Hello, I'm Agonas

[Agono]

Hello, I'm Agonas

I thought I might introduce myself to the druid community. It has been pretty lonely playing solo since I started back up with Diablo2 and I had a couple questions.

I haven't played DiabloII for 2 years since I started back up, but I had originally played it since release. Before that I had also played Diablo for a time. I've been a fan of WW druids since the release of the expantion, but I never heard of a rabies druid till I read about them in this forum and made one. I have only been playing for about 2 months, but I curently have a lvl 68 poison necro and a lvl 78 rabies/fury druid. I also managed to get my hardcore druid killed at lvl 65 by nightmare cows. :cry:

I had 2 major questions. Can a max block fury/rabies hybrid kill ubers as well as a pure fury druid, and how have you all conducted your trades? Is it best to trade on DiabloII.net, or in-game somehow?

I'm Agonas on USWest. Feel free to say hello or whatever. If you'r smart enough to read the Diabloii.net forums, I'd bet it would be a pleasure to meet you.

I'm doing better than I thought in Hell difficulty. I curently have an uber 151% ed Jalal's Mane, an uber +153 AR Raven Frost, Trang gloves, IK boots, and even a Lionheart Dusk Shroud. I wonder how much a 3 socketed dusk shroud, a Lum and a Fal might have gotten me... but theres something special about using things you found yourself, and I wanted the str so I could use IK boots.

So far I have just maxed Lycanthropy, Poison Creeper, Rabies, and Fury... I have yet to decide if I want a spirit or max werewolf.

Edit: I forgot I also wanted to ask... Is a Shael in a Ribcracker really all that necesary? I imagine I wouldn't be using it in PvP, and I also imagine I wouldn't be using Feral Rage to kill things as a rabies/fury hybrid, so as a PvM weapon, using fury, wouldn't a Ribcracker be best if socketed with a Ber, Ohm, or Lo? It seems like your getting 1 frame per 5 attacks if you use just a Shael or 15% IAS jewel.

 

[Agono]

Wish I could edit my post again... I forgot a couple more things.

First, I forgot to say that I play softcore LADDER on USWest.

Second, I wanted to ask why people prefer a 6x -5/+5 poison rainbow facet weapon on switch over a -50% Death's Web w/1x -5/+5 rainbow facet when using rabies. The 6 socketed weapon would deal -30/+30 while the Death's Web would deal -55/+5. I heard somewhere before I left that if you reduce the enemy's resistance to bellow 0, it then becomes increased by that much. For example, if an enemy has 50% resistance, and you lower that by 60%, you will deal 110% damage. If this is true, then a 6x rainbow facet weapon would never deal more damage than a -55/+5 Death's Web, and the Death's Web should always deal extra damage if the enemy has more than 30% poison resistance.

Might anyone know if this is true, or am I mistaken?

Edit: I found out where I saw this, but it applies to the curse Lower Resist, so I'm not 100% sure that it applies to item lower enemy resist.

From The Arreat Summit's description of Lower Resist:
"Monsters Resistances can be lowered into negatives. When a monster with 0 Lightning Resistance is cursed with level 20 Lower Resist (-62 to All Resistances), the monster will now have -62 Lightning Resistance. The damage taken from Lightning attacks would increase by 62%."

 

[KellKheraptis]

Welcome to the Druid Forum! To answer the DWeb question, I think the primary reason it is prefered to a 6 facet sword is the -res is FAR more handy if the opponent has stacked resists, though I can see where your coming from on the numbers. I do mostly pure fury, so Verashiden or Kiba would be the best ones to answer that completely.

I'm on UsWest SC as *Ulfhednar , working on a PvM two hander werewolf, as training for a 2 hander pvp wolf, both pure fury, if you want to add me/game sometime. See you around!

~Kell

 

[The Cow King]

Hello, I am The Cow King, but I believe we have already met

 

[Verashiden]

*I'll add more later, lazy -_-*

30/30 is better for when the opponent has stupidly stacked res that DWeb won't break, DWeb is better yet more expensive in most cases though.

 

[Agono]

Ahh, thank you.

Didn't know Death's Web was more expensive. I've never come accross a rainbow facet, so I just assumed they were really expensive... but then, i've never come across a deaths web either.

btw, I believe my question about max block druids killing ubers was already asked and answered in the Ribcracker Fury Druid - Uber Killer Guide.

 

[Enigmers]

I do most of my trading in-game in the "trades" channel, or otherwise in servers marked Trade, Trades, Trading, Trade post, etc etc.

 

[superjayson]

id never trade on b.net unless its with people you know and trust. the more you trade on b.net the more likely you are to get scammed and get duped gear that will go poof.

trading here is full of nice people who wont do these things. stuff here is actually legit aside from High runes (vex+).

a fury/rabies druid isnt as good at ubers as rabies sucks PvM and you basically got a weaker fury setup compared to a pure fury druid. there is a uber guide on here for wolves though, check the stickied guide thread.

 

[Cubbie]

I just wanna add that it´s a shame that rabies was so much nerfed pvm wise. *sob*
I really enjoyed my fury/rabies on SP.
Second jayson in the good experience in trading here. A lot of nice, reliable people also on etf.

 

[Monopoly]

m'yes? ok?
well. hi!

 

[sablast]

I heard somewhere before I left that if you reduce the enemy's resistance to bellow 0, it then becomes increased by that much. For example, if an enemy has 50% resistance, and you lower that by 60%, you will deal 110% damage.

Might anyone know if this is true, or am I mistaken?

There is nothing strange about that. Generaly speaking if someone has 0% resists, inflicted damage is 100% listed damage. 10% more resists=>90% listed damage inflicted; 10% less resists=> 110 % listed damage inflicted.

 

[Monopoly]

and waht about sorb?
when does that apply? and what si the diffrence between X% sorb and X sorb?

 

[Agono]

I actually read something in a sorc forum that kinda makes sense and proves that people are right to assume that -% enemy resistance is only better if the enemy isn't bellow 0% resistance.

For example, if you lower an enemy to -50% poison resistance, then a -5% to enemy poison resistance will only deal 5% extra damage, but a +5% poison resistance will actually add 7.5% more damage because it is increased by the negative resistance.

Another thing to consider is when an enemy has greater than maximum resistance. An enemy with 100% all resistance on their gear will still only have 75% all resist like everyone else, but it also means that it will completely negate the first -25% resistance inflicted to them.

Edit: BTW, I realised I put *Agonas... That was a mistake. It's actually *Agonistone.