So I was reading a discussion the other day about the 1.11 runewords and someone brought up an interesting use for the druid runeword Rain. Now, there are certainly better runewords out there, but this one is obtainable without trading for duped runes (mal is fairly obtainable), and the player still gets +2 all skills. The main reason this armor stands out though is the +5% chance to cast level 15 twister on hit.
Doesn't sound impressive you say? Well, on its own, I would agree. However, if you build around this idea it gets a bit nasty.
This guide is dedicated to the underestimated ability of chance to cast on attack or striking. There are a couple variations of this proc guide, and some of you may have seen the original thread which underwent a horde of changes. I decided to make a new thread compiling the original build as well as a few alternate routes.
Why should I make a proc druid?
There are a couple of reasons for this
Reason #1: They are very effective in hell. All of these builds will be able to solo hell once finished.
Reason #2: They are sexy. While all your buddies cry themselves to sleep because their hammerdin is exactly like everyone else's hammerdin, you are a part of an incredibly rare breed of a procaurus.
Reason #3: They're cheap! For the original procaurus I built, I was able to get 90% of the items I needed from pgem trades.
Price Guide
$=Worth less than a Lem or Pul on USWest Ladder
$$=1 Pul or Lem on USWest Ladder
$$$=1 HR on USWest Ladder
$$$$= 2-3 HR on USWest Ladder
$$$$$= 4 or more HRs
#1#
The Original Procaurus Rex
This one has been 100% tested and guarantees effectiveness in hell. I'm still grinding to do ubertrist so I cannot vouch for the effectiveness there, but I suspect it will do quiet well.
Skill Points
Strengths: Reliable, high life, can handle single immunities quiet well. Deals massive damage to a single target, is loaded up to the ears with stun.
Weaknesses: Relies on charms for resistances, lack of area of effect damage. Poor MF'er
Total Skill points: 104
1 in Werewolf (prereq)
1 in Werebear (main skill)
1 in maul, feral rage (Pre Reqs)
1 in Shock Wave (Crowd Control)
20 in Fireclaws (main attack)
20 In Fissure (synergy)
20 in Molten Boulder (synergy)
20 in Fire Storm (synergy)
20 in Lycanthropy (synergy)
Stat Points
Strength: 140 (recommended for this gear setup) or enough for items.
Dexterity : Base or enough for items (you absolutely do NOT want max block)
Vitality: Everything Spare
Energy: Base
Armor
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Rain
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5% Chance To Cast Level 15 Cyclone Armor When Struck
5% Chance To Cast Level 15 Twister On Striking
+2 To Druid Skills
+100-150 To Mana (varies)
Lightning Resist +30%
Magic Damage Reduced By 7
15% Damage Taken Goes to Mana
Rings
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Carrion Wind
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10% Chance To Cast Level 10 Poison Nova When Struck
8% Chance To Cast Level 13 Twister On Striking
6-9% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies)
+100-160 Defense Vs. Missile (varies)
Poison Resist +55%
10% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
Level 21 Poison Creeper (15 Charges)
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Raven Frost
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Required Level: 45
+150-250 To Attack Rating (varies)
Adds 15-45 Cold Damage, 4 sec. Duration (Normal)
Cannot Be Frozen
+15-20 To Dexterity (varies)
+40 To Mana
Cold Absorb 20%
If you find an alternate way to deal with freezing attacks, swap raven frost for another Carrion Wind.
Amulet
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Communal Amulet of the Atlas
Price may vary but... $$
Required Level: 67
+3 Shape-shifting Skills
+21-30 Strength
An alternative here would be a good rare amulet with nice resistances and +2 druid skills, and +strength, and most importantly >chance to cast on attack<
This would be incredibly hard to find, but would add a lot to the build
Weapon
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Windhammer
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Two-Hand Damage: (215-254) To (296-349) (255.5-301.5 Avg)
Required Level: 68
Required Strength: 225
Durability: 60
Base Weapon Speed: [10]
+180-230% Enhanced Damage (varies)
50% Chance of Crushing Blow
60% Increased Attack Speed
33% Chance To Cast Level 22 Twister On Striking
+50% Damage To Undead]
+3-9 Lightning Absorb (varies)
Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 30
Windhammer must be socketed with a shael.
