The chest/boots drain a % of your current hp & give you a % of your missing hp as ward/sec. So you want to stack as much hp as possible to maximise the ward/sec. They can’t kill you as the drained hp/sec will eventually stabilise to the same figure as your hp regen.
If you have 1,000 hp, a hp regen of 10/sec & maxxed boots (so 35% of current hp lost & 35% of missing hp → ward/sec), you’ll initially loose hp at 340 hp/sec (35% of 1k = 350, less your regen of 10). After some time the 10 hp regen/sec will match your 35% of current hp drained and your hp will remain stable (at ~28.6 hp) and you’ll have ward/sec of (1,000 - 28.6) x 0.35 = 340 per sec.
Your ward will then stabilise at a figure dependent on your ward/sec (~340/sec assuming you have no other sources) and your ward retention (4%? per point of Int plus any you can get from gear/idols).
hello, are you able to give a highlevel guide on the passive node leveling? like finish all primalist(except berserker) then beastmaster, druid, shaman?
Then transition and respec when you have the weapon and at least the boots or chest, it doesn’t work anywhere near as well with just the boots but you can make it work to get the 30% dmg reduction and 100% more from beserker until you get the chest like i did, had around 2.5k-3k ward until i got the chest but you’re virtually unkillable anyway at anything other than legendary echoes and high wave arena. If its your first character and you don’t have the weapon, you’re gonna have to stay with swipe until you get it since it makes the build work.
Would love to play this build but I feel the Devs will change the interaction between the weapon and earthquake skill tree n destroy it in the process. I really hope they will leave it alone. Shatterstrike is capable of 500k dam every few secs after firebrand stacks.
Hi, thanks for making all the great builds and keeping them updated. Was enjoying your werebear/spriggan build till it got nerfed, playing your Hammerdin build now and farming for this werebear/earthquake build. I got the boots and working towards the higher monoliths to get the weapon but still no luck on the chest. Do you have any tips to target farm the chest?
Sofar I’ve leveled up 3 chars and killed the act 1 boss several times but no luck.
It’s basically confirmed that there will be change for the build in the 8.3/8.4 by the devs. What will they nerf or not remain to be seen, but they also said that if they can, they will leave the weapon alone and instead concentrating on the tree nodes, though don’t quote me on this. TBH i also think that bear earthquake build is kinda OP and need to be nerf after playing it for over a month. What kind of nerf would it be it’s up to the devs, i just hope that they only nerf the nodes number, dps or the stun and not the interaction between the weapon and the skills.
But it’s the weapon & the low cooldown on Charge that’s the problem not the skill per se. Earthquake was never a particularly common skill before the weapon was introduced, presumably due to the cost, which is a pity as I’ve done a non-Werebear EQ build that manually casts EQ as well as having procs via Fury Leap & it’s not bad.
Just wanted to add that I’ve been running with just the boots as I have not found the chest yet and have had no issues what so ever. I’m lvl 86 and cant remember the last time I died in the monolith (non empowered atm). Also got to 150 in area before really feeling sketchy and that was due to the crows dying and having to kite to revive. Im using titan heart atm for the large health increase for now until I can find the other.
THanks again Boardman21 for this build and all the others you put together, really awesome work!
Is Chimaera’s Essence not good for this build? We get up to 160% increased damage when transformed for the -15 to -25 all res. Res hit is big but we get a lot of damage?
It depends how much increased damage you already have. If you have 1,000% total increased damage already (which isn’t unreasonable) then that 160% would only be 16% more. Compared to -25 all res.
Ah, ok, so it is addictive. My stats with and without neck right now. Still I dont have Wizened Claws and Star Claw which should change a lot? My neck got 158% inc damage and -18% all res so decent one https://imgur.com/a/YaWMlNL
You can snapshot your crows by use Sinathia set + other rare with max minion health+regen then your crows are super tanky, I got into wave 371 that way in HC
