poison skill damage gear

[NickaliskTrent]

poison skill damage gear

taken from rabies/fury guide by stoutewolf and rangniheldr:

Rabies has a nice trick concerning the +% Poison Skill Damage and -% Enemy Poison Resistance. After an opponent is infected with rabies, if the equipment is switched to a higher +% Poison Skill Damage and -% Enemy Poison Resistance equipment (called the Poison Skill Damage Gear), the remaining damage is calculated according to that higher damage equipment, and if switched to a lower +% Poison Skill Damage and -% Enemy Poison Resistance equipment, that will not reduce the damage. So the higher one is used when there is a weapon switch or equipment change. Usually, high damage rabies setups are 1h setups, and it can be harder to hit the enemy with it, so hitting with range 5 and switching will be more effective.
The most damage can be achieved via an infection by Plague Bearer Unique Rune Sword then switching to a 4 Socketed Shield + 6 Socketed Weapon, + 10x Poison Rainbow Facet Unique Jewels. In some cases, The 6 Socketed Weapon can be changed with a Death's Web Unique Unearthed Wand depending on the resistances of the enemy.
Again, for the Poison Skill Damage Gear to work, switching to it and back will also work, you don't need to switch and stay with that.

I love that, it sounds so badass, but where do you keep this set of switch gear? Is it worth sacrificing BO?

Or do you keep it in the horadric cube and switch out the bo stuff into it? In which case it takes up the room of skill charms?

 

[nicro tower]

i'd switch it out after you bo, because everyone seems to love killing your oak..., and why would you have so many skill charms?

 

[NickaliskTrent]

isnt rabbies/fury build come with an inventory of 9 skiller?

 

[nicro tower]

but what other charms will you be using? im way too lazy to switch a skiller for 3x 3/20/20s or w/e...

 

[superjayson]

most people either bo in cold plains then come back to stash for your rabies switch gear or simply not use cta at all.

with good gear you can still get really high life totals.

 

[Verashiden]

You shouldn't need to BO with a properly built Fury/Rabies. I love owning nubs and having them cry cus I beat them without BO .

I mean, you can hit 7k Life without BO. BO is additive to Lycan so the increase isn't as much as you think, especially because SS Druids generally lack + all skills gear to make the BO "Hax"