Gloves
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Immortal King's Forge
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Defense: 108-118 (varies)(Base Defense: 43-53)
Required Level: 30
Required Strength: 110
Durability: 24
+65 Defense
12% Chance To Cast Level 4 Charged Bolt When Struck
+20 To Dexterity
+20 To Strength
+25% Increased Attack Speed (2 items)[/INDENT]
Helm
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Jalal's Mane
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Defense: 247-297 (varies)(Base Defense: 73-98)
Required Level: 42
Required Strength: 65
Durability: 20
(Druid Only)
+150-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)
30% Faster Hit Recovery
20% Bonus To Attack Rating
+2 To Druid Skill Levels
All Resistances +30
+5 To Mana After Each Kill
+20 To Strength
+20 To Energy
+2 To Shape Shifting Skills (Druid Only)
Jalal's mane must be socketed with an IAS Jewel
Belt
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Immortal King's Detail
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Defense: 89 (Base Defense: 41-52)
Defense: 194 (Base Defense: 41-52)
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 110
Durability: 24
16 boxes
+36 Defense
Lightning Resist +31%
Fire Resist +28%
+25 To Strength
+105 Defense (2 items)
Boots
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Gore Rider
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Defense: 140-162 (varies)(Base Defense: 43-53)
Required Level: 47
Required Strength: 94
Durability: 34
Assassin Kick Damage: 39-80
+160-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)
30% Faster Run/Walk
10% Chance Of Open Wounds
15% Chance Of Crushing Blow
15% Deadly Strike
Requirements -25%
+20 Maximum Stamina|||I've high lighted all the important stats.
Basically the theme is to take advantage of all the chance to cast on hit, which everyone typically ignores. Twister is the main theme as it stuns the enemy when cast. With this gear, you will have the following chances to cast on hit.
5% Chance To Cast Level 15 Twister On Striking (From your body armor Rain)
8% Chance To Cast Level 13 Twister On Striking (From Carrion Ring on your left finger)
33% Chance To Cast Level 22 Twister On Striking (From Windhammer
25% Chance To Cast level 10 Firestorm* On Striking (From your Hellfire Torch, if you can get it)
Together without Hellfire Torch, your chance for at LEAST one item to proc is ~42%
With Hellfire Torch, your chance for at least one proc is ~57%
Twisters spawning from your armor Rain will do 44-46 physical damage each and stun for 0.4 seconds.
Twisters spawning from your Carrion Ring will do 37-39 physical damage and stun for .04 seconds
Twisters spawning off your main proc Windhammer will do 78-83 physical damage and stun for .04 seconds.
Your total Crushing Blow will be 65%
Your total Open Wounds will be 10%
Your total Deadly Strike will be 15%
Since with your setup, you will be attacking 3.57 times per second, you are going to be having these chance to cast on hit going off constantly. This build also has a good amount of crushing blow, and some open wounds, which will trigger as well.
That is just the icing on the cake. As with any decent fireclaws build, you will be doing well over 9k per hit, effectively over 32k per second before you factor in resistances and chance to miss, CB, Open Wounds, and Procs.
Now here are some known problems.
1) Firestorm is known to intentionally cause the game to crash when two people have it go off at the same time. I have no idea how this will work with two firestorms going off from the same person. Perhaps a more enlightened form patron than I would be so kind to explain this.
2) Fire and physical dual immunes will give you trouble, but these are incredibly rare.
3) No engima, and bears cannot teleport
Special thanks to Ulmo_Vala, Stephan, Damric, and flcl115 for their insights on this build
#2#
The Hungry Hungry Kodaproc
To those not familiar with SSoGs Kodiak Bear guide, I strong suggest you read his guide here http://wiki.theamazonbasin.com/index..._Mighty_Kodiak
In this variation of the Kodiak build, you will be using your wealth of excess skill points to benefit your proc damage.
