Losing effectiveness after 17...

[TheBlueFox]

So i've built a nice wolf druid, and I've just noticed something really strange...

I'm really starting to see myself losing my effectiveness quite drastically. For example, my Takedown strike's max DC is 11+8(vertigo 8 shield)+10(wis mod) making it out to just about 29, which doesn't seem to land all that often at all.

Snowslide, 19+10(wis mod) 29
Jaws of winter 27
Howl of terror hits maybe 1 or 2 targets in a group of 6


My feats are something like
Augmented summoning
Natural fighting x2
Shield mast.
Imp Shield Mast.
Toughness
Imp Crit, Blud.

I crit for upwards of 200, which is nice, and I crit often. I have an amazing doublestrike chance, boosted to 75% in important fights. But my special abilities have nearly stopped landing. Doing Elite runs I dont even recognize when I land a takedown anymore.

My ability to deal extra damage to enemies at -50% health doesn't seem to work except for 1/5th of my hits either...

Im trying to build a PURE druid, because I have hopes that the bugs will be at least patched eventually and the bonuses will work properly.

I can only foresee that in epic content, I'll NEVER land a special attack.

I still enjoy casting AOEs in battle like earthquake and the storm, but I built a wolf for the wolf abilities...anything I can do to boost those DCs?

Its like im a sub par rogue without evasion that cant do traps...

[bartosy]

its not you that's just the way it is..

they made avalanche and most of the pet abilities really awkward with the static number + wis modifier.. a lot of those spells should be evocation based instead..so you can at least try to get a sub usable skill as an animal.

[Morbic]

Part of the reason is because str is being used for damage/to-hit and wis is being used to check the success for innate attack spells. Seems to me that either natural form needs to use wis for dmg/to-hit or the innate attack spells need to use str/dex as is appropriate for the given animal form.

[TreknaQudane]

Part of the reason is because str is being used for damage/to-hit and wis is being used to check the success for innate attack spells. Seems to me that either natural form needs to use wis for dmg/to-hit or the innate attack spells need to use str/dex as is appropriate for the given animal form.

The Innate attacks should have followed the model of Stunning Fist/Eagle-Claw Attack/Unbalancing Strike .. 10 + Half Character/Monk Level + Wisdom Mod...adding in tactics enhancements and items as needed. It would have gone a long way to keeping the abilities relevant.

Better yet, the innate attacks shouldn't have been spells... they should just have been subfeats of the appropriate Wild Shape form..