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General

Overview

Druid summoners, one of the weakest builds in LoD is counted as one of the most recommended builds in ES. You can summon a Water Elemental (the successor of Grizzly) and a kind of wolves at once. And more summons of each kind are allowed by the synergy.

In Elemental tree, the clumsy skills like Arctic Blast and Molten Boulder are much improved. Wind skills and new magic damage skills synergize each other, so you can easily attain two kinds of damage sources. More spells are castable in wereform, and shapeshifters have more options for subskills.

Wereforms, especially Elemental Form (the successor of Werebear) greatly benefits from on-weapon IAS, and ES recipes allow more than hundred percent IAS on the weapon. Finally your normal attack speed in Elemental Form will be faster than the fastest Zeal! Werewolf isn't drastically changed, but is well improved to meet the ES standard.

Initial Stats and Increment

Skills

Elemental Skills

Druid - Elemental Skills / [Shape Shifting Skills] / Summoning Skills

• Cyclone Armor
• Arctic Blast
• Volcano
• Bone Spear
• Winter Fury
• Molten Boulder
• Earth Spike
• Tornado
• Firestorm
• Creeping Doom
• Sand Storm

Cyclone Armor

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Also grants Defense vs. Missile.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Winter Fury: +5% F/C/L Damage Absorb Per Level
Tornado: +5% F/C/L Damage Absorb Per Level

Arctic Blast

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Much improved damage. Also deals physical damage. Faster missiles. Pierces enemies. Castable in wereform (but the missiles turn invisible).

Pros

Chills enemies. Can kill both CI and PI monsters. can hit multiple enemies if enemies are in a line.

Cons

The caster must keep casting until the target dies. The blast is long but narrow.

Note

Physical Damage = Base Cold Damage * (100 + Cold Mastery + Wind Mastery) / 100
("Mastery" includes "XX% To XX Skill Damage".)

Synergies

Cyclone Armor: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
Winter Fury: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
Tornado: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
Sandstorm: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
Cyclone Armor: +7% Physical Damage Per Level
Winter Fury: +7% Physical Damage Per Level
Tornado: +7% Physical Damage Per Level
Sandstorm: +7% Physical Damage Per Level

Volcano

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Doubled the damage. Much shorter cast delay.

Pros

Deals two kinds of damage. The shorter cast delay let you stack multiple volcanos.

Cons

You need to pin the target.

Synergies

Molten Boulder: +7% Fire Damage Per Level
Firestorm: +7% Fire Damage Per Level
Fire Maul: +7% Fire Damage Per Level
Molten Boulder: +7% Physical Damage Level
Firestorm: +7% Physical Damage Per Level
Fire Maul: +7% Physical Damage Per Level

Bone Spear

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved Damage.

Pros

Pierces multiple enemies. Good to attack from behind minions.

Cons

The missile is narrow.

Synergies

Earth Spike: +7% Magic Damage Per Level
Acid Rain: +7% Magic Damage Per Level
Creeping Doom: +7% Magic Damage Per Level
Arctic Blast: +7% Magic Damage Per Level
Tornado: +7% Magic Damage Per Level
Sandstorm: +7% Magic Damage Per Level

Winter Fury

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

Arctic Blast (1)

Difference from Hurricane

Less damage (50%~75%). Longer duration. Less cast delay. Radius increases per level.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Cyclone Armor: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
Arctic Blast: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
Tornado: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
Sandstorm: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
Cyclone Armor: +1 Second Duration Per Level

Molten Boulder

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Volcano (1)

Difference from the LoD version

Doubled the damage. No cast delay. 3 times faster missile speed. Bigger explosion.

Pros

Spammable super fast boulders. Deals two kinds of damage. Knockback effect is defensive.

Cons

Still a bit more difficult to use than easy AoE skills like Blizzard and Immolation.

Synergies

Volcano: +6% Fire Damage Per Level
Firestorm: +6% Fire Damage Per Level
Fire Maul: +6% Fire Damage Per Level
Volcano: +6% Physical Damage Level
Firestorm: +6% Physical Damage Per Level
Fire Maul: +6% Physical Damage Per Level

Earth Spike

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Bone Spear (6)

Difference from Fissure (LoD)

Deals Magic damage. Slows the target. Improved damage. Less cast delay.

Pros

More spammable than Fissure (LoD). The slow effect is defensive.

Cons

You need to pin the target.

