I have both a firestormer and a windy and I would never use that set on any of them. Can't think of any druid builds that would use it over the common unique.

As for Aldur's it's not bad, but you have other options that give the same (or better) benefits, and you don't need the full set (not a big deal but...) to get it.

PS.: sets should be little bit more powerful cuz you need to collect every piece for it (again not a big deal, but...) to be effective.

never used aldurs, have used tals a bit tho, but for survivability deciples is better cause of the sockets, increase sockets in tals armor, change ammy to shield or a ring,

what kind of sorc did you use with disciple?

Aldurs is mostly worthless because the weapon forces you to go 1h/shield. The damage is too low for fury and it only reaches 3 frames for bear+fc/fb. Change it to a 5 socket thundermaul with 100 ias, 500ed and now you have something

So with your current Firestormer setup you are getting:

+6 total skills
+2 (sword)
+1 (armor)
+1 (boots)
+2 (helm)

If you used full aldur you would get +7 to all druid skills and a bonus +1 to ele skills. You would also get 4 sockets in the weapon for FCR or -fire resist. Ormus gives you at most 16% fire dmg, but that is well offset by the -10% fire res that Aldurs gives. Biggest downside I see is that the +skills on aldur's won't buff BO if you have that on switch. Seems to me though that Full Aldur's is a big win over your current fire setup. Is it the str reqs that are making you choose your path instead?

Windy has +5 all skills and another +3 to ele, which puts him at +8 ele (equal to aldurs) and there are some slick benefits on Hoto and Que Hegan, but I honestly don't see how it is blowing Aldur's out of the water.

The end game stuff (templars, CoA, enigma, etc) is better than Aldurs, but that is balanced.

Just trying to get a feel for the balance issues at hand and why you made the choices you did since I haven't played either build.

+3 Sword.

And full aldurs are more of a hassle to get than the gear he's gonna use.

Will post a complete comparision when I get home from work.

Or switch it so there's no weapon in the set, just armour/boots/hat/something else like gloves. Then it's still a four item set and can be given stats to help both melee people and caster people.

same thing could be done for tals orb -> gloves

Ok, tried to get aldurs on my firestormer. No go, the str needed for the axe was way of my current str. So that's another big reason not to use it.

Besides Trangs, SM, and IK all sets suck..

Ok, are you trolling or just stupid?