Fury druid status report:
Normal No issues on non-boss mobs. Full tancred in A2 > duriel & comp, nec amp/tap helped Kept tancred in A3 a bit, swapped in uniques at the end of A3. Could tank meph without issues, nec amp/tap here too Diablo: tanked a bit, then ran away, healed up, returned. Coudn't do it 0-100% due to his spammy dmg and rather meager life leech going on at the time Act 5: the white dragon was murder, got counter raped in a flash with hwanin's bill socketed for ias. Couldn't even juv up. No major issues on ancients, could LL enough to live through it. Guardian was NP as we had a tap nec, however at this moment in time I recieved a hand-me-down wep, putting my damage in the 10k range @6 fpa
Castle was tough as nails to clear. Would have been impossible to do it with lesser equip. Actually, I abandoned a 8 player baal game that was cleared up to castle lvl2 due to castle being 8 spawned, but with only 3 people active (this including me) clearing the castle. I ditched the leeches and made a private baal game to continue with the active there.
Baal mini-bosses were manageable, we did have a healer that alleviated some of the aoe damage issues. Baal itself was rather intense, but could semi-tank it (damn that knockback). healer sealed the deal.
Nightmare Andy and -35% poison resists dun mix, boss was killed by higher lvl sin Duriel @lv 69 @ 12k dps, but resists in the 18's and buffed life into the 6.2k range-> something happened and I got insta killed (well, not quite insta, but in 3-4 secs). Bottom line I couldn't stand toe-to-toe with him) Act 3: Scavanged some flail parts from my healer, mixed in some sewer part and got the flail. Councils: first attempt coudn't tank one of them without juvs, I bring in healer and I can tank 2 at the same time(thx part members...). I don't get the q due to bug, I leave the game to grab durance wp from the polish guise rushing one of their own.
Few days pass, casual play, I complete the elemental's set, get lvl 75, plug in my best hand-me-down wep and farm up a moonstone amethyst to break last ias bp.
Can tank councils without pots, except a stoneskin one (the poison council). I bring in healer and I can tank it np. Of course, skipped the pi one.
Meph: lvl 75, 15k fury dmg with 17k charged maul @4fpa. 10k att rating, 5% elemental absorbs and 6.5k life with my oak. I solo kill Mithia without using any juvs. By this time a fend/impale zon and a blaze/fw sorc join. Long story short, I bring in my healer to spam heal druid. Plan was, druid acts as tank decoy, healer keeps us in ok health, party members kill kill kill. Fendazon dies fast and cant dmg meph, sorc cant easily make use of blaze due to tanking difficulties (playing both healer and druid at the same time is difficult...) and firewall doesnt do enough dmg to scratch meph. Conviction aura was tried, but meph owned the ranged in that case. After a few tries (which my druid/healer combo had no issue tanking) they bring in a poison zon and a hydra sorc. With my druid acting as a glorified decoy kept up by my healer, we have little issue killing meph.
Healer dies when I was alt-tabbed to druid (was trying to see if I can damage meph...well..the char that could solo mithia w/o amp couldn't dent meph) and the hydra sorc and poison ama take off last 20% of meph.
Could have used a amp charges wand, but we all now that won't do any good later on for one, and healer /druid dummy combo made for a more easy kill.
Act 4: first impressions: druid is much more durable on trash mobs than the zon or sorc, no bosses attempted yet.
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