AetherStorm
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2 new Crazy Builds
The Brothers of Destruction
There once was a pair of brothers who fought jealously for their father’s love. Their father was a rich and powerful Shaman( *winks at Garbad). Ever since they were little they tried to win their father’s affection by being better than the other. The eldest, named StormPup, attempted to harness the power of wind to impress the high lord Shaman. The youngest, named FirePup, wielded the power of fire to fuel his jealous war against his brother. Both excelled at their traits, but were unable to impress their father. That was until one day StormPup in the presence of his brother and father did what no other druid had done before, he was able to summon the tempest in his shapeshifted form. This act earned his father’s love and respect. With hatred in his heart Firepup wandered out to the secluded forest. Vowing to not be outdone by his brother, he remained in seclusion until one day he learned to summon the fires from above while he was in his shapeshifted form. With fire raining from the heavens and volcanoes bursting at ever step he bounded home to show his father. His father was astounished at the sight before him. Rushing to see what the commotion was about, StormPup gasped at the sight of his brother. Filled with anger StormPup changed into his mighty wolf form and summoned a massive hurricane. Tornadoes flew from his claws as he attacked his brother. The fight went on till neither brother could maintain his wolf form and collapsed to the ground bloody and broken. As the brothers gasped for breath they looked out and saw a motionless figure lying in a crater. It was their father. The high priest Shaman was killed in the battle between the two brothers. Blaming the death of their beloved father on each other, the brothers left the sacred grove to try to find atonement for their great sin.
Ok so I’m not the greatest story teller. Anyways I’ve been away from D2 for awhile now since my pc was broken. However, I’ve found some very interesting builds with the release of all the new runewords.
The first based off of StormPup
Skills
20 Cyclone Armor
20 Twister
20 Tornado
20 Hurricane
Rest in Fury( 20 at lvl 95)
Stats
STR: enough for your gear (keep in mind bonuses from charms, etc)
DEX: enogh for max block
VIT: rest
ENG: none
Equipment
Helm: Guillaume's Face socketed with a ed 15ias jewel
Armor: Duress mage plate
Belt: Verdungos (kind of unsure)
Boots: Goreriders
Weapon: Shael’d Stormlash
Shield: Sanctuary (kind of unsure)
Gloves: Dracul’s
Amulet: Crescent Moon
Rings: 2 Carrion Winds
Weapon Switch: Call to Arms and Spirit Monarch
10 x elemental charms (plus life hopefully)
annihilus
rest are resist small charms
Merc:
Act 2 Might merc with doom poleaxe, andariels visage, and chains of honor
Now reasons for the equipment
Carrion Wind Ring
Required Level: 60
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)
Stormlash Scourge
One-Hand Damage: (10-12) To (272-320) (141-166 Avg)
Required Level: 82
Required Strength: 125
Required Dexterity: 77
Durability: 65
Base Weapon Speed: [-10]
+240-300% Enhanced Damage (varies)
+50% Damage To Undead
Adds 1-473 Lightning Damage
+30% Increased Attack Speed
+33% Chance of Crushing Blow
20% Chance To Cast Level 18 Tornado On Striking
15% Chance To Cast Level 10 Static Field On Striking
+3-9 Lightning Absorb (varies)
Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 30
You make look at this and think, so what, what is the big deal, well when you are using fury it will set off the chances to cast very rapidly. Also when it sets off the Twisters and Tornadoes they are fully synergized. The twisters will help keep things stunned and the tornadoes do nice damage. The twisters are doing about 190 dmg, and there is three of them, usually both rings will get set off so there is usually a string of them. The Tornadoes do about 1500 damage. Not to mention the static field is going off all the time. Plus with that gear you have 98% chance of crushing blow ( its capped at 95 I think), 43% chance of open wounds, 30% deadly strike. You will also have lots of life leech and life tap from dracul’s to keep you full of life. The only small problem that occurs is when the duration of hurricane wears off.
Here is the basic idea of the build: you cast battle command and battle orders on you and your merc, then you cast up your cyclone armor, hurricane, and then shift into werewolf. Switch weapons to your stormlash and fury away and watch the storms fly. Now the reasons for the elemental charms is for when you are shifting back to human form to recast hurricane. You are now a slightly weaker windy. Well weak if you consider 2k hurricane and 4k tornado. This also helps in high elemental damaging areas when you need to constantly recast cyclone armor. The other beauty of this build is that you level it up just like a normal windy, up until 62 when you can use Horizon’s Tornado.
