The Stormcaller - Druid 2H Ranged Primal Strike Build (Final release)

Grim Dawn4 · 42 ratings9.6k views136 favorites3 min readby DooMinoUpdated Mar 17, 2016View on Steam ↗

Pros / Cons

-Pros--
-Cool skills (D2 Tornado Druid Feeling)
-lightning all over the screen (primal strike + totems + wind devil + item procs + devotion procs)
-use 2h rifles or crossbows
-incredible dmg (at lvl 58 I'm doing 6,8k DPS )
-active (primalstrike) and passive dmg sources (wind devil, strom totem, electrocute dots while running)
-no energy problems with mana leech and about 40 reg/sec

--Cons--
-not very tough (dangerous: horde of range mobs, bosses with few higher levels, "thorns" mobs, heavy poison/bleeding dots)

Skills / Devotion / Attributes

--Skills / Devotion--

My plan is that Skills and Devotion can look like this at lvl 85: http://grimcalc.com/build/6Dfa0G

Shaman:
-Primal strike line max + Transmutor Thunderous strike (makes is spamable)
This is your bread and butter left mouse skill. Heavy single and aoe dmg.
-> bound elemental storm devotion on it - even more lowering of resistance and nice dmg

-Wind Devil (support dmg skill)
These seek out targets and decrese emeny resistance and deal some nice dmg. Ideal for heavy dmg bosses where you have to kite.
-> bound tempest devotion skill on it, because it crits often

-Totem (support dmg skill)
Stationary dmg dealer. Ideal for heavy dmg bosses where you have to kite.
-> bound tsunami devotion skill to it for some extra dmg

-Stormcaller (Ultimate skill)
Nothing to say about this. Huge aura buff.

-Heart of the Wild (HP Buff)

Arcanist
-Flash Freeze (Defense)
Freeze whole screen every 5 seconds - overpowerd

-Sphere of Protection (Defense Aura)
20 % absorbed incoming dmg but dealing 10% reduced dmg (who cares :-))

-Mirror (Oh ♥♥♥♥ button)

-Overload (More % ele dmg)

-Arcane will
Not sure about that - because dont want to reach < 70% health

Of course you can mix some things around. All in all its more based on heavy dmg with some defense options in devotion (life leech) and arcanist tree

--Attributes--
-For leveling, I dont put points into until I need it for Gear

Items

--Items--
-2h range Weapon: lightning dmg, physical convert into lightning, skill on attack -> best in slot https://gracefuldusk.appspot.com/items/8181-Raka'Jax
-> put in hell's bane ammo for lighning aura skill

-rest of gear: lightning dmg, attack speed, offensive rating, elemental dmg, electrocute dmg, run speed, energy reg, health, resists, main stats..

Currently my euip is blue/green and focused on offenisve - lighning dmg, elemental dmg, crit dmg. only a few defensive stats like health or resists. It's a lil bit glass cannon but all in all it runs smooth.

How to play / How to survive

How to play:
-Buff with all skills and auras
-Place totem
-Release Wind Devil
-Spam Primal Strike (first kill group of ranged mobs)
-Place totem
-Release Wind Devil
-Spam Primal Strike
-If monsters come close - Freeze nova
-if dangerous situation or nova/healpot on cooldown - activate mirror
-Run
-Place totem
-Release Wind Devil
-Spam Primal Strike

How to survive:
-Stack life (items, shaman: heart of the wild)
-Life leech skills (e.g. through Devotion)
-arcanist: sphere of protection, flash freeze, mirror of ereoctes
-buy many healpots :-)
-run and avoid dmg

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