Hi All,
I’m keen to give Primalist a shot, I really like the cold/barbarian/bear type fantasy so I’m leaning towards Werebear Druid or Beastmaster. Just wondering if there are any builds that are still viable like this? I’m aware there were some cold werebear druid builds back around release and there are items built around that. Just wondering what other options there are. Not too keen on minion builds, unless it’s summon bear, but I don’t see any of those around. Not interested in avalanche or totems as a caster, would prefer melee and dual wielding or 2H with a high health/health regen build. Earthquake builds look good, but can they be done as cold somehow?
Doesn’t need to push high corruption, my goal on my characters has been just to kill Aberoth.
Thanks!
Dual-wield shattered lance set with 1.5k+ HP regeneration per second.
For the second weapon, something with high added cold damage.
Maybe Frozen Ire sceptre with LP to also boost cold spell damage. If minions should play a bigger part in the build, Apogee of the Frozen Light.
The Yrun body armour for +30 cold damage, Call of the Tundra for health regen + cold damage. Should be more than sufficient for added cold damage.
Don’t mind that many skills have no cold conversion. As long as you have enough added cold damage from other sources, this is mostly irrelevant. If you can push health regen enough, you will have damage a plenty.
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Thanks heaps guys. Yeah I’m leaning towards shattered lance set. That Shammy build I just saw recently and looks interesting, just hope the budget version is decent because LP red rings and ravenous void won’t be cheap…
Those are just defensive options. You can treat them as aspirational content. They’re not required and you can use alternatives and still have your build work fine.
Usually LETools build guides (as opposed to build links which are mostly youtube videos) are good at providing alternatives, but this specific guide lacks a little in that department. It’s true that it provides alternatives to gear, but it doesn’t really detail the preferred affixes for them, which most do.
Still, I’m sure you can use it as a base and make it work just fine. And if at some point you get stuck with something, you can post your build in the primalist category and people will help you fine tune it or provide you with alternatives.
Thanks mate. Yeah would be nice if all builds had the format like maxroll do, they are laid out and explained so well, but obviously don’t showcase all builds. There’s some content creators I also follow for builds on youtube, just noticed there wasn’t much going on for Werebear apart from EQ/aftershock.
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Yeah, Maxroll’s guides are very well explained and detailed, but I find that they’re often not very well optimized. They are great for learning and for leveling guides, though. They really do explain things pretty well and offer lots of alternatives.
LETools guides (as opposed to build videos) are usually also pretty good in that regard (offering alternatives), though this particular guide sems to fail a little in this.
For cold you can do a great minion based, Shaman/Spriggan form/ thorn build.
Twin wield Appgees of light for +6 minion skills and +40% minion multiplicative cold damage against chilled opponents.
Take thorn totems and make them cold
take storm totem and make it cold (use storm carved testament to proc it)
take gathering storm and take all the cold nodes (use the nodes in storm totem to tie storm totem to gathering storm)
Take spriggan form with the cold node and the ranged thorns for vines,
Take summon spriggan with all the cold nodes.
go thru the shaman passives to find all the shared chill., frostbite, cold damage and freeze rate multipliers.
Frozen eyes of formosis for the +300% ish freeze rate per chll stack (you will always have 3 chill stacks on everything) for minion against chilled.
Stack minion cast speed and totem cast speed everywhere you can find it. more hits means more freeze procs.
Cast cold thorns, cold vines, proc cold storm totem, with 2 cold sprigans and watch everything around you freeze from literally hundreds of cold procs.
I’m not the one that was looking for a build, though. Also, he specifically said he’s not into minions or totems.
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fair.
my bad.
I was just very stoked on the build.
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Appreciate the suggestions. I’m not completely against minion builds, just not my preference. Enjoyed my bleed falconer but that doesn’t feel like a true minion build. Just something about spriggan and totems that doesn’t appeal much to me, but I may try one day… Shaman/spriggan does have some good cold options. Need more Werebear options! Hopefully next patch.
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Decided to go beastmaster. Turns out maelstrom is enough to satisfy the cold fantasy for me. Proccing through warcry for permanent frenzy & haste. Together with the various beastmaster aspects it’s sooo speedy and fun.
Decided to try the various minions while leveling and also enjoy those more than I thought I would. Had wolves and bear but eventually dropped bear for earthquake for bosses (wolves too strong). DOT EQ just does insane damage with divining totem. Only LVL 72 and the first harbinger melted in seconds.
I try to stick to a fantasy I had in mind but it’s hard to pass up certain skills that just delete everything haha. End up having more fun than way, and that’s why we play!
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I have a confession to make. I re-rolled another beastmaster SCF and randomly decided to try CookBook’s summon scorpion build and what an awesome experience it was! I usually stop at Aby but ended up levelling to 100 and comfortably farming 800+ corruption with sub-optimal gear.
Gonna level a shaman now and may try some totem/spriggan stuff you suggested. I may be pleasantly surprised. The minion builds are growing on me…
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The scorp build will be better… Just so you know. Freeeze builds in general got a big nerf in 1.1. But are still fun to play.
Yeah that’s fine, just wana try something different. Storm totem with blizzard node is awesome so far for levelling. Loving the visuals. Combined with cold avalanche the damage is crazy. From what I’ve seen it will be defensive layer of shaman that I may struggle with when pushing corruption. My beastmaster was very tanky
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