How do you do it on difficult content? Elite or low skulls.

(Context, I'm currently on a 8druid/6barb/6cleric PDK sylvanius wolf) I have a few pieces of L RL gear, but I'm working on more. I'm using Morninglord Maul with 4 piece beast mantle filigrees (don't have prowess yet.. also don't have a 5th slot yet. Just getting back into things) I think armor I'm using blackdragonscale. I haven't looked if heavy Thunderforge armor would work with druid. EDIT: Looks like it would and would be defensively a lot better. So, I'll whip some up soon. I have the mats


Sometimes I'm dumb and make it hard for myself. I was running LE into the mists the other day on my melee solo. I got murdered by wolves. Tripped and buh bye.

I realized two obvious things. First, I only had 25% fort... I must have done some gear shuffling and missed that.. Woops. lol.

Second, I wasn't using displace. I mean... duh. I only have two displace clickies on my main (but I forgot to use them)... I realize that if I'm going to run melee a lot, I need like 5. So, I have some shard farming to do, I think. Does anyone use scrolls? Sounds kinda terrible.

So, part of the answer is: Git guud aka don't play like a complete moron. Part of it is more PRR. I can't recall the number he has. But, it blocks over 50% damage. I can get more, of course, but it won't be huge. Is doing the whole combat expertise/imp CE worth it?



I saw a pure barb last night steamrolling LE Ravenloft hardly taking damage. He had twisted both tiers of consecration and was popping it in the middle of packs of mobs and using his LOH from aasimar to supplement. It seemed to work REALLY well. I had never thought of that. Plus it was healing all the melee. So, he was blitzing but then popping cons. for heals. Nice.

I've been playing with HAMP+Vampirism+Healing Spring+Barb metabolism. Working ok. Since I'm running a barb split atm and raging, I can't cocoon.



Other ideas?



On Blitz, do people do dodge or PRR?


I'd especially like to know solo melee Reaper tips.


One more question: Solo melee CC. I think maybe Dire Charge? How do people get their DCs up for that? Can you break down an effective DC for a moron?


K thx



(I should rename this post: "Teach me to play my build plox")

Meld into darkness. (Shadowdancer t3 twist.) 100% Dodge clicky.
Balanced attacks. (Primal Avatar t3 twist.) Helpless damage on vorpal.
Thick skin. (Legendary dreadnought core.) 25% reduced damage taken.

Make endgame gear your priority IMO. No shame in running hard. I've started a new account before and gear was the number one thing.

FFS has some good points.

A few other things that I found help, in addition to those previously mentioned:

Fast healing is nice for heroics, tapers off badly in epics.

If you have the slots, lesser displacement gear is helpful. Otherwise blur helps pretty well, and lasts much longer than displacement. Wands are easy to find too, so you don't need to be dealing with it mid-fight.

As was said said before and was obvious, kill them before they kill you. Have a hire for between fights parked someplace. Aasimar LoH is nice for mid-fight, but what I find does you in more often than not is burst damage. The carnage reaper sort of thing or a champ boss. Cruelty dots too since they don't go away when it finishes and just counts down forever. If your shield clickies don't last long enough, then MM wrecks you before you get anywhere near mobs.

If TWF balanced attacks, since it knocks down mobs. Knocked down mobs do no damage to you, and you do extra damage to them.

Shadar-Kai active past life, since 18 seconds of incorporeality goes a long way in a big fight on top of all other stuff. Dodge>incorp>MRR/PRR/HP>DR

Once you are killing things faster, you can build for more offense and less defense