thank you for this, i missed the video while reading thru! i do have the weapon but missing the 2 uniques hopefully i get the chest during campaign 
Don’t your eyes hurt from those fire earthquake explosions? It gave me a huge headache this afternoon while doing monoliths
Thanks for the guide btw, and for the great work you are doing.
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.
thanks for the info, I might lvl up something else in the mean time and keep an eye out for what sorta nerf it receives.
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!
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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
And BTW, how do we get bonus from “Shatterquake”? It requires enemy to be chilled or frozen yet I do not see how we can make that debuffs.
In the shaman passives 2nd node up on the left. There is chill chamce on hit
Oh yea, me blind. Thanks Boardman21 for the post. Can you comment please on Chimaera’s Essence? Is it worth it for this build?
Worth it isnt really the proper phrase.
Is it viable? Yes
Will you do more damage? A little
Will you take more damage? A little
Its up to you if its worth it. If you are a total tank amd want damage sure take it. You feel squishy and dont need more damage dont take it…
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
Nice build. Enjoying it a lot!
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What do you think about Boulderfists as glove option, since it basically guarantees a stun on charge / first Earthquake wave and gets rid of any Leech one has, as Leech is counterproductive to the LowLife mechanic?
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What do you think about taking ancestral weaponry (50 flat cold melee dmg, primalist tree) instead of ursine maw (druid tree)?
cool wasn’t aware of that interaction going to try it out.
Seperately what is everyones thoughts on using Artor’s Legacy for a 4th crow and if its really worth using?
Im Using a Lupine Helmet with both:
- inreased cooldown reduction
- increased cooldown reduction while transformed
so Artor`s Legacy is not an option for me, but my charge Cooldown is at 1,5 Sec, which feels pretty smooth
I just finished my first 2 empowered echos and here my thoughts:
- Crows are dying, this is the biggest issue. You need really good gear as Boardman21 said in the video to mitigate it. I had really bad luck crafting and in the end I got about ~3500 ward and +90 minion health regen. Not enough. If you plan to play this and go empowered get ready for nasty surprise if your gear is not top notch.
- It is little clunky. You rely entirely on Charge cooldown and if there are many enemies coming at you from different directions you might get in trouble.
- Leveling with Swipe is real pain
Overall I am not Boardman21 since I played 4 builds so far but for me this is not S tier build.
OK it is, but you need really top gear first. With decent gear it is A tier at best.
I also got “Nova Boy” Mage (now lvl 100) and it is much much better in my opinion. It was my 1st character which I geared from zero and I can go empowered now without any issues. I got quite good gear but it wasn’t always the case. I started empowered with what I could gather/craft while playing 9 normal regions. I could progress with all 10 regions empowered and gather what I have now. This is true S tier build.
There is no way I could go empowered with this build using only what I could find/craft on normal echoes. Gear I use now I gathered while playing my Mage.
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