Druid meele dps with evasion suggestions

[mikrisar]

My personal build for druid dps with wolf form suggestions?


ikrisar Baenre
Level 20 Lawful Neutral Half-Elf Male
(2 Monk / 18 Druid)
Hit Points: 369
Spell Points: 1252

BAB: 14/14/19/24
Fortitude: 18
Reflex: 12
Will: 20

Starting Feat/Enhancement
Abilities Base Stats Modified Stats
(36 Point) (Level 1) (Level 20)
Strength 16 26
Dexterity 14 16
Constitution 16 18
Intelligence 8 10
Wisdom 16 22
Charisma 8 10

Tomes Used
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 7
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 7
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 7
+2 Tome of Intelligence used at level 7
+2 Tome of Wisdom used at level 7
+2 Tome of Charisma used at level 7

Starting Feat/Enhancement
Base Skills Modified Skills
Skills (Level 1) (Level 20)
Balance 2 7
Bluff -1 0
Concentration 7 28
Diplomacy -1 0
Disable Device n/a n/a
Haggle -1 0
Heal 3 6
Hide 2 3
Intimidate -1 0
Jump 7 31
Listen 3 6
Move Silently 2 3
Open Lock n/a n/a
Perform n/a n/a
Repair -1 0
Search -1 0
Spot 3 6
Swim 3 8
Tumble 4 19
Use Magic Device n/a n/a

Level 1 (Druid)
Feat: (Half-Elf Dilettante) Half-Elf Dilettante: Rogue
Feat: (Past Life) Past Life: Monk
Feat: (Past Life) Past Life: Ranger
Feat: (Selected) Toughness

Level 2 (Druid)
Feat: (Druid Wild Shape) Wild Shape: Wolf

Level 3 (Druid)
Feat: (Selected) Empower Spell

Level 4 (Druid)

Level 5 (Druid)
Feat: (Druid Wild Shape) Wild Shape: Bear

Level 6 (Druid)
Feat: (Selected) Extend Spell

Level 7 (Druid)

Level 8 (Druid)
Feat: (Druid Wild Shape) Wild Shape: Dire Wolf

Level 9 (Druid)
Feat: (Selected) natural fighting

Level 10 (Monk)
Feat: (Monk Bonus) Power Attack

Level 11 (Monk)
Feat: (Monk Bonus) Toughness

Level 12 (Druid)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Critical: Bludgeoning Weapons

Level 13 (Druid)
Feat: (Druid Wild Shape) Wild Shape: Dire Bear

Level 14 (Druid)

Level 15 (Druid)
Feat: (Selected) natural fighting
Feat: (Druid Wild Shape) Wild Shape: Fire Elemental

Level 16 (Druid)

Level 17 (Druid)

Level 18 (Druid)
Feat: (Selected) natural fighting
Leveel 19 (Druid)
Feat: (Druid Wild Shape) Wild Shape: Water Elemental

Level 20 (Druid)
Enhancement: Druid Aggravate I
Enhancement: Druid Aggravate II
Enhancement: Druid Beastial Nature I
Enhancement: Druid Beastial Nature II
Enhancement: Druid Beastial Nature III
Enhancement: Druid Fatal Harrier
Enhancement: Druid Nature's Warden I
Enhancement: Druid Nature's Warrior I
Enhancement: Druid Reaving Roar
Enhancement: Druid Shifting Rake I
Enhancement: Druid Shifting Rake II
Enhancement: Druid Vengeful Hunter I
Enhancement: Druid Vengeful Hunter II
Enhancement: Druid Vengeful Hunter III
Enhancement: Improved Rogue Dilettante I
Enhancement: Improved Rogue Dilettante II
Enhancement: Human Adaptability Strength I
Enhancement: Human Greater Adaptability Wisdom I
Enhancement: Human Improved Recovery I
Enhancement: Human Improved Recovery II
Enhancement: Way of the Patient Tortoise I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Druid Strength I
Enhancement: Druid Strength II
Enhancement: Druid Wisdom I
Enhancement: Druid Wisdom II
Enhancement: Druid Wisdom III
Enhancement: Druid Toughness I
Enhancement: Druid Toughness II
Enhancement: Druid Toughness III
Enhancement: Druid Toughness IV
Enhancement: Half-Elf Improved Trap Sense I

[UrbanPyro]

Your 14 Dex does nothing (unless you plan on picking up Precision in epic levels). Optionally, you could just as easily leave starting Dex at 10, and pick up a +3 tome to qualify as well. +3 tomes seem to be dropping like candy in u14 content. I've pulled 3 personally, and have been gifted 2 from guildies at this point in time.

