Endgame Hybrid Rabies Druid Build Guide: A Very Fun, Infectious Build! - Diablo 2 Resurrected

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    1:14 Attributes
    1:19 Skill trees
    1:58 Hero editor disclaimer
    2:20 Gear
    5:29 Additional stats
    6:01 Mercenary
    6:43 Example gameplay
    13:20 Summary to outro
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Komentáře • 25

  • @AB-12345
    @AB-12345 Před měsícem

    You are presenting cool bulids and in overall your videos are very good, above average. What I'm missing is presentation on online character, it at least without editor.
    Thank dude!

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před měsícem

      I appreciate hearing you enjoy the videos!
      Unfortunately, the online showcase is something I'll never do, solely because I dont have the time to dedicate to a character in getting through all 3 difficulties and then farming the gear necessary to make these builds. I have maybe 15-20hrs/week to do whatever I need in my free time, and for these youtube videos, that includes writing the script, voice recording, editing down the recording, gearing up the build and ensuring everything is balanced, getting the game clips, editing them into a video, making thumbnails, and writing out all the descriptions. I also like to have a YT short come out with each video for those who watch on mobile to get a glimpse of the main video.
      If I had the free time necessary to dedicate to online play, Id be happy to make more online focused content, however, with Diablo 2 being over 20yrs old, and D2R being an extension of the same game, I focus on offline play as it's easier to gear the build out vs spending countless hours playing, leveling, and farming, and at this point in the game's life, it's better to make a generalized build guide so offline and online players can use it for reference if they desire, where online specific videos have a shelf life if focusing on the seasons...at least they use to when Blizzard cared about D2R.
      I do appreciate the feedback, if i had the time, I'd consider an online showcasing of builds, but it's better and easier to make a generalized build guide everyone can reference, vs making it specifically for online or offline.

    • @Sporkfoot
      @Sporkfoot Před měsícem

      @@switch209gaming Just go buy 20 jah runes for a few $ and you can outfit most of these offline toons. Online >>> Hero Edited in my opinion.

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před měsícem

      I understand online can be more fun, however, the biggest factor for me, is the lack of time to dedicate to leveling and making builds, to then make videos about them. It's easier and more effective for maximizing my time with hero editing over playing online, as I can get more done offline than to slowly grind and maybe only put out a few videos a year playing online. Plus, I enjoy the SSF experience for my own personal builds I continue playing from Plugy, I just make these videos to test out for myself and make a video about it.

  • @dvdgamingthings289
    @dvdgamingthings289 Před měsícem

    venom procs from grief is gonna kill your poison damage

  • @GO-nf5bp
    @GO-nf5bp Před měsícem

    U should use plague and hit with fury to active lower resist much faster

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před měsícem

      If only plague had LR on striking vs when being struck, it’s one of the aspects of that runeword I think the Devs really screwed up.

  • @badkarma5128
    @badkarma5128 Před 2 měsíci

    2:55 you can have a 3 rabies base making it 8 to rabies overall. You can even get 3 oak or 3 poison creeper if that’s what you would like on top of it. 3 rabies/3werewolf/3 lycatherpy would be the idea base imo. Metamorphosis is so much better than Jalals.

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před 2 měsíci

      I appreciate the feedback!
      True for the potential of a great metamorphosis with a base with the plus to specific rabies Druid centered skills, but I didn’t have the appropriate base, as well as I doubt people would prioritize making a Metamorphosis for a rabies Druid, but would rather make one for a fury Druid or a werebear build.
      I use Metamorphosis for my Uber run coming up, however, to add more into Rabies is overkill for normal farming, as the damage still takes time to fully take affect, and the difference of a few hundred points of poison damage wouldn’t be felt by the player. Metamorphosis is great for melee builds, no question, but for this build, its use is felt less overall compared to Jalals that benefits more, and is much cheaper,

  • @Bouzalas
    @Bouzalas Před 2 měsíci +3

    The + to skills you get in poison creeper from Jalal's Mane do NOT count on the rabies damage. On synergizing skills only the hard points matter. As for the Bonus to Oak Sage its usefulness is debatable considering that the little spirit is killed so easily. In your video you don't have the spirit active either except before getting Into Baal's Room near the end. Even then he actually kills it almost immediately. You can obviously recast it but at some point it becomes just a waste of time. With that said spending so many points on it perhaps is not a good idea since its usefulness is severely limited. There have been requests in the forum of the game to make the spirit untargetable but I don't see it ever happening. Other than that I kinda like this build.

