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Bimbobaggins
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Fire caster gear


Robe of Leaves is pretty good for a caster Druid. The 20% boost to mark of the wild helps until you can craft a much better chest piece. I'm using a fascinated crafted chest, but I wondering if the Hellfire rw might be useful.
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Hi all. OP isn't dead, just very busy due to holiday nonce. I have an update ready pending patch notes, but tl;dr probably no changes, will add crafting reference however.

Bimbobaggins wrote:
Fire caster gear


Robe of Leaves is pretty good for a caster Druid. The 20% boost to mark of the wild helps until you can craft a much better chest piece. I'm using a fascinated crafted chest, but I wondering if the Hellfire rw might be useful.


Robe of Leaves
Robe of Leaves
Scale Mail (4)

Defense: (127 - 147) to (254 - 293)
Required Level: 4
Required Strength:
27 to 28
Item Level: 10
+5% Bonus Elemental Damage to Mark of the Wild
-(2 to 3)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-(2 to 3)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-(2 to 3)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(24 to 43)% Enhanced Defense
+10 Life Regenerated per Second
Maximum Life +(2 to 3)%
Poison Resist +(21 to 25)%
Requirements -(3 to 5)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (452 - 505) to (816 - 911)
Required Level: 21
Required Strength:
52 to 54
Item Level: 31
+10% Bonus Elemental Damage to Mark of the Wild
-(5 to 8)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-(5 to 8)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-(5 to 8)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(64 to 83)% Enhanced Defense
+20 Life Regenerated per Second
Maximum Life +(3 to 4)%
Poison Resist +(31 to 35)%
Requirements -(6 to 10)%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (1166 - 1275) to (2031 - 2221)
Required Level: 39
Required Strength:
171 to 179
Item Level: 51
+15% Bonus Elemental Damage to Mark of the Wild
-(10 to 13)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-(10 to 13)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-(10 to 13)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(104 to 123)% Enhanced Defense
+35 Life Regenerated per Second
Maximum Life +(4 to 5)%
Poison Resist +(41 to 45)%
Requirements -(11 to 15)%
Socketed (5)
Defense: (1738 - 1885) to (3030 - 3287)
Required Level: 47
Required Strength:
322 to 338
Item Level: 77
+20% Bonus Elemental Damage to Mark of the Wild
-(15 to 18)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
-(15 to 18)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-(15 to 18)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(124 to 143)% Enhanced Defense
+50 Life Regenerated per Second
Maximum Life +(5 to 6)%
Poison Resist +(46 to 50)%
Requirements -(16 to 20)%
Socketed (6)
is nice but lacks pierce, I'd use it if it shows up before the usual Nihlathak farm session; QoG does that job better tbh alongside nice mana management.
Hellfire Plate

Hellfire Plate
Body Armors

'IgnJahGurRhal'
Runeword Level: 115
+1% Innate Elemental Damage per 250 Strength and Dexterity
15% Chance to cast level 9 Life Spark on Melee Attack
20% Attack Speed
+250 Fire Damage
-(11 to 15)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Maximum Life +(3 to 5)%
Maximum Elemental Resists +(1 to 2)%
Fire Resist +(10 to 20)%
Lightning Resist +(10 to 20)%
Cold Resist +(10 to 20)%
Poison Resist +(10 to 20)%
Physical Resist (7 to 10)%
isn't the best caster item; sure there's fire pierce, pr, and the tasty rare maxres mod, but it doesn't help out your casting at all beyond that. A solid fascinating craft beats both TU options though.

Pierce unfortunately rules all, especially if you go poison where it's doubly important.

EDIT: Yep, small crafting ref now available, enjoy the easy maxstat lookups.
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So, 2.1 notes from a runup to 130 this weekend as a poisoner:

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Erawan

Erawan
Body Armors

'LemKoCham'
Runeword Level: 83
15% Combat Speeds
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(144 to 171)% Enhanced Defense
(27 to 30)% to Strength
(27 to 30)% to Vitality
Physical Resist (13 to 15)%
(15 to 20)% Bonus to Defense
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Truce
Truce
Belts

'Jah'
Runeword Level: 80
5% Combat Speeds
Stun Attack
Slows Attacker by 5%
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Physical Resist 10%
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Megalith
Megalith
Boots