Synergies

Bone Spear: +6% Magic Damage Per Level
Acid Rain: +6% Magic Damage Per Level
Creeping Doom: +6% Magic Damage Per Level
Arctic Blast: +6% Magic Damage Per Level
Tornado: +6% Magic Damage Per Level
Sandstorm: +6% Magic Damage Per Level

Tornado

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Arctic Blast (1), Winter Fury (6)

Difference from Twister (LoD)

Improved damage. Missile radius and missile number is increased be synergy.

Pros

Good AoE.

Cons

Synergies

Cyclone Armor: +6% Physical Damage Per Level
Arctic Blast: +6% Physical Damage Per Level
Winter Fury: +6% Physical Damage Per Level
Sand Storm: +6% Physical Damage Per Level

Firestorm

Required Level

24

Prerequisites

Volcano (1), Molten Boulder (12)

Difference from the LoD version

Greatly improved damage. Less synergy. More Missiles. No cast delay. Longer range. Faster missile speed.

Pros

More spammable than the LoD version.

Cons

Synergies

Volcano: +5% Fire Damage Per Level
Molten Boulder: +5% Fire Damage Per Level
Fire Maul: +5% Fire Damage Per Level
Molten Boulder: +1 Missile Per 5 Levels

Creeping Doom

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

Bone Spear (6), Earth Spike (18), Acid Rain (24)

Difference from Twister (LoD)

Deals Magic damage. Improved damage. Stuns enemies. Increased mana cost.

Pros

Good for crowd control and mass damage.

Cons

Synergies

Bone Spear: +5% Magic Damage Per Level
Earth Spike: +5% Magic Damage Per Level
Acid Rain: +5% Magic Damage Per Level
Arctic Blast: +5% Magic Damage Per Level
Tornado: +5% Magic Damage Per Level
Sandstorm: +5% Magic Damage Per Level

Sand Storm

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

Arctic Blast (1), Winter Fury (6), Tornado (18)

Difference from Nova (LoD)

Deals Physical damage. Much improved missile range.

Pros

Attacks the enemies in all directions. Spammable. Multiple missiles hit a large target.

Cons

The damage of each missile is low.

Synergies

Cyclone Armor: +6% Physical Damage Per Level
Arctic Blast: +6% Physical Damage Per Level
Winter Fury: +6% Physical Damage Per Level
Tornado: +6% Physical Damage Per Level

Shapeshifting Skills

Druid - Elemental Skills / Shape Shifting Skills / Summoning Skills

• Werewolf
• Elemental Form
• Shape Shifting Mastery
• Feral Rage
• Iron Claws
• Maul
• Fire Claws
• Rabies
• Hunger
• Shock Wave
• Fury
• Charged Claws

Werewolf

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Improved Max Life bonus. Grants FRW bonus instead of Stamina bonus.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Elemental Form: +7% Damage Per Level
Elemental Form: +7% Defense Per Level
Shape Shifting Mastery: +3% Max Life Per Level
Shape Shifting Mastery: +7% Damage Per Level

Passive Bonuses

Shape Shifting Mastery: Duration

Elemental Form

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from Were Bear (LoD)

Improved Max Life, Damage and Defense bonus.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Werewolf: +2% Increased Attack Speed Per Level
Werewolf: +2% Faster Run/Walk Per Level
Werewolf: +7% Attack Rating Per Level
Shape Shifting Mastery: +7% Max Life Per Level
Shape Shifting Mastery: +7% Damage Per Level

Passive Bonuses

Shape Shifting Mastery: Duration

Shape Shifting Mastery

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

None

Difference from Lycanthropy

Pros

Cons

Feral Rage

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6)

Difference from the LoD version

Pros

Cons

Notes

In Werewolf, Trent and Waves Mage form only.

Synergies

Shape Shifting Mastery: +1 Second Per Level
Maul: +7% Damage Per Level
Rabies: +7% Damage Per Level
Fury: +7% Damage Per Level

Iron Claws

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6)

A new ES skill

Pros

Cons

Notes

Can be used in any form including human form.

Synergies

Feral Rage: +10% Damage Per Level
Maul: +10% Damage Per Level
Fire Claws: +10% Damage Per Level
Fury: +10% Damage Per Level
Charged Claws: +10% Damage Per Level

Maul

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6)

Difference from Maul (LoD)

Pros

Cons

Notes

In Elemental, Treant and Diablo form only.

Synergies

Shape Shifting Mastery: +1 Second Per Level
Feral Rage: +5% Damage Per Level
Shock Wave: +5% Damage Per Level
Fury: +5% Damage Per Level

Fire Claws

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6), Iron Claws (12)

Difference from Fire Claws (LoD)

Pros

Cons

Notes

Can be used in any form including human form.

