Ribcracker Fury Druid - Uber Killer Guide

[xpumafangx]

Why upped ribby > ik mual.

Upped ribby needs 53-63 str to use, and you get more damage, or alot more damage then a ik mual has. Ya the eth zodded one is slower then a double shealed ik mual.

Stalagmite 91 av damage

orge mual 91.5 av damage

ribby 200-300% ed, +30-65 damage, and 50% crushing blow.

ik mual 200% ed 35-40% crushing blow.

Even the crappist upped ribby is better then a perfect ik mual damage wise and stats wise. Speed wise well they equel out or the ribby is kinda slower.

Moving on Ya a shealed stormlash is a good ideal for this. Also a grzz caddy with sheals and bers of some sort. As long as eather fps fury with left over ber rune/s. Or a 5fps fury with alot more ber runes.

I would never ever tell any one to use less then 75% block rate. If I was to use a stormsheild I would all ways have a 75% block rate.

Also better then what your talking about.

shealed stormlash
kiras umed
stormsheild shealed
duress
prebuffed with treachery
dracs
gore riders
highlords
double ravenfrosts
str/dex, and/or life belt.

Talking 63% crushing blow, 50dr%, good attack ratting, 48% deadly strike, 68% open wounds, 42% fhr, and a good amount of resist all.

 

[Jary]

Why upped ribby > ik mual.

Upped ribby needs 53-63 str to use, and you get more damage, or alot more damage then a ik mual has. Ya the eth zodded one is slower then a double shealed ik mual.

Stalagmite 91 av damage

orge mual 91.5 av damage

ribby 200-300% ed, +30-65 damage, and 50% crushing blow.

ik mual 200% ed 35-40% crushing blow.

Even the crappist upped ribby is better then a perfect ik mual damage wise and stats wise. Speed wise well they equel out or the ribby is kinda slower.

Moving on Ya a shealed stormlash is a good ideal for this. Also a grzz caddy with sheals and bers of some sort. As long as eather fps fury with left over ber rune/s. Or a 5fps fury with alot more ber runes.

I would never ever tell any one to use less then 75% block rate. If I was to use a stormsheild I would all ways have a 75% block rate.

Also better then what your talking about.

shealed stormlash
kiras umed
stormsheild shealed
duress
prebuffed with treachery
dracs
gore riders
highlords
double ravenfrosts
str/dex, and/or life belt.

Talking 63% crushing blow, 50dr%, good attack ratting, 48% deadly strike, 68% open wounds, 42% fhr, and a good amount of resist all.

I didn't realize rib cracker is able to get up-ed, my bad. But still, with IK u have to admit u get great damage/$ ratio and it killz nice... it adds quite a bit of bonus damage too remember, I know a lot is absorbed, but damage is damage nonetheless. I realize the strength is high, but the set also adds 65 strength for u (-anni, -torch, -jalal, -etc) so it sorta evens out I thinkz.

How is your Stormlash setup better? wow, its like u just took my idea and filled in the blanks. I think I'll take your setup and add charms and say its better now ^^ (sry but besides Kiras-which is good idea btw-ur pretty much just using the standard fury gear). I dunno, kiras seems like a waste to me though Puma... 'cause isn't it not so much different than 'um'Jalal?....plus jalal will lower strength requirement for ss(156)/storm(125?). If you 'prebuff' with treachery it almost seems like its not necessary, but I could be wrong... Jalal is just so good to not have imo : /

 

[MaxMax]

Nice guide.... actually building Fury-wolf using ribcracker. Good to known I can uber with him 2, eventhough I suspected it:grin:

An Azurewrath would require me to put another 43 points into dex, so it's out of the question for my build. Would it work? I'm not sure it does enough physical damage to survive on leeching.

Just a note; it can be done using azurewrath with pretty much standard gear.

 

[Bjam]

Hey, good to see some feedback; good, bad, or otherwise.

3 more reasons to like the Ribby vs. other two-handed options:
100% to defense - you aren't blocking squat, so it makes a big difference
50% FHR - you are still going to get hit a fair bit, so at least you can recover quickly
Style - C'mon, it's not always about what's best. Ya gotta have fun too. My eth ribby is a little slow, but 550+ average damage sure does make short work of would be foes.

MaxMax: Interesting...good to know.

Puma: That looks like a solid one-handed set up, although I would Um/pDia the SS instead of using Shael for more resists. Other than that, it looks like I would have figured, and affordable to boot. Is that set up "battle tested" or a theoretical suggestion?

