Saw a video today of Whirlwind on a tree. Looks hella fun. Except they took 5/6 cleric and are using tier 5 from radiant servant. That and too many monk levels. Im sure we can do a better build.

Is there anyway to keep tree spirit up without having to take healing aura? Ideally I would like to take tier 5 in druid tree for alpha strike+whirlwind. And use wolf form to stack my tree arms with every named augment. As long as we are taking tier 5 in druid might as well push that to 9 druid get the better dog form and mainly natural fighting to get max hits on whirlwind and alpha strike.

What class splits? Druid 9, monk 2, and the rest is up in the air. Hinges on how well other things keep spirit up.  Any other aoe type cleaves that give more than 2 hits? If there are more cleave type attacks than taking cleric aura over alpha strike is better.

Healing is also why they take cleric aura. is there any way around this?

If you did take the Tier 5 you could grab the 90% double strike as well, cool down is still a bitch on that tho.

and you can only get a bump a spirit once every 3 seconds. 

supreme cleave... except it's on a gimp class.  tier 3




Correction, currently gimp class 

eldritch strike 15 second cooldown is pretty long

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  You could technically get more if Strength of Spirit works correctly.  An attack, a spell on an ally and a detrimental spell all firing could net you 3 at a time. 

FINDING those 3 things to make them fire simultaneously & consistently is the PITA.  Aura is a good one, and melee attacks are easy, detrimental...do guard procs count?  Weapon procs for curse?  Monk attacks like fire/water/lightning?

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 2:15pm:

Holy smokes that is ridiculous.  Even I could do EE with that.  Makes me want to cap primal avatar on my monk just to tinker with it.

Air stance to reduce the tree slow penalty?

  That is insane.

Lay Waste does work unarmed/animal forms, Momentum doesn't.  Makes them both pretty pointless here imo.

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 11:52am:


11druid/7wiz/2monk

7 Wizard = 2 meta feats: Extend + quicken.
Extended Lesser Death Aura, Death aura = no save no spell pen does 2 ticks of damage to help keep your aura going.
You can cast fireshield for a guard effect to help add procs
And get a cleave from EK.

I don't care at all about self healing from death aura's, they're just there to keep ticking over primal avatar charges to sustain woad for as long as possible.

Cleaves are used to make up for the abysmal attack speed.  Surpeme Cleave is a tier 3 ability, so a 9druid, 7wiz, 4barb may well work better than 2monk from a cleaving perspective.

Ultimately though I'd still want 2wf and Natural fighting which is where 2monk or 2 fighter make for a better build.

Thinking about it, I prefer a 2 fighter Heavy armor build:

35 Base ASF
-5 EK core 2
-15 Augment Crystal
-15 Arcane Fluidity  (I'd chose half elf for racial damage boost, and rogue dil)

Final Build:
Helf
11druid/7wiz/2fighter

Feats:
7 heroic: PA, cleave, Great Cleave, 2wf, Icrit, Nat fighting, Nat Fighting
2 Fighter: i2wf/g2wf (@19/20)
2 Wiz: Quicken, Extend
Epic: Overwhelming Crit, Nat Fighting, emp heal

Cleaving Focused only :

Human 9druid/7wiz/4barb (only medium armor prof, so no need for arcane fluidity)

Feats:
7 heroic: Cleave, Great cleave, Dodge, Mobility, CE, Spring Attack,  2wf
2 wiz: Extend, Quicken
1 Human: PA
epic: Whirlwind, i2wf, g2wf.

giving up improved crit / ocrit for 80% off hand attacks seems like a smart choice.

Druid is for Alpha Strike.