Strengths: Much stronger Proc attacks than the standard procaurus, faster attack than fireclaws, more gear freedom, more skill point freedom, recovers life and mana at insane speeds, can use wind attacks (outside of bear form) or summons, Ubertank potential, still a sexy badass bear proccer =)
Weaknesses: Only deals physical damage, very little room for MF gear, relies on charms for resistances
Skills
Stats
1 in Werewolf (prereq)
1 in Werebear (main skill)
1 in maul, feral rage, fire claws (Pre Reqs)
1 in Shock Wave (Crowd Control)
1 in Hunger (Main Skill)
1 in Arctic Blast, Cyclone Armor, and Twister (more Pre Reqs)
20 in Tornado (Proc Synergy)
20 in Hurricane (Proc Synergy)
Core total: 69
Defensive Emphasis:
20 in Werebear
20 in Heart of the Oak.
Summon Emphasis:
1 in Heart of the Oak, Ravens, Spirit Wolf, Dire Wolf (Prereqs)
20 in Grizzly Bear
Remaining points in your favorite bear synergy.
Elemental Emphasis:
20 in Twister
20 in Cyclone Armor
Stun Emphasis
20 in Maul
20 skill points to taste (Oak Sage, Heart of Wolverine, Werebear, or Cyclone Armor is recommended)
Gear
Strength: Enough for gear
Dex: Base or enough for gear (again, you don't want ot max block)
Vitality: Everything left over
Energy: Base.
See Procaurus Rex gear... its exactly identical with following exceptions: Swap out the IK Gloves and Belt for Laying of Hands and Verdungo's Hearty Cord. Replace the Communal Ammy with a Atma's Scarab. Additionally, if you can afford it, replace the IAS jewel in your jalals with a cham rune. Since you have a source of cannot be frozen, you can replace your Raven Frost ring with another Carrion Wind. Cheap alternative to Jalals is Guillaume's face, but you'll probably be better off with Jalals since you already have 65% CB, but sincerely lack resistances.
Gloves
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Laying of Hands
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Defense: 79-87 (varies)(Base Defense: 54-62)
Required Level: 63
Required Strength: 50
Durability: 12
+25 Defense
+20% Increased Attack Speed
+350% Damage To Demons
Fire Resist +50%
10% Chance To Cast Level 3 Holy Bolt On Striking
Belt
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Verdungo's Hearty Cord
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Defense: 125-158 (Defense: 58-65)
Required Level: 63
Required Strength: 106
Durability: 16
16 Boxes
+90-140% Enhanced Defense (varies)
10% Faster Hit Recovery
+30-40 To Vitality (varies)
Replenish Life +10-13 (varies)
+100-120 Maximum Stamina (varies)
Damage Reduced By 10-15% (varies)
Amulet
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Atma's Scarab
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Required Level: 60
5% Chance To Cast Level 2 Amplify Damage On Striking
20% Bonus To Attack Rating
+40 Poison Damage over 4 seconds
Poison Resist +75%
+3 To Light Radius
Attacker Takes Damage of 5
Alternative Helm
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Guillaume's Face
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Defense: 217 (Base Defense: 85-98)
Required Level: 34
Required Strength: 115
Durability: 40
+120% Enhanced Defense
+30% Faster Hit Recovery
15% Deadly Strike
35% Chance of Crushing Blow
+15 To Strength
Explanation of Build
Your procs will be a central piece of your damage. Ultimately you can go several ways with this build and I've outlined some suggestions.
It is a little known fact that any sort of proc skill you "cast" receives bonuses from the skills synergies. With this setup, your biggest proc will be dishing out several 400 damage twisters, and your attack speed will be quick enough at the 6 FPS breakpoint to consistently have the twisters cast.
Of all the builds, this is EASILY the most survivable. If you go the defensive route, you will be near unkillable thanks to your huge life bonus and defensive bonus. You can also tweak the build to use summons to help tank difficult areas, or switch into a wind ele druid should you choose to do so.
With this gear, you will have the following chances to cast on hit.