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před 2 měsíci +1

      I appreciate the feedback!
      I only claimed the + skills from Jalal’s benefited the other skill trees for the skills that players may want to use, I understand that it’s only the hard points for poison creeper that will synergize with Rabies, but some may want to use poison creeper as it does add more poison damage, and somehow is a “different” poison damage than rabies, so using both simultaneously is good for the incredibly dense mobs.
      Also, I mentioned the heart of the oak being used because, this build is focused on farming areas with large mobs, and that includes terror zones. I gave the option because I may not have said it outright, but one thing I’ve enjoyed hearing from viewers is that, after watching the videos, they took the builds to areas they prefer to play in, and that includes terror zones, and because they used what I told them and understood its importance within the context of the builds playstyle, they had a lot of fun with it and it surprised them how well it handled. That’s why I will add different options, even if they may not be utilized by the masses, for those who would like the option, they’ve seemed to appreciate it.
      But I do agree, the spirit dies rather quickly and it’s very inconvenient to have to respawn them, which is why I rarely did it. I gathered up around 30 min or so of gameplay and narrowed it down to what’s in this video, trying to show some areas in depth instead of showing maybe 30 seconds of a larger variety, because I want the viewers who are interested in this build to discover for themselves where else it can play well in, and find out what they like best about it overall.
      If they could fix the spirits being able to be not targeted, that would be awesome, however, Blizzard no longer cares about D2R as all their resources are about trying to fix D4 and get players coming back to that game, so I agree, I doubt they’ll ever rework either Spirit being not targetable. However, if you end up watching the Uber run that’ll be coming out soon, you’ll see this build utilized in ways you described it not working efficiently here, as I mentioned in the video, some of what was shown here was to foreshadow that run coming up so there’s less to change from this build guide, to that run’s set up.
      Again, I appreciate the feedback and constructive criticism, it’s always welcome, and I hope my comment helped to better understand my point of view on why it’s built up, and played, as it was.

  • @RingoMcP
    @RingoMcP Před 2 měsíci

    Cool Vid, how much did that Grief cost? :D

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před 2 měsíci

      I play SP Offline, I rolled a perfect Grief years ago when playing on Plugy. I got really lucky to get it within 5 or 6 tries!

  • @stevenhache9191
    @stevenhache9191 Před 2 měsíci +1

    metamorphosis would make u kill bosses 1000% faster since it has crushing blow. Way better than jahlals

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před 2 měsíci

      I understand that and put it to the test when I run it through Ubers in an upcoming video, however, this build was never considered for boss farming, as the poison damage is damage over time, so this has always been a build for farming lvl85 areas with larger mobs to utilize the poison spreading aspect to take the whole mob out faster.
      But for Ubers, metamorphosis destroys Jalal’s, especially with constantly having the mark of the wolf active, and all the stats a werewolf Druid could use to defeat enemies faster with Physical damage.

    • @chrisp2272
      @chrisp2272 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I understand that you understand this build, but I’ve been pondering variants that might be even more effective while maintaining the flavor of the build, but using rabies more as a support skill.
      Helm: metamorphosis of course.
      Gloves: crafted blood, maybe Dracs
      Belt: crafted OWs
      Boots: Gores
      Armor:Enigma
      Weapon: Beast, Plague or Grief on swap
      Shield: Medusas gaze, stormshield, Phoenix
      The idea is that open wounds and Rabies can stack, and with psn resistances, OW might do just about as much damage. We’ve dropped Trang and Bramble to get extra STR to use Medusas Gaze (it sounds like you might be able to tele with Mark active while in wolf form? Also, Beast gives +werebear if Mark of both can be applied).
      Here’s where it gets boring, just use a reapers merc. With high crushing blow, decrepify gets full dmg out of CB. Fana for merc goes a long way, and you could give him Bramble for the thorns, especially if you throw out some pets. If you use treachery, then GFace makes merc a killing machine.
      It almost turns into a rotation like Diablo 3. Fury to soften them up and get OW going, then Rabies, then swap to Plague to get Lower res to finish them off. You can also just Fury away with the occasional Rabies.

  • @Venn922
    @Venn922 Před 9 dny

    With Rabies, does its heightened damage last only while deaths web is switched out? Or does its heightened damage persist even after switching back to your original weapon set?

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před 9 dny +1

      To my knowledge, with deaths web used for the initial bite, anything after would have the same negative poison effect as the poison spreads. However, once it’s switched out for another weapon, anything further getting the spread of the poison damage wouldn’t have the same negative poison resistance effect, however, anything prior bit or received poison damage from the spread when DW was the main weapon, retains the same negative poison resistance.
      This is a similar mechanic to how it works with a plague javazon, so unless something changed after patch 2.4, I believe that’s still the accurate information regarding DW negative poison resistance when using rabies and it’s spread of poison damage.

    • @Venn922
      @Venn922 Před 9 dny

      @@switch209gaming amazing! I had no idea. Thank you for your very detailed and insightful answer, I appreciate it immensely - been scouring the internet trying to find a decent answer. Definitely subscribing 😀

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před 9 dny

      @@Venn922 youre welcome, im glad i could help you out! Its the least i could do, you checked the video out, and i want to help with whatever i can info wise, but if anything, steer viewers in the right direction for where to find what they’re looking for if I can’t answer it myself.
      Thank you for subscribing, i hope you’ll enjoy the content! I’m working on a lot of videos as i write this, and there’s countless ones already on the channel i hope you’ll enjoy in the meantime while i make more. Have fun playing the game!

  • @fajpatsmurf8250
    @fajpatsmurf8250 Před měsícem

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  • @BastivanDero
    @BastivanDero Před měsícem

    Does someone know where he got his sweatshirt?

    • @switch209gaming
      @switch209gaming  Před měsícem +1

      The Blizzard website’s store has a similar design to the one im wearing, it says “Diablo 2” with the D2R design of the wanderer behind the logo, however, the exact sweatshirt I’m wearing is no longer available, it was apparently a limited run when D2R initially was released years ago,

    • @BastivanDero
      @BastivanDero Před měsícem

      @@switch209gaming thank you