Synergies

Volcano: +8% Fire Damage Per Level
Molten Boulder: +8% Fire Damage Per Level
Firestorm: +8% Fire Damage Per Level
Iron Claws: +8% Fire Damage Per Level
Charged Claws: +8% Fire Damage Per Level

Rabies

Required Level

24

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6), Feral Rage (12)

Difference from the LoD version

Pros

Cons

Notes

In Werewolf form only.

Synergies

Poison Creeper: +14% Poison Damage Per Level
Feral Rage: +7% Poison Damage Per Level
Iron Claws: +7% Poison Damage Per Level
Fire Claws: +7% Poison Damage Per Level
Fury: +7% Poison Damage Per Level
Charged Claws: +7% Poison Damage Per Level

Hunger

Required Level

24

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6), Iron Claws (12), Fire Claws (18)

Difference from the LoD version

Pros

Cons

Notes

In Werewolf and Elemental form only.

Shock Wave

Required Level

24

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6), Maul (12)

Difference from the LoD version

Pros

Very long stun length. Stuns multiple targets.

Cons

Very low damage

Notes

In Elemental, Treant and Diablo form only.

Synergies

Maul: +10% Damage Per Level

Fury

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6), Feral Rage (12), Rabies (24)

Difference from the LoD version

Pros

Works fine with Crushing Blow and CtC Static Field, etc. It's easy to attain the fastest bp in ES because of abundant IAS equipments.

Cons
Notes : In Werewolf, Trent and Waves Mage form only.

Synergies

Maul: +6% Damage Per Level
Feral Rage: +6% Damage Per Level
Rabies: +6% Damage Per Level

Charged Claws

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

Shape Shifting Mastery (6), Iron Claws (12), Fire Claws (18), Hunger (24)

A new ES skill

Druid version of Amazon's Charged Strike.

Pros

Cons

Notes

Can be used in any form including human form.

Synergies

Cow Balloon: +7% Lightning Damage Per Level
Iron Claws: +5% Lightning Damage Per Level
Fire Claws: +5% Lightning Damage Per Level

Summoning Skills

Druid - Elemental Skills / [Shape Shifting Skills] / Summoning Skills

• Cow Balloon
• Raven
• Poison Creeper
• Oak Sage
• Summon Spirit Wolf
• Volcanic Creeper
• Heart of Wolverine
• Summon Dire Wolf
• Arctic Creeper
• Spirit of Barbs
• Summon Water Elemental

Cow Balloon

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

A new ES skill

A spammable Decoy, which is fragile against melee attacks, but lasts longer against missile attacks and immune against elemental attacks. Has thorns and lightning thorns effect, and damages melee attackers.

Pros

Handy to attract ranged attacks/spells. Can be used as mines against melee attackers.

Cons

Each balloon doesn't last long, so you must keep casting to stop melee attackers.

Synergies

Spirit of Barbs: +10% Thorns Damage Per Level
Charged Claws: +10% Lightning Thorns Damage Per Level

Raven

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Much improved damage. Has the chance of Crushing Blow instead of Blindness effect, which overrides curses and is annoying in late games.

Pros

Increases the number of Wolves and Water Elementals as a synergy.

Cons

The ability of Ravens themselves isn't much impressive.

Synergies

Summon Spirit Wolf: +1 Raven Per 10 Levels
Summon Dire Wolf: +1 Raven Per 10 Levels
Summon Water Elemental: +1 Raven Per 10 Levels
Cow Balloon: +5% Life Per Level

Poison Creeper

Required Level

1

Prerequisites

None

Difference from the LoD version

Much improved poison damage and stats. Multiple Vines can be summoned by investing hard points.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Acid Rain: +8% Poison Damage per Level
Rabies: +8% Poison Damage per Level
Volcanic Creeper: +8% Poison Damage per Level
Arctic Creeper: +8% Poison Damage per Level
Cow Balloon: +20% Life per Level

Oak Sage

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

Cow Balloon (1)

Difference from the LoD version

You can summon multiple spirits by the synergy.

Pros

Max life bonus helps any characters. Party friendly.

Cons

You can summon one kind of spirit at once. Spirits are slightly less reliable than auras because they may die.

Synergies

Cow Balloon: +1 Spirit Per 5 Levels
Heart of Wolverine: +35% Life Per Level
Spirit of Barbs: +35% Life Per Level

Summon Spirit Wolf

Required Level

6

Prerequisites

Raven (1)

Difference from the LoD version

Much improved damage. More wolves can be summoned by the synergy.