5% Chance To Cast Level 15 Twister On Striking (From your body armor Rain)
5% Chance To Cast Level 2 Amplify Damage On Striking (From Atma's Scarab amulet)
8% Chance To Cast Level 13 Twister On Striking (From Carrion Ring on your left finger)
8% Chance To Cast Level 13 Twister On Striking (From Carrion Ring on your right finger)
10% Chance To Cast Level 3 Holy Bolt On Striking (From Laying of Hands gloves)
33% Chance To Cast Level 22 Twister On Striking (From Windhammer
25% Chance To Cast level 10 Firestorm* On Striking (From your Hellfire Torch, if you can get it)
Together without Hellfire Torch, your chance for at LEAST one item to proc is ~54%
With Hellfire Torch, your chance for at least one proc is ~65%
Twisters spawning from your armor Rain will do 222-232 physical damage each and stun for 0.4 seconds.
Twisters spawning from either of your Carrion Rings will do 187-197 physical damage and stun for .04 seconds
Twisters spawning off your main proc Windhammer will do 390-415 physical damage and stun for .04 seconds.
If you decided to use Jalal's Mane you will have the following stats
Your total Crushing Blow will be 65%
Your total Open Wounds will be 10%
Your total Deadly Strike will be 15%
If you decided to use Guillaume's Face your stats would be
Your total Crushing Blow will be 100%
Your total Open Wounds will be 10%
Your total Deadly Strike will be 30%
all of these will be proccing from a 6 frame attack (4.17 attacks per second)
#3#
Rabid Proccer
This is a werewolf based proccer which deals with masses of enemies with rabies.
There are two ways to approach this build.
Route 1) Shaeled Windhammer/Ias jewel Windhammer. This will allow you to hit a 5/5/5/8 frame per attack breakpoint with your main skill, fury. The downside of this is that you need to find a way to reach 225 strength, which will reduce your overall life.
Route 2) Unshaeled Windhammer. You'll hit a 5/5/5/9 frame per attack breakpoint. The difference isn't much, and you'll be free to socket your windhammer with a hel, reducing the minimum strength needed for the build down to 180 (recommended). Other options could be a 40% ed/-15% requirement jewel, or a eth rune (reduce enemy armor which leads to more procs), or whatever the heck you want in there. The choice is yours.
Skills
If you decide to max werewolf, I recommend removing points from Oak Sage.
1 in Werewolf (Main skill.. some people might recommend maxing this for the AR bonus)
20 in Lycanthropy (Synergy)
1 in Feral Rage (Pre-req)
20 in Rabies (Main Skill)
20 in Fury (Main Skill)
20 in Oak Sage (Additional Life)
20 in Poison Creeper (Synergy)
Gear
(Copy/pasted from kodaproccer for efficiency!)
See Procaurus Rex gear... its exactly identical with following exceptions: Swap out the IK Gloves and Belt for Dracul's Grasp and Verdungo's Hearty Cord. Replace the Communal Ammy with a Atma's Scarab. Additionally, if you can afford it, replace the IAS jewel in your jalals with a cham rune. Since you have a source of cannot be frozen, you can replace your Raven Frost ring with another Carrion Wind. Cheap alternative to Jalals is Guillaume's face, but you'll probably be better off with Jalals since you already have 65% CB, but sincerely lack resistances.
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Dracul's Grasp
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Defense: 125-145 (Base Defense: 56-65)
Required Level: 76
Required Strength: 50
Durability: 14
+90-120% Enhanced Defense (varies)
+10-15 To Strength (varies)
+5-10 Life After Each Kill (varies)
25% Chance of Open Wounds
7-10% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies)
5% Chance To Cast Level 10 Life Tap On Striking
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)
Stat Points
Stat points will vary depending on if you shaeled your windhammer or not.
Strength: no more than 180 total points after gear if you socketed your windhammer with a Hel rune. 192 total if you used a -requirements jewel, and 225 total strength if you did anything else.
dex: Base (do not max block!)
Vitality: Everything left over
Energy: Base
Overview
This is hands down the fastest attacking build. At 4.46 (shaeled) or 4.31 (nonshaeled) attacks per second, you will have a screen flooded with twisters. Additionally, you have two types of damage, allowing you to deal with the majority of monsters in the game.
Strengths: Fast attacker! 4.46 attacks per second you will have procs, cb, and ow going off consistently every second. Two types of damage, allowing you to deal with physical immunes. Higher amount of life than procaurus rex. More freedom with gear than other builds.