Two-handed vs. One-handed
You may be asking why I decided to go for it two-handed, but there were three good reasons. No, not because I think it's better or anything as presumptous as that. Here's why:

1) I already had a PvM Ribby-wielding Druid at level 81 when I got the idea.
2) I already had an uber-killing 1pt Smealot Pally and I didn't want a bigger and hairer, but otherwise very similar character (been there done that)
3) I just wanted to see if I could do it

Another thing I took into consideration was trying very hard not to require wholesale gear swapping just for the Ubers. You'll notice that the only changes from my standard gear (besides Treachery for pre-buff) are a few charms and a lifetap wand on switch. Yes, I still switch to a Metalgrid on occassion, but I'm trying to obsolete that too.

 

[xpumafangx]

How is your Stormlash setup better? wow, its like u just took my idea and filled in the blanks. I think I'll take your setup and add charms and say its better now ^^ (sry but besides Kiras-which is good idea btw-ur pretty much just using the standard fury gear). I dunno, kiras seems like a waste to me though Puma... 'cause isn't it not so much different than 'um'Jalal?....plus jalal will lower strength requirement for ss(156)/storm(125?). If you 'prebuff' with treachery it almost seems like its not necessary, but I could be wrong... Jalal is just so good to not have imo : /

Your right about that I did take your ideal and went from there. And I am shure other combanations "could" work.

Yes ik mual is a nice weapon, also the full set will work just fine for genral player vs monster. You only stated before that you didnt understand why a upped ribcracker is a good weapon. So I showed you, thats all I did.

Bjam pls dont go jumping up and down over the +100% ed to def from ribcracker. It isnt as good as you might think. I have found a way to get a high def on a werewolf. But thats from a high lvl shout from a barb. By using fort, and metalgrid. I got over 20k def from doing that. You could add a ribcracker to that and make it a little higher. But you really got to think about is the extra def from a ribcracker out way the def from a stormsheild?

style + fuction > everything else.

Also if you can rewrite this with a 1 handed section I am more then willing to try to get this stickyed.

 

[Bjam]

Your right about that I did take your ideal and went from there. And I am shure other combanations "could" work.

Yes ik mual is a nice weapon, also the full set will work just fine for genral player vs monster. You only stated before that you didnt understand why a upped ribcracker is a good weapon. So I showed you, thats all I did.

Bjam pls dont go jumping up and down over the +100% ed to def from ribcracker. It isnt as good as you might think. I have found a way to get a high def on a werewolf. But thats from a high lvl shout from a barb. By using fort, and metalgrid. I got over 20k def from doing that. You could add a ribcracker to that and make it a little higher. But you really got to think about is the extra def from a ribcracker out way the def from a stormsheild?

style + fuction > everything else.

Also if you can rewrite this with a 1 handed section I am more then willing to try to get this stickyed.

:soapbox: Just picturing myself here shouting the greatness of the Ribcracker. It's true that the 100% defense boost isn't going to make you some kind of untouchable freak, but but it does make a big difference because your defense is so low with this set up. The difference between 18K and 20K is negligable, but the difference between 2K and 4K is very noticable. It's hardly the best feature of the Ribcracker, but it's worth mentioning.

I am still soliciting battle tested setups, both one-handed and two-handed. Like I said earlier, I'm trying to avoid posting a theoretical build guide. I do believe that going one-handed would be safer and probably cheaper too, so I want some input from anyone who has beaten the Ubers with a one-handed setup.

 

[xpumafangx]

Ya I did it with.

greif phase,
jalals shealed,
stormsheild shealed,
dracs,
highlords,
2 raven frosts,
duress,
goreriders,
fade prebuff

My belt was a rare at the time 24% fhr, plus to str, and plus to life.

Now I did do them, I didnt do them alone, and we bolth died once or twice.

 

[HeroZero]

What about a druid using a rabies/fury combo? How will he fare in ubertristram?

 

[Bjam]

Puma: With that setup I hope you had a load of resist charms in your stash. Curiously, what character(s) did you do the Ubers with? I'm just wondering if you were the primary killer. If you tell me you went in with a Smiter, it kind of invalidates the experiment.

HeroZero: I think you would still wind up attacking with a combo of Feral Rage and Fury, with only a very occasional rabies strike to help with regen. If the character's gear is good enough, it should be capable. If he's packing several SS skillers, then it should be no problem, since Feral Rage should be boosted to a good level.