FirePup
Skills:
1 Firestorm
20 Molten Boulder
20 Fissure
20 Volcano
20 Armageddon
all prereqs for armageddon
rest in Fury( 20 at lvl 99)
Stats
Str: enough for gear
Dex: enough for gear
Vit: rest
Eng: none
Equipment
Helm: Jalal’s Mane
Armor: Ormus Robes
Belt: Verdungos
Boots: Sandstorm Trek (unsure)
Gloves: Draculs
Amulet: Maras
Rings; 2 X Carrion Wind
Weapon: Destruction Phase
Shield: Phoenix Shield
Weapon Switch: call to arms and spirit
10 elemental charms
1 annihilus
rest are resist charms
Merc: act 2 holy freeze with infinity polearm, chains of honor, and andarials visage
Reasons for choices:
Phoenix
4 Socket Weapons/Shields
Vex + Vex + Lo + Jah
100% Chance To Cast level 40 Blaze When You Level-up
40% Chance To Cast Level 22 Firestorm On Striking
Level 13 Redemption Aura When Equipped
+350-400% Enhanced Damage (varies)
-28% To Enemy Fire Resistance
+350-400 Defense Vs. Missile (varies)
+50 To Life
+5% To Maximum Lightning Resist
+10% To Maximum Fire Resist
+15-21 Fire Absorb (varies)
Destruction
5 Socket Polearms/Swords
Vex + Lo + Ber + Jah + Ko
23% Chance To Cast Level 12 Volcano On Striking
5% Chance To Cast Level 23 Molten Boulder On Striking
100% Chance To Cast level 45 Meteor When You Die
15% Chance To Cast Level 22 Nova On Attack
+350% Enhanced Damage
Ignore Target's Defense
Adds 100-180 Magic Damage
7% Mana Stolen Per Hit
20% Chance Of Crushing Blow
20% Deadly Strike
Prevent Monster Heal
+10 To Dexterity
Now as you can tell there again is nice chance to casts on the weapon, shield, and rings. I would give exact numbers but this is getting a lot longer than I thought already. Just know that you are pumping out huge amounts of fire dmg and some physical damage. Armageddon is doing between 8 to 9k firestorm is over 1k. You might think im crazy by now, but this build can literally spam volcanoes, firestorm, molten boulders, and twisters a lot faster than a regular fire druid. Between the negative fire resistance on phoenix and the mercs infinity plus the ormus robe you are dishing out some serious fire damage. Fire immunes still die pretty easy, the only problem area I’ve had was with Listers group. You also might be wondering how I survive without max block, well that happens because of the nice life leech and the great aura of Redemption granted by Phoenix. It will easily keep you full.
Please feel free to throw me some input on any gear changes etc. If you want to try these in single player email or pm me and ill send them to you. Ill try to come back and answer questions or give more strategy later. Thanks for reading my crazy builds.
The Brothers of Destruction
There once was a pair of brothers who fought jealously for their father’s love. Their father was a rich and powerful Shaman( *winks at Garbad). Ever since they were little they tried to win their father’s affection by being better than the other. The eldest, named StormPup, attempted to harness the power of wind to impress the high lord Shaman. The youngest, named FirePup, wielded the power of fire to fuel his jealous war against his brother. Both excelled at their traits, but were unable to impress their father. That was until one day StormPup in the presence of his brother and father did what no other druid had done before, he was able to summon the tempest in his shapeshifted form. This act earned his father’s love and respect. With hatred in his heart Firepup wandered out to the secluded forest. Vowing to not be outdone by his brother, he remained in seclusion until one day he learned to summon the fires from above while he was in his shapeshifted form. With fire raining from the heavens and volcanoes bursting at ever step he bounded home to show his father. His father was astounished at the sight before him. Rushing to see what the commotion was about, StormPup gasped at the sight of his brother. Filled with anger StormPup changed into his mighty wolf form and summoned a massive hurricane. Tornadoes flew from his claws as he attacked his brother. The fight went on till neither brother could maintain his wolf form and collapsed to the ground bloody and broken. As the brothers gasped for breath they looked out and saw a motionless figure lying in a crater. It was their father. The high priest Shaman was killed in the battle between the two brothers. Blaming the death of their beloved father on each other, the brothers left the sacred grove to try to find atonement for their great sin.
Ok so I’m not the greatest story teller. Anyways I’ve been away from D2 for awhile now since my pc was broken. However, I’ve found some very interesting builds with the release of all the new runewords.