Weaknesses: Resistances dependent on charms. Poor MFer. Lower defense than any other druid proccer. No shockwave. Less rabies damage than a pure Fury/Rabies build.
With this gear, you will have the following chances to cast on hit.
5% Chance To Cast Level 15 Twister On Striking (From your body armor Rain)
5% Chance To Cast Level 2 Amplify Damage On Striking (From Atma's Scarab amulet)
8% Chance To Cast Level 13 Twister On Striking (From Carrion Ring on your left finger)
8% Chance To Cast Level 13 Twister On Striking (From Carrion Ring on your right finger)
33% Chance To Cast Level 22 Twister On Striking (From Windhammer
5% Chance To Cast Level 10 Lifetap On Striking (From Dracul's Grasp gloves)
25% Chance To Cast level 10 Firestorm* On Striking (From your Hellfire Torch, if you can get it)
Together without Hellfire Torch, your chance for at LEAST one item to proc is ~51%
With Hellfire Torch, your chance for at least one proc is ~64%
Twisters spawning from your armor Rain will do 44-46 physical damage each and stun for 0.4 seconds.
Twisters spawning from either of your Carrion Rings will do 37-39 physical damage and stun for .04 seconds
Twisters spawning off your main proc Windhammer will do 78-83 physical damage and stun for .04 seconds.
If you decided to use Jalal's Mane you will have the following stats
Your total Crushing Blow will be 65%
Your total Open Wounds will be 35%
Your total Deadly Strike will be 15%
If you decided to use Guillaume's Face your stats would be
Your total Crushing Blow will be 100%
Your total Open Wounds will be 35%
Your total Deadly Strike will be 30%|||reserved for future post|||Everytime I try to make a Kodiac, no matter how awesome my gear, I seem to fail at melee bears. I shall try it again like this, but I will probably substitute Guillame's Face. Also thinking 20 in lycanthropy, but defintely the 20 in tornado and hurricane. Then maybe 20 in werebear and maul. Would I need 1 pt shockwave?|||Yes. Even with all the twister procs, it makes life a lot easier if a group is already stunned to start attacking. It also helps deal with those pesky ranged units.
The guide isn't finished just yet, there are still a few changes I need to put in the kodiak bear (original procaurus is 100% finished).
Hopefully I'll have the guide finished before the weekend.|||This looks pretty interesting. I like characters who are built around Chance to Cast, such as Riftkicker. I will definitely try to make one of these in the closest future. Thumbs up for this interesting guide.
|||Ummm....Ias from armor doesn't work on forms. You can cham the jalals for another carrion wind.
Cool build, I love procs in pvm. I've got a Fury Druid on Eastern Sun that procs Bone Spirit, Fade, Amp, Bone Armor, and my necro procs corpse/poison explosions when he kills enemies.|||Glad you enjoyed it Findux!
Sicyo, off weapon ias works on forms, it just has a reduced efficiency. If you want to look at the breakpoints, take a look at this site which is quintessential to making a wereform build
http://home.comcast.net/~thedragoon/...madvanced.html
Theres still one more setup I have planned out. I might even do one based around werewolf and rabies to add some mass damage.|||Ah, well I knew it didn't work for Fury but I made the improper assumption that it didn't work at all for bears either. Good to know that it does.
If you're going 2hand though, wouldn't Tomb Reaver be a better choice? Range 4, better damage, 1-2 frames faster? Sure you miss out on the twister procs but you're procing everything else more due to more hits. And doesn't Fury trigger procs more often than fire claws?
Actually now that I think of it, I wish I thought of getting an eth tomb reaver for PvM and fighting casters on my Fury Druid back when I played LoD.
I'm not trying to rag on your build or anything, I'm just thinking in terms of "best." If you want me to shut up just let me know.|||If you replace Windhammer for tomb reaver, you wouldn't truly be a proccer, you would a standard wereform build with some proc gear thrown in the mix =). While Tomb Reaver is very effective for PvM and is the standard for many wereforms builds, this one is focused on exploring the effectiveness of massing a proc.
Additionally, its only a 1 frame difference from a shaeled up Tomb Reaver and a Shaeled Windhammer, but if you use Tomb Reaver you lose out on your main twister source and 50% crushing blow.
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