Pure Druid (60 Druid)

[louisvilleslugger]

Designed "just because".

Not as powerful as traditional 'cheese' builds (ie. 58/1/1)

Still pretty nice, including max'd spell penetration (yes, not a huge deal as druid) and max nature balance DC.

Let me know what you think!

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Pro's:
5 Epics (Shunt, Shroud, Immute, Veil, Ruin)
Max Spell Penetration
Nice Spell DC's (especially transmutation)
Full 60 levels for spell effects (nature balance=+6 DC, Stonehold=+2 DC, Inferno: 20% inflict, etc)


Con's:
Very Low AC compared to traditional druid build


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60 Druid

Race: Gnome
- CON +2, STR -2, free: SF-illusion
- Gnomes receive 2 additional skill points per level @ altar

Subrace: "Rilmani" (secret Beyond UltraRare)
- FC: Druid
- WIS +6, CON +4, free feat: Spell Focus Conjuration, free feat: Greater Spell Focus Conjuration, free feat: Epic Skill Focus Animal Empathy, free feat:

Spell Penetration


Starting Stats:
Str 8 (6) --0
Con 12 (14,18) --4
Dex 14 --6
Wis 18 (24) --16, end: 54(66) (pre-demi, pre-artifact)
Int 12 --4
Cha 8 --0


1., feat: Blooded, free: SF-Illusion, SF-Conjuration, GSF-Conjuration, ESF-Animal Emp, Spell pene.
2.
3., feat: Lightning Reflexes
4. (WIS Everytime)
5.
6., Feat: GSF-Illusion
7.
8. ()
9., feat: Greater Spell Penetration
10.
11.
12., feat: SF-Evocation()
13.
14.,
15., feat: GSF-Evocation
16. ()
17.
18., feat: Silent Spell
19.
20. ()

Pre-Epic BAB=
Pre-Epic HP=
Pre-Epic Save= (fort=12 , reflex=6 , will=12 ) -Base
Pre-Epic Skill points =

EPIC


21., feat: ESF-Evocation
22.
23.
24., feat: ESF-Illusion, D.Feat: ESF-Conjuration ()
25.
26.
27., feat: Great WIS 1
28., D.feat: Great WIS 2 ()
29.,
30., feat: Epic Spell Penetration
31.
32., D.feat: Great WIS 3()
33., feat: Great WIS 4
34.
35.
36., feat: Great WIS 5, D.feat: Great WIS 6()
37.
38.
39., feat: Great WIS 7
40., D.feat: Great WIS 8()


Epic BAB=
Epic HP=
Epic Save= (fort=22 , reflex=16 , will=22 )
Epic Skill points =

LEGENDARY:
41. BOOK: ESF-Transmutation, **Gnome Skill increase
42., Feat: LSA-Tumble()
43.
44. ()
45., Feat: Leg. Spell Penetration
46. ()
47.
48. , Feat: LSF-Transmutation ()
49.
50. ()
51. , Feat: Greater Ruin
52. ()
53.
54. , Feat: Greater WIS 9 ()
55.
56. ()
57. , Feat: Great WIS 10
58. ()
59.
60. , Feat: Legendary Reflexes()


Leg. BAB =
Leg. Base save = fort=27, reflex=21, will=27)
Leg. Base HP =
Leg. Skill points=



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Skills (total skill pts=4+1=5/level + gnome bonus @ LL=120. 7 Skill max'd)

Discipline,cc=31 (cost=62)
Tumble=60
Animal Empathy=63
Parry=63
Concentration=63
Spellcraft=50
Craft armor=63
Heal=Remainder

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Final WIS

66 = 18 (base) + 6 (race/subby) + 10 (lvlup) + 10 (LL) + 10 (G.WIS) + 12 (items)



Final Max. Saves (CON18(30)=+8, DEX14(26)=+8, WIS54(66)=+28, +20 to save throw from items, L.Reflex/Leg. Reflex=+9)

Fort=27+10+20=57
Reflex=21+8+20+9=58
Will=27+28+20=75



Maximum AC

Base=10
Dex14(26)=8
Tumble=12
Natural=20 *veil epic*
Deflection=17
Dodge=20
Shield (Vulpine Fane)=1+10
armor (Robes)=0+15
armorskin=0
Craft armor bonus=1 to 2
AC=114-115

Other

Conceal: 60% (Shroud Epic)
DR: 50/+15 (premonition)
Elemental: 60/ (Energy Buffer) with 75% (Shunt Epic)

[Rain]

Druid is quite a frontline caster, the monk ac is definately what HG grants to a druid as the best gift to keep them stay in front well. personally i wouldnot drop 30ac just for +1nb/stonehold dc and +1soak buff. problly if u can get a ruby rod for crit immune, i think it'll make ya survive better with the low ac.
Anyway, as for your build, i donot see much point in LSF:tumble and CA. 115 ac is pretty low in hell imo, i'd problly just leave the ac be there and grab another epic spell like frailty.

[supertrooper33]

Question - why if you are going pure, would you wear robes and wear the vulpine fang? Why not wear med or heavy armour, and a good tower shield, and get more ac that way? You could at least hit the level of a good str tank that way.

[louisvilleslugger]

Feb 20, 2009 18:51:54 GMT supertrooper33 said:

Question - why if you are going pure, would you wear robes and wear the vulpine fang? Why not wear med or heavy armour, and a good tower shield, and get more ac that way? You could at least hit the level of a good str tank that way.

That is certainly an option, but with robe you get the 50/+15 damage reduction from premonition.

This particular build is designed more as a wizard would be, minus the 85% conceal that a wizard gets (vs. the 60% druid gets).

[louisvilleslugger]

Feb 20, 2009 18:42:40 GMT Rain said:

Druid is quite a frontline caster, the monk ac is definately what HG grants to a druid as the best gift to keep them stay in front well. personally i wouldnot drop 30ac just for +1nb/stonehold dc and +1soak buff. problly if u can get a ruby rod for crit immune, i think it'll make ya survive better with the low ac.
Anyway, as for your build, i donot see much point in LSF:tumble and CA. 115 ac is pretty low in hell imo, i'd problly just leave the ac be there and grab another epic spell like frailty.

The reason behind the build is that I personally don't like the 58/1/1 builds...i think it's really cheesy to rely on them.

Yes, the certainly offer a great deal more 'power', but to ME personally, they feel 'cheap'.

As for the LSF: tumble, that's a decent idea, and I think I'd drop it once I got a ruby rod/demi, but at least a few more AC sometimes helps with getting critted as often.

[Chaos]

This would be a decent build after demi when you get the rod, but I wouldn't make a pure druid till I got the ruby rod tbh.

[drunkenboaster]

I have a toon that is x3 demi with close to the exact build as this. The only changes I had between yours and mine are:
1 - AC is pretty weak anyway, and I really like the abos torch, so I only grabbed like 15 tumble. Have no points in craft armor. but did max heal skill.
2 - Feats I took different were luck and LL luck in place of your LSA tumble feats. I also went with extend instead of silent. The reason I went extend is healing circle's duration is just to short without it and the huge regen it gives is just to high not use.
3 - Abilities I took 2 less int and 2 more con.

I have a lot of fun with this toon, but it needs to be geared and played a little differnet than a normal druid does. Equipment wise need to max out parry, but with high con hp boost from blood frenzy can take a lot of hits. I also tend to mem a lot of restore spells because most hits tend to inflict penalties, need to restore to keep those penalties low. For playing, I always drop grease and stoneholds for every mob, speed and mobility are your best defense and those spells help make that easier. Creeping doom damage adds up pretty fast with the epic illusion.