Drop Empower Spell and Extend Spell for Maximize Spell and Quicken Spell.

Maybe drop the 2nd toughness for Improved Sunder, or Precision. (or both when epic levels) Bypassing 25%+ fort on bosses would really out for party tactics, and landing more sneak attack dice.

The rest looks pretty good.

Misc Notes: I like the monk splash for evasion, but I couldn't bring myself to taint my first druid. The evasion will offer a lot of survivability during leveling. I went human for the extra feat, and desire to have the versatility to flip my AP's around to if I wanted to change PREs at any time.

The following link is my project as a pure druid: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=383380

[mikrisar]

Your 14 Dex does nothing (unless you plan on picking up Precision in epic levels). Optionally, you could just as easily leave starting Dex at 10, and pick up a +3 tome to qualify as well. +3 tomes seem to be dropping like candy in u14 content. I've pulled 3 personally, and have been gifted 2 from guildies at this point in time.

Drop Empower Spell and Extend Spell for Maximize Spell and Quicken Spell.

Maybe drop the 2nd toughness for Improved Sunder, or Precision. (or both when epic levels) Bypassing 25%+ fort on bosses would really out for party tactics, and landing more sneak attack dice.

The rest looks pretty good.

Misc Notes: I like the monk splash for evasion, but I couldn't bring myself to taint my first druid. The evasion will offer a lot of survivability during leveling. I went human for the extra feat, and desire to have the versatility to flip my AP's around to if I wanted to change PREs at any time.


The following link is my project as a pure druid: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=383380

ty for help, but dex 14 is good for have good reflex and keep the remaining points that are useful beyond, for precision is good idea....evasion is important forever for me i hav barbarian pure and i hate when i take more damage for spell or traps bur your build is very nice

[Uska]

If you really want evasion to help you will need to boost that reflex save you will start to fail a lot later with one that low.

[AtomicMew]

There is even less reason to take the 18th level of druid compared to even a cleric. Add in a level of fighter or the third monk level. Stunning fist also supposedly works with wolf form. If this is true, then it's a must have for this type of build.

[unbongwah]

Stunning fist also supposedly works with wolf form.

Worked for me on Lami; haven't tested to see it works on live too.

[jsaving]

I'm running a monk splash at the moment and can confirm that stunning fist works in wolf/bear form. And given the many incentives wolves in particular have to max their wisdom, SF is quite effective even at high levels.

I don't agree that a 14 DEX is needed for evasion. On a class that has poor reflex saves, 14 is just too low to provide meaningful evasion in content where you actually need it (elite/epic) and is only helpful in content where you don't (casual/normal). However, you do need an initial DEX of 13 for rogue dilly, which provides a nice damage boost for stun-based characters. What surprises me is that anybody would take rogue dilly and then forgo precision, which lets you occasionally dish out sneak attack damage to undead, constructs, etc. Unless the OP is optimally geared and planning to run with PA constantly on, precision needs to find a place in this build somewhere, probably in place of extend (or even PA if extend is for whatever reason seen as key to the build).

My last comment concerns skills. While jump is very useful, I can't see maxing it on a character who can cast the jump spell. Balance might be a better place to put those skill points, in my view at least.

[Xyfiel]

I'm running a monk splash at the moment and can confirm that stunning fist works in wolf/bear form. And given the many incentives wolves in particular have to max their wisdom, SF is quite effective even at high levels.

I don't agree that a 14 DEX is needed for evasion. On a class that has poor reflex saves, 14 is just too low to provide meaningful evasion in content where you actually need it (elite/epic) and is only helpful in content where you don't (casual/normal). However, you do need an initial DEX of 13 for rogue dilly, which provides a nice damage boost for stun-based characters. What surprises me is that anybody would take rogue dilly and then forgo precision, which lets you occasionally dish out sneak attack damage to undead, constructs, etc. Unless the OP is optimally geared and planning to run with PA constantly on, precision needs to find a place in this build somewhere, probably in place of extend (or even PA if extend is for whatever reason seen as key to the build).

My last comment concerns skills. While jump is very useful, I can't see maxing it on a character who can cast the jump spell. Balance might be a better place to put those skill points, in my view at least.

My Druid isn't splashing Monk, or an evasion class, and dex will be 13 base/24 final and will easily hit 40+ reflex. 50+ depending on how I twist.