attack with any other wolf attack. I absolutely love it and feel super OP. Bosses die in one freeze and get frozen in less than a second.

My playstyle is Pounce (with freezing mark), lunar assault until primed for freezing, arctic howl to freeze and get buff then shred (icecle support, can't remember name) for 2 seconds and right before freeze ends use cross slash (with consume freeze support) for giga icecle aoe explosion.
Put ice bite on arctic howl and lunar assault.
You can use lunar blessing also if you have the rage for probably double the damnage output.
It sounds like a lot of buttons but it doesn't fell like it at all and this is just for one shotting bosses, rares you just Lunar assaut > shred > cross slash if necessary.
Running around with lunar blessing up and just using shred also clears very fast.
9/10 build archetype imo.
You could clear the entire game with no ascendancy and only decent gear with werewolf.

How?! This combo does not one shot bosses... What kind of gear do you have? I got in act 4 a 250 dps talisman with +3 levels and first of all it takes ages to freeze bosses and I merely do like 1/6 of the bosses life with that combo if I even do damage..

Show me what you call "decent" gear, cause the skills alone do not hold up to your describtion of how it is supposed to work at all.

I don't even have decent gear yet and still melt bosses like this, maybe it's your tree? I am also only early maps but the way I am scaling and with how much more I can invest I can see arbiter dying in seconds to this setup. Have you take the extra damage to imobalised enemmies cluster? That is a huge damage boost. Do you have the icecle support on Shred? Are you using lunar blessing and rage? I literally have a talisman with no +skills and it kills bossess before they thaw from the first freeze if I press everything correctly, they also freeze almost straight away, like one or 2 lunar assault swipes after the pounce. Accidentally freezing them BEFORE arctic howl is usually how they survive a freeze lol too much dps.

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Djirane#4170 wrote:

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Ondrugs#1147 wrote:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3623790417

Mine is better and yet it's outdated but yours is really bad for your level. Update your Talisman asap.

For the scepter, it's the Lord of the Wilds Keystone.

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MEITTI#3999 wrote:

I've played as cookie cutter Werewolf as one can, just following the combo instructions with Frost Bomb thrown in the mix. Damage started getting really good around early Act 3. Similar to Warrior a lot of your raw damage comes from how good your weapon is. The moment I bought a Talisman from Act 3 vendor with 150-199 Physical damage pretty much everything started melting very fast.

Hearing how strong Wyvern is and how Bear can still delete screens, seems all the Shapeshifter forms have crazy damage potential. The real weakness of Shapeshifting seems to be the fact you both can't have a shield and your hitbox is much bigger so you get hit more easily.

The second weakness with at least Werewolf and apparently Werebear is visual clarity. The screen gets absolutely filled with elemental effects and particles which is fun and chaotic but also hurts your survivability. Shapeshifting seems a much riskier playstyle for sure, have to see how many HC players drop shapeshifting when it starts becoming too dangerous to use in later maps.