'LoFal'
Runeword Level: 73
+1 to All Skills
25% Cast Speed
15% Block Speed
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense
+(10 to 20) to all Attributes
5% to Dexterity
Regenerate Mana +30%
Physical Resist 5%
, toss these runewords together when you can; The first two aren't exactly caster items, but the PR is incredibly useful for some uberlevels. Big quality of life on farming Tran Ath for the trophy, and it solves like 90% of the difficulty of kingdom of shadow.
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Demhe

Demhe
Maces, Scepters
Except Hammers

'ZodLew'
Runeword Level: 110
25% Chance to cast level 35 Infected Roots on Melee Attack
+(126 to 250) to Maximum Damage
Stun Attack
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
+(39 to 45)% to Cold Spell Damage
-(39 to 45)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
+(39 to 45)% to Poison Spell Damage
-(39 to 45)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
20% to Vitality
+(51 to 125) Mana on Striking
+15 Life after each Kill
or
Gehenna


Gehenna
Weapons

'ChamOhmLo'
Runeword Level: 83
20% Chance to cast level 32 Frozen Crown on Melee Attack
15% Block Speed
15% Hit Recovery
Adds 94-125 Cold Damage
Adds 150-200 Poison Damage over 1 seconds
+(144 to 171)% Enhanced Damage
+25% to Cold Spell Damage
-25% to Enemy Cold Resistance
+25% to Poison Spell Damage
-25% to Enemy Poison Resistance
Maximum Life +5%
Maximum Mana +(23 to 28)%
Requirements -33%
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Khalim's Protector

Khalim's Protector
Shields
Except Barbarian Shields

'VenLoVenAmn'
Runeword Level: 100
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
2% Base Block Chance
60% Block Speed
-15% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Maximum Poison Resist +4%
Poison Resist +25%
+50 Life after each Kill
50% Bonus to Defense
: RW upgrade setup I tested out. The idea with this setup being access to another defensive layer to help with the spam. Unfortunately doesn't help in Fauztinville as much as one would like. There's just so much spam that either bounces to you directly or pierces. Nice setup for bossing though with the easy 40/60 pierce.

Similarly, I'm not the only caster that has had issues with Fauztinville, or the only flavor of druid caster that had this issue. The build does well through the 120 ubers, and a few 125s for good measure, but it falls off hard afterwards without real upgrades. Could try it again with 50pr (TA trophy = 5, ash belt = 10, erawan = 15, megalith = 5, survival instinct = 10pr). I'd ideally use
Scales of the Drake
Scales of the Drake
Ring Mail (Sacred)

Defense: (5239 - 5921) to (5764 - 6514)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 550
Item Level: 120
+(1 to 2) to All Skills
30% Cast Speed
+(25 to 38)% to Poison Spell Damage
-35% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(14 to 18) to Lorenado
+(115 to 143)% Enhanced Defense
+300 to Life
Maximum Poison Resist +5%
Physical Resist (5 to 10)%
Socketed (6)
, but I have yet to find one.
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It's too bad that there's isn't much support outside of poison caster. I'm testing out cold/fire and they just don't seem strong enough to do late game content.
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What do you mean by not strong enough? Fire caster is one of the highest dps. I could do scosglen at 130.

The issue the class has since the pagan nerf is that it hasn't any sustain if you are being attacked by 50 mobs in places like fauzt.
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eurekaaaa wrote:It's too bad that there's isn't much support outside of poison caster. I'm testing out cold/fire and they just don't seem strong enough to do late game content.

Could you post the gear and skill setup, because caster druid is one of the strongest casters, and it has great itemization.
Bimbobaggins
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Empower wrote:What do you mean by not strong enough? Fire caster is one of the highest dps. I could do scosglen at 130.

The issue the class has since the pagan nerf is that it hasn't any sustain if you are being attacked by 50 mobs in places like fauzt.


Necrolyte makes it easier, but yea we're a little screwed.

It's too bad that there's isn't much support outside of poison caster. I'm testing out cold/fire and they just don't seem strong enough to do late game content.


You're doing something wrong because it's one of the few builds that can handle a lot of the uber content. You want weak? Look at Lolowl. Lolowl can't do anything without most of its BiS (I don't know how Raginggamer does it because I gave up around 130+).