The first based off of StormPup
Skills
20 Cyclone Armor
20 Twister
20 Tornado
20 Hurricane
Rest in Fury( 20 at lvl 95)
Stats
STR: enough for your gear (keep in mind bonuses from charms, etc)
DEX: enogh for max block
VIT: rest
ENG: none
Equipment
Helm: Guillaume's Face socketed with a ed 15ias jewel
Armor: Duress mage plate
Belt: Verdungos (kind of unsure)
Boots: Goreriders
Weapon: Shael’d Stormlash
Shield: Sanctuary (kind of unsure)
Gloves: Dracul’s
Amulet: Crescent Moon
Rings: 2 Carrion Winds
Weapon Switch: Call to Arms and Spirit Monarch
10 x elemental charms (plus life hopefully)
annihilus
rest are resist small charms
Merc:
Act 2 Might merc with doom poleaxe, andariels visage, and chains of honor
Now reasons for the equipment
Carrion Wind Ring
Required Level: 60
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)
Stormlash Scourge
One-Hand Damage: (10-12) To (272-320) (141-166 Avg)
Required Level: 82
Required Strength: 125
Required Dexterity: 77
Durability: 65
Base Weapon Speed: [-10]
+240-300% Enhanced Damage (varies)
+50% Damage To Undead
Adds 1-473 Lightning Damage
+30% Increased Attack Speed
+33% Chance of Crushing Blow
20% Chance To Cast Level 18 Tornado On Striking
15% Chance To Cast Level 10 Static Field On Striking
+3-9 Lightning Absorb (varies)
Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 30
You make look at this and think, so what, what is the big deal, well when you are using fury it will set off the chances to cast very rapidly. Also when it sets off the Twisters and Tornadoes they are fully synergized. The twisters will help keep things stunned and the tornadoes do nice damage. The twisters are doing about 190 dmg, and there is three of them, usually both rings will get set off so there is usually a string of them. The Tornadoes do about 1500 damage. Not to mention the static field is going off all the time. Plus with that gear you have 98% chance of crushing blow ( its capped at 95 I think), 43% chance of open wounds, 30% deadly strike. You will also have lots of life leech and life tap from dracul’s to keep you full of life. The only small problem that occurs is when the duration of hurricane wears off.
Here is the basic idea of the build: you cast battle command and battle orders on you and your merc, then you cast up your cyclone armor, hurricane, and then shift into werewolf. Switch weapons to your stormlash and fury away and watch the storms fly. Now the reasons for the elemental charms is for when you are shifting back to human form to recast hurricane. You are now a slightly weaker windy. Well weak if you consider 2k hurricane and 4k tornado. This also helps in high elemental damaging areas when you need to constantly recast cyclone armor. The other beauty of this build is that you level it up just like a normal windy, up until 62 when you can use Horizon’s Tornado.
FirePup
Skills:
1 Firestorm
20 Molten Boulder
20 Fissure
20 Volcano
20 Armageddon
all prereqs for armageddon
rest in Fury( 20 at lvl 99)
Stats
Str: enough for gear
Dex: enough for gear
Vit: rest
Eng: none
Equipment
Helm: Jalal’s Mane
Armor: Ormus Robes
Belt: Verdungos
Boots: Sandstorm Trek (unsure)
Gloves: Draculs
Amulet: Maras
Rings; 2 X Carrion Wind
Weapon: Destruction Phase
Shield: Phoenix Shield
Weapon Switch: call to arms and spirit
10 elemental charms
1 annihilus
rest are resist charms
Merc: act 2 holy freeze with infinity polearm, chains of honor, and andarials visage
Reasons for choices:
Phoenix
4 Socket Weapons/Shields
Vex + Vex + Lo + Jah
100% Chance To Cast level 40 Blaze When You Level-up
40% Chance To Cast Level 22 Firestorm On Striking
Level 13 Redemption Aura When Equipped
+350-400% Enhanced Damage (varies)
-28% To Enemy Fire Resistance
+350-400 Defense Vs. Missile (varies)
+50 To Life
+5% To Maximum Lightning Resist
+10% To Maximum Fire Resist
+15-21 Fire Absorb (varies)
Destruction
5 Socket Polearms/Swords
Vex + Lo + Ber + Jah + Ko
23% Chance To Cast Level 12 Volcano On Striking
5% Chance To Cast Level 23 Molten Boulder On Striking
100% Chance To Cast level 45 Meteor When You Die
15% Chance To Cast Level 22 Nova On Attack
+350% Enhanced Damage
Ignore Target's Defense
Adds 100-180 Magic Damage
7% Mana Stolen Per Hit
20% Chance Of Crushing Blow
20% Deadly Strike
Prevent Monster Heal
+10 To Dexterity
Now as you can tell there again is nice chance to casts on the weapon, shield, and rings. I would give exact numbers but this is getting a lot longer than I thought already. Just know that you are pumping out huge amounts of fire dmg and some physical damage. Armageddon is doing between 8 to 9k firestorm is over 1k. You might think im crazy by now, but this build can literally spam volcanoes, firestorm, molten boulders, and twisters a lot faster than a regular fire druid. Between the negative fire resistance on phoenix and the mercs infinity plus the ormus robe you are dishing out some serious fire damage. Fire immunes still die pretty easy, the only problem area I’ve had was with Listers group. You also might be wondering how I survive without max block, well that happens because of the nice life leech and the great aura of Redemption granted by Phoenix. It will easily keep you full.
Please feel free to throw me some input on any gear changes etc. If you want to try these in single player email or pm me and ill send them to you. Ill try to come back and answer questions or give more strategy later. Thanks for reading my crazy builds.