 

[IMCanadian]

We need a guide sticky update, theres so many guides floating around that people wouldnt find in searches. I know your probably waiting for more feedback and doing a updated guide, but still...could be removed when you finish your new one. Sorry I never added more feedback...I put my wolf on hold when I went back to work on a few previous projects. I just think we should add to the druid stickies, gettin the guides up to par with the amount of pala guides :grin:

IMC :grin:

 

[Verashiden]

Lots of... Pally guides?

What is this heresy you speak of? There needs only be two!

Anyways I have a question: What do you think the min AR to survive in Uber Trist would be?

 

[Bjam]

IMCanadian: I was wondering what happened to you, but I didn't want to single you out. I was looking forward to your results, but life does come first.

Verashiden: I think minimum AR will vary based on your weapon speed, with average damage and life as lesser factors. The reasoning would be that you need to hit with a certain frequency to leech back lost life. That said, I think 11K is a good target, with more always recommended. Don't forget that your level plays a part too, so a level 94 druid will need measurably less than a level 85 druid.

Oh, one more thing...about getting this stickied. I was kind of waiting for the first guide-based success story before asking. After all, if no one is using it in practice it seems strange to ask.

 

[IMCanadian]

I would try at somemore ubers, but I have no need to get torches and I give my keys to my nub friends lolz. I think I have 3 key sets tho...and my wolf is alittle in disary, so now would be a time to throw on the lw Z and try them ubers. I really wanna throw some info out to you, since I said I would, but I don't want to until im 100% sure of what can work. The only two things I have to say about your guide ATM is 1) Your killing speed needs to go down 2) You need item versitillity. Other then that you guide is great and once stickied there should be some results. With all the fury wolfs poppin up these days there should be some uber doers. Oh n vera, I just ment heavangel stickies all the pala guides, but theres a lot of druid guides floatin unstickied.

IMC :grin:

 

[xpumafangx]

Ya I was teamed up with a holy lighting zealot, that or he is a dreamer/zealot. Ask him your self yukonmoose he is a forumer so. I honestly did it half Butted if you get my meaning. We crossed our i's and dotted our t's kind of thing and did just fine when we do them. The only plan I stick to is. Make shure you got 3 sets of keys, a team mate, never cast a portal in the same place twice, and do all 4 mini games in the same game. I tend to lure one away from the group and I stay away from the red tp. I dont care which one it is as long as its singled out, and life tapped. If or when I die it tends to be when I get swarmed by a ton of monters plus a boss or more. If I am the first one to the boss I tend to attack it. If not I try to kill the monsters around it, then attack it. Basicly because fury, and zeal tend to attack in a area around the guy not one guy. So you can clear off a good amount of meleers around you wile fighting the boss. So what I mean is I attack skelearchers when I clear the monsters with him. Another thing I do when going after the first 3 stages. Is I recon the place. I cover as much ground as I can till I find the mini uber boss.

Uber andy, hold fury on her. If some one else is attacking her I attack the caster witches monsters.

Uber duril, Find him and attack. He is easy.

Uber Izzy, hope fades in effect let him iron me and run back a bit, till it wears off. I tend to clear the area out up too him. I also tp close by to him as well.

 

[TheBassman]

not being a negative nancy...but I guess i dont understand the benefit of using ribcracker...

-IK wolf (+jalal) = 50% cb with max resists, does 3x the damage/leech and has fhr, dr, etc. and with 2shael swings fast too.

Highlords, why? Just use anghellics like everyone else and get 25k ar. Why in gods name would u need deadly strike if you're using a low damage ribcracker and the whole point is using like 75% cb to kill...I guess it wasn't really a question, u just wouldn't

LoL.

I must have missed this post when I read the thread...

Ignorance is fun isn't it?

 

[Oaktotem Grove]

LoL.

I must have missed this post when I read the thread...

Ignorance is fun isn't it?

Its hilarious

 

[Kosmos]

Nice guide.

have a 300ed upped ribby myself. maybe i will make a uber running druid when i get time.

 

[slam]

isn't a shael in ribcracker wasted? i think we're at max speed already with fury and feral rage - tell me if i'm wrong

 

[ToThePoint]

isn't a shael in ribcracker wasted? i think we're at max speed already with fury and feral rage - tell me if i'm wrong

you are wrong as they are talking about upped ribcracker in the guide
speeds are in this thread

 

[Jary]

LoL.

I must have missed this post when I read the thread...

Ignorance is fun isn't it?

HAHA, being a dick is funny, isnt it.:thumbsup:
I already covered that, I didnt know it could be up'ed so dont rub it in my face. I did have a good point if that werent the case, that's why I brought it up.