PureRage-DoD wrote:
I have unrealistic expectations of what a build should be able to do?
Did I stutter?
PureRage-DoD wrote:
I know exactly what a build should be able to do.
No argument, you most likely do know exactly what a build should be able to do based on your extensive experience with the wide variety of builds you have played. That isn't what I am saying though. I am saying that your expectations for builds are unrealistic. For example.....
PureRage-DoD wrote:
I would put bets on the fact that your low level fury being WAY more powerful than dedicated rabies dps.
Of course it does. Physical damage will always outpace elemental damage in this mod. Add in that fast damage will always outpace slow damage due to the crazy IAS that is available in this mod and rabies has two strikes against it. Not only can fast physical dmg outpace it (fury), but fast elemental dmg can outpace it too (fireclaws, frostbite). Rabies is without a doubt the lowest DPS build of the group.
That doesn't mean it sucks though. The skill works just fine because it plays so differently. I don't do damage fast (just ask anyone who plays with my druid), but I do damage consistently and eventually I kill things. It is also incredibly safe too. Run in, smack - wait 8 seconds, run in again, smack. Was in a party that got stuck at a Physical Immune Chimera in A3 Hell and they got to see it first hand as I was the only party member able to take the boss down. Was perhaps one of the most relaxing boss fights for the party as everyone sat around and chatted waiting for my repeated applications of poison knocked the boss down. I barely had to touch any potions since I could stand a good distance from the Chimera and avoid its elemental attacks.
Rabies build is just fine - does great damage in a unique manner to other druids. Some people just have crazy ideas of what builds are supposed to do. Like you.