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Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 1:29 am
by Cysero
Hiya druids, class of nature!
I'm starting a druid very very soon and really got no idea about how work a dps druid, so I'm getting many idea about the build and figured out this:
Shield of bark / Lighting strike / Bees ( loves this ) / Vines / and Another version lighting strike, It might be storm shot I forgot..
And each level I add 4 focus and 1 vit?
That's it! Hope it's the good build ;)

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:58 am
by Regenleif
Hello! and Welcome! I'll make this easy and just list a few bullet points for you:

-The other lightning skill is called Storm Touch (refered to as Storm)
-If you are trying to level, don't use Swarm
-If you are trying to boss, don't use Storm
-Each level add 3 Focus and 2 Vit, or do as I do: one level add 5 vit, the next 5 focus.. alternate

I advise Strike Vines Bark and extras in Touch. No Swarm and no Storm.

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 10:15 am
by Cysero
Hello! and Welcome! I'll make this easy and just list a few bullet points for you:

-The other lightning skill is called Storm Touch (refered to as Storm)
-If you are trying to level, don't use Swarm
-If you are trying to boss, don't use Storm
-Each level add 3 Focus and 2 Vit, or do as I do: one level add 5 vit, the next 5 focus.. alternate

I advise Strike Vines Bark and extras in Touch. No Swarm and no Storm.
Okay mate, thanks!

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 4:25 pm
by FruitcakeLuuk
I would say use swarm, it eats energy but its losds faster and u wont do 30/45 sec about a kill, so bees is in my eyes better then vines, lightning i would say ofc bark and wind but its all your choice mister cysero

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:02 pm
by Regenleif
I would say use swarm, it eats energy but its losds faster and u wont do 30/45 sec about a kill, so bees is in my eyes better then vines, lightning i would say ofc bark and wind but its all your choice mister cysero
Swarm eats WAY too much energy and has such a low damage output that it is almost useless except for endgame bosses.. Vines does about 3-4 times the damage of bees, lasts longer, and has a substantially lower energy cost. I don't think the loading times really counts, I doubt you will kill a mob in 10 seconds as a druid :lol:

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:50 pm
by Zyz
I had maxed bees (at my lvl max) with +3 ring giving me 33 pts in it. I switched over to storm instead and it made a huge difference in how much dmg I was doing. So much better.

My points are in touch, HW (I have high dex), lightening, vines, and storm

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 6:06 pm
by Cysero
I had maxed bees (at my lvl max) with +3 ring giving me 33 pts in it. I switched over to storm instead and it made a huge difference in how much dmg I was doing. So much better.

My points are in touch, HW (I have high dex), lightening, vines, and storm
What is HW Dx

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 6:27 pm
by Zyz
HW=howling winds

I tried out bless and had 35 pts in it but just didn't really see a payoff. It should have made a difference with 35 pts in bless and wearing spiritshadow armour. But with HW, I notice my spells like natures touch are interrupted A LOT less and I get hit a lot less.

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:40 am
by Regenleif
HW=howling winds

I tried out bless and had 35 pts in it but just didn't really see a payoff. It should have made a difference with 35 pts in bless and wearing spiritshadow armour. But with HW, I notice my spells like natures touch are interrupted A LOT less and I get hit a lot less.
The purpose of HW is to reduce the chance of a monster hitting you.. So yes that is the effect. HW becomes very useful for soloing from 130 onwards, and I recommend a HW build to most in that level range who ask me.

Re: Damage per second ( DPS ) build please!

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:27 am
by Bennacio
Vines does about 3-4 times the damage of bees
i know ur like an expert or smth at druiding :lol: but in my nooby experience (of being killed in arena by 180 druids and killing as a low lvl druid) vines does a max of 2x the dmg of bees. Although (as u undoubtedly know already) vines shows it can have a higher max dmg than bees, vines deal crushing dmg which can be highly resisted, whereas bees shows that its max dmg may be lower than the max of vines, it deals poison dmg, which is hardly, if at all, resisted. Final statement, while killing on my nubby druid i noticed that the damage of bees was more consistent than that of vines. My question is, does the damage of vines and the damage of bees even out, or does vines still have a higher damage output when used on mobs?