Pros

More wolves can be summoned than Summon Dire Wolf. Many weak summons can work better than few strong summons in some cases (ex. with Annihilation or Iron Maiden).

Cons

Each wolf is weaker than a Dire Wolf. Has no special ability like Dire Wolf's Fenris Rage.

Known Issues

The skill icon shows slightly less All Resists and Damage Reduction bonus. Please see the skill panel for the correct values. The skill panel doesn't show the correct value either while the slvl is zero.

Synergies

Ravens: +1 Spirit Wolf Per 4 Levels

Passive Bonuses

Summon Dire Wolf: +25% Max Life Per Level
Summon Water Elemental: +10% Damage Per Level
(Passive bonus is similar to synergy, but the total skill level works instead of base level.)

Volcanic Creeper

Required Level

12

Prerequisites

Poison Creeper (1)

Difference from Carrion Vine

Uses a special version of Fissure that has 1/2 damage of Sorceress Fissure. No Life Leech ability. Multiple Vines can be summoned by investing hard points.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Volcano: +6% Fire Damage per Level
Molten Boulder: +6% Fire Damage per Level
Fire Storm: +6% Fire Damage per Level
Poison Creeper: +6% Fire Damage per Level
Arctic Creeper: +6% Fire Damage per Level
Cow Balloon: +20% Life per Level

Heart of Wolverine

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Cow Balloon (1), Oak Sage (6)

Difference from the LoD version

You can summon multiple spirits by the synergy.

Pros

Offensive than Oak Sage. Party friendly if there are melee characters.

Cons

You can summon one kind of spirit at once. Spirits are slightly less reliable than auras because they may die.

Synergies

Cow Balloon: +1 Spirit Per 5 Levels
Oak Sage: +25% Life Per Level
Spirit of Barbs: +25% Life Per Level

Summon Dire Wolf

Required Level

18

Prerequisites

Raven (1), Summon Spirit Wolf (6)

Difference from the LoD version

Much improved damage. More wolves can be summoned by the synergy.

Notes

Dire Wolves eat corpses to gain +100% Damage (Fenris Rage). But this isn't specially good, because wolves eventually gain hundreds % Damage bonus from the passive bonus of Water Elemental, auras, etc.

Pros

Each wolf is stronger than a Spirit Wolf. Dire Wolves use Fenris Rage.

Cons

Less wolves can be summoned than Summon Spirit Wolf.

Known Issues

The skill icon shows slightly less Life, All Resists and Damage Reduction bonus. Please see the skill panel for the correct values. The skill panel doesn't show the correct value either while the slvl is zero.

Synergies

Ravens: +1 Dire Wolf Per 8 Levels

Passive Bonuses

Summon Spirit Wolf: +25% Attack Rating Per Level
Summon Spirit Wolf: +10% Defense Per Level
Summon Water Elemental: +10% Damage Per Level
(Passive bonus is similar to synergy, but the total skill level works instead of base level.)

Arctic Creeper

Required Level

24

Prerequisites

Poison Creeper (1), Carrion Vine (12)

Difference from the LoD version

Uses a special version of Cold Blast that has 5/8 damage (or more) of Assassin Cold Blast. No Mana Leech ability. Multiple Vines can be summoned by investing hard points.

Pros

Cons

Synergies

Arctic Blast: +7% Cold Damage per Level
Winter Fury: +7% Cold Damage per Level
Poison Creeper: +7% Cold Damage per Level
Volcanic Creeper: +7% Cold Damage per Level
Cow Balloon: +20% Life per Level

Spirit of Barbs

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

Cow Balloon (1), Oak Sage (6), Heart of Wolverine (18)

Difference from the LoD version

Much improved thorns damage. You can summon multiple spirits by the synergy.

Pros

Offensive than Oak Sage. Work fine against hard hitting monsters.

Cons

You can summon one kind of spirit at once. Spirits are slightly less reliable than auras because they may die.

Synergies

Cow Balloon: +1 Spirit Per 5 Levels
Oak Sage: +25% Life Per Level
Heart of Wolverine: +25% Life Per Level

Summon Water Elemental

Required Level

30

Prerequisites

none

Difference from Summon Grizzly

Much improved damage. More elementals can be summoned by investing hard points.

Pros

The toughest minion of Druid.

Cons

Known Issues

The skill icon shows slightly less All Resists and Damage Reduction bonus. Please see the skill panel for the correct values. The skill panel doesn't show the correct value either while the slvl is zero.