Diablo 2

Contents

• Player v Monster Builds
  • Hunter V1.01
  • Geomancer
  • Poison Creeper Patriarch [sp]
  • Wearbear
  • Primal Flame: Your Guide to 1.10 Fire Druids v2.2
  • Fire/Summoner Druid [SP/HC] V1.2
  • The Druid Summoner Guide
  • Dual Elemental Druid

• PvP Builds
  • 76 Shaman v 3.0
  • Werebear
  • Wind Druid
  • Fireclaws Bear
  • PvP Hybrid Rabies/FC Druid
  • Hybrid Wolf Guide (V 1.1)

PvM

Hunter V1.01
"The Amazons were the first to see the great potential of the bow. Looking with disdain upon the blissfully ignorant cavemen who used these springy stringed weapons to bash their prey upon the head, these warrior women crafted sharp pointed sticks and learned to fire these projectiles with great accuracy and lethality. Soon, the Amazons were Queens of their element, and baffled the menfolk with such deadly parlor tricks as Guided Arrow and Multishot. In a striking microcosm of real life, the females flaunted their superiority while the men stood around confused, shouted a bit, and eventually went out for a few rounds of beer."
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Geomancer
"Elemental druids are rare in today’s world of ITH weapons thanks to their spell timers, low damage spells and determination to avoid in any way becoming cookie-cutter-ised. But here I present to you a way of playing to druids’ non-shifted strengths! A way to beat the game and kill everything you come across, given skill and/or patience, without even once thinking about resorting to lycanthropy. All this without having to get your hands dirty with the messy idea of actually hitting things with a stick yourself. "
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Poison Creeper Patriarch [sp]
"The poison creeper skill has many unique fun attributes, but was overlooked for a long time by many Diablo players due to its low damage. This guide contains two different builds which feature the poison creeper. I have beaten the game in single player with both of these builds. Both builds have many aspects in common. However, the strategy, tactics, and game play of each build are quite different and will provide you with hours of entertainment as you explore their possibilities. These builds require patience and skill to play. As you play them you'll develop the skills naturally."
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Wearbear
"With so many weapons available, deciding which one is the best can be overwhelming. To simplify the decision, at first, I shall do some calculations for the more popular weapons available to a werebear based solely upon the base weapon damage applied over the attack animation. Thus, I take the listed damage of the weapon and divide by the number of frames an attack takes (for 0% OIAS and for the fastest possible attack for the weapon as in the tables from the previous section). This gives the data in Appendix XI."
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Primal Flame: Your Guide to 1.10 Fire Druids v2.2
"My name is Garbad_the_Weak and this guide is intended to help you make a fun, successful Fire Elemental Druid. This guide is the result of the combined effort from many able posters in the druid forum over several months. A huge volume of research, testing, and brainstorming has gone into this guide. (My original “condensed” version of this guide was still over 75 pages long!)"
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Fire/Summoner Druid [SP/HC] V1.2
"Hi all! I'll start by telling you that this guide may seem incomplete to many folks. You won't see technical stuff like break points, damage formulas, or scientific explanations of any sort. That's not my thing. I am an experiential player, and this guide reflects a niche character I took to Guardian in my general style of play"
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The Druid Summoner Guide
"This guide is not of the typical cookie-cutter variety. I will not hold your hand and tell you exactly how many points to place in skills, where to level and what gear to wear at each stage of your progress. I am a big believer in tailoring a build to suit your particular tastes and play style. Playing someone else’s build can be enjoyable, but playing your own creation is infinitely more rewarding."
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Dual Elemental Druid
"A bit about my play style, I am a die hard challenge player and have been working on pure single tree builds. I do not MF at all in fact typically my builds contain very little MF. I hate losing characters that I work hard to build so I play softcore. This build is part of my character grail where I only twink between the grail characters and I only allow myself to use skills in 1 skill tree."
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PvP

76 Shaman v 3.0
"Hi! My name is Garbad_the_Weak, and I am writing this guide to tell you about what I call the PvP Shaman, a druid who combines Summoning, elemental, and shape shifting to form a strong and different PvP char. This guide is for 76 Legit PvP with a focus on Druid vs. Druid and does not give any advice on leveling/Mfing."
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Werebear
"This past month a sudden craze for PvP Werebears have started. I myself have made 2 Werebears both PvP, and one being extremely successful on USEAST named Maul-OfRage. The PvP Werebear is mainly made for straight up melee duels against other classes such as the Assassin, Paladin, or ShapeShift druid. It is possible to duel Amazons and Sorceresses but its much more difficult with a bear then with a wolf. "
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Wind Druid
"Wind druids are probably the druid build most suited for PvP, of course this is arguable, and a lot rides on the player in control, but it is in my opinion at least. Against a good opponent you will not kill as fast as a Templar or Hammerdin, you won't be able to tank all the hits a barbarian can, your spells will not do damage in the tens of thousands or lower opponent's resistances, or even do irresistible damage. But the one thing you have is versatility, which many other classes lack; there is no class that can consistently beat a wind druid. Once you get the hang of things, the only class that will really give you trouble is a good Trapsin that uses Mind Blast often, a fast necromancer, or a good Hammerdin."
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Fireclaws Bear
"Well well, if it isn’t about time for one of these. Ever since I saw Garbad’s guide to Firebears in general, I couldn’t resist looking over the melee portion of it. I doubt any of you remember me, but I’m blood_baron, formerly of the paladin forums. And if any of you do remember me, then remember that I only live for melee PvP. I can’t stand ranged or magic users, as I have no patience for finding 12 different hotkeys (necromancer), nor relying on a good connection to keep me teleporting, nor do I enjoy fragging someone with a little white flying sticks when they can’t even see me. Thus said, here is my (hopefully) comprehensive guide to Fireclaws bears."
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PvP Hybrid Rabies/FC Druid
"Why would this build be appealing to you? Well, did you ever question which route to go? Werewolf or Werebear? Or wanted to make a Rabies druid, but wanted to go with the popular crowd that makes FC bears instead? Don’t wanna spend an arm and a leg for fine scs of vitas? Well I am here to tell you, this build can do all that, a 4x hybrid which will cost you a lot less than those physical damage druids and still be as good! Victus and I joked about it but the build itself is no joke. Being in wolf form, you can potentially have an arsenal of a 4fpa 33k Rabies Attack and a 5fpa 9k Fire Claw Attack. In werebear form, the same damage on the Fire Claws but at a 4fpa rate! I hope by now I’ve caught you attention. How is this possible? Please, read on. I will show you the numerical results and the gear I used."
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Hybrid Wolf Guide (V 1.1)
"In 1.09, the Shapeshifter usually followed one of the two paths; either a wolf or a bear and used oak or how. Although there were exceptions to this, like wolf and bear hybrids, or oak and how hybrids, this was the mainstream. With 1.1 and my understanding of it, the efficiency is not present at those paths anymore. My view angle changed significantly, and now I see 3 main paths for a Shapeshifter."
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